Will this, as an SDxCentral article suggests, be the year of NaaS? I think somebody has suggested that every year for the last five years or so was going to be just that, so it might be interesting to look at why we’ve not achieved NaaS so far, starting with an inability to define what…
What’s Required for True Autonomy in Vehicles or Robots?
I’ve done a couple of recent blogs on the elements of “contextual” services, and drawn on driving and walking as examples of places where they could be applied. This can, I learned, lead to intermingling the notion of “contextual” with another term, “autonomous”, and I want to clarify the separation. “Autonomous” is a popular term…
Podcast: Things Past and Things to Come January 9 2023
Our podcasters review the week’s economic and stock news, and talk about some of the fuzzy, uncertain, aspects of tech. Email and RSS:
Where Do We Get the “Context” in Contextual Services?
Some of the questions and comments I’ve gotten on my blog on contextual services and point-of-activity empowerment ask at least implicitly for an expansion in one key point. I noted the importance of relating “location” of a service user to what is nearby, meaning “contextual location”. I didn’t note how one did that or how…
Mastodon Chat for the Podcast of January 9 2023
The next Things Past and Things to Come podcast will be posted on the morning of January 9th on the blog.tmtadvisor.com website, and the Mastodon chat on its topics will be held at 11 AM Eastern US Time on January 10th. If you have not yet sent me your Mastodon ID and followed the instructions…
Is There a Workable Model for Edge Computing, and a Justification?
In our first test of Mastodon chats on podcasts, conducted on January 4th, I think that it would be fair to say that edge computing and its impact on tech spending was the big topic. Within that big tent, there seems to me to be two supports. One is just where “the edge” really should…
Could the Industrial Metaverse be the Important Metaverse?
Any fortune-teller loves it when their predictions come true, but they also love it when others begin to agree with some of their early-stage prognostications. So it is for me (being an analyst isn’t far from being a fortune teller) with the future of the metaverse. A VC-centric publication has picked up on many of…
Metaverses and Cats’ Cradles
The metaverse seems to be one of those topics you can’t stop blogging about. There’s a lot going on for sure, the concept is important for sure, and others keep writing about it and raising issues. For example, Light Reading talks about how telcos “marvel at the metaverse”. CNBC says that the metaverse is “off…
On the Vanity of Tech Greatness
With apologies to Arthur Guiterman. “The Elon Musk whose Twitter Flaw launched Mastodon…has rubbed us raw. The metaverse that promised much…has crumbled into cartoon dust. The 5G wave that swept our shores…became the focus of our snores. All tech seems locked in hype and fear…and so we hope for a better year.” Email and RSS:
Some New Podcast Capabilities for 2023
Starting in 2023 I’ll be adding some capabilities to our TMT Advisor podcast site, including scheduling Mastodon-based interaction on selected podcasts and adding a new podcast type. Please note that you’ll have to be registered to use the Mastodon capability and to listen to the new TechsRayTM podcasts. Those who are registered on January 10th…