Joanna Beltowska's Public Library

"Institutions will try to preserve the problem for which they are the solution. Now publishers are in the business not of overcoming scarcity but of manufacturing demand. And that means that almost all innovation in creation, consumption, distribution and use of text is coming from outside the traditional publishing industry."

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I really enjoy the UI design of this app (a scorekeeper for party games and board games).

From the creator: " I created an early version of this (with basically the same features) in an hour *while* my friends were playing a game. On the other hand, creating this and getting it polished took almost two full weeks. It's crazy how long polishing and tweaking takes."

Good reminder that simplicity doesn't come easy.

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Some of the notes & quotes I pulled out of the video:

* We’ve just seen the beginning of the connected society
* Anything that can have a chip in it, will have a chip in it
* It is going to be a very very different world
* We are the last generation that grew up in a dumb society
* Suddenly anyone can reach the end consumer via their mobile phone
* If you see a four year old child with a television, they will pinch it. Because that is their expectation on the screen
* 57% talk more online than in real life
* 48% of 18 to 34 year olds check Facebook first thing in the morning
* 1 out of 6 married couples met online
* Kids aged 8 to 18 spend more than 7.5 hours a day with mobile devices
* One in five global mobile subscribers has access to fast Mobile Internet
* Mobile searches have quadrupled in the last year
* By 2014, Mobile Internet will take over desktop Internet usage
* By 2020, more than 50 billion devices will be connected
* All of the devices that we make today have the potential to communicate with each other and have a reason to do it
* Instead of having tools that are dumb and we just use, we can give the tools instructions and the tools can then be independent more easily. [The tools] will understand a bit about the world around them
* We are at the lightbulb stage of the Internet. The implications of a connected world is just beginning
* Think how far we’ve come in just 15 years of the Internet
* It will change much more in the next 10 years than it did in the last 50 years
* Buckle up. It is going to be an interesting ride.

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