3 Players, 2 Visions and 1 Destination

3 Players

Microsoft, Sun, Google

2 Visions

Microsoft – A Desktop (Computer) in every home.

Sun Microsystems – Network is the Computer

Microsoft’s vision of ‘A Desktop in every home’ has helped the spread of internet and its economy which is considered around $100 billion dollars (The Search by John Battelle). This indirectly helped to realize the vision of Sun Microsystems ‘Network is the computer’. Sun Microsystem's Java platform, fast tracked the internet software development (Web site / portal development using Java technologies like servlets, enterprise java beans etc) which helped the normal users to get more value out of internet and letting it being part of their daily life.

Most of the computing for the common person revolves around the web browser and it became the interface to giant network (or should we say the Computer) called internet.

What did Google do over here?

To find out more about this, read more in my new blog Java and Technology / 3 Players, 2 Visions and 1 Destination

Neuroscientists break code on sight

By Cathryn M. Delude, MIT News Office Correspondent, November 3, 2005

In the sci-fi movie "The Matrix," a cable running from a computer into Neo's brain writes in visual perceptions, and Neo's brain can manipulate the computer-created world. In reality, scientists cannot interact directly with the brain because they do not understand enough about how it codes and decodes information.

To find out more about this, read more in my blog The Conscious Mind / Neuroscientists break code on sight