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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI

From Schneier on Security Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration … B. Schneier | February 29, 2024

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Mobile phones: the silver bullet to bridge the digital divide?

In a long post Roxanna Samii reports on her blog on the role of the mobile phone in developing countries, and more in particular on the Gash Barka region in Eritrea... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 19, 2009 at 08:54 PM

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Nokia

Julian Bleecker of Nokia calls it a “short essay”, but “Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction” is really a 97 page book. “Extending... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 17, 2009 at 03:36 PM

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Multi-touch looks set to kill the mouse

Darren Waters, technology editor at the BBC, reports from Austin, Texas on the future of touch: “The success of the iPhone has given rise to a new grammar of touch... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 17, 2009 at 03:08 PM

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Innovation trickles in a new direction

Business Week reports on how some companies like General Electric, Nokia, and others are reversing the traditional process where products are created in rich nations... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 17, 2009 at 02:55 PM

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Discussing the principles for a digital social enterprise

Over the last few months, Franco Papeschi and Tory Dunn of the Vodafone User Experience team have been doing work on a set of principles and guidelines to support... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 17, 2009 at 02:18 PM

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Collaborative Services: social innovation and design for sustainability

“What is a sustainable lifestyle? What will our daily lives become if we agree to change some of our routines? How do we reduce our environmental impact without... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 17, 2009 at 10:09 AM

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The location of anything is becoming everything

We live in the Global Location Age. Experientia
From Putting People First | March 17, 2009 at 08:30 AM

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Service design at Kraft

Reena Jana of Business Week reports from SXSW on the activities of Moshe Tamssot, Kraft Experientia
From Putting People First | March 17, 2009 at 08:24 AM

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A participatory website supporting families with disabled children

The Turin-based non-profit organisation Area, which supports families with disabled children, just launched its new website, developed with the intensive support... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 17, 2009 at 08:13 AM

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NESTA launches innovation lab to improve UK public services

NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Arts, has set up The Lab, a new UK innovation structure that will bring together all the players... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 13, 2009 at 04:02 PM

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Alan Cooper on the similarities between interaction designers and agile programmers

During the Agile 2008 conference, Amr Elssamadisy interviewed Alan Cooper, the father of Visual Basic and supporter of interaction design. He talked about his contact... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 13, 2009 at 03:22 PM

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What Matters at McKinsey

Consulting firm McKinsey has just launched a new website, called What Matters, that is an extensive collection of essays and interviews with opinion formers around... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 13, 2009 at 07:03 AM

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Designing the democratic

Jamie Owen, a visual information specialist for a training arm of the USA Department of Veterans Affairs argues on Boxes and Arrows that thinking outside of our... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 13, 2009 at 06:47 AM

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Case study: gestural entertainment center for Canesta

Jennifer Bove, a former Interaction-Ivrea student, sent me a link to a case study on a gestural entertainment center that she and a team at Kicker Studio developed... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 11, 2009 at 05:33 PM

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SustainIT - a supplement worth reading

The Independent today introduced SustainIT, the first in a series of three monthly supplements on ICT and globalisation. Some of the articles in the supplement... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 10, 2009 at 07:47 PM

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Tactical tech

Tactical Tech is an international NGO helping human rights advocates use information, communications and digital technologies to maximise the impact of their advocacy... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 10, 2009 at 01:33 PM

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An anthropologist gone techno

Jukka Jouhki (blog), an anthropologist and post-doc researcher at the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyv Experientia
From Putting People First | March 10, 2009 at 11:40 AM

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Social media is here to stay

danah boyd, a Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, just joined Microsoft Research New England On 29 February, she gave her first... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 10, 2009 at 10:56 AM

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Empathy is growth

Dev Patnaik, founder and chief executive of Jump Associates, argues in Business Week that knowing the wants of your customers is more important than out-innovating... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 8, 2009 at 10:37 PM

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The LIFT conference experience

One of those things hard to achieve with conferences is a good atmosphere. The recent LIFT conference in Geneva, Switzerland clearly has it down to a science:... Experientia
From Putting People First | March 8, 2009 at 10:25 PM

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