So I look up one day and find I have been so busy that a month has passed by since I posted last. Here are a couple of items that will challenge you to see what the future holds.

This first item is older but if you haven’t read it then shame on you. Ray Kurzweil, likely the most prolific inventor of our time, wrote a forward to a book I hope to soon read called The Intelligent Universe by James Garner. He has published the entire forward online at KurzweilAI.net a blog like site that if you don’t have in your river of data you should. If you come away from reading that without feeling like a kid on Christmas morning then you better check for a pulse.

The next interesting read I want to share is by Nick Carr titled Google, Apple and the Future of Personal Computing. Carr theorizes that, in the end, it is going to come down to Google in the cloud and Apple for the user interface. The reason I wedge this idea after the Kurzweil article is because Google is building Kurzweil’s ideas. What’s more is that they are doing it in a way that the end user doesn’t even realize its going on. We want access to our data every where, any where and at any time. But we also want the experience to be simple and easy. I am not sure that in the end Google and Apple are the companies to accomplish this but they are certainly in a league of their own right now.

I was reading Ajaxian this morning.  They had published a link to a post titled In defense of Ajax for the iPhone.  It’s a good read so check it out first.

I basically don’t understand the need for a “real SDK”  for the iPhone.  I am attempting, through comments here and at the Ajaxian post, to get someone to provide real concrete, well thought out reasons that an SDK is necessary and how it would be better than developing AJAX applications for the iPhone.  I think two very well put together examples of iPhone apps can be found here.