February 2012
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Drones Will Be Admitted to Standard US Airspace By... →
infoneer-pulse:
The skies are going to look very different pretty soon, and it’s been a long time coming. Congress finally passed a spending bill for the Federal Aviation Administration, allocating $63.4 billion for modernizing the country’s air traffic control systems and expanding airspace for unmanned planes within three and a half years.
By Sept. 30, 2015, drones will have to have access to...
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TheFuturesAgency: Jeremy Rifkin videos: the... →
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Via Gerd Leonhard / Green Futurist and CEO of The Futures Agency:
I have been busy reading Jeremy Rifkin’s amazing book The Third Industrial Revolution as well as his other writings (check out his Huffington Post pieces), and wanted to share some of his key videos and resources with…
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Scientific publishing: The price of information |... →
Academics are starting to boycott a big publisher of journals
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But if the boycott continues to grow, things could become more urgent. After all, publishers need academics more than academics need publishers. And incumbents often look invulnerable until they suddenly fall. Beware, then, the Academic spring.
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Is This The Future of Touchscreen Tech? New Video... →
Samantha Murphy, mashable.com
Gorilla Glass manufacturer Corning has unveiled a follow-up YouTube video to its wildly successful “A Day Made of Glass,” providing another look into what the future could be like with the growth of glass touchscreen interfaces, from…
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The Keynesian Formula Will Not Solve Our... →
This is another article pointing which together with both Tyler Cowen and Joseph Stiglitz that the current economic situation is not just a financial crisis but a consequence of a deeper problem which must be fixed before. And depending on if we chose that way of looking at it or not, we will craft different futures.
The advanced countries have a choice. They can act as if all is well, except...
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“When you read this sentence to yourself, it’s likely that you hear the words in...”
– Telepathy machine reconstructs speech from brainwaves - health - 31 January 2012 - New Scientist (via wildcat2030)
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WatchThe future of 3D printing
Who will get the biggest slice of 3D-printed pie? | Crave - CNET
MakerBot’s Bre Pettis says his 3D printers are for everyone. 3D Systems’ Cathy Lewis begs to differ.
January 2012
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Elsevier Publishing Boycott Gathers Steam Among... →
Timothy Gowers of the University of Cambridge, who won the Fields Medal for his research, has organized a boycott of Elsevier because, he says, its pricing and policies restrict access to work that should be much more easily available. He asked for a boycott in a blog post on January 21, and as of Monday evening, on the boycott’s Web site The Cost of Knowledge, nearly 1,900 scientists have...
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Is The US In A Phase Change To The Creative... →
Denning refers to Stieglitz’s article in Vanity Fair which states that US economy is going through a fundamental shift in the nature of the economy.
Why no recovery? The idea of the bailouts and the stimulus was that these measures would return the economy to where it had been before the crisis.
The striking part of Stiglitz’s argument is to say that this is indeed what has happened. The...
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Elsevier's Publishing Model Might be About to Go... →
Tim Worstall, forbes.com
Academic publishing is a very good game indeed if you can manage to get into it. As the publisher the work is created at the expense of others, for free to you. There are no advances, no royalties, to pay. The editing, the checking…
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What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind? - WSJ.com →
The crucial new idea is that there are two different neural and psychological systems that interact to turn children into adults. Over the past two centuries, and even more over the past generation, the developmental timing of these two systems has changed. That, in turn, has profoundly changed adolescence and produced new kinds of adolescent woe. The big question for anyone who deals with...
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Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch | Fast Company →
Culture, like brand, is misunderstood and often discounted as a touchy-feely component of business that belongs to HR. It’s not intangible or fluffy, it’s not a vibe or the office décor. It’s one of the most important drivers that has to be set or adjusted to push long-term, sustainable success. It’s not good enough just to have an amazing product and a healthy bank...
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One Per Cent: FBI releases plans to monitor social... →
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has quietly released details of plans to continuously monitor the global output of Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, offering a rare glimpse into an activity that the FBI and other government agencies are reluctant to discuss publicly. The plans show that the bureau believes it can use information pulled from social media sites to better respond...
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“Student loan debt now stands around $1 trillion. Education is often a great...”
– Apple and the Education-Information Chasm - Forbes (via infoneer-pulse)
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Strategic Insight is Not on the CEO Radar -... →
This is really something that echoes a problem I have been pondering for years: I really agree with Drucker on the issue and I been for many year but why is strategic insight so under valued and overlooked? When discussing the need for real insights the whole discussion usually ends with a lunch-to-lunch exercise in the woods… because “we have already planned that and we don’t...
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The Pirate Bay - The galaxy's most resilient... →
We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for...
“The collapse of the Soviet system was a pretty extraordinary event, and we are...”
– George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War - The Daily Beast
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Tumblr Blows Past 15 Billion Pageviews Per Month,... →
The latest social-media phenomenon, Tumblr, continues to post astounding traffic metrics.
Founder and CEO David Karp spoke at the DLD conference in Munich this morning, where he reiterated some of the company’s recent milestones:
100 million uniques per month
15 billion pageviews per month
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How sharing disrupts media | Felix Salmon →
There are lots of ways of publishing content onto the web, and if you look at the relative popularity of, say, WordPress vs Tumblr vs Twitter, then it’s easy to come to the conclusion that the easier you make it to publish, the more popular you’re going to be. But at Tumblr, at least, there’s something else very interesting going on: according to Karp, there are 9 curators for every creator on...
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Prejudice Is A Basic Human Need →
Prejudice is just bigotry that arises from flawed ideology, right? Not so, say the authors of a new paper.
They contend prejudice stems from a deeper psychological need and it is associated with a particular way of thinking. People who aren’t comfortable with ambiguity and want to make quick and firm decisions are also prone to making generalizations about others. People who are...
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THE IECONOMY - How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone... →
What remains unknown, however, is whether the United States will be able to leverage tomorrow’s innovations into millions of jobs.
This is a story around Apple and how the development and production iPhone mostly was done outside the US. It is an important line of thought that most likely will have implication on how the future for the Western industrialized, and even innovative, countries...