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Protests against the surveillance programs notwithstanding, it is unclear whether the American people fully comprehend the amount of intelligence gatheringcurrently going on, says Mark Tatge,journalism professor at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. | Protests against the surveillance programs notwithstanding, it is unclear whether the American people fully comprehend the amount of intelligence gatheringcurrently going on, says Mark Tatge,journalism professor at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. | ||
“It has been happening for more than a decade, a development that was spurred by the 9/11 attacks and changes in law making it easier to lawfully gather information on Americans and their everyday activities,” he says via e-mail, adding that he does not believe the protests will have a meaningful effect.</html> | “It has been happening for more than a decade, a development that was spurred by the 9/11 attacks and changes in law making it easier to lawfully gather information on Americans and their everyday activities,” he says via e-mail, adding that he does not believe the protests will have a meaningful effect.</html> | ||
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| + | <html>That might seem like a long time, but as computer scientist Bill Buxton has , thirty years is actually a typical amount of time for a breakthrough computing invention to go from the first laboratory prototype to commercial ubiquity. | ||
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| + | The first packet-switched network, the ARPANET, was launched in 1969. It took about 30 years,[http://exidea.biz/mw/index.php/User:Paulparker#What_Is_An_Entrepreneur-_2 What Is An Entrepreneur- 2], until the turn of the millenium, for Internet access to be widely adopted by American consumers. | ||
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| + | As Buxton , the story is similar for multitouch computing. The first multi-touch computing display was introduced in 1984,[http://www.newnfltshirts.com/ 2013 New NFL T Shirts], but it took 23 years for the first high-profile multitouch product, the iPhone, to reach the market in 2007. And it took a few more years,[http://www.newnfltshirts.com/ new nfl t shirts], with the introduction of Android in 2008 and the iPad in 2010, for multi-touch computing to become a ubiquitous standard for mobile computing. | ||
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| + | Why does it take so long? In all of these cases, it took a decade or longer for the new techniques to spread and mature inside the research community. Engelbart s demos were inspiring, but the full potential of mouse-based computing wasn t made clear until 1973, when researchers at the Xerox PARC laboratory developed the , which pioneered many of the graphical user interface concepts we now take for granted. Similarly, academics loved the early Internet, but it took Tim Berners-Lee s invention of the World Wide Web in 1991 to make the Internet accessible to ordinary consumers. | ||
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| + | Once a computing concept has been refined in the laboratory, it can take another decade to turn it into a viable commercial product. Xerox didn t realize the commercial potential of the Alto during the 1970s. Apple incorporated many of the ideas behind the Alto into the Lisa, a Macintosh forerunner introduced in 1983. But its astronomical $9,995 price tag (about $23,000 in 2013 dollars) made the device a flop. It took another year of effort for Apple to hit paydirt with the Macintosh in 1984. And it took almost another decade for Apple s competitors to catch up. | ||
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| + | This 30-year rule of thumb can help to form an educated guess about when future innovations will reach the mass market. For example, the first car capable of driving itself long distances was , and the technology has been maturing in academica and corporate labs over the last eight years. If self-driving technology follows the same trajectory as previous computing innovations, commercial self-driving cars will be introduced sometime in the 2020s, and the technology will become widely adopted in the 2030s.</html> | ||
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July 4 protests target NSA surveillance as Fourth Amendment
<html>The activists are targeting governmentsurveillance programs,Baltimore Ravens t shirts, in particular PRISM, a project of the recently revealed by a former contractor, ,Here's Why It Takes So Long to Move From Concept to Com, now on the run.It gives the government broad access to Internet traffic and other electronic communications, including records of phone calls made and received by millions of Americans. “The Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights clearly protects all citizens’ assets, both digital and physical, against searches and seizures without warrant,”the groups say on the website restorethefourth.net, addiing that they aim to assert those rights.
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Groupsranging from the electronic Frontier Foundation to Reddit and the Internet Defense League are calling for websites to post the full text of the amendment on the holiday. They areurging citizens to call their representatives in Congress, and are providing contact information. And they are also pushing forphysical protests, listing more than 100 cities and towns from Birmingham, Ala., to , Calif., where groups are gathering on Thursday for protest rallies. Asked to comment on the planned protests, an NSA spokeswoman says via e-mail that “the Fourth of July reminds us as Americans of the freedoms and rights all citizens of our country are guaranteed by our Constitution. Among those is freedom of speech.” Further, she says, “the NSA and its employees work diligently and lawfully every day, around the clock, to protect the nation and its people.”
Protests against the surveillance programs notwithstanding, it is unclear whether the American people fully comprehend the amount of intelligence gatheringcurrently going on, says Mark Tatge,journalism professor at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind.
“It has been happening for more than a decade, a development that was spurred by the 9/11 attacks and changes in law making it easier to lawfully gather information on Americans and their everyday activities,” he says via e-mail, adding that he does not believe the protests will have a meaningful effect.</html>
The inventor of the mouse has died. Here’s why his inv
<html>That might seem like a long time, but as computer scientist Bill Buxton has , thirty years is actually a typical amount of time for a breakthrough computing invention to go from the first laboratory prototype to commercial ubiquity.
The first packet-switched network, the ARPANET, was launched in 1969. It took about 30 years,What Is An Entrepreneur- 2, until the turn of the millenium, for Internet access to be widely adopted by American consumers.
As Buxton , the story is similar for multitouch computing. The first multi-touch computing display was introduced in 1984,2013 New NFL T Shirts, but it took 23 years for the first high-profile multitouch product, the iPhone, to reach the market in 2007. And it took a few more years,new nfl t shirts, with the introduction of Android in 2008 and the iPad in 2010, for multi-touch computing to become a ubiquitous standard for mobile computing.
Why does it take so long? In all of these cases, it took a decade or longer for the new techniques to spread and mature inside the research community. Engelbart s demos were inspiring, but the full potential of mouse-based computing wasn t made clear until 1973, when researchers at the Xerox PARC laboratory developed the , which pioneered many of the graphical user interface concepts we now take for granted. Similarly, academics loved the early Internet, but it took Tim Berners-Lee s invention of the World Wide Web in 1991 to make the Internet accessible to ordinary consumers.
Once a computing concept has been refined in the laboratory, it can take another decade to turn it into a viable commercial product. Xerox didn t realize the commercial potential of the Alto during the 1970s. Apple incorporated many of the ideas behind the Alto into the Lisa, a Macintosh forerunner introduced in 1983. But its astronomical $9,995 price tag (about $23,000 in 2013 dollars) made the device a flop. It took another year of effort for Apple to hit paydirt with the Macintosh in 1984. And it took almost another decade for Apple s competitors to catch up.
This 30-year rule of thumb can help to form an educated guess about when future innovations will reach the mass market. For example, the first car capable of driving itself long distances was , and the technology has been maturing in academica and corporate labs over the last eight years. If self-driving technology follows the same trajectory as previous computing innovations, commercial self-driving cars will be introduced sometime in the 2020s, and the technology will become widely adopted in the 2030s.</html>