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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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Implementing digital TV in Italy: the other side of the digital revolution
Italy is in the process of switching to digital TV, and the implementation is pretty much a disaster, as far as I can tell from the reactions in the region where...
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Nov-Dec 2009 edition of Interactions magazine online
The November-December edition of Interactions Magazine is online and some articles are available without subscription. Unfortunately, the main menu page doesn’t...
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Experientia partner Michele Visciola on people-centred innovation as culture evolution
My business partner Michele Visciola, who is also the president of Experientia, has written an article entitled “People-centered innovation or culture evolution...
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The golden age of infinite music
John Harris has written an excellent article on the BBC News site on the social and cultural consequences of music being always available online in free and seemingly...
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Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels speaks at IxD Fall Summit
On 6 November Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels will be speaking at the IxD Fall Summit 2009 organised by the Ume
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Videos of keynote speeches at Seoul design research conference
Last week, the IASDR 2009 conference (International Association of Societies of Design Research) took place in Seoul, South Korea, and all videos of the keynote...
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Migropolis: Venice /Atlas of a Global Situation
In winter 2006, under the aegis of philosopher Wolfgang Scheppe, a collective of students from theIUAV University in Venice (including Experientia collaborator...
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Computerworld New Zealand on user-centred web design
Computerworld New Zealand introduces user-centred web design. Introducing user-centred web design The first article in this series introduces the idea of User-Centred...
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A reflection on energy efficiency and behaviour
Irene Cassarino, an Experientia collaborator, reports on the First European Conference on Energy Efficiency and Behaviour, which took place in Maastricht last week...
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Arianna Huffington and Peter Thiel on the digital revolution
And still two more video rushes on the site of Digital Revolution. Arianna Huffington interview – USA Arianna Huffington is the co-founder of the influential news...
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Tim Berners-Lee and Einar Kvaran on the digital revolution
More video rushes on the site of Digital Revolution (working title), an open source documentary, due for transmission on BBC Two in 2010, that will take stock of...
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A Synchronicity, a book by Julian Bleecker and Nicholas Nova
A synchronicity: Design Fictions for Asynchronous Urban Computing by Julian Bleecker and Nicolas Nova Available as a print-on-demand book from lulu.com. Click here...
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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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