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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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KashKlash booklet now online
After the project, the collaborative website, the game, now also the booklet. KashKlash is an open forum and web project focusing on alternative economies in a...
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Ubiquitous human computing will transcend geography
In an interview with Nokia’s IdeasProject renowned cyberlaw scholar Jonathan Zittrain talks about how ubiquitous human computing, which he describes as the ability...
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Ethan Zuckerman on mobile news and mobile currency in Africa
Ethan Zuckerman, a multifaceted thinker whose work focuses on the impact of technology in developing countries, and a research fellow at the Berkman Center for...
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Real-time connections are
In an interview with Nokia’s IdeasProject, social media innovator Laura Fitton talks about the most basic of human connections: our immediate physical community...
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Carlo Ratti, Dan Hill and Anne Galloway on the
One of the best sessions of the entire LIFT conference took place on Thursday afternoon. As half of the world is now living in cities, it’s undeniable that the...
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Ramesh Srinivasan and Juliana Rotich on the power of local innovation at LIFT
Solidarity was the first afternoon theme of the LIFT conference. One of the subtle change in the last fifteen years revolves around how collective action and solidarity...
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Nicolas Nova and David Rose on change at LIFT
The entire morning of the first day of the LIFT conference was devoted to change. I selected a few presentations here that I found personally most stimulating. Note...
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Lifestream workshop at LIFT
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The KashKlash game at LIFT
Just back from the LIFT conference and lots to blog about. My LIFT experience started off with the KashKlash game, an action-packed workshop that explored alternative...
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What Margaret Mead could teach techs
Fortune Magazine profiles Dr Genevieve Bell, an Australian-born anthropologist and ethnographer, and the Director of User Experience in Intel Corporation
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Study interaction design in Denmark
Given the success of the pilot year, the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) and the Danish Design School (DKDS) have decided to continue their collaboration...
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Adam Greenfield towards a newer urbanism
Adam Greenfield, Nokia’s head of design direction for service and user-interface design, is frequently featured on Putting People First as his thinking is close...
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Sweet to tweet
The Financial Times has posted a very long analysis on Twitter as a social phenomenon: “In its deceptively simple way, Twitter has stumbled on a formula that a...
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Book reviews of The Caryatids by Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling’s new science fiction novel The Caryatids is out and is collecting its first reviews. Here are the ones I found so far: Cory Doctorow - Boing Boing...
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Media literacy and social action in a post-Pokemon world
Cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito has posted a rough transcript of her (quite long) keynote address at the 51st NFAIS Annual Conference. “If I were to pick one thing...
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Microsoft
A new video from Microsoft shows in an elegant, if utopian way, what it might look like if all of those gadgets came together several years hence. Ina Fried of...
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Nissan interaction design team suffers to make future cars simple and painless
With the help of a proprietary “ageing suit” that mimics the mobility and faculties of an elderly driver, interaction designers at Nissan Design Center were able...
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Web 2.0: a magic Ponzi scheme from a demon haunted world
Bruce Sterling keynoted last week on “The Short but Glorious Life of Web 2.0 and What Comes Afterward” at Webstock in Wellington. No video is (yet) available, but...
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Primates on Facebook
The Economist calls in primatologists to better understand the limits of Facebook: “Perhaps additional friends are not free. Primatologists call at least some of...
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