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Facemask for the future: A Digital Escape / News / frog design
This is incredibly creepy - and depressing. I sincerely hope the future will not look like this.
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Internet founder blasts ISPs for hurting national interests
"Vint Cerf, who developed the technical principles on which the internet works, has blasted telephone and cable companies for harming national interests by holding investments in their networks to ransom."
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[Scholarly text] Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age
Privacy is a growing concern in the United States and around the world. The spread of the Internet and the seemingly boundaryless options for collecting, saving, sharing, and comparing information trigger consumer worries. Online practices of business and
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The right to peer inside your iPod | Technology | The Guardian
An agreement on intellectual property rights to be ratified by the G8 heads of government highlights conflicts between ownership and privacy
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Internet: protect the web, says creator Berners-Lee | Technology | guardian.co.uk
"Researchers have a "duty" to protect the future of the world wide web, according to its inventor."
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Neurophilosophy : Nintendo Wii as it might look in 2010
Technology pundits speculate that mind control is the future of gaming. They envision that the movements of computer game characters will be controlled not with joysticks but with non-invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs)
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FT.com / Companies / US & Canada - FriendFeed openness puts pressure on rivals
“I’d like to think ’Don’t Be Evil’ applies to FriendFeed as well,” he says of his Silicon Valley start-up, staffed entirely by ex-Google employees
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Video games degrees: 95% fail to hit skills target | higher news | EducationGuardian.co.uk
Industry needs skilled gaming professionals. Perhaps community college is the place to focus on skillsets.
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Wired Campus: Reasons Why Women Leave Science and Technology Careers - Chronicle.com
A new Harvard Business Review paper argues that women leave science and technology careers in droves because of "hostile macho cultures" and risk-taking incentives, among other reasons.
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Law Professors Rule Laptops Out of Order in Class - Chronicle.com
"Not only was I stunned by how much better the class was, the students volunteered that it was much better."
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AI discussed | Technology podcast | guardian.co.uk
This week we examine artificial intelligence with two experts, Igor Aleksandr and Ray Tallis, and put questions such as: do you really want a computer that's as "intelligent" as a human, after seeing what a mess human intelligence is?
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Dangerously Irrelevant: Compare and contrast - Video games as educational tools
Sadly in school, many so-called advantaged learners rarely get to operate at the edge of their regime of competence as they coast along in a curriculum that makes few real demands on them.
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WinExtra » Happy early adopters don’t equal success
Start-ups don’t get rich from making early adopters happy. Venture capitalists don’t make their money back from catering to the early adopters. That pot at the end of the rainbow is in the land of the mainstream.
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Twitter Has Jumped The Shark
Notice something about Twitter lately besides the constant downtime? It’s gotten quiet. Not deadly quiet, but when it is up every day there seems to be less and less being said
more fromwww.inquisitr.com
Gartner Identifies Top Ten Disruptive Technologies for 2008 to 2012
Social networking technologies, web mashups, multicore and hybrid processors and cloud computing are amongst the ten most disruptive technologies[1] that will shape the information technology (IT) landscape over the next five years, according to research
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Raytheon's Pain Ray: Coming to a Protest Near You? | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet
Pain Ray is a millimeter-wave beam that penetrates 1/64th of an inch beneath the skin, causing the water molecules there to bubble, producing an intense burning sensation, said to feel like being burnt by molten lava or a hot iron.
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David Smith: What happens when bloggers bare all then get caught in the brutal blowback | Media | The Observer
Before the mainstream jumps into another blogging/social media backlash "you see, blogging IS bad! We told you so!" let's make one thing clear. Her blog was INTENSELY PERSONAL. That kind of blogging IS a risk. MOST bloggers do NOT drag out their baggage l
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The naysayers timeline of tech in the workplace | Get your scary software out of my workplace
Email has no place at work (1994), Internet access has no place at work (1996), eCommerce is too high a risk for our company (1998)
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Go Big Always - “Norman Naysayer,” the Enterise Octopus arch nemesis
You all know Norman. He’s the guy who sits across the table and throws obstacles at you. The laggard. He's everywhere.
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Wiley | Mobilizing Generation 2.0 youth
Explore and examine the gamut of new media and the ways in which it can be used to recruit, organize, and mobilize young people--who represent the majority of new media users.
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