Tech Reading list 12th August 2017
Let’s start this weeks tech reading list in China. We are used to coverage about what Apple and Facebook are getting up to in China. So fair play to the New York Times for highlighting Qualcomm ‘How This U.S. Tech Giant Is Backing China’s Tech Ambitions’ (04/08/17). China is a fascinating place to watch tech develop in particular China’s quantum computing ambitions. If William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984) was published today it would be set not in Japan but China.
I have a pair of Snap Spectacles, not many have and sales have been paltry. They are though a great introduction to an emerging future of augmented reality products like AR glasses and Microsoft HoloLens. This article by Matt Miesnieks is a reality check but also a great introduction to this area. He touches on ARKit which I follow with huge interest. The article is called ‘Why Apple’s glasses won’t include ARKit’ (10/08/17). Don’t let the headline put you off. When these products are honed they will be as ubiquitous as Iphones somewhere around 2022.
In Hackernoon a topical article: A Brief History of Women in Computing: Women invented the field. The men pushed them out of it. ( Faruk Ateş 09/08/17) The UK’s National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) features the achievements of women in computing. As film and tech fan it is Hedy Lammar who interests me most. As Faruk recalls:
During World War II, in 1942, Hedy Lamarr invents the frequency-hopping technology that would later allow the invention of wireless signals like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
To round off this shorter than usual Tech Reading List here is Hedy Lammar in the film Algiers (1938)
Have a great tech weekend.
