Curated By Tom George
Via Scoop.it – Web 3.0 – The New Social Web With the advent of Web 1.0, an increasing proportion of physical life became digital. Then, as we progressed to Web 2.0, the Internet became the information hub where people spend a majority of their time learning, shopping and communicating with others globally. Now, [...]
Curated By Tom George
Via Scoop.it – “#Google+, +1, Facebook, Twitter, Scoop, Foursquare, Empire Avenue, Klout” When will we be able to enter a room and create an imaginary scenario so realistic that it seems as if we are really there? Sooner than you thin… Show original Related Reading: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Facebook, 2nd EditionFacebook is not [...]
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Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have taken a database listing 37 million companies and investors worldwide and analyzed all 43,060 transnational corporations and share ownerships linking them. They built a model of who owns what and what their revenues are and mapped the whole [...]
Curated By Tom George
Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards We have been up all night, my friends and I, beneath mosque lamps whose brass cupolas are bright as our souls, because like them they were illuminated by the internal glow of electric hearts. And trampling underfoot our native sloth on opulent Persian carpets, we have been discussing right up to [...]
Curated By Tom George
Via Scoop.it – UtopianDynamics “A new type of software has been shown to predict revolutions by mining news reports around the world. Retrospectively mining the news for the past 30 years the software indicates points at which the likelihood for a revolution is high. When put to the test – bingo! – the software showed [...]
Curated By Tom George
Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Smartphones, like today’s iPhone, are as much a computer as they are a communication device. Besides having a great multi-touch interface and fast CPU, they contain sensors like cameras, gyros, accelerometers, GPS and compasses. They allow us to calculate and communicate anytime, anywhere. In the future, they’ll evolve into personal mobile [...]
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Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards In 10 years, humans and computers will join forces to create “collective intelligence”. Technology will evolve as such that the Internet (and information within it) will be accessible and available to everyone— this will exponentially increase the already massive data we exchange today. How we (and machines) will make sense of [...]
Curated By Tom George
Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Not a pretty picture…. As the world continues to change, the only predictor of the future is where we’ve been.With that in mind, we have taken trends from 2000-2010 and extended them out to get a feel for what the planet could be like if the following two decades are like [...]
Curated By Tom George
Via Scoop.it – Real-Time News Curation The future of information is about curation says media futurist Gerd Leonhard in the introductory part of his Conusmer of Tomorrow presentation.More than consuming and gathering information, we now need also someone that makes sense of it. Show original Related Reading: Service: A Navy SEAL at WarNavy SEAL Marcus [...]
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Via Scoop.it – Gadgets I lust for Volkswagen has designed a unique electric sports car it calls NILS, and plans to show off the radical single-seat design at the upcoming auto show in Frankfurt this month. Show original Related Reading: Maisto Special Edition 1:24 Volkswagen BeetleThis highly realistic diecast metal replica of the classic Volkswagen [...]
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Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Seasteads — offshore, oil-rig-style ‘micro-countries’ built out in the ocean, outside the laws of land-based nations — are making the news again, thanks to a $1.25 million investment boost last week by PayPal founder and tech billionaire Peter Thiel. Supporters of seasteading believe that conventional laws and politics are too restrictive [...]
Curated By Tom George
Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards The Hong Kong–based firm proposes an entire neighborhood that burrows into the ground before a storm hits. Last week, New York was rocked by both an earthquake and a hurricane–two exceptionally rare events for the citys. Now if only our over-preparedness in the case of Hurricane Irene made up for the [...]
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