I was at Dell World last week, and it is kind of amazing how far the company has come since it went private. Interestingly, much of the big tent content was less about Dell’s technology and more about how technology was being used to change the world. This was kind of a scary event in some cases, because we are far from ready for some of the changes. Johns Hopkins, for example, is moving aggressively to technologies that will allow medicines to tell patients when to use them and when they are no longer useful.
You know, I keep reading about "the internet of things", and I keep seeing lame examples, and how this is "just the tip of the iceberg", and blah blah blah. All I see are iterations on what smartphones already do, only with smaller screens that border on useless.
All the smart watches I've seen are ugly with interfaces that run the gamut from annoying to embarrassing - "Are you from the future?" "No I'm being payed to wear this sh** and pretend that I like it. Go away kid..."
Google glass has real potential, but is also at a price point that is completely out of reach for your average consumer, unless you are an uber geek willing to save your pin money for a year or more to afford it. And it also presents all kinds of privacy issues, and I think, safety issues.
So far nothing I've seen in the realm of "the internet of things" is anything I personally would be interested in owning, with the possible exception of Google Glass.
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Dell: Using Technology to Change the World
Posted by: Rob Enderle November 10, 2014 07:15 AMI was at Dell World last week, and it is kind of amazing how far the company has come since it went private. Interestingly, much of the big tent content was less about Dell’s technology and more about how technology was being used to change the world. This was kind of a scary event in some cases, because we are far from ready for some of the changes. Johns Hopkins, for example, is moving aggressively to technologies that will allow medicines to tell patients when to use them and when they are no longer useful.
All the smart watches I've seen are ugly with interfaces that run the gamut from annoying to embarrassing - "Are you from the future?" "No I'm being payed to wear this sh** and pretend that I like it. Go away kid..."
Google glass has real potential, but is also at a price point that is completely out of reach for your average consumer, unless you are an uber geek willing to save your pin money for a year or more to afford it. And it also presents all kinds of privacy issues, and I think, safety issues.
So far nothing I've seen in the realm of "the internet of things" is anything I personally would be interested in owning, with the possible exception of Google Glass.