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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 …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kindle in Business
I have followed readers for a number of years now. tested the Sony. Never been completely impressed. A convenience at the beach perhaps, if you can read through...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tagging and Sharing Images
Image Spark:- Discover, tag, share, converge images that inspire your and your work. This is a good description of what I have always wanted to do with images...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-06-13
VirtualBox Premium Edition: Amazon.co.uk Delighted to see VirtualBox showing up as a retail item. Yes, those of us who know can...
From Putting People First
In South Korea, all of life is mobile
Somehow I missed out on this 24 May New York Times article about South Korea being the test case for the mobile future, thanks to its high-speed wireless networks...
From Putting People First
Bill Thompson, BBC tech art critic at the Venice Biennale
Bill Thompson, back from the Venice Biennale, reflects on digital art and its relationship with technology. “While there was a lot of interesting art, I saw little...
From Putting People First
What will mobile phones look like 10 years from now?
When Fast Company asked some people in the industry what mobile phones will look like 10 years from now, the first couple of answers seem to reinforce my gut feeling...
From Putting People First
Reflections on ethnography in the new issue of Stanford
The latest issue of Ambidextrous, Stanford University’s journal of design, has just been published. The issue is entirely online. Two of my favourite articles: Mind...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Some shameful facts about myself
In 2003, I predicted that it would take decades before videoconferencing became cheap enough for home users. I do not know my own telephone number or postal code...
From The Noisy Channel
Guest Post at the Federated Search Blog
I wrote a guest post at Sol Lederman’s Federated Search blog entitled “The Problem with Federated Search“. Here’s an excerpt: The case for federated search is straightforward...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Design Books
Influential books on design in Karl Vrdenburgs' blog. Good, mind stretching examples.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Not Tried Twitter?
For those of you that have not yet tried Twitter, and there are many that still answer with a scowl of seriousness when asked if they participate. I suggest using...
From Putting People First
The participatory web
Web 2.0 solutions offer people in rural areas a platform for networking and knowledge exchange. This brochure, published by GTZ, provides a systematic overview...
From Putting People First
Open innovation inside Nokia
With faith that smart ideas will prevail, Nokia urges workers to say what’s on their minds
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Death to the 3-hour exam
As an undergraduate student, I hated the 3-hour exams. But I knew how to do well on them. The secret? Get your hands on all exams from the last ten years for this...
From Putting People First
R&D 2.0: fewer engineers, more anthropologists
Navi Radjou argues on the HarvardBusiness.org Voices blog that R&D in emerging markets needs fewer engineers and more anthropologists. “To effectively identify...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Wave or just a Blip?
Yesterday, I was fortunate to attend a presentation from a Google Engineering Director about Google Wave, an online communication and collaboration tool that Google...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Math Provoke all Emotions
Science author Ian Stewart talks about the emotions that can be produced by the use and study of math.-
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
House Science and Technology Committee Starts Hearings on Cybersecurity
On June 10 the Research and Science Education subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee held a hearing on cybersecurity. This is the first of...
From Putting People First