2 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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2 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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3 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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4 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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4 month ago
Linkorama : Adaptive Path Releases Aurora To "Inspire And Engage" Community - If that's part of the future, I'm looking forward to it
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deusx : Learning from King and Whedon, and getting out of the ghetto | J.C. Hutchins' 7th Son: OBSIDIAN (Current Shows) - "You’re never just a blogger, or a podcaster, or a YouTube Director. If we mentally adhere to these labels, we willfully paint ourselves into creative corners. If the fumes don’t kill you, the frustration will."
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5 month ago
deusx : disambiguity - » Some unformed thoughts on Ambient Intimacy for the next generation - "For example, assuming that within the next few years, more and more people will have a social presence online, my little guy will have no real excuse to ‘lost contact’ with anyone he makes contact with."
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5 month ago
Andy Baio : Kevin Kelly and Brian Eno predict unthinkable futures from 1993 - "it costs half a day's pay to drive your car into the downtown area of a big city"
philgyford : Conceptual Trends and Current Topics - Unthinkable Futures - I like this kind of "thinking the unthinkable" as a way to come up with new ideas about what the future could be. So easy to get stuck thinking about the most likely outcomes otherwise.
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deusx : Berners-Lee: Challenge of the web is 'creative connectivity' - Education - Macworld UK - "In the future, the web should be able to connect people's ideas in such a way that one person could store his partly formed ideas and leave a trail of his thinking for other people trying to solve the same problem, he said."
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5 month ago
deusx : Daily Kos: Tech illiterate - "How can a candidate who admits he is stuck in the 20th century lead a country in the 21st, when he lacks even the most basic understanding of how this brave new century operates? He doesn't know how people interact and communicate. He doesn't know h
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6 month ago
deusx : jkOnTheRun: I'm taking the web-only challenge. Are you in? - "A paradigm shift. A glimpse into what I expect we'll see in the future. Namely: a centralized heavy-duty box for the home, but lighter, portable web devices for the home's inhabitants."
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deusx : Tinselman: The Mother of All Demos - "Douglas Engelbart's whirling vision of the future; it was the first public use of a mouse, as well as examples of cutting, copying, pasting, teleconferencing, video conferencing, email, and... hypertext. It's just too damn much for 1968!"
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6 month ago
deusx : The Future Without IPv6 - Vox - "It's time to start talking about what the Internet will be like in a future where we abandon all our efforts toward the IPv6 transition. Because the transition isn't happening."
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6 month ago
Linkorama : At The Churchill Club: The Top 10 Tech Trends - And that’s it. Lots of mobile phone predictions. Green energy. Water. And more phones.
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7 month ago
deusx : Steal This Pitch: How To Bring The Weird In Your Near-Future Stories - "The weirdness will swarm exponentially, making the world of 2028 easily as jarring as 2008 would seem to a visitor from the Reagan era. So how can we, as writers and storytellers, create a believable medium-near-future world?"
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7 month ago
plasticbag : This 3d printer can churn out copies of itself, prefiguring a day when all things will be sentient 3d roaming printers - Occasional errors will be introduced through replication. For error correction 3d printers will connect to each other and blend their schematics. It's not quite what I expected as our future but it makes sense.
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8 month ago
factoryjoe : I, Cringely . The Pulpit . War of the Worlds | PBS - The Human Side of Moore's Law Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: technology, education
adamrg : I, Cringely: War of the Worlds - They really are ready to jettison institutions. Like Clay Shirkey said: here comes everyone. The model for our schools is stuck in the 19th century, with new technology grafted on. What's a teacher to do?
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8 month ago
Linkorama : E-mail inventor: I didn't foresee spam - "I suspect possibly we’ll see a morphing of e-mail and other, more instant methods," he says, "but there will always be a need for people to be able communicate asynchronously, that is, send messages that won’t be read or replied to imm
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9 month ago
joshua : The Bottom is Not Enough - on peer production
Linkorama : Bottom up demands time - The bottom-up hive mind will always take us much further than even seems possible. It keeps surprising us in this regard. Given enough time, dumb things can be smarter than we think. At that same time, the bottom-up hive mind will never take us to our end
deusx : Kevin Kelly -- The Technium - "I think the top-down function of editors -- to select, prune, guide, solicit, shape, and guide the results from the crowd -- is essential to excellence."
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deusx : Unasked-For Advice to New Writers About Money - "it very often appears to me that regardless of how smart and clever and interesting and fun my fellow writers are on every other imaginable subject, when it comes to money — and specifically their own money — writers have as much sense as chimps
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10 month ago
Linkorama : “Interesting, but of no commercial value” - There are many people who criticise social media tools because they perceive them as ways to waste time; these criticisms in turn enter the consciousness of large enterprises and form part of enterprise immune systems, ably and effectively shutting out th
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10 month ago
nelson : futurevisionaries.com - Found this site in a blog comment directed at Tom Cruise, asking him for financing
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10 month ago
deusx : uwnews.org | Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision | University of Washington News and Information - "A full-fledged display won't be available for a while, but a version that has a basic display with just a few pixels could be operational "fairly quickly," according to Parviz."
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