Sure, the iPhone is a sweet phone (even at $600), but how does it compare to the less definable internet tablet category?
I’ve actually used a Pepper Pad and held an OLPC in my hands (yes, they exist), but what I know about the Nokia n800 (the successor to the n770) is limited to [...]

Posted June 27, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: chart, comparison, information age, internet tablet, iphone, nokia n800, olpc, pepper pad. 6 Comments.

We can be forgiven for not noticing, but the world changed not long ago.
Sometime after the academics gave up complaining about the apparent commercialization of the internet, and while Wall Street was licking it’s wounds after the first internet boom went bust, the world changed.
Around the time we realized that over 200 million Americans have [...]

Posted January 23, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: arrival, cultural effects, culture, future libraries, information age, internet, internet usage, libraries, library, networked information, reality, science fiction, social change, society, stupendous, tiny marvels. 19 Comments.

Rebecca Lieb reports for ClickZ Stats that, based on US Census data (report), most Americans have PCs and web access:
Sixty-two million U.S. households, or 55 percent of American homes, had a Web-connected computer in 2003, according to just-released U.S. Census data. That’s up from 50 percent in 2001, and more than triple 1997’s 18 [...]

Posted January 16, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: access, census, critical mass, information age, internet access, internet usage, networked information, statistics, the coming information age, us census, usage statistics. 3 Comments.

I’ve been doing a lot of talking about the coming information age and how it depends on access technology that is as cheap and easy to use as our cell phones (and applications of it that are as appealing as people find their cell phones). But I’ve been slow to mention the MIT Media Lab’s [...]

Posted December 4, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: $100 laptop, digital divide, hardware, information age, laptop, Mary Lou Jepsen, media lab, mit, mit media lab, portable, portable computing, Technology, ubicomp, ubiquitous computing. 2 Comments.

My wife Sandee cringes at the suggestion that she’s a geek. She writes poetry and teaches English, she cooks fabulous meals and dances all night long. Surely you’re mistaken she’ll say. But she does have a laptop, a digital camera, and an iPod. And she immediately saw the value of having a computer in the [...]

Posted November 23, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: anti-geek, antigeek, communication, communication technology, geek, information age, living room technology, social software, Technology, technology value, word twister. Be the first one.

That headline might seem a little late among the folks reading this. But we’re all geeks, and if not geeks, then at least regular computer users. Regular computer users, however, are a minority. Worldwide, only around 500 million people have internet access, and fewer than 100 million people in the US have internet access at [...]

Posted August 4, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: access, change, change computers, computer, computing, critical mass, desktop apps, email, geek, geeks, information age, information system, internet, internet access, internet connected, killer app, market opportunity, network, paradigm shift, penetration, portable computing, web, web applications. 9 Comments.