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There’s something humbling that as we advance in technology, we still need big fat cables under the ocean.

Recently, Facebook & Microsoft dropped their’s, though it won’t be running till early 2018

Last year, Google & NEC turned on theirs.

Gatekeepers to the pipeline

If you don’t like Google, Facebook & Microsoft and still need to get your digital signal hard-lined to Europe, fear not – I was amazed at the size of the List of international submarine communications cables

Is hardware making a comeback

With physical devices like honking cables under the ocean; balloons and drones connecting wifi hubs; Alexa, google home, apple home; anything Elon Musk does – are we getting back to the hardware¹?

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This post was originally published on one of my old blogs. I backdated this to the original publish date.

Footnotes

1. With the increase in orality, is there an increase in physicality?

Ethernick.com is now running off
linode.

Thought it was a good time to expand and play. Not many hosts are offering something
relatively cheap to run node. I’ve been antsy to see how Ghost is doing
in a real world context.

As of now, my previous medium hosted publication,
The aether, has been moved onto ghost.

And other important questions that aren’t being asked.

There is no question the iPhone changed every owner’s washroom regiment. We don’t need that pile of readers digests anymore.

But did anyone see that happening?

Probably not, no one can see it all. But did anyone think about the interaction like that?

As the Internet of Things (IoT) advances and we put the internet in things like blinds and make new crazy things that never existed before, who is stopping to ask, or to teach to ask, what are the ecological ramifications?

I’m sure they are asking what are some of the ramifications, after all every VC pitch needs to know “why” and even the risks. But I’m not 100% sure we’re looking at the whole picture of risks.

• Spelling Bee contestants are typing as the spell. Their brains are being hardwired to know the alphebet in 2 dimensions.
• Kids are touching every glass like surface wondering why the pictures aren’t moving.
• We are now talking to our computers like people: “Siri”, “OK Google”, “Hey Alexa”

What else is being rewired?

How we interact with our technology shapes us. Sure the technology itself is cool – but I honestly don’t know who’s really thinking about our future generations and how they will be shapped by these things.

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This post was originally published on one of my old blogs. I backdated this to the original publish date.

What if the future of class is media choices?

• Those who can put the phone away.
• Those who choose podcasts over video streams.
• Those who still read long form articles.
• Those who produce vs those that consume.

Two things I like about this article.

One – Sputnik Moments

In recent months, China has quietly given the United States a series
of new Sputnik Moments

Although a tad fear mongering, still very very cool phrase

Two – Quantum Communications

China successfully tested the world’s first quantum satellite
communication – relying on the physics of quantum entanglement to send and
receive provably secure messages.

I beg your pardon? What did it just say? Quantum Satellite Communication