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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI

From Schneier on Security Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration … B. Schneier | February 29, 2024

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Sweet to tweet

The Financial Times has posted a very long analysis on Twitter as a social phenomenon: “In its deceptively simple way, Twitter has stumbled on a formula that a... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 1, 2009 at 10:46 AM

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Book reviews of The Caryatids by Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling’s new science fiction novel The Caryatids is out and is collecting its first reviews. Here are the ones I found so far: Cory Doctorow - Boing Boing... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 1, 2009 at 10:33 AM

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Media literacy and social action in a post-Pokemon world

Cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito has posted a rough transcript of her (quite long) keynote address at the 51st NFAIS Annual Conference. “If I were to pick one thing... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 1, 2009 at 10:03 AM

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Microsoft

A new video from Microsoft shows in an elegant, if utopian way, what it might look like if all of those gadgets came together several years hence. Ina Fried of... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 1, 2009 at 09:47 AM

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Nissan interaction design team suffers to make future cars simple and painless

With the help of a proprietary “ageing suit” that mimics the mobility and faculties of an elderly driver, interaction designers at Nissan Design Center were able... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 1, 2009 at 09:37 AM

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Web 2.0: a magic Ponzi scheme from a demon haunted world

Bruce Sterling keynoted last week on “The Short but Glorious Life of Web 2.0 and What Comes Afterward” at Webstock in Wellington. No video is (yet) available, but... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 1, 2009 at 09:04 AM

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Primates on Facebook

The Economist calls in primatologists to better understand the limits of Facebook: “Perhaps additional friends are not free. Primatologists call at least some of... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 1, 2009 at 08:34 AM

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Two upcoming European conferences

IRealize Turin, Italy 9-10 June 2009 It’s still early days for this conference that presents itself as “two days aimed at identifying unsolved problems, suggesting... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 1, 2009 at 08:25 AM

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Why enterprise software is so shockingly bad

Programmer Michael Nygard thinks that the quality about some software that inspires love in their users, is totally devoid in enterprise software. “The best you... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 23, 2009 at 07:50 PM

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Ethnographic research: a key to strategy

Ken Anderson, a senior researcher and anthropologist at Intel, wrote a short article for the Harvard Business Review on the importance of corporate ethnography:... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 23, 2009 at 07:33 PM

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Open source and mobile banking

After coming home from the Mobile World Congress, Mark Pickens, a microfinance analyst with CGAP Experientia
From Putting People First | February 23, 2009 at 07:25 PM

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The three layers of handhelds user experience

Christian Lindholm, a partner and director at Fjord, argues that there are three layers in handhelds user experience: “The highest level I call Bling (this is because... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 23, 2009 at 07:16 PM

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Nokia Siemens Network going for

The Nokia Siemens Network website and its forum site “Unite” contain a wealth of valuable articles and background papers: A huge amount of articles and whitepapers... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 22, 2009 at 08:54 PM

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The Internet of Things in 2020

In February 2008, the European Commission and an European industry working group (EPoSS) held a workshop on the Internet of Things, involving more than 80 experts... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 22, 2009 at 12:37 PM

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How to keep innovating

Microsoft Research Principal Scientist Bill Buxton outlines some counter-propositions to the idea of achieving mastery and the dogged pursuit of excellence: Always... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 20, 2009 at 10:42 AM

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Book: Innovating for and by users

Innovating for and by users Edited by Jo Pierson, Enid Mante-Meijer, Eug Experientia
From Putting People First | February 20, 2009 at 10:25 AM

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Does UX still matter in tough economic times

“Does UX still matter in tough economic times,” asks Temple University librarian Steven Bell on the blog “Designing Better Libraries”. “Promoting the user experience... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 20, 2009 at 10:01 AM

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Whitepaper: Public Media 2.0

The Center for Social Media of the American University in Washington has published a new whitepaper entitled: Experientia
From Putting People First | February 18, 2009 at 08:19 AM

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In Defense of Readers

Mandy Brown, creative director at W. W. Norton & Company, wrote a nice story on A List Apart about understanding the needs of readers in web design. Despite the... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 18, 2009 at 12:00 AM

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From the WIMP to the map interface

“Cellphones have changed how we communicate with others, and now they are changing how we think about information,” argues John Markoff of the New York Times. “With... Experientia
From Putting People First | February 17, 2009 at 07:15 AM

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