Chip Vanek's Tumblr

Love the drawing and connections he makes.

Mon, 31 May 2010 01:06:09 -0400

Love the drawing and connections he makes.

"When ecosystems change and inflexible institutions collapse, their members disperse, abandoning old..."

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:14:43 -0400

“When ecosystems change and inflexible institutions collapse, their members disperse, abandoning old beliefs, trying new things, making their living in different ways than they used to. It’s easy to see the ways in which collapse to simplicity wrecks the glories of old. But there is one compensating advantage for the people who escape the old system: when the ecosystem stops rewarding complexity, it is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.”

- Clay Shirky at http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models/

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Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:46:56 -0400

The iPad will change everything. A year from now the 3rd device...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:35:56 -0500

The iPad will change everything. A year from now the 3rd device will be a given. Three year from now the downward slide of the PC will accelerate and the iPad be at the leading edge of a number of cloud enabled devices. I am loving the potential for software in this new world!!

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Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:39:08 -0500

This is the tablet I want.

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:54:18 -0500

This is the tablet I want.

I saw this last Spring and thought it was great and after seeing...

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:54:17 -0400

I saw this last Spring and thought it was great and after seeing it again I just had to post. Passion is a great thing.

Not sure it is a very collaborative work environment but, a...

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:00:09 -0400

Not sure it is a very collaborative work environment but, a great view in the fall.

From JustProto blog

Singularity University - 1st class Graduation

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:23:00 -0400

The Singularity University (SU) is sponsored by NASA, Google, and other thought leaders to explore emerging technologies from cross disciplinary perspective. There focus on tackling the world’s biggest problems with a holistic process guided by disruptive thinking is brilliant. Their focus is on technologies and ideas that are just emerging but with the increasing pace of technology adoption the future is becoming closer then we previously thought.

This summer was there first full semester with top class graduate students from around the world. Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis were two of the original drivers of the idea and the list of faculty and advisors is a who’s who of the worlds top thinkers.

While at HP I was privileged to be able to attend a couple of seminars Paul Saffo a leading edge futurist at Saffo.com and know how powerful it is to have structured brainstorming with brilliant people. I am excited to see what SU will produce over the coming years.

I attended an open seminar at SU about the “Internet of Things”. After the presentation the speaker encouraged the room to break up into groups and design systems that could emit or consume SPIME (SPace + tIME) signals. I wanted to join but the effects of my latest month long 16 hr/day sprint was limiting my ability to communicate. I plan on being rested and prepared if the opportunity comes along again.

singularityhub.com

techcrunch.com/2009/02/02/

Latest view by Gartner of the hype cycle on emerging...

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:26:06 -0400

Latest view by Gartner of the hype cycle on emerging technologies.

"messages have compelling attributes. One, they can be date stamped and packaged up to elegantly..."

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:12:36 -0400

“messages have compelling attributes. One, they can be date stamped and packaged up to elegantly deal with both real-time and asynchronous communication scenarios.”

- Mobile Broadband Era: It’s About Messages, Mobility and The Cloud

Mindshare for “Smart Messages” is growing

Great visualization from the MozyBlog for the numbers that drive...

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:59:00 -0400

Great visualization from the MozyBlog for the numbers that drive the internet. What is amazing is that Google processes as much information per day as half of all the entire written works of mankind. It makes you wonder what is in all this extra data.

The iTune App store comes alive at WWDC. Each ripple is a...

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:29:03 -0400

The iTune App store comes alive at WWDC. Each ripple is a purchase of an application.

I just got from a one month vacation in Europe. That time...

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:26:39 -0400

I just got from a one month vacation in Europe. That time allowed me to reset my world view a bit before I dived back into social media overload. I thought this article had a nice perspective for where we are going with social media.

Visiting the medieval villages of southern France was great fun...

Fri, 22 May 2009 03:38:46 -0400

Visiting the medieval villages of southern France was great fun and a nice break from the cube.

I vow to resist all such demands.

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:14:35 -0400

I vow to resist all such demands.

The problem with open standards is which ones to choose. Some...

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:36:00 -0400

The problem with open standards is which ones to choose. Some of these are just going to die along with the latest startup and other are just a wasteful distraction of resources.

It almost looks real.

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:04:29 -0400

It almost looks real.

"A rapid prototyping platform for physical/digital interactions? A mobile sensor platform for..."

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:55:20 -0400

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A rapid prototyping platform for physical/digital interactions? A mobile sensor platform for personal and urban informatics that’s going mainstream?

Imagine - AppleStores with shelves of niche, stylish sensor products for sale in a year’s time - pollution sensors, particulates analysis, spectroscopy, soil analysis, cholesterol? All for the price of a Nike+ or so?

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- Magical Nihilism has a great summation of what 3.0 of the iPhone platform will bring.

Were the target audience for poster ever going to read it?

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:46:55 -0400

Were the target audience for poster ever going to read it?