July 2009
279 posts
Watchvia PaleoFuture, “The History Channel documentary Sputnik Mania uses footage from the films Space and National Security and Challenge of Outer Space to tell the story of the United States’ ambitions to dominate space. Wernher von Braun and General John Medaris are seen in this clip from the film speaking out publicly about their desire for the militarization of space, fearing that if...
June 2009
386 posts
Malcolm Gladwell vs. Chris Anderson: Damn... →
via Paul Kedrosky: “It’s always fun when one popular idea popularizer goes after another popular idea popularizer. This time we have Malcolm “Tipping Point” Gladwell writing critically about Chris “Free” Anderson in the current New Yorker. Read the whole thing, but let’s just summarize to say that Malcolm doesn’t really think that Chris is on to anything, in particular assuming him of...
“Lifestreams uses a simple organizational metaphor, a time-ordered stream of...”
– Lifestreams: An Alternative to the Desktop Metaphor by Scott Fertig, Eric Freeman and David Gelernter, 1996 [Full PDF].
More information at the Lifestream Project Home Page.
(via skandalon)
The Future of the Web →
Music : data : flash : literature : interactivity... →
mikearauz:
Without doubt our find of the week (the year?) here at BBH Labs has been this staggeringly cool flash application, from a Singapore-based band called Concave Scream. I’d never heard of them, and now…
Forrester Bucks Wisdom on Cloud Computing |... →
futuramb:
A really interesting post which is debunking the (sometimes implicit) truth that large companies are not willing to place data or computing power outside their organizations - in e g the external cloud.
To me who have spent many years in the 1990:s trying to fight this big company orthodoxy it is really interesting. In fact many large companies doesn’t anymore have a clear concept of...
Inside Higher Ed: The Evidence on Online... →
Online learning has definite advantages over face-to-face instruction when it comes to teaching and learning, according to a new meta-analysis released Friday by the U.S. Department of Education.
“This is the culture that Apple products have ultimately engendered: this highly...”
– Douglas Rushkoff
How do you design? →
benkraal:
Hugh Dubberly, of Dubberly Design Office, has put together a 147-page compendium of different design processes, all briefly explained and illustrated.
Why would you do such a thing?
Our processes determine the quality of our products. If we wish to improve our products, we must improve our processes; we must continually redesign not just our products but also the way we design....
Scott Caplan, a communications professor at the... →
“None of this is particularly surprising. But the findings do provide an interesting counterweight to the utopian rhetoric that tends to surround online communities. ‘Social production’ might more accurately be termed ‘antisocial production.’”
Google Book Search Privacy, Orphan Works, and... →
infoneernet:
A few weeks ago, a reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed Adam Smith, Google’s director of product management, about the Google Book Search settlement and posted the interview in audio form. The page isn’t dated, but guessing from metadata in the URL it was somewhere around the publication of paper issue dated June 26, 2009. I’m calling out this particular...
WatchVery good…
NY Review of Books: Manhood for Amateurs - The... →
WatchFrom IEET: “io9’s head honcho Annalee Newitz talks about the relationship of science fiction and technological innovation at Webstock09. ‘Just two decades ago, the Web and public internet were the stuff of science fiction. Creators like William Gibson, who coined the term ‘cyberspace’ in his novel Neuromancer, helped define the terms of social life online, as well as...
The Economist: A world of Methuselahs - A special... →
The benefits, and the costs, of living longer…
The Future of Newspapers--Posner →
infoneernet:
This is not good … (Posner is a federal appeals judge on the Seventh Circuit of Appeals) … that makes it scarier …
Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed...
Good episode of 'To the Best of Our Knowledge':... →
Clay Shirky, Jonathan Harris, We are Wizards, Marco Iacoboni
GOOD: Funny review of Kindle DX →
A snippet:
“12.) Decide to read a book. Go to amazon.com and browse titles. Click on The Hemmingses of Monticello, which I really should read (which I could not say of articles about the Real World). Click again to get “read more” about title. Suddenly, receive a screen thanking me for purchasing the book. Become panicked. At bottom of the screen is a link: “If you ordered this book in...
“Transhumanism is about how technology will eventually help us overcome the...”
– Cyberpunk (via inky) (via benkraal)
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