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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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David Report: Closed Wallets, Closed Minds
We are increasingly suffering from consumption fatigue, but brands and designers have yet to acknowledge the fact, reckons David Carlson in Closed Wallets, Closed...
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Pamphlet: The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World
The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World Christian Nold and Rob van Kranenburg Paperback, 67 pages The Architectural League of New York In Situated Technologies...
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WHO report on mHealth
The World Health Organisation has just issued a major (free) report on mHealth, entitled “mHealth: New horizons for health through mobile technologies“. Abstract...
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The future of money in a webbed-up world
Digital cash and online markets have the potential to loosen governments
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The wisdom and foolishness of crowds
Experiments suggest that wisdom of the crowd can be countered by too much communication within that crowd. “The wisdom of crowds turns out to be an incredibly fragile...
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Patients want more user-friendly medical devices
Cambridge Consultants released the findings of a study which examines how device usability impacts patient acceptance, dosage compliance and ultimately health outcomes...
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Internet of things blurs the line between bits and atoms
In the past few months, companies ranging from giants such as Google to small start-ups have been touting the possibility of interconnecting people and objects...
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Digital You: a NESTA discussion on telepresence
Digital You was an early morning discussion in London, organised by NESTA, that looked at telepresence and the psychology of electronic communications. NESTA is...
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Is car sharing the future of the automobile industry?
As much as the car chieftains of Detroit try to fight it, America is slowly but surely turning away from the concept of car ownership. Instead, hundreds of thousands...
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Five similarities between collaborative consumption and open-source technology
Tim Hyer, the founder of Rentcycle (an online rental marketplace for those looking to share access rather than retain ownership), was hugely inspired by his previous...
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Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces conference
DPPI 11, the 5th conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, will take place in Milan at the end of this month, with Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken...
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The future of the TV experience
The second global edition of BLINK, a quarterly media industry magazine published by media agency MediaCom, looks into the future of TV. The 48 page magazine contains...
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Book: The Internet of Elsewhere
The Internet of Elsewhere: The Emergent Effects of a Wired World by Cyrus Farivar Rutgers University Press May 2011 Abstract Through the lens of culture, The Internet...
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Usability testing with children: a lesson from Piaget
In this post, Sabina Idler, information designer at Usabilla (The Netherlands), introduces Piaget
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Gestural interfaces: a step backwards in usability
Donald A. Norman and Jakob Nielsen of the Nielsen Norman group argue that today
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City as a platform
Two talks from the 2011 PSFK conference caught my attention: City as a platform (video) In her role as Chief Digital Officer for the City of New York, Rachel Sterne...
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Why can
The number of times that Google has failed at delivering a successful
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Ford Motor Co moving into mobile healthcare
With the help of medical technology companies WellDoc, Medtronic and SDI, the motor giant last Wednesday set out to prove that it’s concerned not only with the...
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Study: people with access to power meter data reduce energy use
The simplest way to cut down on energy use isn’t to build millions of brand-new LEED-certified buildings; it’s to convince people to make changes themselves. And...
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