Mobile internet usage will surpass desktop usage in the next 4 years.
Most people these days will never experience internet over a wire, and many have never used a conventional keyboard.
Tech cycles tend to last ten years. (1980s personal computing, 1990s desktop computing, 2000′s mobile internet computing). There are winners and losers in each cycle. The winners and losers for this mobile tech cycle have not been set yet.
Hudson Taylor
Internet now leads television as the ‘most essential’ medium, meaning most people would give up television before they gave up internet. (Infinite dial) We, like Hudson Taylor, need to adopt the language of the culture.
techne – greek word that is the root of technology today
The first two commandments were to have no other gods and no graven images. Why is that important? It’s because God is not just another idol lost in the sea of idols. He is not an idol at all. He did not have an image for us to worship, but His people were supposed to become His image.
Here in the office I’m the resident conspiracy theorist. I hardly believe anything the news or the government says and have plenty of ideas about what they don’t say. One of my theories has to do with the government having technology decades ahead of the public, especially government agencies like the NSA. In the late 1990’s I discovered their technology transfer program (TTP) on their website. This is basically declassified technology that they make available to the public. You can check it out here on the NSA website
There were a couple of Federal Acts passed in the 1980’s outlining this procedure. There is a PDF on their website that describes the program in full
Whether you understand any of the technology posted or not, it’s pretty cool to browse through (especially if it’s all old news to them).
One of the technologies I first found in the late 1990’s (only because it was one of the only entries I remotely understood) was called the Processor-In-Memory or PIM chip. Since I had just learned to build computers and had a basic understanding of how they worked, this intrigued me. Modern processors now have something called L2 and L3 caches which are getting larger by the year, but they still have dedicated RAM. This basically combined the RAM and processor into one single chip similar to a processor with a huge L2 cache.
I still like to browse that part of their website every once in a while just to see what’s newly “outdated” for them.
