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  • Clouds and Boom in the Zoo: the unbearable lightness of IT.

    There was spring in the air yesterday afternoon. So what do you do ? You make a nice drive in your convertible car and you head for the Antwerp Zoo. (I don’t have a convertible, but I thought this would be a nice start for today’s blog) Antwerp Zoo: not that i am such an… Read more

  • Tom Cruise Wall

    Who has the real Tom Cruise touch-screen wall of Minority Report ? Recently i had the chance to see ànd touch ànd play-around with Microsoft’s Surface Table. That was fun. Made me think of the video wall in Minority Report ;-). Microsoft already showed some wall like this from their R&D group back in 2006… Read more

  • Singularity: Web² and augmented First Life

    I am a big fan of Ray Kurzweil. Too make a long story short, he is predicting that man & machine will blend together around 2030, and that is not so far away ! It’s about augmented human beings. And superhumans. And what the impact on society of all that is. A must read from… Read more

  • Web Trend Map 4 – Final Beta

    You probably will be hit by this from numerous sources, but Information Architects just released 4th "Web Trends Map". The original URL is here But for really a cool visualisation of this I recommend the Zoomorama site. Read more

  • System to System

    My good friend Peter Hinssen is pretty busy these days. At the end of last year he wrote a book about the dead of alignment between IT and Business. It was and still is a big plea for “fusion”. Now he’s doing in video’s. The first one is called “The laws of IT”. You can… Read more

  • Do we still need identity numbers ?

    Tim O’Reilly did a great opening keynote at Web2.0Expo about 5 technologies to watch and subsequently also commented on a related Forbes article about the emergence of a social nervous system. Tim is saying some really profound things here. I will spend 2-3 posts to comment. He is saying some cool stuff about identities of… Read more