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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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Can smiley faces save the global climate?
When rational appeals fall short, environmentalists enlist social and economic incentives–and even neuroscience–to get the public in on national efforts to combat...
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MicroPublicPlaces
Situated Technologies Pamphlet 6: MicroPublicPlaces Spring 2010 Marc B
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Four visions of the world tomorrow
Sir George Cox was the closing speaker at The Big Rethink, a ‘Redesigning Business Summit’ organised by The Economist, in association with the Design Council, that...
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Urban resilience
Merging complex systems science and ecology, resilience scientists have broken new ground on understanding
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The digital disconnect
In relentless pursuit of ‘connecting,’ we miss out on each other The Seattle Times argues that while communication and gaming gadgets have convenienced and connected...
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Torino tags its monuments for tourists
The Italian city of Torino just launched “The Colors of Torino“, helping tourists through Microsoft’s Color Tags at monuments and tourist attractions. If you want...
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Guardian supplement on service design
The Guardian, one of the leading UK newspapers, has publish an eight-page supplement on service design – subtitled “Design innovation in the public and private...
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Experientia
Experientia has uploaded all its publicly available videos on specially created Vimeo and YouTube channels. In addition to high-def project videos, you can also...
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Citizens to be at heart of European policy making
A new report published jointly today by the British, Danish and Dutch governments challenges the way European institutions make decisions and argues that smart...
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Elegant technologies for complex lives
The Socio-Digital Systems (SDS) group of Microsoft Research aims to use an understanding of human values to help to change the technological landscape in the 21st...
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BBC on the future of the internet
Twenty years after the emergence of the world wide web, Rory Cellan-Jones of the BBC World Service’s Discovery series looks at the science driving its third decade...
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IBM
Among cell-phone users in developed countries, IBM is betting the market with the biggest growth potential is…people over the age of 65. Fast Company reports. IBM’s...
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Mindspace: Influencing behaviour through public policy
New insights from science and behaviour change could lead to significantly improved outcomes, and at a lower cost, than the way many conventional policy tools are...
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Nokia designers on their work
Izwan Ismail, a journalist at Malaysia’s New Strait Times newspaper, talked to Nokia
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Are we about to witness a digital service revolution?
Introducing new digital services in cities promises the change the way citzens live in cities around the world. “Only a few years ago, digital services were about...
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Ethnography informs text-free UI for illiterate people
Indrani Medhi, an Associate Researcher at Microsoft Research India where she works in the Technology for Emerging Markets team, designed a text free user interface...
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Can understanding human irrationality help solve our energy problems?
Behavioral economics is used to examine how consumers make decisions about everything from their life savings to which brands of jam they select in a supermarket...
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The analogue human and the digital machine
Steve Portigal, Julie Norvaisas and Dan Soltzberg of Portigal Consulting were invited by Core77 to discuss what makes their clocks tick: the analogue human and...
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