Posts tagged with “future”

Trends in Mobile according (self-proclaimed) experts

By Kees Winkel on 29 November 2011

So, what are the trends in Mobile? here are an odd fifty experts expressing their wisdom. What do you think? (Source: http://www.slideshare.net/rudydw/mobile-trends-2020)

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Does Steve Jobs iBook store hold a copy of Cyrano's science fiction novel?

By Harry van Vliet on 30 April 2010

With all new devices constantly craving for our attention and money, our eagerness is fed to what comes next. We want to look beyond the horizon and see what is heading our way, just out of curiosity or to have a 'first mover' advantage. But we seem to forget that to know the future one must look back. Take for instance two manuscripts that circulated in the 1640's among the underground intelligentsia of that day, entitled Voyage dans la Lune (The Voyage to the Moon) and Voyage du Soleil (The Voyage to the Sun). They were written by Savinien de Cyrano aka Cyrano de Bergerac. Yes, the man really lived and is not just a musical character with a big nose. Indeed the heritage of Savinien de Cyrano suffers heavily from the romantic personage that the playwright Edmond Rostand created and that has inspired so many plays, movies and even Sesame Street ('Cyranose the Bergerac'). The 'real' Cyrano was among other things a professional writer, he published letters, plays and a two-volume science fiction novel.

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The future of the television set

By Rogier Brussee on 20 May 2009

This post is an exercise in futurology. Anyone who has been in the CELL lab (especially the old lab) notices the large TV screen. Indeed the development of HD TV is one of the focus areas of the Cross media lectorate, see for example Harry’s convergence and the future is now posts. Some of my colleagues at Novay in particular Christian Hesselman, are also deeply involved in next generation TV through the iNEM4U project. And of course Harry and I have in long gone days both been involved in the Giga Port Next generation TV project, which came up with a model for TV that is not all that different from what I will propose here.

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