Arun Shroff - Ideas & Insights On Technology & Life

How Would You Explain Twitter to Your Grandmother ?

Posted by Arun in Twitter on November 8, 2009

By now thousands of articles and blog posts have analyzed the reasons for the appeal of Twitter. They have sliced and diced it neatly into its various components - simplicity, brevity, openness, immediacy, transparency etc. But if you have ever tried to explain Twitter this way to someone who has never used Twitter, you most [...]

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“Computers in the future may have 1000 vaccum tubes…”

Posted by Arun in Tweets on April 9, 2009

“Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh only 1.5 tons” - Popular Mechanics article, March 1949
The above quote amply demonstrates the problems with predicting the future. This is because the future does not always evolve linearly from the past - there are often unforeseen quantum leaps in technology [...]

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Microsoft, Google sparring over Twitter !

Posted by Arun in Twitter on April 9, 2009

Microsoft, Google sparring over Twitter? Should be interesting… http://bit.ly/9JbJb
The explosive growth of Twitter has evoked great interest among both Google and Microsoft to acquire the company. For Google this would immediately fill the gap in their search of real-time results and give them an even bigger share of the search market. For Microsoft, this would [...]

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China Denies Involvement in Hacking

Posted by Arun in Tweets on April 9, 2009

In news today China Denies Involvement in Hacking U.S. Power Grid - http://bit.ly/Vtab5 The Chinese govt official position is always complete denial - but can you really trust anything that Beijing says or denies ?
The ambitions of the chinese is nothing short of “electronic world domination ” as per this article : http://www.cnn.com/2008… And http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol…
Americans are of [...]

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College too expensive? Try Youtube !

Posted by Arun in General, Tweets on April 9, 2009

College too expensive? Try YouTube http://bit.ly/uFFbo
This is a glimpse of the future of college education and education in general. The convergence of digital multimedia and broadband together with global connectivity is paving the way for a new way to disseminate learning - 24 hour, on-demand learning on any topic that may be of interest [...]

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