Nicholas Carr debatiendo sobre tecnología en la tierra y en los cielos

Aquí y aquí

Extracto abrebocas (cierre de la primera entrada arriba):

"Genius emerges at the intersection of unique individual human potential and unique temporal circumstances. As circumstances change, some people's ability to fulfill their potential will increase, but other people's will decrease. Progress does not simply expand options. It changes options, and along the way options are lost as well as gained. Homer lived in a world that we would call technologically primitive, yet he created immortal epic poems. If Homer were born today, he would not be able to compose those poems in his head. That possibility has been foreclosed by progress. For all we know, if Homer (or Mozart) were born today, he would end up being be an advertising copywriter, and perhaps not even a very good one.

Look at any baby born today, and try to say whether that child would have a greater possibility of fulfilling its human potential if during its lifetime (a) technological progress reversed, (b) technological progress stalled, (c) technological progress advanced slowly, or (d) technological progress accelerated quickly. You can't. Because it's unknowable.

The best you can argue, therefore, is that technological progress will, on balance, have a tendency to open more choices for more people. But that's not a moral argument about the benefits of progress; it's a practical argument, an argument based on calculations of utility. If, at the individual level, new technology may actual prevent people from discovering and sharing their "godly gifts," then technology is not itself godly. Why would God thwart His own purposes? Technological progress is not a force of cosmic goodness, and it is surely not a force of cosmic love. It's an entirely earthly force, as suspect as the flawed humans whose purposes it suits. Kelly's belief that we are morally obligated "to materialize as many inventions as possible" and "to hurry" in doing so is not only based on a misperception; it's foolhardy and dangerous."

Nicholas Carr debatiendo sobre tecnología en la tierra y en los cielos

Otra de 'ventanas': ahora TOYOTA

Corning innovation

Corning es la compañía que hizo posible la fibra óptica. Y así, todo lo que nos llegó con ella: flujos de información digitalizada de todo tipo a altísimas velocidades.

Corning ahora 'hace' del vidrio, el terminal: para ver a través el mundo, todos los mundos hechos por el hombre.

T.I.M.E. de fotos: duras y al tiempo amables tierras santandereanas

Para poder orinar con decencia: más IVA $COL 124

Lo que se halla cuando miramos con atención papelitos y letreritos... por ahí en el mundo

Música y filosofía :-)

Aquí

Internet update (2011, forty-one years after...)

En vísperas del día de la independencia...

Curití, Santander, Colombia (la patria está dónde se 'habla colombiano'; ciertamente mucho menos en los salones del Congreso)

Pueblito de las brumas y los bellos atardeceres....

Net Neutrality update

Aquí el documento de la FCC (de Dic 21 de 2010) que está finalizando por estos días su incubación en el ecosistema de negocios y en el sistema legal

GigaOm ha resumido aquí lo que significaría esta nueva regulación

Extracto introductorio:

"After the Federal Communication Commission released the complete version of its first set of so-called network neutrality rules last Thursday afternoon, I read the full order to understand what the FCC has created. In short, the rules:

• Protect the current state of the Internet;
• Are ambiguous, and hence less protective of the mobile future for the web;
• Show that the FCC punted on pretty much every challenging issue that lay before it, from requiring open network provisions on wireless networks to allowing managed services provided by ISPs.

For those wondering how we got here, check out our timeline and links to the original FCC proposal from 2009 and a later proposal from Google and Verizon that became the framework for the Congressional bill that subsequently became the framework for the compromise order. The new FCC order enshrines three principles as the framework for implementing network neutrality:

• Transparency for fixed and mobile broadband providers.
• No blocking for fixed broadband providers in general, while mobile broadband providers can’t block competitive services, although blocking apps is fine.
• No unreasonable discrimination by fixed broadband providers while mobile broadband providers have to justify their discrimination."

Foursquare (o la redefinición del 'check-in' :-)

Aquí su sitio web

¿Innovador?

1. Su propuesta de VALOR reside en CONECTAR: gente con gente, gente con vendedores

2. La 'conexión' se basa en el GPS del teléfono, por tanto es en 'tiempo real', en cualquier lugar que ud. o el vendedor se hallen

3. La 'conexión' (el check-in) es optativa, a discreción, el control de cuando sí y cuando no, lo tiene ud.

4. Lo MÁS innovador viene en las opciones que se brinda a los vendedores para hacer su tarea (vender) a los 'chekados'

5. Son, en resumen, formas diversas y creativas de la 'promoción', para que los vendedores INICIEN una relación con nuevos clientes o PROFUNDICEN una relación con sus clientes antiguos; están bien pensadas; y tienen nombres simpáticos y atractivos (lo cual siempre es una ventaja): por ejemplo 'Enjambre' y 'Relámpago' :-)

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Les auguramos (se aclara que ya llevan un par de años) que les va a ir muy bien. Una sugerencia: crear plataformas de invitaciones a JUEGOS, para que los amigos (o aún no amigos) se reunan, no a comprar, a JUGAR, y en tales reuniones imprevistas, sorpresivas, los vendedores PATROCINEN :-)