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The Future of Appliances

By Ken Wirt | PalmOne: PDAs as Convergent Devices Lecture 8 of 16

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Lecture Description

Wirt makes some interesting predictions about the future of digital music, digital photos, and the trends of high speed networks and increasing storage capacity.  He describes a world where almost everything has a built-in hard drive for storing information, but the challenge will be keeping it all in sync.

Course Index

  1. The Career Path of a palmOne Executive
  2. The Convergence of Technology
  3. Examples of When Convergence Works and When it Does Not
  4. Historical Example of Convergence - Steam Powered Factory.
  5. Distributed Computing Became an Appliance
  6. From Revolution to Evolution
  7. From Convergence to Appliance
  8. The Future of Appliances
  9. Future of PDAs as Convergent Devices
  10. Growth Prospects for PDAs and for PalmOne
  11. How PalmOne Evaluates What Customers Want
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