"trends" entries
Radar Theme: Art and Technology
[This is part of a series of posts that briefly describe the trends that we're currently tracking here at O'Reilly] Art is emotion hacking, intended to provoke or illuminate rather than profit. Artists play on the boundaries of new materials, new modes of interaction, new technologies. Often what they build can inspire or inform useful and commercial hacking. Watchlist: Natalie…
Radar Theme: Open Beyond Source
[This is part of a series of posts that briefly describe the trends that we're currently tracking here at O'Reilly] The lessons and techniques of open source are applicable beyond source code. Open standards, open hardware, open data, open government are all borrowing from the legal, cultural, and technical toolbox of open source. Watchlist: Sunlight Foundation, Limor Fried, Change Congress,…
Radar Theme: Materials Science
[This is part of a series of posts that briefly describe the trends that we’re currently tracking here at O’Reilly] New materials follow a curve: initially expensive and so used by R&D only, but many eventually become mass-produced and cheap and so enable mainstream applications. By tracking new materials with interesting possibilities, we can be ahead of the mass-manufacturing curve….
Radar Theme: Overload
[This is part of a series of posts that briefly describe the trends that we're currently tracking here at O'Reilly] We have access to more information than ever before, so now rather than attempting to acquire more information sources we're challenged to filter the ones we have. We want technology to make us more productive, more effective, and smarter. Life…
Radar Theme: Digital Democracy
[This is part of a series of posts that briefly describe the trends that we're currently tracking here at O'Reilly] We can no longer smugly claim that the Internet exists separate from the law. Copyright, patent, and taxation are all pressing issues. From the other side, we can use our web techniques to fix a broken and corrupt political system….
Radar Theme: Clean Energy Tech
[This is part of a series of posts that briefly describe the trends that we're currently tracking here at O'Reilly] All civilization depends on energy, and always has done so. Oil is rising rapidly in price and alternative energy and energy consumption management have become viable businesses. We're interested in the IT use of energy technology (green data centers) and…
Radar Theme: ARGs
[This is part of a series of posts that briefly describe the trends that we're currently tracking here at O'Reilly] As the players of The Lost Ring watch the Beijing Olympics, they'll see more than the rest of us. They've been playing an Alternate Reality Game, creating new significance for events and locations in the real world. Companies are interested…
Radar Theme: Neo-Geo
[This is part of a series of posts that briefly describe the trends that we're currently tracking here at O'Reilly] Google Maps and Google Earth changed our ideas of what a map on a computer could do for us. We now have tremendously detailed data about the real world and software to manipulate it. Some of the data and code…
Radar Theme: Index
This post is an index to a series of posts made in August 2008 outlining major O'Reilly Radar themes. New posts will be linked in here as they go up. Bio Synthetic Biology Neuro-Everything Personal Genomics Real World Physical Web Neo-Geo Clean Energy Tech Web Web Ops Social Networking Web 2.0 Money/Web People New User Interfaces ARGs Digital Democracy Overload…
Radar Theme: New User Interfaces
[This is part of a series of posts that briefly describe the trends that we're currently tracking here at O'Reilly] The iPhone is called the JesusPhone for a reason. Its ease of use is a revelation, and the multitouch display is part of that. Since the iPhone's release, multitouch displays have shown up in tradeshows and on CNN. The hardware…