Sharism: A Mind Revolution. With the People of the World Wide Web communicating more fully and freely in Social Media while rallying a Web 2.0 content boom, the inner dynamics of such a creative explosion must be studied more closely.
What motivates those who join this movement and what future will they create? A key fact is that a superabundance of community respect and social capital are being accumulated by those who share. The key motivator of Social Media and the core spirit of Web 2.0 is a mind switch called Sharism. Sharism suggests a re-orientation of personal values.
We see it in User Generated Content. Sharism is encoded in the Human Genome. Thus, our brain supports sharing in its very system-nature. However, daily decisions for most adults are quite low in creative productivity, if only because they've switched off their sharing paths. These mind-switches are too subtle to be felt. Non-sharing culture misleads us with its absolute separation of Private and Public space. In depth: Google Android 4.0 'Ice Cream Sandwich' tested - All the details you need. As sentences go, "Google has unleashed Ice Cream Sandwich" is a bit of a weird one.
But it's one we've got to go with, because that's the moniker that the search giant has chosen for version 4.0 of its mobile operating system, Android. Why "Ice Cream Sandwich" and not the rather-simpler "Ice Cream"? It's all about branding. A bowl of ice cream happens to look remarkably similar to a bowl of frozen yoghurt, which was the name of the pudding-based edition of Android between Eclair and Gingerbread. Ice Cream Sandwich is the first edition of Android that unifies the tablet and smartphone strands of Android, taking the best bits of both and spinning them into something new. Gone are the hardware buttons found below the screens of most Android phones, replaced by contextual on-screen buttons that change depending on the task.
Hitting the multitasking button brings up a series of windows depicting your most recently-used apps, which you can then switch back to easily. The window into the world of the internet of everything. At Qualcomm's Innovate conference in Istanbul, the company's CEO Paul Jacobs explained how smartphones and tablets will offer a "window into the world of the internet of everything".
Craig Barratt, from Qualcomm's Atheros division, said: "Five to ten years ago, the battle was about proividing basic connectivity for email and the web, and really not much else. There were maybe a couple of IP addresses per household. " Today, however, thanks to connectivity creeping into televisions, set-top boxes, photo frames, DVD players, games consoles, and e-readers, that number is closer to 10 to 15.
In five to ten years time, said Jacobs, "there'll be not just hundreds of connected devices, but thousands", naming washing machines, printers, electric meters and other devices as those that'd predominantly contribute to the growth, along with networks of sensors built into every object that will offer security, monitoring and awareness. But how do you interact with a web-connected lamp?