Jason Grigsby and Lyza Danger Gardner
The zombie gadget army is marching over yon hill.
A high-level overview of the coming zombie apocalypse of devices, and why you'd better start arming yourself.
Disruption will only accelerate. The quantity and diversity of connected devices— many of which we haven't imagined yet—will explode, as will the quantity and diversity of the people around the world who use them. -- FutureFriend.ly
You got fat, Gomer Pyle.
Establish and maintain good web hygiene habits. We've become lazy, our sites bloated and stupid. Those things you could get away with back at the farm will get you killed straightaway in zombie gadget combat. Time to shape up and ship out.
Initial contacts with zombies are extremely traumatic, causing shock, panic, disbelief and possibly denial, hampering survivors' ability to deal with hostile encounters. -- Wikipedia
You already have some blunt weapons. They just need to be sharpened and oiled.
"While aggressive quarantine may contain the epidemic, or a cure may lead to coexistence of humans and zombies, the most effective way to contain the rise of the undead is to hit hard and hit often." -- Philip Munz, Ioan Hudea, Joe Imad, and Robert J. Smith? [sic], When Zombies Attack! (2009)
These zombies aren't dying cleanly.
Our existing standards, workflows, and infrastructure won't hold up. Today's onslaught of devices is already pushing them to the breaking point. They can't withstand what's ahead. -- FutureFriend.ly
Running into the limits of what we can do easily, in the client, or reliably at all. A get-real look at the struggles we face.
Bad-ass, Special-ops kind of stuff to really show 'em who's the boss.
Brandishing hardcore device APIs, sniffing for superpowers and caching the hell out of stuff will leave 'em quaking in their boots. If zombies wear boots. Which they might not.
Might not need to re-invent the same zombie-blasting cannon over and over again.
Getting a leg up by using tools and frameworks out there.
It walks like a duck, it talks like a duck. It's actually a zombie. Shoot it anyway.
Server-side device detection, grouping and content adaptation. Learn to spot those wayward bad guys and know in advance what they're capable of.
Don't be afraid to make it up as you go along.
Proprietary solutions will dominate at first. Innovation necessarily precedes standardization. Technologists will scramble to these solutions before realizing (yet again) that a standardized platform is needed to maintain sanity. -- FutureFriend.ly
Clever hacks for maximum kill power: other ways to skin a zombie.
The standards process will be painfully slow. We will struggle with (and eventually agree upon) appropriate standards. During this period, the web will fall even further behind proprietary solutions. -- FutureFriend.ly
The standards we need aren't there yet. Looking to the future.
The response of authorities to the threat is slower than its rate of growth, giving the zombie plague time to expand beyond containment. This results in the collapse of the given society. Zombies take full control while small groups of the living must fight for their survival. -- Wikipedia