ETech, Sandy, and more soon...

As many of you already know (because I'm running to you in hallways!), I'm chairing the O'Reilly ETech Conference in San Diego this week. There's so much intelligence, creativity, and fun in this place. I always swore I'd still run the ETech program even if I left O'Reilly: and, for the 6th year in a row, I'm thrilled and honoured to be involved. (Now if I could only be in all those sessions at the same time.)

Of course, I have plenty to tell you about — namely, Sandy and her debut at Under the Radar last week — but will have to wait till I have more than three minutes at a time in front of the computer. More soon...

"Suffiently advanced technology."

In my copious free time :-\ between growing a new company and building a new product, I continue to chair the program for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference.

This year's theme is "Sufficiently advanced technology", in reference to Arthur C. Clarke's third law of prediction: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

In 2007, we expect Internet access to be instant, music collections to fit into our pockets, and communication to be constant no matter where we are. Technology is tightly woven into our lives; so well-integrated at times we scarcely notice it. And yet, there are innovators, hackers, and thinkers in our midst plotting revolutions -- in some cases, simply by reexamining the assumptions underlying the technology we take for granted today. We'll be examining those technologies that have silently slipped into the realm of magic (Did anyone notice that the dream of ubiquitous wifi access actually happened?) as well as those on the verge of doing so (Wii, anyone?).

Registration just opened and I encourage you to sign up as soon as you can as last year sold out rather quickly and this year's going to be better still ;-).