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Welcome to On Our Radar, a weekly round-up of news, trends and other cool stuff from the world of web development.
In the news this week, chatter (I couldn’t bring myself to write excitement) around Spartan, Microsoft’s new browser, continued with what seem to be the first photos of it appearing online.
Elon Musk conducted an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Reddit. Here’s the potted version of what he said (plus a rather strange AI cat video), and here are three business takeaways from his answers.
And we got a glimpse of what Amazon.com could soon look like, as the company opened up a redesigned homepage to a broader group of users in the US.
Predicting the Future
It’s the nature of the fast-paced industry we work in, that bold technological predictions abound.
Sometimes they are spectacularly wrong:
Spam will be a thing of the past in two years’ time.
– Bill Gates, 2004
And sometimes they are spectacularly right:
It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages all over the world so simply that any individual can own and operate his own apparatus
– Nikola Tesla, 1909
SitePoint’s Craig Buckler recently tried his hand at crystal ball gazing – let’s hope his forecasts fall into the second category rather than the first.
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