Livet efter Internet: människor, maskiner och myter bortom persondatorn

business art technology

Livet efter Internet
människor, maskiner och myter
bortom Persondatorn

Presentation, June 14, 2000
by Richard Gatarski for

Imaginary Organizations

Jag ber om ursäkt för att dokumentationen inte är på svenska. Av tidsbrist har jag valt att tills vidare dokumentera på ett språk - engelska. Det är det språk jag normalt presenterar mitt arbete på. Området jag studerar är dessutom fyllt av engelska termer som ofta saknar svenska motsvarigheter.

This is only the Internet part of my lecture. I will make no efforts to keep this page updated. The Internet is in constant flux. Links that this document refers to might have moved, changed or vanished. Still I hope that you will find it useful.

I welcome any comments by e-mail to richard.gatarski@bat.se

	Introduction and overview Presentation outline:: E-commerce Post PC Artificial Market Actors Conclusions The presenter Richard Gatarski is currently finalizing his PhD dissertation at the School of Business, Stockholm University. More about him at his commercial and scientific sites.
	E-commerce Why do we have soap operas?
	Predictions for E-commerce Business to Consumers Source: Survey made by Cambridge Management Consulting

	Business to Business Source: Survey made by Cambridge Management Consulting
	E-commerce is not a new phenomenon
	Visionaries regarding new infrastructures. Roads as a metaphor of what happens when the traffic starts...
	Simply put - this is how a company basically can make more money (from customers)
	Unfortunately a lot of E-commerce actors are in VenCap mode
	In VenCap mode the customers are not driving, money is - that´s bad! For my thoughts about the problems with the VenCap type business model, see The Busines Model problem, or when the bubble busts.
	Post PC Why do we have (personal) computers?
	and why do they look like they do?
	There are things developing beyond TVs with set top boxes...
	In the future we will likely see more than Digital Television. It holds promises of intelligent appliances, wireless communication pads, personal digital assistants, multimedia cars, communicating toys, etc. NCR Microwave oven communicator WebMan from Anigma WebPad from Cyrix Advantage 2000 from CMI and Salton Rocket eBook Everybook CrossPad from Cross OnStar from GM Actimates Barney from Microsoft. Furby from Tiger Electronics Cyberpen, used by ISO in Denmark Kerbango netradio Itsy platform from Compaq


	As I see it, right now the (IT) industry is moving away from Internet towards isolated networks. One healty opposite force is sourced by Open-IP.
	Artificial Market Actors We (humans) are not alone anymore...
	A few examples Excite Product Finder (crippled Jango) PhoneGenie from MediaCom Olga from Centre for Speech Technology, KTH, Stockholm MarketMaker (former Kasbah) from MIT media lab Shallow Red from Neuromedia (enter "microsoft agent" as your first question) Generative desing from Emergent Design See BotSpot for more examples of bots.
	Look, the market contains non-humans, i.e. artificial market actors
	Social Computing We have to realize that we have to be social with computers, and computers have to treat us as humans.

	Conclusions
	Thank you Featuring Sun Light Chorus.

Hardware

Actimates Barney, from Microsoft
MP3-player, from Ijamworld or the swedish distributorActor (the original Merit MP-100)
Palm Pilot Professional from 3COM, with news via Avantgo
My Protégé 7020CT, from Toshiba PC Sweden

Updated 2000-06-14