Category: Author: Chad Dorsey
Gartner has published their annual Hype Cycle, a roundup of which technologies are where on the inevitable expect-too-much-too-early curve of technology hype. Gartner has characterized the typical curve along which most all technologies travel, beginning with high expectations, proceeding to disillusionment when these technologies, and then completing with a slow climb to productive use of […]
Though it’s been a couple weeks since my trip to Maker Faire, I still haven’t shared a number of interesting things from this and the conference the following day. First of all, I need to share one of the coolest must-have things at the Faire. The ShopBot. This is truly a transformative device, and is […]
Apparently, Google has been secretly making cars that drive themselves. They have logged over 140,000 miles of self-navigation and over 1,000 miles of navigation entirely free of human intervention, all on regular roads, including travels on highways, regular streets, and even down the famously twisty hills of Lombard St. in San Francisco. The New York […]
I caught up on a few TED talks while descending into San Diego (Thanks, Virgin America!) One of them was the latest from Clay Shirky. Love that guy. In his TEDCannes talk on cognitive surplus, he describes that the world has over one trillion hours of free time each year to commit to shared projects. […]
Well, Maker Faire was certainly all it’s cracked up to be. The energy of the movement is tangible, and the variety of the things people are doing is truly vast. There are definitely themes running through the Maker movement, and many involve technology in a variety of ways. Many of the more surprising examples are […]
Andee Rubin from TERC and I ended up on the same plane on the way to World Maker Faire. As we landed in LaGuardia on the shuttle from Boston, we wandered a bit through the terminal looking for a pit stop. As we did, we happened upon the amazing Marine Air Terminal lobby. 100% hidden […]
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Well, it seems our initial return to blogging suffered a slight setback. But we’ve been pretty hard at work over the past year on our new look, new website and many other new developments. And we’re happy to be returning to blogging at long last as well. We’re pleased to have you visiting, and invite […]
It looks as if our open letter to President Obama isn’t alone. A recent post on Ars Technica kindly points us to another open letter from a group of open source vendors and advocates calling for the new administration to consider open source software in government IT initiatives and infrastructure. Of course, we’ve been thinking […]
Welcome back. As we at the Concord Consortium begin to make more regular posts to our blog, I’m not exactly certain whom I’m welcoming back more: you as our readers, or ourselves as bloggers. Either way, we’re pleased to have you as part of the conversation. And we have plenty to talk about, as our […]