Comments on: ReadWriteWeb Report: The Real-Time Web and Its Future http://www.slaw.ca/2010/01/19/readwriteweb-report-the-real-time-web-and-its-future/ Canada's online legal magazine Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:12:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Cheifetz http://www.slaw.ca/2010/01/19/readwriteweb-report-the-real-time-web-and-its-future/comment-page-1/#comment-715936 David Cheifetz Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:26:51 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=16340#comment-715936 We're going to need, if it doesn't already exist - I haven't checked - a technophile/technophobe analogue to Ambrose Bierce's definition by, comparison, of conservatives and liberals: "Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others." It's remarkable how well the transposition works. IT Technophobe, n: an [information]technology user who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the [IT] Technophile who wishes to replace them with others. One good thing about it is that it's a TOE-OSFA* definition. *Theory of Everything - One Size Fits ALL We're going to need, if it doesn't already exist – I haven't checked – a technophile/technophobe analogue to Ambrose Bierce's definition by, comparison, of conservatives and liberals: "Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."

It's remarkable how well the transposition works.

IT Technophobe, n: an [information]technology user who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the [IT] Technophile who wishes to replace them with others.

One good thing about it is that it's a TOE-OSFA* definition.

*Theory of Everything – One Size Fits ALL

]]> By: Simon Fodden http://www.slaw.ca/2010/01/19/readwriteweb-report-the-real-time-web-and-its-future/comment-page-1/#comment-715935 Simon Fodden Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:57:56 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=16340#comment-715935 The real-time internet is something lawyers are going to have to pay attention to. Twitter is just the beginning. Whether one likes or deplores this move to fast and automatic updates, it's upon us and will spread to the web. Think: Google Wave. IBM has a new version of Lotus Notes that will compete with Wave. PubSubHub, RSSCloud... terms we're likely to have to understand in the very near future. The real-time internet is something lawyers are going to have to pay attention to. Twitter is just the beginning. Whether one likes or deplores this move to fast and automatic updates, it's upon us and will spread to the web. Think: Google Wave. IBM has a new version of Lotus Notes that will compete with Wave. PubSubHub, RSSCloud… terms we're likely to have to understand in the very near future.

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