Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Category: Web/Tech
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Preserving the Past: Educating the Future
Even with an army of government clerks, there is a limit to how many pieces of paper the federal government could produce. However, the explosive growth of digital communications and document preparation has far outstripped the processes and technology available to the Library of Congress and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). However, it…
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End of an Era
I remember the day I first saw Mosaic, just after it was completed at Illinois. I had two immediate reactions. First, this was cool, way cool! Second, that it was a simpler interface to anonymous FTP, for people who could not spell anonymous!
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Web and Service Futures
As many of us shopped online for holiday gifts, I also found myself thinking about the rise of effective electronic retailing from the Strum und Drang that was the dot.com boom and bust.
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Socializing in Cyberspace
My wife has a series of digital photos of me, lost in thought with my smart phone (Treo, Blackberry …) at many of the world’s great wonders.