January 2012
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Jan 27th
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“Not surprisingly, Audi’s vision also includes a self-driving car, of sorts. “Our...”
– Audi’s Future: Self-Driving Cars, Dual HUDs, LTE | News & Opinion | PCMag.com (via mediafuturist)
Jan 27th
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“In 2011, we collectively listened to 64,876,491,602 songs on the Internet....”
– 64 Billion Plays: What Online Music Looks Like Today (Infographic)
Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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shizumataka asked: What are your opinions on human cloning? I ask because I just started reading Kerry Lynn Macintosh's book, Illegal Beings: Human Clones and the Law, and I have so far learned a lot about human reproductive cloning and the laws that currently ban it (basically, this book has completely dispelled my false opinion about cloning technology).
Jan 26th
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ariaana asked: Do you believe Apple really deserves all the buzz it gets, or is it an overrated model that people overlook just because it's, per say, "trendy?" For example, the MacBook pro from mid 2009 carries an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. That's nothing amazing. Toshiba carries a laptop for $468 with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. Asus carries the same. HP carries the same. And yet people...
Jan 26th
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A Post PIPA Post →
A Thoughtful post by Fred Wilson on PIPA/SOPA and online piracy including: “ I told him that we need to find a different way to address the online piracy problem because otherwise the technology community was in for a game of whack a mole with the content industry every year or two with our elected officials getting caught in the middle” Well worth the read Full Story: AVC
Jan 26th
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“Nasser Saidi, chief economist of the Dubai International Financial Centre,...”
– State capitalism’s global reach: New masters of the universe | The Economist (via mediafuturist)
Jan 26th
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“I feel like there’s a red pill and a blue pill, and you can take the blue pill...”
– Tenured Professor Departs Stanford, Hoping to Teach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via davemorin)
Jan 26th
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“The collapse of the Soviet system was a pretty extraordinary event, and we are...”
– George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War - The Daily Beast (via futuramb)
Jan 25th
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“We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into...”
– The Pirate Bay now lets you download physical objects  (via courtenaybird)
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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“YouTube is now streaming more than four billion online videos each day,...”
– YouTube Hits 4 Billion Daily Video Views (via thenextweb)
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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“Apple likely sold three times as many iPads as Amazon sold Kindle Fires. At...”
– @parislemon via http://m.techcrunch.com/2012/01/24/boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom/ (via bijan)
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Strategic Insight is Not on the CEO Radar -... →
futuramb: This is really something that echoes a problem I have been pondering for years: I really agree with Drucker on the issue and I been for many year but why is strategic insight so under valued and overlooked? When discussing the need for real insights the whole discussion usually ends with a lunch-to-lunch exercise in the woods… because “we have already planned that and we don’t have...
Jan 25th
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“@TomRaftery: RT @tim_weber: A quarter of Kenya’s GDP is running through mobile...”
– January 23, 2012 at 01:00AM via http://bit.ly/x5vkeb (via stoweboyd)
Jan 25th
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Crowdfunding: Micro no more | The Economist →
THE idea of collecting cash online through a mix of patronage and prepayment sprouted informally a few years ago. Initially bands used it to raise money for studio rental and the production costs for releasing an album. But the idea took off and is now offered by a plethora of middlemen, and embraced by all manner of creative types. In 2011 Kickstarter, the most successful of the online...
Jan 25th
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Prejudice Is A Basic Human Need →
futuramb: Prejudice is just bigotry that arises from flawed ideology, right? Not so, say the authors of a new paper. They contend prejudice stems from a deeper psychological need and it is associated with a particular way of thinking. People who aren’t comfortable with ambiguity and want to make quick and firm decisions are also prone to making generalizations about others. People who are...
Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Available for Speaking/Workshops Singapore 7th and... →
I am travelling to Singapore to work with Daimler Financial Services in workshops on the 8th and 9th February on future visions and strategy. I am available for other presentations/workshops/board strategy discussions on the 7th and the 9th and can change travel times to be available on the 10th. Will split travel costs with Daimler You can see information on my presentations at our...
Jan 24th
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How sharing disrupts media | Felix Salmon →
futuramb: There are lots of ways of publishing content onto the web, and if you look at the relative popularity of, say, WordPress vs Tumblr vs Twitter, then it’s easy to come to the conclusion that the easier you make it to publish, the more popular you’re going to be. But at Tumblr, at least, there’s something else very interesting going on: according to Karp, there are 9 curators for every...
Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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Edge.org asked 191 famous thinkers "What is Your... →
climateadaptation: “I was told some years ago that the reason why some species of sea turtles migrate all the way across the South Atlantic to lay their eggs on the east coast of South America after mating on the west coast of Africa is that when the behavior started, Gondwanaland was just beginning to break apart (that would be between 130 and 110 million years ago), and these turtles...
Jan 23rd
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Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% →
tetw: by Joseph E. Stiglitz The upper 1 percent of Americans are now taking in nearly a quarter of the nation’s income every year. In terms of wealth rather than income, the top 1 percent control 40 percent.
Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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Three Innovative Finance Options for Retrofitting... →
smartercities: Could these three innovative financing models from New York, California, and Melbourne make retrofitting cities more economically viable? 
Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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Our Tweeting Policy
@gregorylent tweeted the following late on Sunday night: @futuristpaul are you going for blog page views? your link is always to your blog, which then links to a story .. irritating .. will avoid So I thought that I had better explain what we do and why so people can understand and/or comment. We tweet out a lot of what we put on our Tumblr blog with a link back to the story in our blog pages....
Jan 22nd
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