CS 306Big Band Era

The quest for rapid and robust Internet access has cities grappling with how to bring the best of broadband to their businesses and residents.• A broad Reach - 63 mil•Access•Service•Cost•Don’t need it

• The gatekeepers•Comcast•sbc

CS 306•At Your serviceBig cities have to show corporations that their broadband will stay on even if terrorists strike, says Chris O’brien, Chicago’s technology chief.

“Wireless really gives give the opportunity, on a relatively low-cost basis, to put technology into neighborhoods that could never afford it before.”

CS 306• Broadband Browser

• Firework•Comcast - $43 - $58•SBC - $27 0 $37

CS 306The beauty of Simplicity

The Simple, and the simply awful

•The products we love•Tivo, by Tivo•Ipod, by Apple•Skype’s Voice-over-Internet Service•Google’s search engine• BlackBerry by RIM

CS 306The beauty of Simplicity

The Simple, and the simply awful………….. and love to hate•Universal remote• PeopleSoft software•LG VX6100 Cell phone•HP Officejet 7110 printer•Sony Synthesize radio

CS 306The beauty of Simplicity

The Simple, and the simply awful

“I want to figure out how combine simplicity, which is basic human life, with this thing – technology – that’s out of control.”

“The marker for simplicity is complex. If I offer you a VCR with only one button, it’s not all that exciting, even if when you use it, it’s likely to be easier .”

CS 306The software Wars

People often claim that one of every three large-scale software systems gets canceled mid project. Of those that do make it out the door, three-quarters are never implemented: Some do not work as intended; others are just shelved.

Why you can’t understand your computer

Something unique to software, especially new software: no experts exist in the sense that we might speak of an expert machinist, a master electrician, or an experienced civil engineer. There are only those who are relatively less ignorant.

CS 306The software Wars

Though the medium on which it is stored might decay, the software itself, because it exists in the same ethereal way as a novel, scored music, or a mathematical theorem, lasts as long as the ability to decode it.

Why you can’t understand your computer

Something unique to software, especially new software: no experts exist in the sense that we might speak of an expert machinist, a master electrician, or an experienced civil engineer. There are only those who are relatively less ignorant.

CS 306The software Wars

Until computing is organized like engineering, law, and medicine through a combination of self-regulating professional bodies, government-imposed standards, and the threat of litigation, inviting a computer into your house or office is to invite complexity masquerading as convenience.

Why you can’t understand your computer

CS 306Scan This Book!

2. What happens when the books connect3. Books: The Liquid Version4. The Triumph of the Copy5.The Moral Imperative to Scan6.The Case Against Google7.When Business Models collide8.Search Changes Everything

1. Scanning the library of libraries