MIT のメディアラボを率いることになった伊藤穰一氏
Joichi Ito Named Head of M.I.T. Media Lab | NYTimes.com
On Tuesday, the university plans to announce that Joichi Ito, known as Joi, will become the fourth director of the M.I.T. Media Laboratory, which was originally founded by the architect Nicholas Negroponte in 1985 and has since become recognized for its willingness to take risks in developing technologies that are at the edge of the computing frontier.
Perhaps its most important role, however, has been in helping to nurture a generation of innovative designers like John Underkoffler, a user-interface designer who is now a Hollywood consultant and who provided most of the futuristic interface ideas seen in the movie “Minority Report.”
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Raised in both Tokyo and Silicon Valley, Mr. Ito was part of the first generation to grow up with the Internet. His career includes serving as a board member of Icann, the Internet’s governance organization; becoming a “guild master” in the World of Warcraft online fantasy game; and more than a dozen investments in start-ups like Flickr, Last.fm and Twitter. In 1994 he helped establish the first commercial Internet service provider in Japan.
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Mr. Ito’s appointment comes at a time when the Media Lab, as well as other information technology research centers, have struggled to reclaim the financing levels that were characteristic of the era of the dot-com boom. Although the lab gets the bulk of its $35 million annual budget from corporate and government sponsors, that amount has declined measurably as a percentage of the overall budget during the last decade, Dr. Negroponte said.
“Funding got tight in 2002 and even tighter in the last economic downturn,” he said. That has made fund-raising the highest priority for the new director, he said. However, he added that Mr. Ito’s particular leadership qualities made him stand out among the 250 candidates who were considered for the position.
“Joi is very good at enabling others,” he said. “I’ve never met a 44-year-old who is able to enable others in this way. Most people who are at that age are into themselves and their career.”
Joining the MIT Media Lab | Joi Ito’s Web
MITメディアラボ新所長、伊藤穣一氏に聞く | WIRED VISION
伊藤穣一氏インタビュー–MIT Media Lab新所長に聞く | CNET Japan
原発避難区域は無人機がデータを集めていた放射能汚染地域と重なる？
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原発避難区域の様子
Japan Prohibits Access to Nuclear Evacuation Zone | NYTimes.com
TOKYO — After weeks of trying to prevent the Japanese public from panicking about the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the government now has the opposite problem: worries have faded so much that people are slipping back into the evacuation zone.
Yukio Edano, the chief secretary of Japan’s cabinet, said Thursday morning that beginning at midnight, no one would be allowed to enter the 12-mile zone around the reactors without official permission. He made the announcement after residents began returning to retrieve belongings from their homes and as local and foreign journalists began exploring the area.
Japanese Revisit Nuclear Zone While They Can | NYTimes.com
Tadanori and Eiko Watanabe, who live in that outer zone, about 17 miles from the power plant, have done neither. While worried about radiation, they refused to abandon their 16 beef cows. “Our cows are like our family, and we can’t leave them here,” said Ms. Watanabe, as she and her husband carted away manure in wheelbarrows.
Japanese Return to Nuclear Zone Briefly [Slide Show] | NYTimes.com
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原発２０キロ圏内を警戒区域
［【原発】菅総理が避難施設訪問 詰め寄る住民も（11/04/21） | YouTube］
２０キロ圏内の市町村が「警戒区域」に切り替え 一時帰宅２時間以内 | MSN産経ニュース
原発から20キロ圏内、立ち入り禁止-罰金10万円も | IBTimes
「無視していくんですか！」素通り菅首相に怒声 | スポニチ
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津波の浸水面積 東京２３区に匹敵
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このすごいチャートは一見の価値がある
First quarter PC forecast: Windows down 2%, Mac+iPad up 250% | asymco
〈同じデータでも解釈の仕方で・・・〉
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米海兵隊の放射能専門部隊、来週帰国へ
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アップルとテレビ業界
The often-rumored Apple HDTV | Marco.org
It causes practical problems, too: TVs usually require large warehouses and very large retail display areas, which Apple’s retail stores aren’t ideal for. And large TVs usually require in-home service, which Apple doesn’t offer for any other products.
They could get over those problems. They’re inconvenient and limiting, but not fatal.
A bigger problem is that Apple prefers to offer fully integrated products, but a modern TV is just one component in a mess of electronics and service providers, most of which suck.
Apple and the TV industry | cdixon.org
Perhaps Apple won’t enter the market due to its structure. But that didn’t stop them in mobile phones where the structure was similarly difficult. The mistake analysts made about the iPhone was to assume the current industry structure would be sustained after Apple’s entry. I’d be wary of making the same assumption about the TV industry.
On Apple’s Must-See TV | ParisLemon
Marco Arment on Apple and the HDTV Market | Daring Fireball
I used to think Apple might get into this market — selling big high-quality TVs with built-in Apple TV functionality — based on the following logic: “Why settle for selling a $299 box instead of a $2000 TV set?” Now, of course, Apple TV is a $99 box. I agree with Marco — I don’t think Apple is going to get into the TV set business. “There’s money to be made” just isn’t reason enough.
The fundamental question Apple always wants an answer for before entering a new market is “Why would someone buy this instead of what’s already out there?” I don’t think there’s a good answer for that if an Apple-branded HDTV is just a big screen with built-in Apple TV functionality.
Apple TV Set | lonelysandwich
No, what you’ve had in your living room all your life—that’s just a TV set. A dumb hunk of plastic and glass, a front-end for your rat’s nest of cables, waiting to be changed to channel 3 and left there to rot. This new thing from Apple? That’s a TV.
アップルはテレビ事業に乗り出すだろうか | maclalala2
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