ETech - The O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2005

Posted by Simon Perry on 14 March 2005 at 4:46 pm | Tagged as: _events

In Tim O’Reily’s words “Citizen engineers are throwing their warranties to the wind, hacking their TiVos, Xboxes, and home networks. Wily geeks are jacking Jetsons-like technology into their cars for music, movies, geolocation, and internet connectivity on the road. E-commerce and network service giants like Amazon, eBay, PayPal, and Google are decoupling, opening, and syndicating their services, then realizing and sharing the network effects. Professional musicians and weekend DJs are serving up custom mixes on the dance floor. Operating system and software application makers are tearing down the arbitrary walls they’ve built, turning the monolithic PC into a box of loosely coupled component parts and services. The massive IT infrastructure of the ’90s is giving way to what analyst Doc Searls calls “do-it-yourself IT.”The Westin Horton Plaza, San Diego, Californiahttp://conferences.oreillynet.com/etech/