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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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Using Nokia Life Tools in India to learn English
Dina Mehta, founder and managing director of Mosoci India, reports on how Nokia Life Tools actually gets used in India, and more in particular, how the how the...
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Nokia
Yesterday, Nokia launched Nokia Money, a new mobile financial service enables financial management and payments from a mobile phone – aimed specifically at emerging...
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The lost art of reading
David L. Ulin, book editor of the Los Angeles Times, argues that the relentless cacophony that is life in the 21st century can make settling in with a book difficult...
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Ideas for thought from the Symposium for the Future
The New Media Consortium is hosting a Symposium for the Future October 27-29 that will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact...
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Reading bar codes with mobile phones
Although it is more of a technical discussion, this article by The Economist is a worthwhile read as it describes quite well how a new way to deliver information...
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Phones and farmers
Abdul Bayes, professor of economics at Jahangirnagar University in Bangladesh, has written a nice article in the Daily Star newspaper where he condenses some recent...
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A short manifesto on the future of attention
Author and journalist Michael Erard has published a short manifesto on the future of attention: “Now we have a wide-ranging discussion about what is and what can’t...
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Data visualization: stories for the Information Age
Business Week explores how artists and designers are turning to data visualization to interpret the deluge of information around us. “For artists and designers...
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Are we ready for the Autonomous Age?
The UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering recently published a discussion document (pdf) on the social, legal and ethical issues surrounding the development and use...
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A plea for more critical thinking in design, please
John Barratt, president and CEO of Teague, reflects in a guest post on Fast Company on the fact that critical thinking in design is largely absent. “For reasons...
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Where tech and philosophy collide
BBC News reports on the inaugural meeting of the London Futurist and Transhumanist Group. “While futurism involves trying to predict how technology will evolve...
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Alice Rawsthorn about
Alice Rawsthorn, the design critic of the International Herald Tribune/New York Times, approached the topic of co-design last week: “We can now
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Paint me a picture: empowering the consumer
Montparnasse, a UX boutique firm, tries to imagine what empowering the user experience of the customer really means: “When people consider buying anything, whether...
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Lonely Planet
Johannah Cornblatt argues on Newsweek that despite our inter-connectedness, we’re now more alone than ever. “Between 1985 and 2004, the number of people who said...
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European Commission sets new information society challenge: Becoming literate in new media
The European Commission warned last week that Europeans young and old could miss out on the benefits of today’s high-tech information society unless more is done...
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The iPhone is not easy to use: a new direction for UX Design
Fred Beecher argues on Johnny Holland that “the iPhone is surprisingly difficult to use, but it sure is fun! And that is why it
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The augmented reality avalanche
The last few weeks we have witnessed an avalanche of posts about augmented reality. To begin with there is Bruce – Bruce Sterling that is. He has been following...
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How phones emerged as main computing devices, and why user interface will improve
Andrew Hsu, technology strategist at Synaptics, reflects on the recent revolution in the user interface for the mobile phone to enable cloud computing. “Newer...
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Microsoft brings Twitter and Facebook to the emerging world with OneApp
Today, Microsoft is launching OneApp, an app for people running Windows Mobile phones with slow processors and not a lot of memory. Basically, it
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