Category Archives: Futurism

My Crowdsourced Search Idea: ThereThenTag

ThereThenTag Mapping Web Addresses to Location, Time, and Tags August 2016, Draft 1 Copyright 2003–2016 by Daniel Smith. All Rights Reserved javajoint@gmail.com, @javajoint Introduction [I am resurrecting an idea from 2003. It’s a structure for crowdsourced search. There is even … Continue reading

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Use Longer Passwords, Today

Short & Sweet, Too Easy To Beat … So I was just led from a HuffPost bit to this article: “No password is safe from this new 25-GPU computer cluster” … The title is a bit misleading, but the gist is that … Continue reading

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One Year. One Island. One Internet Device.

Some History Way back in 1994, I wrote an article for a then-ISP called “West Coast Online”.  It was  “TV or the Internet?”.  I proposed the scenario, way back then, of being stranded on a deserted island with a great … Continue reading

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