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Martin, Richard, and J. Nicholas Hoover. 2008. “Guide to Cloud Computing.” Information Week (June 21).
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). http://aws.amazon.com/ec2Microsoft Azure Services Platform. http://www.microsoft.com/azure
Science fiction that grapples with e-memories:
Sawyer, Robert J. 2003. Hominids. New York: Macmillan.
Halperin, James. 2000. The Truth Machine. New York: Ballantine Books.
Naim, Oscar. 2004. The Final Cut. Lions Gate Entertainment.
Westbrook, Robert. 2004. The Final Cut. New York: Penguin.
Another related sci-fi work is The Observers, where alien microrobots have been recording Earth’s history in incredible detail. People in the book grapple with being watched and recorded. The aliens are able to copy all of the information related to a person to create a virtual person, raising the issue of digital immortality.
Williamson, S. Gill. 2006. The Observers. Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse.
Don Norman suggested the Teddy life recorder. His other books on design are also well worth reading.
Norman, Donald A. 1992. Turn Signals Are the Facial Expression of Automobiles. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.
The Millennials, aka Generation Y:
Howe, Neil, and William Strauss. 2000. Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation. New York: Random House.
Laurent, Anne. 2008. “Millennials: They’re Here. They’re Wired. Get Used to Them.” Tech Insider (March 24) http://techinsider.nextgov.com
Safer, Morley. 2007. “The ‘Millennials’ Are Coming.” CBS 60 Minutes (May 25). http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/08/60minutes/main3475200.shtml
Olsen, Stefanie. 2005. “The ‘Millennials’ Usher in a New Era.” CNET News.com. (November 18).
Sweeney, Richard. 2006. “Millennial Behaviors and Demographics.” http://library2.njit.edu/staff-folders/sweeney/Mi l len n ia ls/A rticle-Millennial-Behaviors. doc
Strauss and Howe have an interesting generational theory that could play into the issue of why the Millennials seem to have a different attitude to privacy and technology.
Strauss, William, and Neil Howe. 1997. The Fourth Turning. New York: Broadway Books.
———. 1991. Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069. New York: William Morrow and Company.
Abe Crystal’s Ph.D. study found that “although all the students I observed were generally comfortable with technology, there was a large variance in technology-related expertise and knowledge.” Gibbons and Foster (2007) were “surprised to find that students are on average no more proficient with computer technology than are librarians and faculty members. Some students demonstrated broad knowledge of computers and facility in using them, but others were awkward and clumsy.”
Crystal, Abe. 2008. Design research for Personal Information Management systems to support undergraduate students, doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors is the single most important projection about the future of semiconductors. It encompasses all memory, including nonvolatile Flash memory, processors, and radios. The 2007 Roadmap projects continued biennial doubling of semiconductor density until 2016. One implication is that semiconductor memories will replace disks for portable computers.
International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors Web site. http://www.itrs.net
Disk Storage Roadmaps are available from individual vendors and market intelligence firms like IDC that show nearly annual doubling of disk densities.
Arai, Masayuki. 2009. “Optical Disks Used for Long-Term Storage by 2010.” Tech-On! (March 6).
Rydning, John, and Jeff Janukowicz. 2009. “Worldwide Hard Disk Drive Component 2008-2012 Forecast Update.” IDC (February 1).
There is a large research community advancing work on data mining, pattern recognition, and machine learning. Here are just a few starting points:
Bishop, Christopher M. 2006. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. New York: Springer.
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