Category Archives: mcluhan  Is this the future look of augmented
reality?  I have this vision of nerds everywhere staggering
around the city with big slates in front of their faces only
seeing the world through shared web tablet camera experiences.
I’m guilty of looking something like this in public myself, even
hoisting a tablet onto my shoulder boombox-style to make skype
calls. And that’s a part of why this picture (taken at GoogleIO)
made me laugh.  Like everything old is new again.  photo credit
If we invented news today as a delivery channel for journalism,
through the web from scratch, what would that look like? and we
like to ask questions like that, what would [ a product google
wave, google news] look like if you invented it from scratch for
the web. I think it would look very different.  Of course this
the right question to be asking. Asking this question is how
google manages to disruptively up-end industry after industry on
the web with products that are actually pretty simple but work
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