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CDXPO 2003
COMPUTER DIGITAL EXPO
November 17 - 21, 2003 | Las Vegas

Now that Comdex is in Chapter 11, Alan Meckler of Jupitermedia is launching a new trade show in the same town on the same dates, and IN3's Jack Powers is conference chairman. Here's a chance to build the principal IT industry event for the way we live now, not the way business was done a generation ago. The conversation begins with Meckler's fiesty CEO weblog and will heat up in the next nine months.

The Curriculum Sketch describing the scope of the show and the Call for Papers are online now.

AGE AND IT EXPERIENCE

As the chart below shows, information technology changes so fast that the life experience of IT professionals in their 40s and 50s is very different from the experience of younger folks:

Get the original chart in Excel spreadsheet format.

NEWS & PERSPECTIVE

The State of Innovation
Computing power will fade into the woodwork.
MIT Technology Review

Jack's House
The landscape and the costs of home networking in Brooklyn are laid out in last year's Internet Home seminar slides.
[291K PDF] | [1.95MB PPT]
Caution: big files.

Will TV Come to a Cell Phone Near You?
Even if a mobile device manages to incorporate a TV, getting cable TV programming to that device will be well nigh impossible.
TechExtreme.com

For comments and questions about this upcoming presentation, contact:

Jack Powers
email: jpowers@in3.org
phone: +1 718-499-1884

IN3 BOOKS
(Click cover to order.)

After the Internet: Alien Intelli- gence.
IT guru James Martin blows past the Pinnochio arguments of academic AI by outlining how intelligent machines will be smart but very different from humans, artificial and alien to the way people think. His section on genetic algorithms, neural networks and cellular automata, "Machines That Breed," is worth the price of the whole book.

The
Guten- berg Elegies: The Fate of Read-ing in an Electronic Age. Literary critic Sven Birkerts doesn't like what emerging information technologies like the World Wide Web, CD-ROMs and hypertext are doing to us. He argues that reading a book is physically, philosophically and culturally better than viewing a computer screen, and he worries that electronic media culture is destroying oru individuality and making wisdom obsolete.

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