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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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Data mines and ideas of time
The boys at design consultancy BERG are prolific this week: Toiling in the data-mines: what data exploration feels like by Tom Armitage “There are several aspects...
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Stop your search engines
Peggy Orenstein forced herself offline, and reflects in the New York Times Magazine whether this is the path to true knowledge: “Not long ago, I started an experiment...
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Memory and forgetting in the digital age
Yadin Dudai writes in the New Scientist on two books on memory and forgetting in the digital age — Total Recall: How the e-memory revolution will change everything...
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The mad dash toward touch technology
True innovators need to know as much about when, why, and how not to use trendy technology as when to use it, says Microsoft Research principal scientist Bill Buxton...
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Human behavior: the key to future tech developments
As trained observers of how people in a society live, ethnographers can help companies figure out what people need and then work with designers to meet those needs...
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On security, programming, privacy, and
Three articles in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM are quite relevant for the readers of this blog: Usable security: how to get it Why does your computer...
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Clay Shirky and Stephen Fry on the digital revolution
The people behind Digital Revolution (working title), an open source documentary, due for transmission on BBC Two in 2010, that will take stock of 20 years of change...
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Trust in digital life
Denise Deveau, technology writer at The Globe and Mail speaks with Kim Cameron, Microsoft’s identity guru, about what it will take for consumers and businesses...
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An Australian view on user-centred design
Damian Kernahan (featured earlier) just published his second article in Fast Thinking, an Australian innovation quarterly — this time on user-centred design. “Web...
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Technology is giving us the means to co-create the future
Author, speaker and technologist Juliette Powell sees the true significance of social media technology in the new kinds of collaborations we are able to forge that...
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Myths and realities about women and mobile phones
Mobile phones have been a boon to developing countries and to social development. Access to mobiles may indeed allow for better medical information, change the...
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10/GUI, a new multitouch interface concept
MG Siegler writes on ReadWriteWeb about the fact that desktop touch screens don
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On the difference between personalisation and customisation
What’s the difference between personalization and customization? Are consumers really in control? Do brands (and designers) want them to be? Nick de la Mare of...
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Philips Design and ABN AMRO create emotion mirroring system for online traders
Philips Design and ABN AMRO
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TalkTalk launches Digital Anthropology Report
Yesterday TalkTalk, the UK broadband division of Carphone Warehouse, launched the Digital Anthropology Report
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Bringing internet video services to the living room TV set
More details are emerging about Project Canvas, the ambitious joint venture by the BBC, ITV, Five and BT to bring internet video services such as the iPlayer from...
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Our ever evolving online communication patterns
Both the Wall Street Journal and Techcrunch devote extensive space today to our ever evolving online communication patterns. The Wall Street Journal looks at how...
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Reviewing the
Dan Hill (ARUP) wrote a long review of the ‘Toward the Sentient City’ exhibition curated by Mark Shepard and organised by the Architectural League of New York. “This...
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On using design to influence behaviour
Dan Lockton of Brunel University (UK), who runs a blog called Design with Intent, which focuses on strategic design that
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