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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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Information and communication technologies vital for social inclusion
The World Economic Forum today released its study on Scaling Opportunity: Information and Communications Technology for Social Inclusion, an analysis of how ICT...
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danah boyd on why Zuckerberg is wrong to say
Ethnographer danah boyd, a Microsoft researcher, argues that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is wrong saying that ‘the age of privacy is over’. “Privacy isn’t a technological...
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Are mobile phones Africa
Whether it’s checking market prices of crops, transferring money or simply making a call, mobile phones are transforming Africa. But, asks The Guardian, could this...
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Good: the Slow Issue
Good, the collaborative magazine, has published its “Slow Issue” with perspectives on a smarter, better and slower future: “At its simplest, slow stands for a focus...
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From people to prototypes and products: ethnographic liquidity and the Intel Global Aging Experience study
The latest Intel Technology Journal (Volume 13, Issue 30 reports the research and development activities of the Intel Digital Health Group and its colleagues. One...
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Design for sustainable behaviour (part 3)
Can design change behavior? Although at times it can seem difficult to change just one person
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The world in 2020: A glimpse into the future
Ten years ago we thought wireless was another word for radio, Peter Mandelson’s career was over
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The New York Times on gestural interfaces
The New York Times reports on “natural” gestural interfaces in an article entitled “Giving Electronic Commands With Body Language”: “In the coming months, the likes...
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Denmark Leads the way in Digital Care
Using medical devices and notebook computers, Danish patients can see doctors without leaving home, and have the information automatically logged into electronic...
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A MobileActive.org whitepaper on scaling mobile services for development
Katrin Verclas of MobileActive.org has published a whitepaper entitled “Scaling Mobile Services for Development: What Will It Take?”. The paper, originially commissioned...
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Yahoo studies social science
Yahoo Labs is beefing up its ranks of social scientists, adding highly credentialed cognitive psychologists, economists and ethnographers from top universities...
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The bridge between cultures and design
Microsoft’s Joe Fletcher contributed an intriguing article on software UX in India and China on the ever more interesting Johnny Holland site: “Over roughly the...
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The service design era
In a two-part series, Korea’s JoongAng Daily newspaper looks at the rise of service design and the notion that modern product designers need to look well beyond...
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World Wide Mush
In his new book, “You Are Not A Gadget,” online pioneer Jaron Lanier explains how the Internet has gone off course. In this Wall Street Journal, he summarises the...
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Design for sustainable behaviour (part 2)
A range of other researchers have also published papers on the topic of design for sustainable behaviour. Twenty papers were presented at the CHI 2009 Workshop,...
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Design for sustainable behaviour (part 1)
Dan Lockton, a Ph.D. researcher at Brunel University (UK), has together with professors David Harrison and Neville Stanton, recently published a range of papers...
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The false question of attention economics
A few posts have emerged recently that recapitulate the well-worn arguments of attention scarcity and information overload in the real-time social web, so Stowe...
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The Internet is Africa
Publishing Perspectives reports on a recent panel discussion on the African publishing industry at this year
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Greenpeace guide to greener electronics
Greenpeace’s Guide to Greener Electronics provides an evaluation of “the 18 top manufacturers of personal computers, mobile phones, TVs and games consoles according...
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