July 2011
16 posts
“It’s doubtful, though, that any of the scientists Verne polled would have sensed...”
– PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE by Michio Kaku reviewed by Alastair Reynolds - TLS (via mediafuturist)
Paul Higgins: This is part of my problem with most versions of use of the Delphi technique where experts are polled on their views. Experts are too deep into their own subject to be the best people to see...
#Foresight is not about predicting the #future,... →
vahidmotlagh:
There’s a whole raft of methodologies for this, ranging from Delphi polls to trends analysis and scenarios.
Geoffrey B. West, “Why Cities Keep on Growing,... →
Are corporations more like animals or more like cities? They want to be like cities, with ever increasing productivity as they grow and potentially unbounded lifespans. Unfortunately, West et al.’s research on 22,000 companies shows that as they increase in size from 100 to 1,000,000 employees, their net income and assets (and 23 other metrics) per person increase only at a 4/5 ratio. Like...
Peer-review in science 'can be improved', MPs... →
infoneer-pulse:
MPs have recommended improvements to the way scientific papers are checked before they are published.
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report said this “peer-review” process of science journals should be more transparent.
Their recommendations include making scientific data publicly available, and formal training for reviewers.
Their report also recommends...
James Allworth@blog.hbr.org: Why I'm Not Going... →
Spotify may try to resist price increases. But, given what we know about the record industry and how it approaches licensing negotiations, I wouldn’t let my music get held hostage to a monthly ransom.
WatchI listened to Kevin Slavin when I attended Lift11 in Geneva this February. The interesting point here which I agree on is that we have passed on from a natural world, to an simple or complicated artificial world and further to an complex artificial world which is as again unknown and having a life on it’s own as the natural world once had.
My doubt towards Kevin Slavin’s main point...
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Belgian Newspapers Claim Retaliation By Google... →
infoneer-pulse:
Perhaps the lesson is: be careful what you sue for. The French and German-language Belgian newspaper consortium that successfully sued Google for copyright infringement got more than it bargained for this week.
The newspapers’ content has been removed not only from Google News (as desired) but the entire Google index. Now the newspapers are crying foul, saying that Google is...
A College Education for All, Free and Online →
infoneer-pulse:
All around the world, people have been waiting for someone like Shai Reshef to come along.
Reshef is the founder and president of the University of the People, a tuition-free online institution that enrolled its first class of students in 2009.
UoPeople strives to serve the vast numbers of students who have no access to traditional higher education. Some can’t afford it, or...
Google+ has ten million users - and they're all...
digithoughts:
Sources: Digital Stats and Paul Allen via TechCrunch
Yes, the women are probably busy socializing on Facebook…
“Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they’re not making any more of it....”
– Seth’s Blog: Paying attention to the attention economy (via mediafuturist)
And an attention bubble is of course immanent…
A great challenge for the future is understanding how the attention logic is changing in this post modern era considering our changing values and plasticity/adaptivity...
“Relentless digitisation and the recession have combined to create an environment...”
– The Rise Of Talent Networks - Only Dead Fish (via mediafuturist)
It is about changing from protecting value to creating and sharing value, which is another non-sustainable strategy, but the only way out from the deadlock of the industrial era.
What is wrong with scientific publishing? - ... →
Unless the process of scientific publication is rapidly and effectively revised there will be a catastrophic crash. It will be unpredictable in both its timing, speed and nature. It will destroy some of the current participants. It will change parts of the scientific process and will change academia.
