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For 400 years, we have been waiting for machines to begin to think. "We've been asking the wrong question," he whispered under his breath. They would start to dream first.

Tags: scifi, google, AI, future, writing on 2008-07-18 and saved by4 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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http://www.china.com.cn/chinese/zhuanti/283732.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20070320010851/http://www.china.org.cn/chinese/zhuanti/283732.htm

Tags: 金盾工程, 身份证, china, future, privacy, surveillance on 2008-05-01 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Digital Library work at UNC

Tags: academia, libraries, datamining, future on 2008-04-12 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Sanswire, developers of the Stratallite

Tags: satellite, tech, internet, future on 2008-04-03 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Whereas OGXers and PCers enjoy brooding over the past, assembling fragments of past cultural moments into collages in various media, Netters take a less complicated approach. They just dig the past, and slip it on like a Halloween costume.

Tags: future, fashion, youth, internet on 2008-03-20 -All Annotations (0) -About

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At 17:15:32, SilverFox316 wrote: Okay, apparently AsianAvenger was descended from Hong Xiuquan. Any volunteers to go back and stop him from negating his own existence?

Tags: history, future, writing, humor, china on 2008-03-18 and saved by10 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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From this laboratory of social experiments, a new world-view is emerging that may in time crystallise into a recognisable Chinese model—an alternative, non-western path for the rest of the world to follow.

Tags: china, future, softpower, development, economics, academia, publicDiplomacy, Marxism, nationalism on 2008-03-04 and saved by7 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Multipoint interactive whiteboard - using a wii and some leds.

Tags: education, hacks, future, academia on 2008-03-01 and saved by129 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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you need lots of free time—time to master the odd conventions and the unfamiliar vocabulary (words like "smerge," "POV warrior," "forum shopping," "hatnote," "meat puppet," "fancruft," and "transclusion")

Tags: wiki, writing, future, internet, digitalHumanities on 2008-03-01 and saved by26 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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"Battles would like to preserve some of the ephemera: memos and shopping lists that will tell future generations how we lived." - Ed. Man, I wish I had a copy of Libraries: An Unquiet History, or just Lost in the Stacks.

Tags: libraries, history, future, digitalHumanities on 2008-03-01 -All Annotations (0) -About

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The WE Energies database includes credit and banking information, payment histories, Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, and energy usage. In some cases, it even includes income and medical information.

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useful

Tags: map, poverty, statistics, economics, environment, education, future, history, cartogram on 2008-02-29 and saved by73 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Eventually, Myspace and Facebook, no matter what fancy features they may add, will seem as archaic as Compuserve and Prodigy do now.

Tags: socialnetworking, future, openSource, webdesign on 2008-02-23 -All Annotations (0) -About

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This page is meant to be a storing space for computer-generated writing (CGW) and information about the field in general.

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19 megacities. 20 million + each. The 21st Century

Tags: UrbanPlanning, future, environment, development, economics, population, map on 2008-02-15 and saved by29 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Open metadata, another bit of a semantic web?

Tags: datamining, internet, future, blogs, linguistics, webdesign on 2008-02-14 and saved by37 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Wikipedia and hive minds... 50 years later, Wikipedia could have authentication certs and various other mechanisms.

Tags: wiki, future, datamining, AI on 2008-02-13 and saved by12 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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The globalizing of U.S. higher ed... and the difficulty of negotiations in China. Imagine regular shuttling of academics between NYC and Abu Dhabi.

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an automated system that eliminates or substantially reduces the costs associated with human labour, such as authors, editors, graphic artists, data analysts, translators, distributors, and marketing personnel.

Tags: books, AI, writing, future, datamining on 2008-02-12 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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An even bigger challenge will be devising software that can enable computers to perform useful tasks by tapping into this gigantic store of collected knowledge. The ultimate goal is a machine that can act like a personal assistant, anticipating its user's

Tags: microsoft, future, socialnetworking, history, datamining, digitalHumanities on 2008-02-09 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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