Last month, IBM took out a two-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal that touted their vision for a smarter planet. They believe: The world continues to get “smaller” and “flatter.” But we see now that being connected isn’t enough. Fortunately, something else is happening that holds new potential: the planet is becoming smarter. That is, [...]
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Toward a smarter planet
Posted by John Moravec in Monday, December 8th 2008
Topics: Accelerating Change, Innovation, Technology Tags: blog, development, futures, IBM, information, quality, systems
Virtual worlds colliding
Posted by John Moravec in Thursday, October 11th 2007
Two interesting pieces of news emerged on virtual worlds: At the Virtual Worlds Conference, IBM and Linden Labs announced plans to develop a set of open standards that would allow avatars to traverse from one virtual environment to another. Multiverse Network is building tools that will allow virtual world developers to access and incorporate elements [...]
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