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gleuschk : An Entirely Other Day: The Days of Miracles and Wonder - some things that are, in fact, awesome
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Andy Baio : Jason Louv argues that 4chan is the future of human consciousness - a dystopic take, but there's some truth in here, especially related to attention
deusx : Lost in the Filth Simulacrum | h+ Magazine - "Yet what the media has failed to grasp is what 4chan can tell us about where we're headed. The Chans aren't the freak sideshow of the Internet. They are the heart and soul of the Internet. And they are the ones furthest ahead of the pack,
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Linkorama : James Carville Unplugged on Flickr
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deusx : Detroit: the new frontier? | Blog | Futurismic - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh, wait, that's not The Onion. "Imagine for a moment that this trend continues – might Detroit become some sort of independent city-state, a mildly anarchic rough-and-ready town where the price of freedom is a willingne
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Linkorama : Loic Le Meur Blog: 30 predictions for the future of Twitter
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fastclemmy : YouTube - AT&T 1993 "You Will" Ads - YouTube - AT&T 1993 "You Will" Ads by fastclemmy Smart & somehow realistic "anticipation" ad, for once. hotlinks AT&T future prediction anticipation Copy | React (0)
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deusx : Reasons to be optimistic for the future - opinion - 09 September 2009 - New Scientist - "Now, more than ever, science and reason must prevail. The scale of the challenge is hard to overstate, but New Scientist is optimistic that we can succeed: our boundless doomsaying is more than matched by our boundless creativity and our ability to,
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Linkorama : A Virtual Revolution Is Brewing for Colleges - washingtonpost.com - When this happens -- be it in 10 years or 20 -- we will see a structural disintegration in the academy akin to that in newspapers now. The typical 2030 faculty will likely be a collection of adjuncts alone in their apartments, using recycled syllabuses an
deusx : A Virtual Revolution Is Brewing for Colleges - washingtonpost.com - "If the mainstream of "college teaching" becomes a set of atomistic, underpaid adjuncts, we'll lose a precious academic tradition that is not easily replaced."
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gleuschk : Michael Nielsen » Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted? - this is a really fantastic essay. pushes all my buttons
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Andy Baio : Jim Rossignol on the Fermi paradox and why the aliens stayed home - our grandkids might find space exploration boring compared to next-gen virtual worlds and networks [via]
deusx : Videogames And The Impossibility Of Escape From Planet Earth | > jim rossignol - "if space flight is really going to take thousands of years, hundreds of generations, and immense resources that could be better spent on having a good time, why should millions of sentient beings be expected to sink their lives into making it happen
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deusx : Ann Arbor and Warren: A Tale of Two Economies - WSJ.com - "Innovative companies like Accio are common in Ann Arbor, home to the University of Michigan, where a highly educated population has created a burgeoning economy, and a street-corner conversation can develop into a company and create jobs. Michigan&
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Andy Baio : Which of our beliefs will our grandchildren be appalled by? - Phil Dhingra highlights the best from a massive Reddit thread
philgyford : This is going into my "best ever" box of forum threads (Philosophistry) - Great future-y thought experiment: "So many of our grandparents were racist, and some of out parents are homophobes. Which of our own closely held beliefs will our own children and grandchildren by appalled by?" (via Danhon)
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Linkorama : Top Predictions | workforce.com - The forecast, divided among six workforce categories, includes "There will be more emphasis on collaboration and using technology to support it."
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Linkorama : Andreessen in realtime - Steve Gilmor: I rarely see or talk with friends from high school or earlier, but what’s to prevent these virtual friendships from continuing to flourish for a lifetime? What are the consequences of the lowering of the barriers of space and time? We’re
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Linkorama : Interview with Clay Shirky, Part I : CJR - CJR’s Russ Juskalian recently spoke with Shirky about knowledge, the Internet, and why we shouldn’t worry about information overload. The second part of the interview can be found here.
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Linkorama : The WELL: Bruce Sterling: State of the World, 2009 - What is going to amuse our bouches now?
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deusx : Op-Ed Columnist - Time to Reboot America - NYTimes.com - "That’s why we don’t just need a bailout. We need a reboot. We need a build out. We need a buildup. We need a national makeover. That is why the next few months are among the most important in U.S. history. Because of the financial crisis, Barack
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deusx : Schneier on Security: The Future of Ephemeral Conversation - "In the end, this is cultural. The Internet is the greatest generation gap since rock and roll. We're now witnessing one aspect of that generation gap: the younger generation chats digitally, and the older generation treats those chats as writt
philgyford : Schneier on Security: The Future of Ephemeral Conversation - "The younger generation chats digitally, and the older generation treats those chats as written correspondence. ... until we have a Presidential election where both candidates have a complete history on social networking sites from before they were t
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deusx : Where will all the web developers go? | Morethanseven - "So. What happens in 10–20 years time to the now quite large number of professional web developers.Do we all just do the same thing we’re doing now. Just with higher version numbers? ... Do we all become managers? ... Is their another industry th
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jcgregorio : The Viridian Design Movement - Good-bye letter, still working my way through it. Amazing stuff.
philgyford : The Viridian Design Movement - Bruce Sterling closed Reboot last week and, even though I'd heard and read some of it before it was a wonderful, weary, preaching, telling off. It made me read this again.
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18 month ago
Richard Rutter : The Live Web - Terrific post by Josh Porter on how the web is moving from documents to applications.
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18 month ago
deusx : Dan Simmons - Author's Official Web Site - "Athens failed in Syracuse – and doomed their democracy – not because they fought in the wrong place and at the wrong time, but because they weren’t ruthless enough."
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19 month ago
philgyford : Foundation for the Future - "Was established with the mission to increase and diffuse knowledge concerning the long-term future of humanity." Less long-term than Long Now is, but perhaps more focused?
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philgyford : What to do now to improve the human race in the long term? | Ask Metafilter - After reading 'Last and First Men' I've been wondering this, so I asked Metafilter.
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20 month ago
deusx : Barack Obama | Obama HQ Blogger: Barack in Lansing, MI: "We must end the age of oil in our time." - "We simply cannot pretend, as Senator McCain does, that we can drill our way out of this problem. We need a much bolder and much bigger set of solutions. We have to make a serious, nationwide commitment to developing new sources of energy and we have
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