The iPad is the fire that sucked all the oxygen out of the room. Apple zigged and you guys are still trying to figure out what a zag is.
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Stop trying to make iPads. Make markets.
Boom.
Source: minimalmac.com
ideas, instincts, and intuitions: Obama Admin creates 'secret' internet for dissidents abroad.
The effort includes secretive projects to create independent cellphone networks inside foreign countries, as well as one operation out of a spy novel in a fifth-floor shop on L Street in Washington, where a group of young entrepreneurs who look as if they could be in a garage band are fitting…
Fascinating. The question that occurred to me as most pressing is What happens if such a device is deployed within the borders of the United States? Then what?
Source: MSNBC
After the Singularity, We’ll All Be Robots — Ray Kurzweil
The bottom line is we are one human-machine civilization. This technology has already expanded who we are and is going to go into high gear when we get to the steep part of the exponential.
Source: bigthink.com
RADIOHEAD NUDE Big Ideas (don’t get any) covered by machines (by unbrandhead)
Wonderfully strange.
Source: youtube.com
… I love my Apple TV—I love that I can unplug it in 1.5 seconds from my hunk of shit and bring it to my grandma’s house and plug it into her hunk of shit and we can watch movies.
Source: apple.com
The Limits of Cyber-Revolutions
Unfortunate title, interesting article.
How fast is the Internet at Google? Mind blowing.
For those of us who live in parts of the world where high speed Internet is still a luxury, there’s a massive amount of jealousy that happens when we see huge numbers. In a thread over on Reddit where members of Google’s Chrome team are answering questions, we’ve just gotten a peek at Google’s Internet connection.
Yes, please.
(via infoneer-pulse)
Source: thenextweb.com
Welcome to the Canadian Internet, and welcome to Information Age Canada, a nation whose government is willing to sell the country’s future and competitiveness for the sake of a few more points on the bottom line of the creaking telcoms industry. Way to go, eh?
Welcome to the Canadian Internet, now stop using it
So very sad, but true. If you haven’t responded to appeals thus far, now’s the time to sign the petition.
Source: Boing Boing
C60 Redux – Physical Digital Music
I love not only the physicality that this design provides, but the social aspect of being able to again share music in a way that feels genuine.
Source: rubbishcorp.com
