it is dochs oars, sûnt 2001

Quote of the Day | 0308

Op alle gebieden van het leven -- veiligheid, opvoeding, reizen, gezondheidszorg, wonen, commercie, internet -- word je op basis van je profiel beoordeeld, dus op basis van kansberekening. Iemand met een risico-arm profiel mag bij de grens door. Iemand met ...

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Quote of the Day | 0311

If TeleRead shuts down, the reason won’t be ad-blockers. It will be because Google, WordPress, Facebook, Amazon and brethren have made the Net an increasingly challenging place for smaller and medium sized sites hoping to hang around for the long ...

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Quote of the Day | 0311

There’s no understanding the future of technology without understanding the future of its funders. And they have changed dramatically over the last three decades. First it was the military. Then the venture capitalists. Today, another chapter begins: massive funds, with ...

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Quote of the Day | 0313

It has never been easier to wrap yourself up in a long-term intellectual project without at the same time losing touch with the world around you. Some critics don’t see this possibility, charging that the Web is destroying a ...

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Quote of the Day | 0313

I want the web to reflect our hopes and fulfil our dreams, rather than magnify our fears and deepen our divisions. Tim Berners-Lee, 'The web can be weaponised – and we can't count on big tech to stop it'

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Quote of the Day | 0314

In the 20th century, the news media thrived by being the intermediary others needed to reach customers. In the 21st, increasingly there is a new intermediary: Software programmers, content aggregators and device makers control access to the public. The news ...

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Quote of the Day | 0317

by giving Silicon Valley irresistible commercial incentives to develop military technologies, the government has, at the same time, surrendered unparalleled power to private corporations. Extensive control of information has been handed over to unaccountable global corporations that don’t profit from ...

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Quote of the Day | 0318

Technologies are like children. They’re often asked to do things that they’re incapable of doing, don’t really want to do, are ill suited to do. We need to find the right place for technology. DDT is actually a very good ...

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Quote of the Day | 0318

There’s a tension between tools that encourage attentive thought and the reading of longer articles, and the cultural trend that everything becomes a constant stream of little bits of information through which we make sense of the world. So far, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0318

There are simply too many ways to be tracked. The Internet, e-mail, cell phones, web browsers, social networking sites, search engines: these have become necessities, and it's fanciful to expect people to simply refuse to use them just because they ...

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Quote of the Day | 0318

the main reason I think people are abandoning these platforms: Facebook knows us better than we know ourselves, with its algorithms that can predict if we’re going to cheat on our spouse, start looking for a new job, or buy ...

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Quote of the Day | 0319

The literature at the time in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, describing the contempt that the learned establishment had for the rise of the novel - and then of course later with the rise of the penny dreadfuls ...

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Quote of the Day | 0319

“We tend to focus on the car itself as the central element,” Cohen says, “and we fail to recognize that it’s not just the car.” Like any ubiquitous technology, the car is embedded in a whole social system. In this ...

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Quote of the Day | 0320

My opinion of technology has not changed. My opinion of people may have changed, however. I am surprised most people would rather remain powerless and unaware of how the world works. I had thought this was the result of oppression. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0321

Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world’s most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory. And Airbnb, the world’s largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate. Something interesting ...

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Quote of the Day | 0322

“Major Memory for Microblogs”*, a recent article in the academic journal Memory & Cognition, found that people were much better at remembering casual writing like Facebook posts or forum comments than lines from books or journalism. One possible reason: “The ...

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Quote of the Day | 0322

Should we all just leave Facebook? That may sound attractive but it is not a viable solution. In many countries, Facebook and its products simply are the internet. Some employers and landlords demand to see Facebook profiles, and there are ...

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Quote of the Day | 0325

One of the benefits that come from working with the informational atoms of the city is an almost molecular understanding of New York itself. The youthful quants were surprised to learn, for instance, that it was mathematically possible to create ...

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Quote of the Day | 0325

The political class has reacted to the stratospheric rise of the tech behemoths with the gawping stupefaction of a five-year-old strapped into the nose cone of a space rocket. Politicians have gnashed their teeth about the tech giants’ reluctance to ...

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Quote of the Day | 0326

engineers and scientists have been diminished in stature over the last half-century because they succeeded beyond almost anyone's expectations, including their own. Bill Schweber, 'For engineers, no good deed goes unpunished'

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Quote of the Day | 0327

Apple will sell you a 16GB iPad 2 for just $500, but some people are willing to pay $200 more to get 64GB. Why? Because we haven't quite reached the stage when the specs of our gadgets cease to matter. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0328

According to his biographer Michael Wolff, Murdoch has not used the internet, let alone Google (he only recently discovered email) and so he cannot possibly understand the dynamics, demands and opportunities of our post-industrial, now-digital media economy. Jeff Jarvis, "Rupert Murdoch's ...

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Quote of the Day | 0329

We have a big menu of information technologies out there to choose from. Isn’t that the whole point?James Gleich, 'Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter or Energy—It’s Data'

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Quote of the Day | 0331

the first attack PRTK performs is to test a dictionary of about 1,000 common passwords, things like "letmein," "password1," "123456" and so on. Then it tests them each with about 100 common suffix appendages: "1," "4u," "69," "abc," "!" and ...

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Quote of the Day | 0331

Promoters of future energy regimes such as Musk weave stories that compel because they seem familiar – they have a singular history. If we want to make sure that those future energy regimes address all our interests, it’s important that ...

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Quote of the Day | 0401

New literacies will be required such as screen literacy. Reading, writing, arithmetic and retrieval will become key, as people who can find [information] fastest and make sense of it will be at a marked advantage over those who struggle to ...

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Quote of the Day | 0403

Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born 'An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay'

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Quote of the Day | 0404

Today, longform is a 1,500-word article. Evan Williams has this online publishing platform called Medium, which is these little essays, but it’s longform compared to tweets or Facebook updates. In reality, if I write an 800-word piece on CNN, it ...

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Quote of the Day | 0405

The internet age is so young that we’re worried, and intrigued, by how it will shape us–we simply have no idea. The single most fascinating aspect of my detox was the number of people who wanted to talk to ...

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Quote of the Day | 0406

It is often the case in interaction design that the best solutions simply get out of the way, allowing the user to achieve their goal and get on with their life. Willem van Lancker, 'Google Maps: Designing the Modern Atlas'

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Quote of the Day | 0407

Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word “publishing” means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That’s not a job anymore. That’s a button. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0408

Who has an AOL account these days? Not that long ago, AOL was the single most powerful player on the Internet. Who has a MySpace account these days? MySpace sold for billions of dollars not that long ago. I’m very ...

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Quote of the Day | 0416

The Internet is no topic like cellphones or videogame platforms or artificial intelligence; it's a topic like education. It's that big. Therefore beware: to become a teacher, master some topic you can teach; don't go to Education School and master ...

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Quote of the Day | 0417

If you pulled the plug on Facebook, there would literally be riots in the streets. So in the back of Facebook’s mind, they know that they’re stepping on people’s toes. But in the end, people are happy to have the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0424

This means, in plain language, that we – and many others – are dependent on Google. At the moment Google has a 91.2 percent search-engine market share in Germany. In this case, the statement “if you don’t like Google, you ...

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Quote of the Day | 0426

Back in 2009, O'Leary did this for one publisher, O'Reilly Media, which publishes technical books. Surprisingly, he found that sales actually increased after their books showed up on pirate sites. Piracy seems to have boosted sales. O'Leary says people may ...

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Quote of the Day | 0427

* Tradition is not a business model. The past is no longer a reliable guide to future success. * “Should” is not a business model. You can say that people “should” pay for your product but they will only if ...

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Quote of the Day | 0427

Intelligence has to be defined relative to goals and the knowledge needed to attain them. In any case the argument against the doomsday fear-mongering of existing AI extends to more powerful systems: any system that monomaniacally pursued one goal (such ...

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Quote of the Day | 0429

a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel – from open to closed system. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0503

While there are certainly differences between phone conversations and face-to-face communication—on the phone, silences tend to be shorter, and “overlaps” can be more frequent because we can’t see that the other person is preparing to speak—what is most striking is ...

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Quote of the Day | 0504

Everything that journalists are doing on Facebook today — engaging readers in conversation, soliciting sources, polling users, posting “behind the story” material — is stuff they could just as easily do on their own websites. So why are they doing ...

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Quote of the Day | 0507

There are three strands to this story. How the foundations of an authoritarian surveillance state are being laid in the US. How British democracy was subverted through a covert, far-reaching plan of coordination enabled by a US billionaire. And how ...

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Quote of the Day | 0508

Why don't we have big ideas or dreams any more? "Because now that there's nothing more important than you, how can you ever lose yourself in a grander idea? We're frightened of eccentricity, of loneliness. Individualism just wants to keep ...

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Quote of the Day | 0510

Bookshelves will survive in the homes of serious digital-age readers, but their contents will be much more judiciously curated. Michael Agresta, 'What Will Become of the Paper Book?'

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Quote of the Day | 0512

“If you were starting from scratch, you could never possibly justify this business model,” Hal Varian said, in a variation on a familiar tech-world riff about the print-journalism business. “Grow trees—then grind them up, and truck big rolls of paper ...

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Quote of the Day | 0515

Even as women enter the field, the existing culture is one that was and is often still shaped solely by men. As a result, the algorithms and AI technologies born in such an environment fail to recognize a diversity of ...

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Quote of the Day | 0520

You can't see how your Internet, the websites you visit, are different than what other people see. They are sort of slipping further and further apart. A couple of years ago, when you Googled something, everyone would get the same ...

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Quote of the Day | 0520

The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is ...

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Quote of the Day | 0526

multitasking, at least as our culture has come to know and love and institutionalize it, is a myth. When you think you’re doing two things at once, you’re almost always just switching rapidly between them, leaking a little mental efficiency ...

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Quote of the Day | 0529

Transparency in government is the solution to many ills. To begin with, it promotes honesty. It supports accountability. It limits the effects of undue influence on policy by special interest groups. The more transparency we have in both the public ...

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Quote of the Day | 0531

Now we have incredible processing power and you can get a high-speed 4 Terabyte hard disk for $180 at Costco. Yet people are returning to the big mamma in the sky, accepting a client-server relationship that was a consistent flop ...

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Quote of the Day | 0601

If triggering emotions is the highest prize, and negative emotions are easier to trigger, how could social media not make you sad? Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier

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Quote of the Day | 0604

The critic and erstwhile blogger Lee Siegel, in Against the Machine, a polemic against online habits, makes a list of "five open supersecrets" about bloggers: Not everyone has something valuable to say. Few people have anything original to say. Only a handful of ...

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Quote of the Day | 0604

One virtue of our current clunky system of identification is that if data gets leaked, a person can clean up the mess. If your Social Security number is seized by an identity thief, you can get a new one. For ...

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Quote of the Day | 0605

Using the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, engineers and geologists examined the fine-scale structure of Roman concrete. The findings showed for the first time how the extraordinarily stable compound—calcium-aluminum-silicate-hydrate (C-A-S-H)—binds the material used to build some of ...

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Quote of the Day | 0607

traditional publishers know what their authors sold (how many copies, when, where, in what genre) but they don’t know who bought them. Amazon does – perforce, it’s on Internet, every transaction is written, a complete contract between seller and buyer, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0609

Q: Is it possible to put security in place to protect against state surveillance? A: "You are not even aware of what is possible. The extent of their capabilities is horrifying. We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on ...

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Quote of the Day | 0610

Females were more likely to use a therapeutic style of blogging and males were more prone to be self-censoring or substitution-style bloggers. He says previous research found that females were more likely to write personal blogs so they may comprise ...

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Quote of the Day | 0611

the book industry sells “books”. What they need to do is sell their “authors”. Authors now are brands, they are businesses, they are mini-empires. Publishers do nothing to help 95% of their authors build their platforms and their own brands. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0614

The average music buyer is younger than the average book buyer. Young people have long been a primary market for popular music. Young people also tend to have the spare time, the tech savvy, the obliviousness to risk, the constrained ...

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Quote of the Day | 0622

Anyone with a voice today has a very public platform—blogging, Twitter, Facebook, etc.—and yet for all of this potential, nothing has changed. So what’s going on here? I’m beginning to believe that we don’t want answers, that we ...

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Quote of the Day | 0623

Facebook is still Facebook. It went through a little dip; how many people deleted their accounts? People have a high tolerance for being surveilled. I think it will have to get even more poisonous and destructive before there’s a real ...

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Quote of the Day | 0629

It was an impressive achievement, of course, and a human achievement by the members of the IBM team, but Deep Blue was only intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm ...

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Quote of the Day | 0703

Federer views all these changes as part of tennis’s evolution. “You definitely see changes in a game every five years or so,” he told me. “It might be strings, might be racquet technology, might be balls they’re using, might be ...

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Quote of the Day | 0704

Comics, as it happens, look magnificent on tablets. But no one in the comics industry is really ready for what that magnificence implies. Sales of periodical comics are falling, and there’s no iTunes Store equivalent to sell them digitally—no single ...

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Quote of the Day | 0705

“We demonstrated that the Web had failed instead of served humanity, as it was supposed to have done, and failed in many places,” he told me. The increasing centralization of the Web, he says, has “ended up producing—with no deliberate ...

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Quote of the Day | 0707

you can't opt out from having information collected, retained and analyzed. Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera, "Erasing all digital footprints 'impossible'"

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Quote of the Day | 0707

Michael typed in the “U.S. Declaration of Independence” in upper case, because there was no lower case yet. He mentioned where the 5 K file was stored to the 100 users of the embryonic internet of the time, though without ...

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Quote of the Day | 0709

there are new power centers, like Facebook and Google, and they have an incredible amount of power to shape what people know and don't know, just as much as, and in a lot of ways more than, the New ...

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Quote of the Day | 0709

don't kid yourself: the gap between an "Internet addict" and John Q. Public is thin to nonexistent. One of the early flags for addiction was spending more than 38 hours a week online. By that definition, we are all addicts ...

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Quote of the Day | 0714

If they can find out what you eat, they can find out what you read as well; from there, it's not so hard to predict your political preferences-and manipulate you. We are careening towards a future where privacy becomes a ...

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Quote of the Day | 0715

In simple terms, if we can find a piece of information online, we're less likely to remember the information itself. However, if the information isn't easily accessible online (and we know this), we're more likely to remember the information. Could this ...

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Quote of the Day | 0720

Buying $2 worth of bananas boosts GDP; having $20 worth of fun on the Web does not. And this effect is a big one. Each day more enjoyment, more social connection, and, indeed, more contemplation are produced on the Web ...

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Quote of the Day | 0725

Privacy protects us from being unfairly judged out of context on the basis of snippets of private information that have been exposed against our will; but we can be just as unfairly judged out of context on the basis of ...

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Quote of the Day | 0726

old-fashioned book reviews are not dead yet. Well written reviews still have a lot to offer (and I’m not just saying that because I’m a reviewer). While they may not be the best source for a what-to-read-next list, they do ...

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Quote of the Day | 0726

comics storytelling is entirely predicated upon the print technologies of the late 1930s. We have six panels of page on average because that was the optimum numbers of panels to put on a page in a periodical of something like ...

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Quote of the Day | 0727

Despite the warnings from self-appointed experts, there is less to worry about with the Internet than there is with — well, with automobiles, guns, drugs, social isolation, aging, recessions, wars, food poisoning, or pollution. Kent Anderson, 'Is the Internet Bad for ...

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Quote of the Day | 0727

It will never be entirely possible to systematically distinguish truly dangerous ideas from good ones that appear suspicious, without trying them out. Any formal system that is granted (or assumes) the absolute power to protect itself against dangerous ideas will ...

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Quote of the Day | 0729

Microsoft collects data to operate effectively and provide you the best experiences with our services. You provide some of this data directly, such as when you create a Microsoft account, submit a search query to Bing, speak a voice command ...

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Quote of the Day | 0730

[...] it’s become apparent that selling ad space is an unsustainable revenue model for media as a whole. It is from the chaos of this moment that the relationship between content and capital will be defined for generations to come. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0801

To make money — real money — at this game you have to attract millions, or tens of millions, of users. And when you’re dealing with those kinds of numbers, it’s literally impossible not to treat your users as pieces ...

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Quote of the Day | 0803

Acquisti imagines a near future in which you could walk in to a bar and scan through the crowd, telling your their name, interests or even their credit score. "It impacts the way you're going to approach and interact with ...

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Quote of the Day | 0807

Stories are memory aids, instruction manuals and moral compasses. When enlisted by charismatic leaders and turned into manifestos, dogmas and social policy, they've been the foundations for religions and political systems. When a storyteller has held an audience captive around ...

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Quote of the Day | 0807

on any given day, I’d say 75 percent of what you read in the tech press is somewhat accurate, 20 percent is complete bullshit, and 5 percent is actually true. 'The 75—20—5 Rule Don’t believe everything you read. Or anything, really.'

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Quote of the Day | 0812

Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003, [...] Google CEO Eric Schmidt, at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, CA

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Quote of the Day | 0813

“The internet is the largest group of people who care about reading and writing ever assembled in history,” posited the SXSW publishers’ panel in 2009. But what kind of reading, what kind of writing? The internet is the largest group ...

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Quote of the Day | 0815

It's curious that some of the most vociferous critics of the internet – those who predict that it will produce generations of couch potatoes, with minds of mush – are the very sorts of people who are benefiting most from ...

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Quote of the day | 0816

Companies like Ikea have literally designed products around pallets: Its "Bang" mug, notes Colin White in his book Strategic Management, has had three redesigns, each done not for aesthetics but to ensure that more mugs would fit on a pallet ...

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Quote of the Day | 0817

You may think you're defending your favorite platform because it's just that good. But, according to a recently published study out of the University of Illinois, you may instead be defending yourself because you view criticisms of your favorite brand ...

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Quote of the Day | 0819

The logistical complications of creating a human-like, talking, humping sexbot are huge. There is the weight, for one thing, because a metal skeleton is hefty. There is the energy source, for another, because batteries are hot, heavy and short-lived. Honda’s ...

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Quote of the Day | 0821

It was not the scope of NSA surveillance that led to Snowden's defection. It was hearing his boss lie to Congress about it for hours on end. Simon Jenkins, 'So the innocent have nothing to fear? After David Miranda we now ...

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Quote of the Day | 0822

around that time, Bill Gates uttered one of the smartest things he has ever said: “The future of search is verbs.” But he said it at a private dinner and it never spread. To me, the meaning was clear: when people ...

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Quote of the Day | 0823

I’m already on record as believing that ebook distribution and retail should be based on a modular ecosystem, open file formats and standardised services. I should be able to buy a book from any retailer, have it automatically download to ...

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Quote of the Day | 0823

It makes me feel like everything I’ve posted over the past four years on Twitter, Jaiku, Friendfeed, Plurk, Pownce, and, yes, Google Buzz, has been an immense waste of time. I was shouting into a vast echo chamber where no ...

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Quote of the Day | 0825

I still feel lucky to be able to use Google a zillion times a day, and no, Bing is not much use as an alternative [...]. But when Google tells me that this drivel is the most relevant result, I ...

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Quote of the Day | 0826

Instead of replacing a machine every 18 months, as was the case in the late 1980s, we can keep a machine for five years or more. I say this is ironic, because since Microsoft managed to put most software vendors ...

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Quote of the Day | 0828

I have come to the conclusion that email is fundamentally insecurable. If I want to have a secure online conversation, I use an encrypted chat application like Signal. By and large, email security is out of our control. For example, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0830

I am looking forward to having my mind changed a lot in the coming years. I think we'll be surprised by how many things we assumed were "natural" for humans are not really, and how many impossible ideas are possible. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0831

Computer users world-wide generate enough digital data every 15 minutes to fill the U.S. Library of Congress. A Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians

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Quote of the day | 0902

El Reg: "The Compact Cassette is a very pocketable size. Had you decided upon maximum dimensions to work to?" Lou Ottens: "Because our aim was to make a pocket recorder, it should fit into the side pocket of my tweed jacket. ...

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