[LINK] Australian no-show at CeBIT

[Fernando Cassia]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Ash Nallawalla <nospam at crm911.com> wrote:

> Does anyone believe that a "lack of IT policy" is the reason why we don't
> have world-beating IT innovations? Any Aussie with a gifted mind will go
> overseas if that's the best option and it's usually because the markets and
> funding are in the Northern hemisphere.

In this World where Windows 7 is dubbed an "innovation" I wouldn´t
lose any sleep over the fact that the press says Australia -or any
other country for that matter- has no "IT innovation".

Sorry if I show my age but now that PCs have evolved into
portable-connected-TV-mediaplayers-music-players-videoconference-emails-collaboration-cloudcomputing
devices, what else is there for a device to do?

Besides the obvious advances that will surely arrive over time...
speech recognition everywhere-gesture
recognition-smaller-faster-lighter-more-battery-life is there any
capability still not covered?

Sorry if I show my age... but having started with a TRS-80, I think
innovation can only go so far. After a certain point its all change of
size-shape-colour just as in cars. Dual core, quad core multicore,
terabytes of RAM, billions of pixels... to write an email and send a
SMS, just like today.

But of course, I´ll love to carry the equivalent of an Asus EEE on my
wristwatch....

The only major "innovation" and trend I see, long-term, is the
progressive dumbing down of user interfaces so in the end OSs and
applications will match the general level of stupidity ... think
ATM-like interfaces.... hence msft touch and the like.... I dont know
if that qualifies as progress in my book.

Ok, sorry for the rant....

FC