Internet Innovation
June 16th 2007 21:59
I found a site today hosted by IBM which lists a number of internet innovations where they’ve partnered with various businesses to create new approaches to old forms.
For instance they talk about inventing (along with a couple of other firms) the ‘supercomputer on a chip’, something that will transform virtually everything in the computer scene in due course. They mention museums that have been transformed through the use of digitized catalogues. Or cargo systems where the cargo can ‘talk back’ to the central office, and keep track of itself, virtually. Then there are ‘smart homes’ – hopefully smarter than the smart home that turns up in M Hulot’s film, Mon Oncle, which is about a house full of ‘modern’ inventions, inventions that have a tendency to turn on their owners.
Then there is the huge revolution going on in India in the customer service area. Or a system in Stockholm that charges drivers who come into town in peak hours. Or around the globe life insurance and the means for customers to control their own premiums.
Since we came to England we can’t help but notice the vast number of cellphones that are being used. The revolution in the Internet side of things isn’t always so obvious, and sometimes has to be searched for. But the changes that the Internet are bringing are more far-reaching than anything cellphones are achieving.
For instance they talk about inventing (along with a couple of other firms) the ‘supercomputer on a chip’, something that will transform virtually everything in the computer scene in due course. They mention museums that have been transformed through the use of digitized catalogues. Or cargo systems where the cargo can ‘talk back’ to the central office, and keep track of itself, virtually. Then there are ‘smart homes’ – hopefully smarter than the smart home that turns up in M Hulot’s film, Mon Oncle, which is about a house full of ‘modern’ inventions, inventions that have a tendency to turn on their owners.
Then there is the huge revolution going on in India in the customer service area. Or a system in Stockholm that charges drivers who come into town in peak hours. Or around the globe life insurance and the means for customers to control their own premiums.
Since we came to England we can’t help but notice the vast number of cellphones that are being used. The revolution in the Internet side of things isn’t always so obvious, and sometimes has to be searched for. But the changes that the Internet are bringing are more far-reaching than anything cellphones are achieving.
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