November 23, 2003

Data Mobility Growing Up

Information is caught in a double-bind: it wants to be free, but it wants to belong to someone. (Are hard-drive crashes a symptom of such dysfunctional relationships?)

Popescu-Zeletin and his colleagues in research labs around the world are more interested in what will happen in the next decade. They don't know precisely what will emerge from a technological standpoint. But many of them envision what Popescu-Zeletin calls an individual-centric model, "intelligent enough to adapt to the individual, wherever you are -- anytime, any place and according to your personal preferences."

[Dan Gillmor's eJournal] Posted by johndan at November 23, 2003 08:21 PM | TrackBack