May 26th, 2009
Long weekend. Went up to Ithaca on Thursday AM (6am flight), partied with the Fam for a few days to celebrate the little sister's graduation (Magna Cum Laude from Cornell!), then headed East the same day as the grad ceremony to attend a wedding in Rhinebeck. Pictures forthcoming on flickr.
Learned
Went out with the guys this evening and got to discussing the next wave of technology a little bit. I've been thinking about this analogy for a little while, but let is loose tonight:
Mobile is definitely going to become the next desktop. We've already seen a wave from desktop to laptop, and I see phones as the next platform. The analogy I'd like to draw is between the command-line days of DOS and UNIX and the way that a lot of mobile apps work now. If I want to add a new item do daytum or netflix, I have to know a series of commands (e.g. "d daytum drink:beer:2" or "d addnetflix Terminator"). With iPhones and Android, we're staring to see the Graphic User Interfaces that we've come to expect from desktops and laptops on our phones.
This is the next wave.
I wonder what's after it.
What else are we doing in a command-line fashion now that's going to be accessible to non-command-line capable folks in the next ten years? Five years? Five Months? Manufacturing? Flying a plane? Scientific Research?
Listened
I managed to ruin what would have been a good Friday by listening to the new YLNT live from Seattle while working today. Oh well, it was worth it. Some definite gems in this one - Merlin was on.
Watched
I'm sort of cheating by showing the video for something I heard at the bar tonight.... but is it really cheating if it's my blog? No. This is a total throwback and I know that we were making fun of the idea of an entire bar singing along to it, but I can't help that it's a great song.
Say It Ain't So - Weezer from Rafael M. on Vimeo.
