Will the future feel object-free, and placeless? If so, won’t we not know it when we’re there?

Joho liveblogs Bruce Sterling at reboot: “For people of your generation, objects are print-outs. Their frozen social relationships. Think of them in terms of hours of time, and volumes of space”

Zero History references a book-in-progress by William Gibson.

http://video.reboot.dk/v.swf

http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/atd/microPlayer.swf

Opera releases Unite, and analysts rain down with run downs.

http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/06/why-a-centralised-web-is-here-to-stay/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jun/17/opera-unite
http://www.inquisitr.com/26360/oh-duncan-if-opera-unite-is-the-future-then-were-going-back-in-time/

And so on.

So it’s been done before: Microsoft Live Sync, and IRC fserve
And it’s not secure enough for some things, but is it secure enough?
Blah, blah, blah.

Ignore the chatter. The back story is this…
Opera Unite makes personal file sharing into a browser setting, instead of a mile-long process. It means I can share without uploads, and I can host without dyndns. These are milestones indeed, if for no other reason than because it’s so simple your mom can use it.

http://www.ustream.tv/luckyyoufilms

http://www.ustream.tv/flash/live/690599

Charlie Miller hacks browsers, and I suppose other web techs, but this little tidbit from our title shows a bit of the future. He works for Independent Security Evaluators, and in this ZDNet articles points the way forward for exploitists.

I have a new campaign. It’s called NO MORE FREE BUGS. Vulnerabilities have a market value so it makes no sense to work hard to find a bug, write an exploit and then give it away. Apple pays people to do the same job, so we know there’s value to this work. No more free bugs.

And this note:

I actually found this bug before last year’s Pwn2Own but, at the time, it was harder to exploit. I came to CanSecWest last year with two bugs but only one exploit. Last year, you could only win once so I saved the second bug.

We always knew hackers were smart, but Charlie proves they are also business savvy. Cheers to you Mr. Miller for turning the tables ever so slightly. You may piss off the elite hackerati, but I endorse your entrepenural spirit.