February 2012
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The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the... →
http://helldesign.net, kurzweilai.net
Until now. Beyond reading email and surfing the Web, we will soon be checking our vital signs on our phone. We can already continuously monitor our heart rhythm, blood glucose levels, and brain waves while we sleep. Miniature…
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The rise of #futureporn
When joking on #twitter about the increasing interest in the future from almost everywhere I coined the term “futureporn” to describe how many people seems to relate to it. These people read about the future and look at examples of future related things just for the tickling feeling of excitement and not for the purpose of creating an understanding of what is happening in order to take...
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BBC.com launches Future – the home of new trends →
vahidmotlagh:
BBC.com launches Future – the home of new trends in the worlds of Science, Technology, Environment and Health
It is fabulous that so many are interested in the future - or at least are “pornographically” interested in the future - while so few are taking the steps to get there…
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Driverless Car Could Defy the Rules of Sprawl:... →
By Robert Bruegmann, bloomberg.com
From all reports, the driverless car, once considered in the realm of science fiction, now looms on the transportation horizon. Nevada last week became the first state to issue regulations for the operation of self-driving vehicles…
Interesting about consequences of driverless vehicles.
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Self-Driving Tech Veers into Mid-Range Cars →
technologyreview.com
Sensor technologies once limited to luxury cars are increasingly available in the mass market. Fully autonomous self-driving cars are still far from the market, but a wide range of features—including sensor systems that warn of l…
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Twenty six per cent of European doctors own an... →
Twenty six per cent of European doctors own an iPad and they spend over a quarter of their professional online time on the device, according to new research.
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The analysts found that iPad owners primarily use their devices to look up information, browse articles, and watch videos and said physicians showed “significant interest in using iPads to manage and educate their patients”.
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Change Is Sexy, Until it Costs - Amber Naslund via... →
stoweboyd:
Amber condenses discussions/emails with hundreds down to the quintessential social hedge:
I’d like to better use social to build my business.
But I don’t want to spend anything because we don’t have a budget, and we can’t cut anything else. I don’t want to have to hire anyone or spend any extra time on this, and no one else can take it on right now, so we’ll need to outsource it...
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IPad Killing Printer Use, Paper Sales [Survey] →
infoneer-pulse:
If you think about it, printers are probably the worst-designed gadgets in our homes (unless you own the same awful Samsung Behold as I do). But despite the mythical advance of the paperless office, nobody has been able to kill them off. Until now. A new survey says that the iPad has finally doomed the printer, and is even saving trees.
The survey, conducted by Morgan Stanley...
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“How mankind will cope with the avalanche of information and entertainment about...”
– Arthur C Clarke, 1962 quote in article “Don’t say you weren’t warned”
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Don’t Cry for the Publishers (though you are free... →
The publishing industry had the luxury of sitting back and watching everything that happened to the music industry and they learned almost nothing. They had 10 years to watch record stores vanish, the rise and fall of Napster, the felling of empires (hello, Mr. Bronfman!), downloading, the rise of the indie artist, the uptick in touring, everything, all of it happened to a comparable industry a...
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Stanford Startups Focus on Health Care - Health... →
Of the nine startups that demoed, five companies aim to tackle problems in health care ― from ensuring that instant messages in the hospital are securely transferred, to making health care costs more transparent.
It becomes more and more clear that the wave of entrepreneurial innovation have come to health care. The main problem now is the traditional perception of health care, organizational...
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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... →
futuresagency:
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…
