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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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Activate 2011: Technology powered by people
Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net and FrontlineSMS, reports on how Activate 2011, the one-day conference in London on technology and development, made clear it’s...
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Achieving long-term sustainability at a Belgian expo centre
A road(map) to sustainability: How an Expo centre can become low-impact The Event project, funded by Flanders In Shape, a Flemish design promotion agency, created...
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Individual and networked privacy
Danah Boyd, researcher at Microsoft Research New England and Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society, posted the crib of her recent Personal...
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Book: ethnography and the corporate encounter
Ethnography and The Corporate Encounter Reflections on Research in and of Corporations Edited by Melissa Cefkin Berghahn Books 2010, 262 pages Businesses and other...
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SEE Conference report by Mark Vanderbeeken
On 29 March, Experientia partner Mark Vanderbeeken chaired the European SEE Conference on integrating design into regional and national policies. The high-level...
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Book: What
What’s Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption is Changing the Way We Live by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers Collins, 2011 304 pages In the 20th century humanity...
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Shareable: Share or Die [new e-book]
Share or Die is the first collection of writing from Generation Y about post-college work and life in the 21st Century. “It contains nearly 30 essays, cartoons,...
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Open Source Architecture (OSArc)
Domus Magazine has published an op-ed advocating a different approach to designing space – to succeed the single-author model – that includes tools from disparate...
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In the fight for better experiences, are you winning or losing?
UX Magazine attended the 2011 IA Summit in Denver this year to interview conference speakers and attendees. In this video, 15 interviewees respond to the question...
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Measuring national happiness
Your Better Life Index is an interactive tool that allows you to see how countries perform according to the importance you give to each of 11 topics
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Experientia wins Italian National Prize for Innovation in Services
Experientia wins Italian National Prize for Innovation in Services, sponsored by the Italian government and Confcommercio. The President of the Republic, Giorgio...
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Experientia vince il Premio Nazionale per l
Experientia vince la terza edizione del Premio Nazionale per l
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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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