October 2010
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Computer gamers face a new challenge: climate... →
Irony: Book About Recording Industry's Mishandling... →
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A few weeks back, we noted that book publishers apparently simply did not learn from the mistakes of the recording industry — specifically pointing to DRM and (more importantly) the fact that they’ve started pricing ebooks higher than physical books. Now, in a moment of supreme irony, Copycense (who has been highlighting various ebooks priced over corresponding physical books) is...
The Consumerization of IT →
infoneer-pulse:
In the last 10 years, the web has brought us countless innovative technologies which enable consumers to get things done simply and without fuss, whether it’s finding information, buying goods and services, managing finances, sharing documents, communicating with friends, finding a job, setting up meetings, backing up a PC, or any number of other activities. So why, when you go...
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How 3-D Printing Is Transforming the Toy Industry →
3D scanning and 3D printing have arrived in the age of computers, a time when all media, including photos, are endlessly manipulable. The transition to 3D rapid prototyping cuts development time and allows faithful reproductions of actor’s faces.
Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law... →
Click in the headline to read a terrifying story about how a private prison company basically writes the law for imprisoning immigrants… in order to increase the market.
(via @johnrobb)
Thumbs down for the office →
New research commissioned by technology company Cisco found that six out of 10 people believe that they can work as productively at home or on the move as they can in the office.
In Asia and Latin America, this sentiment was even more marked. More than nine of 10 employees in India, eight out of 10 in China and three-quarters of those in Brazil said that they did not need to work in an office...
Ray Ozzie - His farewell letter to Microsoft →
Ray Ozzie envision a dawn of a age for computing starting with:
Five years ago, having only recently arrived at the company, I wrote The Internet Services Disruption in order to kick off a major change management process across the company. In the opening section of that memo, I noted that about every five years our industry experiences what appears to be an inflection point that results in...
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Watch“Kina står inför en fastighetsbubbla” - Dokument inifrån | svt.se
A cut from a Swedish TV documentary where Shanghai economist Andy Xie warns of a housing bubble in China. His conclusion is that a bursting housing bubble will come and that it will affect the public in a positive way and force the Chinese government to change their financial policies.
7 Essential Skills You Didn't Learn in College |... →
COURSE LISTINGS
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Statistical Literacy
Making sense of today’s data-driven world.
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Post-State Diplomacy
Power and politics, sans government.
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Remix Culture
Samples, mashups, and mixes.
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Applied Cognition
The neuroscience you need.
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Writing for New Forms
Self-expression in 140 characters.
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Waste Studies
Understanding end-to-end economics.
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Domestic Tech
How to...
Future Shock at 40: The Tofflers Stir Up... →
Crowdsourcing becomes ubiquitous, evolving into a hybrid of networks like Innocentive’s and the tight-knit, ad hoc communities seen in massively multiplayer games like World of Warcraft. Technologies are no longer developed in-house. Corporate R&D becomes hyper-specialized, and the most successful become increasingly adept at integrating large problem-solver networks into their formal...
Instapaper Inventor Links Inattentive Reading to... →
Interesting thought about information obesity as the result of inattentive reading. My first reaction is that information obesity if actually spelled out ADHD…
Douglas Coupland: A radical pessimist's guide to... →
This is also a futurist approach - well, not especially encouraging, but will make you think about where the driving forces we see today are heading.
Can the government recall a book? →
infoneer-pulse:
Can the government recall a book? I’ve plowed through my share of books that, though heavily touted, were clearly defective. (David Guterson’s 1995 novel Snow Falling On Cedars comes most readily to mind.) Friends and family will attest that I’ve prepared inedible dinners from too many cookbooks to count. It never occurred to me such mishaps warranted government action. I was...
Sept. auto sales strongest of '10 | detnews.com |... →
The market is recovering at a slow pace, said Bob Carter, U.S. general manager of Toyota Motor Corp.’s Toyota-brand division.
But he’s not concerned that the economy will backslide.
“We think that a double-dip in the economy is such a remote possibility that it’s not part of our scenario planning,”
Sigh!! He might me right in his belief, but on the other hand he...
BusinessWorld Online Edition: A look at the top 10... →
A relevant list of factors (originally from EY) basically from a financial perspective but is in reality much broader.
Regulation and compliance - new regulatory responses to the financial crisis may have significant impact on businesses
Access to credit - rising levels of government debt may have strong impact on the cost of credit
Slow recovery or double-dip recession - what happens when...
3-D Printing Is Spurring a Manufacturing... →
The development of 3D printing is a real important phenomenon which is now starting to pick up speed and break out into reality. And in similarity much of the new innovations it is not the reality for large companies, but for the individuals.
“We are enabling a class of ordinary people to take their ideas and turn those into physical, real products,” said J. Paul Grayson, Alibre’s chief...
Why Facebook, Twitter and Jurors Don't Mix -... →
When social technology is diffused into society and change the patterns of communications, increasingly people are breaking the rules of communication in e g trials. But what seems to happen now is that they are also increasingly getting caught since they are more easily detected breaking the rules because of more tech savvy lawyers and courts…
Imagining the Internet 150 years forward →
From Elon University/Pew Internet Project
Learning from wolves to fight lions - a Chinese... →
While Western executives are learning business acumen from the sixth Century BC Chinese classic, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, Chinese industry leaders are being told to study one of their contemporaries.
The “wolf culture” of privately-owned Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei is a more visceral strategy for survival than Sun Tzu’s analytical tract — it stresses...
Lights! Water! Motion! - the challenges for the... →
This is another important article from 2007 which i rediscovered and wanted to share.
When moving to an urbanized future there are e g huge challenges with the urban infrastructures.
Cairo, Los Angeles, Beijing, Paris, Moscow, Mumbai, Tokyo, Washington, Sao Paulo: Each major city has its own story of electricity, transportation, or water systems in crisis. Although the circumstances vary from...
City Planet - article by Stewart Brand in 2006 →
I just rediscovered this important article by Stewart Brand about what it means that our planet is rapidly becoming a city planet.
As cities always do, they will foster new forms of culture and technology, and they will lead to often surprising shifts in business and trade patterns. The proposed solutions to most of the problems of the world — and the problems of individual enterprises — will...
