November 2011
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NASA confiscates web-auctioned rocket engine -... →
You can buy anything on the internet – even, until recently, a rocket engine. NASA has since confiscated the engine, which contains technology that could form the basis of missiles as well as spacecraft. But the incident highlights security concerns at the space agency .
This might of course be a security issue, but it is also an important mechanism for spreading knowledge and tools into the...
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The Personal Computer Is Dead - Zittrain in... →
A flowering of innovation and communication was ignited by the rise of the PC and the Web and their generative characteristics. Software was installed one machine at a time, a relationship among myriad software makers and users. Sites could appear anywhere on the Web, a relationship among myriad webmasters and surfers. Now activity is clumping around a handful of portals: two or three OS makers...
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Could Apprenticeships Replace College Degrees? →
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With college costs skyrocketing and the number of jobs for new grads on the decline, it’s no wonder that students are questioning whether a degree is worth the investment. But given that the jobs of the future are projected to require some form of post-secondary education, a key question is how to provide academic knowledge and industry-specific training that will prepare students...
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Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office... →
As the Italian government struggled to borrow and Spain considered seeking an international bail-out, British ministers privately warned that the break-up of the euro, once almost unthinkable, is now increasingly plausible.
Diplomats are preparing to help Britons abroad through a banking collapse and even riots arising from the debt crisis.
The Treasury confirmed earlier this month that...
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The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy |... →
So, when you connect the dots, properly understood, what happened this week is the first battle in a civil war; a civil war in which, for now, only one side is choosing violence. It is a battle in which members of Congress, with the collusion of the American president, sent violent, organised suppression against the people they are supposed to represent. Occupy has touched the third rail:...
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'We're blind to our blindness. We have very little... →
In this article in The Independent Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman is talking about his new book.
Leaders and entrepreneurs are particularly optimistic. There’s plenty of evidence for that. They wouldn’t be doing what they’re doing if they didn’t have a sense that they could control their environment, and if they were not quite sanguine about their chances of success. Leaders are selected for...
Europe’s Taxi Firms Hit Back at Apps - The Next... →
Are you like me having a problematic relation to taxt companies? My problem is that I seldom can chose who I want to ride with because between me and the driver is a system consisting of either a switchboard or at airport and train stations an organized system with taxis in lines. The solution to that is of course an app. Think about an app that will track the drivers that you know and have...
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The Rise of Digital Civilizations Will Define Our... →
These great digital powers [Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and maybe Microsoft] are now building Digital Civilizations, rather than a series of mere products, individual platforms or even ecosystems (around a platform). They are pursuing strategies that reach far beyond the confines of existing markets. They are causing widespread market collisions as they push industries to overlap, merge or...
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Digital transformation - Are some people starting... →
How does the digital transformation of your organization go? According to the global study DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: A ROADMAP FOR BILLION-DOLLAR ORGANIZATIONS from CapGemini just 50 of 157 executives say that they have an effective approach. Not an easy task it seems…
But why is this so hard? The report states that
Successful digital transformation comes not from implementing new...
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Google Health: First Failure of 2012 -... →
The idea that users would be willing to transfer personal health record data from health care providers, where data privacy is protected by law, to Google servers, where it is protected by non-binding privacy policies that can change at any time, was flawed from the start. Although Google’s motto is “Don’t be evil,” many users viewed this deal as a Faustian bargain.
This...
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The Big Data Boom Is the Innovation Story of Our... →
While passive data gathering can be useful, measurement is far more valuable when coupled with conscious, active experimentation and sharing of insights. Likewise, the value of undertaking the experiments themselves is proportionately greater if the organization can capitalize on those experiments in more locations and at greater scale. In combination, these practices constitute a new kind of...
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Flipboard Adds Tumblr Support →
parislemon:
Tumblr on Flipboard. This pleases me greatly. Though I’d still love to see support for reading only certain tags.
Also worth noting is the addition of “Flipboard Accounts” which means one thing: Flipboard for iPhone coming soon.
Yes, and it seems to work. Writing this from Flipboard right now!
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“Futurism is the art of reperception. It means recognizing that life will change,...”
– Bruce Sterling
“Most books on decision-making tell the reader: First find the facts. But...”
– Why Peter Drucker Distrusted Facts - Stephen Wunker - Harvard Business Review
Why Start-Ups Fail
futuresagency:
Click image to display full graph. (via Jonathan MacDonald)
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3D printing: coming to a library near you |... →
Some see the future of the public library with the emphasis on the library part, regardless of what informtion or data is structured, archived and made available. Other see the future of the public library with the word PUBLIC in large letters and don’t care so much about the information organizing part. If you are of the latter kind, this might not sound so weird to you.
The Fayetteville...
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Chris Anderson: Why the Internet of Things finally... →
smarterplanet:
After a decade of hearing about “the Internet of things”, where everything will have an IP address, I’m starting to finally believe it. What’s changed? The Open Hardware movement, which is doing for connected devices what the Web did for information. The old vision of the Internet of Things came to us from the likes of Cisco and Nokia, which were trying to promote end-to-end...
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated...”
– G.K. Chesterton, The Illustrated London News, Dec 2, 1905
Full Quote
(via shiv53)
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THE ART OF PATHOGENIC WARFARE - Global Guerrillas →
In this post John Robb makes the comparison between how bacterias relate to their host and how humans relate to the society. He is especially focusing on the class of bacteria with pathogenic behavior - i e they act in a short sighted way that ignore, and might hurt, the well being of the host on which they rely.
Perhaps the best explanation is that these pathogens have flooded the financial...
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Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: Cognitive... →
John Hagel correctly reflects around that high uncertainty leads to magnification of risks and discounting reward.
This becomes an ugly world, trapped in a vicious cycle. Short-term mindsets drive zero sum mindsets which drive threat based narratives which reinforce short-term mindsets. Yet, it’s a world that we increasingly find ourselves living in.
He is then suggesting an alternative...
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What is Biomimicry? (Fast Company) →
Biomimicry is
Science, engineering, and design inspired by the natural world.
It is an approach that is growing steadily and which currently seems to boom now is attracting more and more attention. Not least because of its nature connection, which seems to attract people who is interested in the environmental aspects of things. One problem for this group might be that just because the design...
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Remember the "borderless" Internet? It's... →
The trends have been present for years, but if SOPA passes, it will make them explicit: the chaotic, unfilterable, borderless Internet of the 1990s is truly dead, replaced by an Internet of order, filtered connections, and national borders.
It is interesting that in some countries attempts to filter Internet results in bloody conflicts in the streets, while in others it is done in orderly and...
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Walmart Plans To Capitalize On Primary Care... →
Walmart shoppers may soon be able to get a physical or have an allergy test after picking up their groceries if the big-box retailer gets its way.
The nation’s largest retailer sent out a request for potential partners last month that would help the store become “the largest provider of primary care services in the nation,” according to NPR and Kaiser Health News. Walmart sent...
“To me, claiming that Pictures Under Glass is the future of interaction is like...”
– Bret Victor, A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design (via stoweboyd)
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