Evgeny Morozov explores some of the implications in his new book “The Net delusion”
http://www.netdelusion.com
Unusually intelligent advertising
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Why work doesn’t happen at work
Jason Fried has some interesting ideas, like, work is similar to sleep and the managers are a nuisance…
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The future of copyright by Gerd Leonhard
The traditional concept of copyright is no longer valid or enforceable,
today, the value is not in copying but in gaining attention, providing access and setting fair usage terms:
Copyright 2.0 by Gerd Leonhard
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Seth Priebatsch: The game layer on top of the world
See this very interesting talk, I will leave it without any comment (for now):
www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng…
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Whatever happened to Kai Krause ?
The creator of highly innovative KPT image generator is now living in the “Byteburg” castle in Germany – his blog is well worth a look.
What happened to KPT ?
Why, it was purchased by Corel and quietly strangled…
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Stefano Mancuso on TED – The roots of plant intelligence
Root apex has an area of electrical activity, similar to brain’s neurons, there are about 13 million roots in a single rye plant – total length of about 600km, all working as a network – this results in a kind of distributed intelligence, which continues to function even with 90% of network destroyed.
New kinds of robots based on plants or hybrid machines exploiting computing power of plants could be built.
http://www.ted.com/talks/stefano_mancuso_the_roots_of_plant_intelligence.html
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Wired.com – Hohenschönhausen – house of horror
German photographer Phillip Lohoefener, documented beige patterned walls, wood-paneled interrogation rooms and antiquated medical apparatuses of notorious Stasi museum in Berlin.
“I am happy to live in a democratic and free place,” said Lohoefener “I can’t believe that some people say, ‘Not everything in the GDR was bad.’”
http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2010/10/phillip-lohoefener/#ixzz12C7Qsph1
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TED.com – new model of the brain
“I am more than my genes !” -says – Sebastian Seung.
While our genetic capital is fixed, what makes a human is a sum total of connections the brain connections – his/her “connectome”. Those connections are unique and constantly re-configured by brain activity, such as remembering and thinking.
The available processing power is now approaching the point which would allow us to map the brain’s “connectome”…
ted.com/talks/sebastian_seung.html
Edward Burtynsky Examines Industry Explosion in China
Edward Burtynsky: The 10,000-Year Gallery on Fora.tv
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