Ryszard Kapuscinski, a globe-trotting journalist from Poland whose writing, often tinged with magical realism, brought him critical acclaim and a wide international readership, died yesterday in Warsaw. He was 74.
His death, at a hospital, was reported by PAP, the Polish news agency for which he had worked. No cause was given, but he was known to have had cancer.
Mr. Kapuscinski (pronounced ka-poos-CHIN-ski) spent some four decades observing and writing about conflict throughout the developing world. He witnessed 27 coups and revolutions. He spent his working days gathering information for the terse dispatches he sent to PAP, often from places like Ougadougou or Zanzibar.
This is not simply a rhetorical question, particularly in the middle of The Computer Revolution, so let’s try to first consider the kinds of things that may live in your computer, and thus in anyone else’s.
And thus in anyone else’s….
There’s the key to the whole situation.
Before computers there was ONLY ONE THING everyone all over the world could have all they wanted of….Don’t know?
Researchers always need to be reminded not to put too much trust in the materials that happen to lie within easy reach, but the risk of distortion will be much greater if they confine their investigations to a shelf of pre-selected books in a library rather than exposing themselves to the awe-inspiring quantities of treasure mixed with dross that Google spreads before them...Google may be creating new problems for scholars, but it offers new solutions too, and no one can play around with Book Search for more than a few minutes without stumbling into intellectual conflict zones that will wake them from the dogmatic doze that might have overwhelmed them in a well-regulated library.
A Review of the new LG eNV and Apple iPhone, and more.
You think you’ve seen cell phones?
Not the kind that you’ll be seeing sooner than you think!
2007 will see the start of cell phones that do everything we can imagine, and perhaps more than many of us imagine.
Many of you have heard me talk about convergence of function away from dedicated devices for years, if not decades, since the behemoth Wang word processors that couldn’t compete well against WordStar, WordPerfect, etc.
“The Future Is Now”
You’ll see a bigger change in cell phones now than ever, and it will continue for the next two or three years.