Moments When I’ve Seen and Described Our Technosocial Future
In 1981, after Playing Gomoku Online and Exchanging a File with a Reporter with my Apple ][+, I Smelled the Internet. Then Faxes Arrived.
In 1985, I Foresaw the Cellular Market in Argentina (1990 = privatization)
In 1990, IDM Described the Web
In 1991, CIE Described Smartphones (iPhone = 2007)
In 1992, I Saw the Unification of Messaging Services
In 1993, My Issues of Release 1.0 about Online Community Presaged Social Media
In 1994, Visiting Kaplan at OnSale, I Asked “What if your customers could run their own auctions?” (eBay = 1995)
In 1995, “What’s a Zine?” Showed Up as Weblogs in 1997
In 1997, I Saw Buddy Lists as the Future of Interpersonal Communications
In 1997, My “Fridge Door” Showed up as Wikis and Family Apps Later
My Law of Convenience May Have Inspired Bezos’s 1-click Ordering
On life as a “software seer”
A Software Seer (said Newsweek in 1995)
Moments When I Believe I’m Describing Our Technosocial Future
Fisher’s Reply to My Email (from Kodak)
General Magic painted itself into a corner — twice!
MADAF (Memory Analysis Discourse Action and Feedback)
My Preemptive Trademarks ;P
Presenting to Allaire and His C-Suite at Xerox
There Are Moments when You Can Smell Something Is Going to Die or Take Off
Touring the FedEx Hub in Memphis, Seeing All the Cows on Conveyors
Trying to Convince ATT to Adopt IP Telephony
Two Briefings that Woke Me up to “Consumer”
What If TheBrain Were the OS for Linux Laptops?
What It Took to Get an Internet Email Address at CompuServe
When an Exercise Reveals a Company’s Dysfunction
When I First Heard of Adobe Carousel
No more concurrent uploads are allowed - wait until at least one has finished.
Moments When I’ve Seen and Described Our Technosocial Future
