txt: The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
The Petabyte Age is different because more is different. Kilobytes were stored on floppy disks. Megabytes were stored on hard disks. Terabytes were stored in disk arrays. Petabytes are stored in the cloud. As we moved along that progression, we went from the [...]
txt: Is Google Making Us Stupid? - www.theatlantic.com
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death [...]
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txt: Click here to disappear: thoughts on images and democracy
Has democracy increased with the growth of the internet? Obviously not. It has diminished significantly. Why? Because the desire for public, democratic participation has been displaced onto consumer goods and services and dispersed into isolated individual speech. Whatever else it is, the internet is primarily [...]
txt: Net Neutrality 101 - www.savetheinternet.com
Net Neutrality 101
When we log onto the Internet, we take lots of things for granted. We assume that we’ll be able to access whatever Web site we want, whenever we want to go there. We assume that we can use any feature we like — watching online video, listening to [...]
link: Ars Electronica 2008 - A New Cultural Economy: The Limits of Intellectual Property
LINZ 04-09 september 2008
txt: Curatorial Statement (Joichi Ito)
Computers and the Internet has lowered the cost of communication and the creation and distribution of information so much that many fundamental notions of organizations, economics and property have completely changed or require major [...]
link: iGoogle - Introducing artist themes for iGoogle
Introducing artist themes for iGoogle: Now you can put the work of world-class artists and innovators on your personalized Google homepage.
txt: Google: art - www.artworldsalon.com
Most of the custom themes are from the hands and keypads of web designers and animators whose names few gallery-goers would recognize. Many are [...]
txt: The Laws of Simplicity - John Maeda
Law 1: REDUCE - The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.
Law 2: ORGANIZE - Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.
Law 3: TIME - Savings in time feel like simplicity.
Law 4: LEARN - Knowledge makes everything simpler.
Law 5: DIFFERENCES - Simplicity and complexity need [...]
txt: Grand Theft Auto IV
Welcome to liberty City, where people are angry and lonely, and the taxes sky high
What does the American Dream mean today?
For Niko Bellic, fresh off the boat from Europe, it is the hope he can escape his past.
For his cousin, Roman, it is the vision that together they can [...]
txt: Web 3.0: You say you’re on an infolution? Well, you know…
Social web = democratic web
Web 2.0 is the base for a democratic web. But like all democratic systems, the web needs basic democratic standards. Yes, rules. Simple democratic rules that apply to coding, design (usability is a form of politeness) and communication (not even [...]
txt: Creating a World Without Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
Three themes are central to this book.
The first is poverty—its causes and cure. I will show that poverty is created by economic, social, and political systems, and by false ideas—not by the laziness, ignorance, or moral failings of the poor.
The second theme is the role of women [...]
txt: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - By Clay Shirky
The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era are amazing– there were gin pushcarts working their [...]
txt: The Emerging Main Street Web - by Bernard Lunn on readwriteweb.com
In the new web era, we will use that power to make a living.
That is why I call this new era the Main Street Web. This is a nod to Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing The Chasm, the point in the adoption cycle when technology goes [...]
