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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Putting People First
People will be able to control and federate their own data
John Clippinger, who directs the Law Lab at Harvard University, predicts, in this video on Nokia’s IdeasProject, a huge shift over the next one to two years in...
From Putting People First
Stanford seminars on people, computers and design
“CS547. Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)” is a course of the Stanford HCI Group, coordinated by Terry Winograd, on...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Say Everything
Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters by Scott RosenbergA history of blogging to date with interpretation along the way. I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Theory of Games and Economic Misbehavior
By George Dyson in the Edge. The historian of science takes on math models of economies. A bit dense in its historical references, but makes you think.
From Putting People First
What is the interest created by conversational currency?
As the world moves to accommodate
From Putting People First
Conceptual consumption
An article in the New York Times Magazine brought me to an interesting article by behavioural economist Daniel Ariely, who has been featured previously on this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Much Less Mail
US postal service reports the largest drop in mail volume in hundreds of years. Not unexpected, but the statistics here are interesting. Paper mail, like many...
From Putting People First
How wired gadgets encroach on privacy
With every high-tech gadget we buy, we give up a little more privacy. Many devices today are in constant communication with their manufacturer. And it’s not just...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Knowledge Hurt Innovation?
From HBR, Can knowledge hurt innovation? ' ... A meeting I had recently with some folks at Gillette highlighted an important issue facing the would-be innovator...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Retooling Privacy Policies
Wal-Mart is in the process of retooling its privacy policies to include mobile and online data. In Storefrontbacktalk. Where they talk about the implications.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 27
July 29 Hearing: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing on peer-to-peer file sharing, with a focus on inadvertent file sharing...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-07-26
Aeroseek: Real-Time Flight Tracker I was asked for a way to see how a flight is progressing - this site lists three approaches....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Netflix game gets exciting: BellKor
This is fun. A month ago, I asked whether the Netflix competition was over. After BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos merged the solutions of many players to break the 10...
From Apophenia
Obsessively Recording and Sharing our Vacations
At Blogher yesterday, the issue of "addiction" emerged in the keynote. A woman in the audience noted that she twitched for the first day of vacation because she...
From Putting People First
Indian Design for All newsletter features German design
The Design for All Institute India has published a special issue of its newsletter together with IDZ International Design Centre, Berlin. Guest Editor is Prof Birgit...
From Putting People First
Benedict Singleton on socio-technical assemblages
Benedict Singleton is in the later stages of a practice-based PhD on service design at Northumbria University. In his research he uses “critical, self-directed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AP Intends to Embed Spyware in Articles
This will not make the AP popular on the Web, in the NYTimes. Though I rarely do, I will make every effort not to link to AP articles. ' ... Each article
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