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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
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
From little things
The Future Tense programme on Australia’s ABC Radio features bottom-up, user-generated innovation in Africa: “In this program we’ll highlight several interesting...
From Apophenia
Twitter is for friends; Facebook is everybody
I was talking with a friend of mine today who is a senior at a technology-centered high school in California. Dylan Field and his friends are by no means representative...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Flu Models Wrong
Yet another example of models being wide of the mark. In the NYTimes a look at the models done for the flu and how poorly they have performed. As a person who...
From Putting People First
The Mobile Difference
The Mobile Difference, a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life project covers at length the current social implications of mobile internet access in the...
From Putting People First
Barclays on less becoming more in product and service design
Barclays 360 magazine, a quarterly thought leadership magazine for senior management within the Barclays Group, is devoted to simplicity in product and service...
From Putting People First
SVA lectures on service design
Last night the School of Visual Arts in New York hosted a lecture on service design. “While far more attention is still paid to the design of products, there is...
From Putting People First
Video interview with M-PESA pioneer Nick Hughes
The people of Microfinance Podcast have just posted a short video interview with Nick Hughes, Head of International Mobile Payment Solutions at the Vodafone Group...
From Putting People First
The Bottom of the Pyramid
This week the Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion hosted a conference about the “Bottom of the Pyramid” and Elizabeth Losh, author of Virtualpolitik...
From Putting People First
Designing things that think they are services, and services that think they are things
Matt Jones, founder and former lead designer at Dopplr and also former director of UX design at Nokia, is now a principal designer at Schulze & Webb in London....
From Putting People First
What Is conversational currency?
Jay Deragon argues in a short piece on AlwaysOn that social media and related tools are generating a new currency that is created by the propagation of your conversation...
From The Noisy Channel