December 2011
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Bullshit! – Marco.org →
Dec 29th
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Apple will not release iPad 3 at Macworld or CES →
parislemon: Other things Apple will not be releasing at events they don’t put on this year include: iGun The iPad 4, 5, 6, or 7 Apple Ham Radio The Kraken Apple+ The iPhone 5, 6, 7, 8, or — get this — 9 Apple Petting Zoo BioDome 4 An Android phone Their blow out Q1 earnings Puppies Actually, maybe puppies. Sources cannot confirm or deny this.
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The science of the future →
vahidmotlagh: anticipate truly unexpected paradigm shifts
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What Will Education Be Like in 100 Years? →
infoneer-pulse: Back in 1900, author John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. published in The Ladies Home Journal a series of predictions for life in the 21st century. Maria Popova recently discovered Watkins’ many predictions, which include “How Children Will Be Taught,” and shared it on her blog: A university education will be free to every man and woman. Several great national universities will have...
Dec 24th
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Look at your comment. Back to mine. Back to yours NOW BACK TO MINE. Sadly, it isn’t mine. But if you stopped trolling and started posting legitimate crap it could LOOK like mine. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re scrolling through comments, finding the ones that your comment could look like. Back at mine, what is it? It’s a highly effective...
Dec 23rd
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Stormproof Matches →
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E-Books Accelerate Paperback Publishers’ Release... →
infoneer-pulse: It used to be like clockwork in the book business: first the hardcover edition was released, then, about one year later, the paperback. But in an industry that has been upended by the growth of e-books, publishers are moving against convention by pushing paperbacks into publication earlier than usual, sometimes less than six months after they appeared in hardcover. » via The...
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Sony generates power from paper
Via Scoop.it - Future Japanese electronics giant Sony on Thursday revealed technology that generates electricity from shredded paper. ”This is the same mechanism with which termites eat wood to get energy,” said Chisato Kitsukawa, a public relations manager at Sony. While academic research has previously taken place on this kind of power generation, proof-of-concept demonstrations are...
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“It looks too editorialized. Google products are machine-driven. They’re created...”
–  Google’s Marissa Mayer addressing Google designers, quoted in Steven Levy’s In The Plex, one of the year’s best history books   (via) :/
Dec 16th
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Ford scraps CD players for digital entertainment →
infoneer-pulse: Scrabbling around the car for a new CD to listen to on the road could soon be a thing of the past. Ford hopes to usher in a digital age for in-car entertainment by binning CD players in its new models. The company plans to help drivers to access their libraries of digital music via the internet. It has become the first mainstream manufacturer to scrap the in-car CD...
Dec 16th
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5 trends driving the future of work
Via Scoop.it - Future From legions of independent consultants to cities dotted with coworking facilities, the future of work is virtual, online and global. As the year draws to a close, you may be assessing your career plans against the backdrop of holiday hoopla and the uncertain employment climate. To get a leg up, grab an eggnog and read on to learn about trends that could change how you’ll be...
Dec 15th
Predicting the Future of Computing
Via Scoop.it - Future Readers are invited to make predictions and collaboratively edit this timeline on the future of computing, which is divided into three sections: a sampling of past advances, future predictions and a form for making and voting on predictions Via nytimes.com
Dec 15th
“A little secret: nobody does any actual work anywhere. Or at least this is...”
– badasscat (via solipsism)
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Microsoft's Gmail-Man →
parislemon: The problem isn’t that Microsoft has no sense of humor, it’s that they have a very poor sense of humor.  By personifying Gmail as a personal email-reading jackass, they’re essentially portraying Google as both evil and corrupt.  It’s like trying to poke fun at someone in a fun, light-hearted way, then repeatedly calling them Hitler. “Oh that Tommy, he’s so naughty, he’s such a...
Dec 12th
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Video of Anil Dash at Gel 2011 →
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