There is nothing left on television for me to watch now that the powers that be have canceled two of my favorite series (“Angel” and “Wonderfalls”) and the potentially interesting series “Century City”. I look forward to the day when the Internet becomes the “Grid“, a hybrid of the Internet, supercomputers, and cable television. The…

Marshal Brain’s latest Robotic Nation Evidence entry (04/05/04) seems to be stretching things a bit, but first impressions can be misleading. He illustrates what I have long held to be a sure sign of a rapidly changing world: the tiny changes that individually seem insignificant but in number indicate a coming tidal wave of change.…

AMD and Intel have recently turned away from advertising the clock speed of their microchips in mega- and gigahertz and are instead assigning model numbers. It has long been suggested by experts that a given microprocessor’s speed is a poor measure of actual performance. For example, AMD Athlon chips have slower speeds than their Intel…

IBM is offering partners the design architecture of its Power processors, beginning with the current Power5 chip. In doing so, IBM hopes to create an ecosystem of processors meant for devices ranging from handhelds and consumer electronics to supercomputers. Opening up software or hardware allows others to get in and see the details, and depending…