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“TL;DR Distributed proof of ownership, anonymity, crowdfunding, the subscription economy, and location-based services–taken together, at the intersections–are going to rock your world.” • #trendtaste - × × ×

В будущем всё изменится и ничего нового, как обычно. - × × ×

“But something else will happen, too: you will see innovations pop-up left and right, centered around the Internet of CARING Things. ¶ Anything exceptional that ‘connected objects’ can do for consumers, whether that’s monitoring or improving health, helping them save money, getting chores done, will be warmly welcomed next year and beyond. Oh, and in case you want to start your own trend, there’s nothing stopping you from coining your own Internet of Things prefixes in 2014. Internet of Mobile Things? Internet of Security Things? Internet of City Things? Internet of Costly, Loved Things? All yours!” • #trendtaste - × × ×

"Here’s what’s holding back 3D printing, the technology that’s supposed to revolutionize manufacturing and countless other industries: patents. In February 2014, key patents that currently prevent competition in the market for the most advanced and functional 3D printers will expire, says Duann Scott, design evangelist at 3D printing company Shapeways. These patents cover a technology known as “laser sintering,” the lowest-cost 3D printing technology. Because of its high resolution in all three dimensions, laser sintering can produce goods that can be sold as finished products." • #будущее_прекрасно - #trendtaste - × × ×

“Casey’s habits underscore a new reality for this networked generation: Social networks -- and the gadgets they run on -- aren’t a distraction from real life, but a crucial extension of it. Born in 1999, just a few years after the mass adoption of the World Wide Web, Casey belongs to the first true generation of digital natives, who have no memory of life before the Internet. The eighth-grader, who lives in the northern New Jersey town of Millburn, has always been attached to her gadgets. When she was only 18 months old, she received a toy computer that quickly became her favorite plaything. In second grade, she got her first cellphone (“it could hold two numbers, it was stupid,” she says). Now, at 14, she’s the proud owner of a white iPhone 4S, which she takes with her to school, carries as she wanders around her house, uses at the breakfast table, and keeps beside her pillow when she sleeps at night. “I bring it everywhere. I have to be holding it,” Casey says. “It’s like OCD -- I have to have it with me. And I check it a lot.” • #trendtaste - × × ×

“As Bruce Sterling points out, Augmented Reality is “truly a child of the twenty-teens, a genuine digital native,” and one visible indication that: ..the Internet really could look like a “legacy.” The Legacy Internet as an old-fashioned, dusty, desk-based place best left to archivists and librarians, while the action is out on the streets.” - × × ×

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“A 2-year-old girl named Emma has a congenital condition called arthrogryposis which doesn’t allow her to lift her arms on her own. Dr. Tariq Rahman of the Center for Orthopedics Research and Development at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Delaware and research designer Whitney Sample helped Emma gain mobility by fitting her with (what she calls) ‘magic arms’, a custom-made 3D-printed Wilmington Robotic Exoskeleton (WREX) that mounts on her wheelchair. The WREX is normally metal, which would have been too heavy for a child to use, but by printing it out on a Stratasys 3D printer, they were able to make it lightweight (but durable) enough for her tiny frame.” • #trendtaste • #будущее_прекрасно - × × ×

"Google Now learns from your search behavior and shows you cards with information you regularly search for (think game scores of your favorite teams, flight schedules) or that could be relevant to you because of your current location, including weather, nearby restaurants, schedules for the next bus station, how long it’s going to take you to drive home and currency information if it finds you are in a different country. It also uses a whimsical theme to highlight the time of day and where you are (it showed an image of Sydney’s Opera House, for example, when I was there a few weeks ago)." • #trendtaste - × × ×

“For now, Google has decided to err on the safe side and with just about a dozen different Google Now cards, it’s a pretty limited service that, despite its promise, doesn’t always offer you “just the right information, at just the right time” (most of the time it just shows the weather card anyway). As Google expands the service, however, it’ll be interesting to watch how long it will take before it starts pushing things a bit too far.” - × × ×

“This has some clear similarities with our database of building elements, but it potentially involves a wider spectrum of participants. The framework of synthetic biology may allow non-specialists – like architects, artists, computer scientists – to design new biological systems without learning all the details of molecular behavior. Just as non-specialists now combine electrical parts to make electrical circuits, soon they might be able to combine biological parts to make new organisms that perform specific functions. As biological technologies become less expensive and more domesticated, this may lead to an explosion of innovation similar to advances in computers after the domestication of digital technologies in the ‘70s and ‘80s. We may be at a transformative moment now, like the days of Apple Computer tinkering in the garage.” • #trendtaste • #будущее_прекрасно - × × ×

Т.е. шанс того, что мы доживём до мира Алисы Селезнёвой (с флипами и органическими домами), растёт, постепенно подбираясь к двузначному процентному числу (а это уже очень много для фантастики). - × × ×

(А мы пока подумаем про мир Джима Манро, например, с его биоартом и управляемыми эмоциями, который 10% «вероятности при моей жизни» прошёл лет пять назад, и стремится к планке 27-30%, когда вероятность приближается к границе, за которой начинается определённость.) - × × ×

“Our Robot Future: Imagine police drones patrolling at treetop level down city streets, their cameras scanning crowds for weapons or suspicious activity. “Newsbots” might follow in their wake, streaming live video of the goings-on. Drones belonging to protest groups hover over both, watching the watchers. In nearby zip codes, drones belonging to real estate agents scope out hot properties. Robots deliver pizzas by following the signal from customers’ cell phones. Meanwhile, anti-drone “freedom fighters,” alarmed by the spread of cheap, easy overhead surveillance, take potshots at the robots with rifles and shotguns.” • #будущее_прекрасно • #trendtaste • #гудрон - × × ×

Не терпится увидеть хоть одного! - 9000

“Like many to follow, my Kickstarter project hit the initial goal in the first few hours and eventually quadrupled it, with $8,600 raised from over 400 backers. Modest by today’s multimillion-dollar blockbusters, it’s still considered one of the site’s early successes. The album was released shortly after, adored by the only 400 people in the world who find the idea of “chiptune jazz” thrilling. ¶ But unlike nearly every other album project on Kickstarter, I’m not a musician. I’ve never written a song, with or without vintage videogame consoles, and wouldn’t know where to start. ¶ Instead, I hired musicians I love to make the music. My job was organizing the project — giving the musicians feedback, setting the budget and timeline, and handling all the mundane chores of licensing, production, promotion and fulfillment. ¶ Without intending to, I’d added a new title to my résumé: I was a record producer!” #trendtaste • #1000fans - × × ×

"We’re at the early stages of a massive wave of innovation in the payment industry. It’s like when Apple launched the iOS platform for mobile developers. The platform in this case is the payment network. Software developers will add new capabilities to cards by programming the payment network to link online applications to specific payment events. Consumers will be able to effectively “drag and drop” apps to their smart cards in the same way that they add apps to their smart phones today." • #trendtaste - × × ×

Expanded memory. New spending habits. Validated check-ins and reviews. Quantified self. Status Redefined. - × × ×

“Charlie Brooker explained the series' title to The Guardian, noting: "If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects? This area – between delight and discomfort – is where Black Mirror, my new drama series, is set. The "black mirror" of the title is the one you'll find on every wall, on every desk, in the palm of every hand: the cold, shiny screen of a TV, a monitor, a smartphone.” • #letmeshowyou • #trendtaste - × × ×

Трёхсерийные британские сезоны — самое ужасное, что было изобретено в современной практике медиа-наркотиков. Очень качественно и очень мало. Резкий пик удовольствия и потом ни-че-го, всё кончается за считанные часы. ¶ С полнометражным кино такого ощущения не возникает, и даже шестисерийные сезоны Торчвуда на этом фоне кажутся верхом гуманизма. - × × ×

Сам по себе Black Mirror оказался исключительно мрачен и по-телевизионному бескомпромиссен к зрителю, напомнив этим Generation Kill (после которого просто идёшь умываться и пройтись по воздуху) и The Wire, но социальная фантастика Брукера воспринимается больше как художественный приём, гипербола «без последствий» (в отличие от саймоновских фильмов, основанных на вполне реальных событиях). Но вот то, что Брукер оживил подзабытый жанр футурологических скетчей — это очень хорошо. - × × ×

Esther Dyson: “The first thing I do is go where other people aren’t. I leave Silicon Valley and spend a lot of time not just in New York but in Russia and in other far-off places. Any time you approach something as an outsider, you’re able to see what people who are familiar with it can’t." /// Tim O’Reilly: "The myth of innovation is that it starts with entrepreneurs, but it really starts with people having fun. The Wright brothers weren’t trying to build an airline, they were saying, "Holy shit, do you think we could fly?" /// Peter Schwartz: "You look for technologies that are likely to create major inflection points—breaks in a trend, things that are going to accelerate. Those tend to be very powerful. This is especially true with scientific technology and tools. (...) If an area is attracting great talent and money from governments and companies, you can expect to see important change.” • #trendtaste - × × ×

“But tech projects represent just one portion of Kickstarter’s funding base. Back in February Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler said the company was on pace to distribute more funding than the $146 million given out each year by the National Endowment for the Arts. ¶ I decided to take a look at all the successful projects funded since the beginning of 2012 to get a sense of how the startup was growing. ¶ Based on that data, Kickstarter is on pace to raise around $300 million this year, triple what it did in 2011.” • #trendtaste - × × ×

“In a post shared on Google Plus, employees from Google X, including Babak Parviz, Steve Lee and Sebastian Thrun, asked people for input about the prototype of Project Glass. Mr. Lee, a Google engineer and creator of the Google mapping software Latitude, is helping build the location-based aspects of the glasses. “We’re sharing this information now because we want to start a conversation and learn from your valuable input,” the three employees wrote. “Please follow along as we share some of our ideas and stories. We’d love to hear yours, too. What would you like to see from Project Glass?” #trendtaste - × × ×

У меня есть некоторые комментарии от инсайдера: http://friendfeed.com/blackli... - рептильный дом

“Because a line has been crossed, technology/software/code is in and of the world and there’s no getting out of it. Some architects can look at a building and tell you which version of autodesk was used to create it. The world is defined by our visualisations of it. (Someone who makes such things told me: what they put in, even as place-holders, always ends up getting built. Lorem Ipsum architecture.)” #trendtaste - × × ×

“My point is, all our metaphors are broken. The network is not a space (notional, cyber or otherwise) and it’s not time (while it is embedded in it at an odd angle) it is some other kind of dimension entirely. ¶ BUT meaning is emergent in the network, it is the apophatic silence at the heart of everything, that-which-can-be-pointed-to. And that is what the New Aesthetic, in part, is an attempt to do, maybe, possibly, contingently, to point at these things and go but what does it mean?” - × × ×

“An Essay on the New Aesthetic”, Bruce Sterling — http://www.wired.com/beyond_... - × × ×

“When patients are dealing with chronic conditions, you might see a doctor every six weeks or two months,“ said Joseph Flaherty, the senior vice president for marketing at AgaMatrix. “For people to have real command over these diseases, we need to close the feedback loop and give people the information they need to make smarter decisions in real time.” • #trendtaste - #ответственный_пациент - #занимательная_медицина - × × ×

An anonymous reader writes "How are you using smartphones and other portable devices to take charge of your medical care? The NY Times has an article about attachments to the iPhone for tracking blood sugar and blood pressure. There are also glorified web cams that take pictures of your ear drum, teeth or eyes to save you a trip to the doctor's. Some people are tracking the changes in their moles with an iPhone App. Is this the beginning of Med 2.0?" - × × ×

На Слэшдоте: “Odd as it sounds, I was able to be more quickly and reliably diagnosed with Lyme disease last fall because I'd taken some pictures on my phone of the lesion I'd wrongly thought was the result of a spider bite. Any camera would have worked, but I had my camera-equipped phone with me, rather than any other kind.” — http://science.slashdot.org/story... - × × ×

“As we drive the Google car—or are driven by it—I watch the action unfold on the computer monitor mounted on the passenger side of the dashboard. It shows how the car is interpreting the world: lanes, signs, cars, speeds, distances, vectors. The rendering is nothing special—a lot of blocky wireframe that puts me in mind of Atari’s classic Battlezone. (The display is just one of a host of geeky details—to change lanes, for instance, the driver presses buttons marked Shift and Left on a keyboard near the monitor.) Yet it is absolutely fascinating, almost illicitly thrilling, to watch as the car not only plots and calculates the myriad movements of neighboring vehicles in the moment but also predicts where they will be in the future, like high-speed, mobile chess. Onscreen, the car is constantly “acquiring” targets, surrounding them in red boxes, tracing raster lines to and fro, a freeway version of John Madden’s Telestrator. “We’re analyzing and predicting the world 20 times a second,” Levandowski says.” #trendtaste - × × ×

"Suarez has been a technophile since kindergarten, and he already knows several programming languages. At a recent TEDx conference, he explained how students in the app club get the opportunity to learn and share their app making with each other. The club even asked the school's teachers what kinds of apps they could use in the classroom and then set out to design them." #образование #trendtaste - × × ×

“It is virtually impossible to start from scratch and make something that works like an insect," said Daniel Scherson, chemistry professor at Case Western Reserve and senior author of the paper. "Using an insect is likely to prove far easier," Scherson said. "For that, you need electrical energy to power sensors or to excite the neurons to make the insect do as you want, by generating enough power out of the insect itself.” #trendtaste - × × ×

“The researchers are now taking several steps to move the technology forward: miniaturizing the fuel cell so that it can be fully implanted and allow an insect to run or fly normally; investigating materials that may last long inside of an insect, working with other researchers to build a signal transmitter that can run on little energy; adding a lightweight rechargeable battery.” - × × ×

"Meet the iPad Lab Coat : Landau Uniforms started getting e-mails about three months after the iPad went on sale. They were from doctors across the country, complaining that they couldn’t squeeze an iPad into Landau’s lab coats. The iPad was just too big to fit into the pockets. So, for the first time in its 50-year history, Landau redesigned its lab coats to accommodate a gadget." #now_ipad #trendtaste - × × ×

“Apple is likely to launch its new MacBook Pro lineup with a display resolution of 2880 by 1800 in the second quarter of 2012, setting a new round of competition for panel specifications in the notebook industry, according to sources in the upstream supply chain.” * #trendtaste - × × ×

Трендхантер.ком рассказывает о своей новой платформе для ресёрча, анализа, фильтрации и оценки новых идей и концептов. #trendtaste - × × ×

“When looking at the present as an indication of where we’ll stand a year from now–much less a decade–feeling optimistic may not come easy. We look out to the universe and see an infinite, lifeless abyss enfolding upon our own small pocket of civilization, while the people we look to for guidance and information seem to be little more than straight-faced bearers of bad news. Yet while we can’t predict what the future holds for our unending political discourses, we can look at how far we’ve come with technology in merely the last decade and realize the present we know now will, very soon, find itself memorialized in nostalgia. Here’s some technology emerging down the road that’s poised to change your life on a much greater scale than any outcome of a political debate.” #trendtaste - × × ×

“While community managers were once known as "forum monkeys" whose job it was to simply moderate the forums "and make sure nobody's puts any nasty pictures on the message boards," today they have become an integral part of the design team. "The designers want to know how the gamers are reacting, but they can't spend hours each day reading 200-post forum threads," she says. "So they've come to depend on us to read all the feedback, distill it down into a summary, and then tell them what most of the players want and what they don't want.” #trendtaste #стайность #продакт_менеджмент #проигры - × × ×

“When completed in 2015, Apple's new campus will have a footprint slightly smaller than that of the Pentagon; its diameter will exceed the height of the Empire State Building. It will include its own natural-gas power plant and will use the grid only for backup power. This isn't just a new corporate campus but a statement: Apple--which now jockeys daily with ExxonMobil for the title of the world's most valuable company--plans to become a galactic force for the eons. And as every sci-fi nerd knows, you totally need a tricked-out battleship if you're about to engage in serious battle.” #trendtaste - × × ×

“In the late 1960s, medical researchers developed a way to find genetic defects in a fetus as young as 15 weeks, early enough to terminate a pregnancy with an abnormal fetus. Despite the need to have a long needle inserted into the uterus, many expectant mothers gratefully embraced amniocentesis, the now familiar genetic test. “It is truly a miracle,” a new mom told The New York Times in 1971. The woman’s three sisters had Down syndrome, and she had been terrified of passing on the disorder but got a null result. “I never thought I could have normal, healthy children.” #trendtaste - #ответственный_пациент - #занимательная_медицина - × × ×

Ок, теперь дождаться, когда это будет доступно в наших медцентрах (лет пять?), и одним из моих внутренних вопросов к семье будет меньше. А вот Гаттака и евгенические программы теперь станут близки, как никогда (ещё 20 лет на то, чтобы это вошло в стандартную практику и чтобы этические побоища начались и кончились, и много разного другого странного будет дальше). - × × ×

“Players of the online game Foldit have helped discover the structure of an enzyme that had the scientific community stumped for a decade, representing a significant step forward in attempts to cure retroviral diseases like AIDS. The enzyme, a Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (MPMV) retroviral protease, was accurately modelled by Foldit players in just three weeks, and opens the door to development of antiretroviral drugs. Foldit makes use of players' 3D puzzle-solving abilities and competitive nature to solve problems that computers alone have been unable to do.” #trendtaste #проигры - × × ×

"Численность трудоспособного населения России до 2025 года уменьшится не менее чем на 10 миллионов человек, сообщил секретарь совета безопасности РФ Николай Патрушев. Смотрите оригинал материала на http://www.interfax.ru/society... "Страна вступает в наиболее сложный с точки зрения демографической ситуации период", - сказал он во вторник в Южно-Сахалинске на выездном совещании в Дальневосточном федеральном округе." #trendtaste - × × ×

"The Narrative Science software can make inferences based on the historical data it collects and the sequence and outcomes of past games. To generate story “angles,” explains Mr. Hammond of Narrative Science, the software learns concepts for articles like “individual effort,” “team effort,” “come from behind,” “back and forth,” “season high,” “player’s streak” and “rankings for team.” Then the software decides what element is most important for that game, and it becomes the lead of the article, he said. The data also determines vocabulary selection. A lopsided score may well be termed a “rout” rather than a “win.”" #будущее_мидий #trendtaste - × × ×

“I connected my Foursquare with my American Express card. Once you do that, when you check in at places that have Foursquare specials, you get automatic credit when you pay with American Express. Foursquare calls this "load to card". ¶ I really like the idea of syncing my credit cards with web services. I'm not so into the social value of sharing my transactions with everyone (where Blippy started), but I am very much into the personal value of leveraging my transaction history into various web services I use frequently. And I am also very into the idea of getting the benefit of offers and deals automatically credited to me via my credit card account.” #trendtaste - × × ×

"Games continue to be the most popular app category, and according to Nielsen research, 93 percent of app downloaders — those who have downloaded an app within the past 30 days –  are willing to pay for the games they play. In contrast, only 76 percent of downloaders are willing to pay for news apps." #trendtaste - × × ×

Хорошая картинка про игровую роль Иоса, которую интересно сравнить с другими чисто игровыми устройствами. #проигры - × × ×

Про экосистему и вектор гугла наглядный кейс получился. #волшебные_браузеры #trendtaste - × × ×

«Быстро обнаруживаешь, что хороших игр очень мало. На самом деле, чтобы там ни говорила игровая пресса, много неплохих игр, хороших в год выходит дай бог если десяток, а отличных вообще одна-две. Когда видишь тысячную игру в жизни, требования к ним повыше, что ли. Короткие сюжетные игры за 60 баксов превращаются в guilty pleasure. Вот я абсолютно уверен, что Minecraft хорош, я играл на бесплатном уикенде часов шесть подряд, но в Black Ops за те же шесть часов, что я потратил на строительство подземного дворца с минимальными удобствами, можно спасти мир. Американские горки, концентрированное тупое веселье прямиком в мозг – вроде понимаешь, что фигня же, но прет.» • #проигры • #trendtaste - × × ×

"А взрослые фильмы – это не порно, не «Бульдог», а «Мистер и миссис Смит», например." - CES & nootropics

«И не надо мне рассказывать, что жестокие игры не влияют на детей – влияют. Маньяками-убийцами они их не делают, но агрессивность в краткосрочном периоде явно повышают. Не только игры, конечно: после блокирования Nickelodeon дети стали сильно спокойнее, например.» - × × ×

“The combined “sales rate” is a remarkable $665 million per month, but the split now is that music generates only twice the income of apps (i.e. cumulative is a factor of 5 but on a monthly basis the factor is 2). But what should be more impressive is how quickly the app business is ramping. By the slope of the trend lines, it would appear that app income will exceed music income within three years. Therefore, it’s only a matter of time before apps generate as much income (exclusive of advertising) as music.” #trendtaste - × × ×

“Another perspective is the number of downloads per device per month. This shows that the rate of consumption of apps is increasing and is now about 6 apps per device per month. (You have to think of apps not as traditional computer applications or console games where each device has a certain number of expected apps attached, but rather that apps are more like a subscription where there is recurring monthly income). ¶ I don’t have a comparable figure for music because the number of iPods and Macs as target devices is hard to estimate, but I doubt consumption for music on a per device basis is increasing. As a consolation, I can estimate the number of apps or songs per iTunes account. Here the story is consistent.” - × × ×

“Connecting Angry Birds to the physical world will take several forms. The first of this will take advantage of NFC (near field communications). This means that players will be able to unlock new levels and special birds by tapping their NFC-enabled phones together or by tapping certain NFC-enabled tags. The beauty of these tags, says Ramine Darabiha, Product Manager for Angry Birds Magic, is that "you can put NFC stickers in everything." And that's what Angry Birds plans to do. All of the merchandising around the wildly successful game will contain these NFC-enabled tags. This means that you can tap your phone onto a plush toy or onto a cookbook, for example, in order to unlock various rewards.” #trendtaste #проигры - × × ×

QR-кодами дешевле. - alex@kapranoff.ru

“Five years ago, inspired by a Yahoo! Answers question (their top answers), I put on my tech futurist hat and wrote up some quick prognostications about Which products, used by few today, will be essential in five years? This was published, incidentally, on Vox (now defunct). Are you getting that mid-2006 vibe yet? Well, it’s been five years (that was quick), so maybe we should take a look.” #trendtaste #кристалльный_шар - × × ×

“Wikileaks and many other stories happening right now (the Arab Spring, Anonymous, LulzSec) in many ways epitomize Clay Shirky‘s postulate that “Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring… It’s when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen.” - × × ×

Очень хорошая тренд-карта, которую можно распечатывать и дорисовывать каждому для себя: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - × × ×

В других купе видел несколько нетбуков, какая-то девушка сидела с Галакси Табом, и ещё пара-тройка электронных книг. #пенетрация #trendtaste - × × ×

да-да! осенью я то же самое наблюдал в Швейцарии, а теперь добралось до нас :) - indeyets

“Ms. Grimes is an Internet-age statistician, one of many who are changing the image of the profession as a place for dronish number nerds. They are finding themselves increasingly in demand — and even cool. “I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians,” said Hal Varian, chief economist at Google. “And I’m not kidding.” #trendtaste #говоря_статистически - × × ×

“BERLIN — Lepht Anonym wants everyone to know the door to transcending normal human capabilities is no farther away than your own kitchen. It’s just going to hurt like a sonofabitch. An articulate advocate for practical transhumanism. Anonym is a biohacker, a woman who has spent the last several years learning how to extend her own senses by putting tiny magnets and other electronic devices under her own skin, allowing her to feel electromagnetic fields, or — if her latest project works — even magnetic north. Since doctors won’t help her, she does it in her own apartment, sterilizing her equipment (needles, scalpels, vegetable peelers) with vodka. Good anesthetic is largely impossible to buy, so she screams a little, and sometimes passes out. But it’s worth it, for what’s on the other side. “Bodily health takes a big fuck-off second seat to curiosity,” she says. “Though it hasn’t really changed my life, it’s just made me more curious.” This is DIY transhumanism, the fringe of a movement that itself lies well outside the mainstream of philosophy, ethics, technology and science. For decades, transhumanists have argued that science and technology are approaching (or have approached) the point at which humans can take evolution into their own hands. They can transcend limitations of sensation or movement or even lifespan that are purely the accident of evolution. Some thinkers focus strictly on the “post-human” physical body, while others write of evolved social systems, as well. Anonym’s vision of the transhuman is rather different. Less visionary, possibly, but more realistic. What she does is “grinding,” with homemade cybernetics and an intimate familiarity with medical mistakes, driven by a consuming curiosity rather than a philosophical creed. She does her own surgery, with a scalpel and a spotter to catch her if she passes out, and an anatomy book to give her some confidence she isn’t going to slice through a vein or the very nerves she’s trying to enhance. “The existing transhumanist movement is lame. It’s nano everything. It’s just ideas,” she says. “Anyone can do this. This is kitchen stuff.” - #trendtaste - × × ×

очень хочу себе магнитики под кожу пальцев, магнитные поля щупать - Тринадцатый

“BERLIN — Lepht Anonym wants everyone to know the door to transcending normal human capabilities is no farther away than your own kitchen. It’s just going to hurt like a sonofabitch. An articulate advocate for practical transhumanism. Anonym is a biohacker, a woman who has spent the last several years learning how to extend her own senses by putting tiny magnets and other electronic devices under her own skin, allowing her to feel electromagnetic fields, or — if her latest project works — even magnetic north. Since doctors won’t help her, she does it in her own apartment, sterilizing her equipment (needles, scalpels, vegetable peelers) with vodka. Good anesthetic is largely impossible to buy, so she screams a little, and sometimes passes out. But it’s worth it, for what’s on the other side. “Bodily health takes a big fuck-off second seat to curiosity,” she says. “Though it hasn’t really changed my life, it’s just made me more curious.” This is DIY transhumanism, the fringe of a movement that itself lies well outside the mainstream of philosophy, ethics, technology and science. For decades, transhumanists have argued that science and technology are approaching (or have approached) the point at which humans can take evolution into their own hands. They can transcend limitations of sensation or movement or even lifespan that are purely the accident of evolution. Some thinkers focus strictly on the “post-human” physical body, while others write of evolved social systems, as well. Anonym’s vision of the transhuman is rather different. Less visionary, possibly, but more realistic. What she does is “grinding,” with homemade cybernetics and an intimate familiarity with medical mistakes, driven by a consuming curiosity rather than a philosophical creed. She does her own surgery, with a scalpel and a spotter to catch her if she passes out, and an anatomy book to give her some confidence she isn’t going to slice through a vein or the very nerves she’s trying to enhance. “The existing transhumanist movement is lame. It’s nano everything. It’s just ideas,” she says. “Anyone can do this. This is kitchen stuff.” - #trendtaste - × × ×

очень хочу себе магнитики под кожу пальцев, магнитные поля щупать - Тринадцатый

“The scale of impact and ability to work in the open for a public-benefit company has been a life-defining experience. The last two and a half years I’ve been inspired by, and lucky enough to also inspire, the best and brightest in protecting and enhancing the open Web—arguably the most precious resources of our time. ¶ Come January 1st, however, I’m leaving to found a new company. Massive Health. ¶ Each of us has a unique ability. I want to use mine—the knowledge to make products which are disruptively easier and more enjoyable to use—to change people’s lives. Life-changing not in the sense of a new social website or better email, but in making people’s lives materially better by helping them get and stay healthy. Anyone that’s been sick, overweight, or had to deal with a doctor knows that health is a field in dire need of humane design.” - × × ×

Очень круто про обратную связь: “Health is personal. My entire family – save me – is overweight. My mother is a well-known nurse practitioner and runs a hospice in San Francisco. She’s decisively smart and deals first-hand with the ramifications of the catastrophic affects of obesity on patient’s quality of life. Why then does she struggle with her own weight? It’s because people did not evolve to cope with the calorie-glut we live in now. ¶ Worse, the human brain famously doesn’t deal well with delayed gratification. The reason why weight is hard is because the feedback loop is too loose: The cake I eat today doesn’t materially change my body for the rest of today or tomorrow. ¶ It’s the incremental amount of cake I eat or don’t over weeks and months that makes me fit or fat. Our brain’s pleasure circuits lead us to optimize short-term happiness (cake!) over long-term healthiness (obesity, coronary heart disease, diabetes). ¶ Think about it like driving a car. While you know it is bad for the environment to drive, that knowledge doesn’t really change your behavior. When the Prius introduced a large screen with instant and average MPG with a pretty graph, Toyota created a small breed of hypermilers and a much larger populace that changed routes and driving behavior to optimize that number. Toyota had tightened the feedback loop and pushed people to drive more green on a daily basis. ¶ In fact, people changed their behavior so much that when BMW did an experiment in making the instantaneous MPG readout even more prominent, BMW had to stop the study midway as the rate of accidents dramatically increased due to drivers trying to maximize their MPG instead of driving safely.” - × × ×

1) Random acts of (brand) kindness, 2) Urbanomics, 3) Pricing pandemonium (flash sales, group buying, geo-driven deals), 4) Made for China (if not BRIC), 5) Online status symbols, 6) Wellthy (быть здоровым и богатым — и вкладываться в это), 7) Social-lites (позавчерашние суперноваторы и вчерашние евангелисты сегодня стали первооткрывателями и кураторами) и Twinsumers (люди, рекомендации которых релевантны именно для тебя), 8) Emerging generosity (активно развивающиеся игроки на растущих рынках стараются быть более общественно значимы, вкладывая не только в бизнес, но и в сообщество), 9) Planned spontaneity, 10) Eco superior (не только экологичные, но и более полезные/эффективные товары и услуги, не требующие компромисса «или экология, или выгода/удобство»), 11) Owner-less (отсутствие владельцев — общие книги, инструменты, оборудование, вещи не статусные и не-первой необходимости — прокат дрели, велосипедов, лизинг мебели, холодильников). #trendtaste - × × ×

“After the Mulve music downloading app burst onto the scene in September, it didn’t take long for it to be closed down and cold water poured on the fun. Now, just a couple of months later, a new application has appeared which not only does everything that Mulve did, but adds more sources, integrates music discovery, last.fm, a playlist and download manager, videos, lyrics and more.” #trendtaste #музыкальная_шкатулка - × × ×

“Basically there’s two of us. There was also guy who created a design for the app but he disappeared somewhere,” programmer Yamalight told TorrentFreak. While Yamalight is a guitar-playing martial artist currently doing a PhD in Europe, his partner in the project, Recoilme, simply describes himself as a music lover.” - × × ×

“Today, we’re announcing a Google Goggles marketing experiment. We’re working with five brands—Buick, Disney, Diageo, T-Mobile and Delta Airlines—to extend some of their offline marketing to the mobile web. They have “Goggles-enabled” some of their print ads, movie posters and other media. When users take pictures of these with Google Goggles, they will be recognized by the app, and users will have the option of clicking-through directly to a mobile destination from the brand.” This shit is getting so out of hand. #trendtaste - × × ×

"Soylent is a plugin for Microsoft Word that farms out fact-checking, editing, rewriting and proofreading for pennies on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service" #trendtaste - × × ×

“Now this shit is insane” — чувак построил каркас (и строит дальше) стартрековского Энтерпрайза в масштабе 1:1. В Майнкрафте. Короче, пусть Майкрософт покупает Линденлаб, а линдены пусть покупают Нотча вместе с Майнкрафтом, а потом Майкрософт купит компанию про трёхмерные принтеры, и будет смесь трёхмерного и виртуального пространств с торговлей артефактами, сделанными в Майнкрафте (которые можно выводить в офлайн), а может и Секондлайф заживёт второй жизнью, перестав быть сложной игрушкой, и став вместо этого игрушкой простой. • #trendtaste • #проигры - × × ×

“DENARRATION: The process whereby one’s life stops feeling like a story.¶ OMNISCIENCE FATIGUE: The burnout that comes with being able to know the answer to almost anything online.¶ CHRISTMAS-MORNING FEELING: A sensation created by stimulus to the anterior amygdala that leaves one with a strong sense of expectation.¶ INTERNAL VOICE BLINDNESS: The near universal inability of people to articulate the tone and personality of the voice that forms their interior monologue.¶ STOVULAX: A micro-targeted drug of the future designed to stop fantastically specific O.C.D. cases, in this case a compulsion involving the inability of some people to convince themselves after leaving the house that the stove is turned off.” #trendtaste - × × ×

“the Times converted a mere 12% of its pre-paywall daily viewing audience into signed-up members during the free trial period--a figure that seems horribly low. It gets worse when you do the math to reveal that a mere tenth of these folk then elected to pay for content. In other words, 1.2% of the Times' pre-firewall audience have signed up to pay for it's newly closed-off news material.” #trendtaste #будущее_мидий - × × ×

“But there's another stat that is actually more confusing, even while at first blush you'd think it had obvious implications: Though the paywall was free for a month it ditched overall site visit figures by 58% during this period--merely having to sign up (for no fee) was enough of a barrier to shoo away many visitors. In the first week of payment-only access, this figure rose to 67%. In other words, the Times' grand experiment has resulted in a loss of two thirds of the number of public eyeballs viewing the site's prized news content. That seems disastrous. Or at least it would if the paper didn't have the subscription model running to deliver continuous income from loyal customers.” - × × ×

“Green energy: wind farm engineers, solar thermal technicians. Health care: informatics nurse specialists, anesthesiologist assistants. Business and Management: business continuity planners, spa managers. Education: distance learning coordinators. Entertainment and Media: video game designers, user experience designer, blogger, director of social media, social media manager.” #trendtaste - × × ×

Это всё может местами показаться смешным (спа-менеджеры!), но реальность, в общем, примерно так и развивается. Всё, что касается цифрового развлекательного бизнеса, выросло в двухтысячные (сколько новых профессий в Близзарде или CCP? Гейм-мастера? Коммьюнити-менеджеры? Технологические евангелисты? Техники по motion capture? Фазовщики тысячных армий в WETA?), в старых медиа всё становится с ног на уши, вместе с функциями, и даже в производстве (3D-дизайнеры и операторы прототипного принтера? Координаторы автоматизированных цехов?) и продажах (Амазон и Волмарт, Zappos и Etsy? Не говоря уж про Апстор). А ещё есть новая информационная медицина (и робохирургия — см. http://ff.im/eHJW6), а ещё есть биотех и генофарма, а ещё есть новая армия (оператор БПЛА? Тактический аналитик спутникового наблюдения?), а ещё есть новое образование, целая индустрия микро-профессий (4-часовая неделя у одних даёт другим работу), и т.д, и т.п. - × × ×

“This look inside the White House comes courtesy of the Obama administration, which (eventually) released its visitor logs to the public after public pressure from good government groups. The Sunlight Foundation, which promotes transparency in government, has done a nice job of making the raw data accessible and searchable online, and Ars Technica ran through the visitor logs to see who was visiting President Obama's senior technology staffers. Many of the visitors were other government technology people, such as Casey Coleman (CIO of the General Services Administration) and Gopal Khanna (CIO for the state of Minnesota). Some were executives, like Rod Beckstrom, the head of ICANN. But more interesting were the lobbyists, think tankers, and public interest personalities who attended meetings with various technology policy staff members.” - × × ×

И термин «статистика посещений» тоже вдруг приобретает другое значение — открыт список посетителей Белого дома (в смысле, физических посетителей, живых, в натуральном Белом доме), который совместили с данными по персонам, и получился машап White House Visitors: http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/WhiteHo... Прав Анил Даш, “.gov is new .com” (http://twitter.com/zephori...). #trendtaste - × × ×

1. Geoengineering, 2. Smart grids, 3. Radical materials (Carbon nanostuff etc.), 4. Synthetic biology (DNA engineering), 5. Personal genomics, 6. Bio-interfaces (brain/nerve-to-machine), 7. Data interfaces (everything connected — just two more steps to “smart matter” left), 8. Solar power (cheap printed panels, solar-assisted reactors), 9. Nootropics, 10. Cosmeceuticals (Farma and drugs combined with cosmetics). #trendtaste - × × ×

1. Business as Unusual, 2. Urbany, 3. Real-Time Reviews, 4. (F)luxury, 5. Mass Mingling, 6. Eco-Easy, 7. Tracking and Alerting, 8. Embedded Generosity, 9. Profile Myning, 10. Maturialism. - × × ×

А теперь подумаем про меш-сети и про то, как меняется мир, когда ты строишь вокруг себя полноценную инфраструктуру связи и заботишься лишь о надёжности в своём гнезде. - × × ×

“As newspapers nationwide struggle to find their place in the digital world, the parody newspaper The Onion has found a way to get some mileage out of its old work. The Onion has teamed up with Chicago-based Recycled Paper Greetings Inc. to create a line of 12 greeting cards. The cards -- available at Target and select Walgreens and Meijer stores -- feature articles clipped from the satirical newspaper, complete with tattered edges. Among the sentiments on display: "Search for Self Called Off After 38 years." And "List of Friends Revised After Birthday Party." - × × ×

“It seems like only yesterday that we released the first New York Times API. Now we have 11 APIs (and counting), and we want to help you learn all about them. To that end, we provide lots of documentation, as well as an awesome console tool for experimenting without coding. That’s a good start. But if you’re like most developers, your favorite way to get up to speed is to see some actual code. So in order to show you some code, we’re starting a series of posts featuring demo applications. First up: NYT Trender, which showcases the Article Search API.” - × × ×

#проигры #trendtaste - × × ×

“Tasks that once took days can be completed in seconds, while traditions and skills that emerged over centuries have been made all but redundant. The internet is no respecter of reputations: innocent people have seen their lives ruined by viral clips distributed on the same World Wide Web used by activists to highlight injustices and bring down oppressive regimes Below we have compiled - in no particular order - 50 things that are in the process of being killed off by the web, from products and business models to life experiences and habits. We've also thrown in a few things that have suffered the hands of other modern networking gadgets, specifically mobile phones and GPS systems.” - × × ×

потенциальная тема, кстати - lightforce manager

См.также: Extinction Timeline, what will disappear from our lives before 2050 — http://friendfeed.com/urbansh... - × × ×

Хехе, тупое животнае (т.е. Я) искал в Лингво слово "Speleeng". - .i.m.a.r.s.o.r.a.m.a.

:) #trendtaste - × × ×

Прекрасный кейс про микрониши и про то, как можно строить диверсифицированный медийный бизнес. “But the real opportunity for AOL is to grab marketshare in a relatively open field, say some people close to the company. A contingent of AOL executives are said to be pushing Armstrong to embrace what I’ve heard is called the “Toyota strategy” by building and buying scores of great online media brands. AOL is the “Toyota” and the media brands are like the many car models that Toyota successfully pushes - Highlander, Camry, Pious, etc. The analogy isn’t perfect, but it gives you a good idea of how they’re thinking of organizing things.” #будущее_мидий - × × ×

“The foundation for this strategy is already firmly in place, and has been since AOL acquired Weblogs, Inc. in 2005 for $25 million or so (that was three AOL CEO’s ago, when Jonathan Miller was running things). All those great Weblogs brands have continued to grow at a breakneck pace. Sites like Engadget, TUAW and Joystiq are all great niche brands on their own. And AOL has expanded into many other sub-brands through their MediaGlow division under Bill Wilson.” - × × ×

“The plan would be to build and buy scores of new brands in every monetizable niche possible. If you see a magazine at the newsstand covering a topic, AOL will have their own online brand for that topic, in blog or other format. They’ve already got the publishing platform with MediaGlow. New brands can be inserted or built at little marginal operating cost. And the talent is out there for the taking right now.” - × × ×

“This last year has seen logarithmic changes in marketing, fueled by different concepts like Utilities, AR, The Collective Exchange of Ideas, Transmedia, Digital becoming ubiquitous, Mobility and more. Summarizing all the major thoughts finding its way to my “ideas”-folder this last year.” - × × ×

Отличная форма для выкладывания накопленных материалов. Чудесный урок мне по тому, что/как надо организовывать материал, который копится в течение месяцев. Слайд на цитату плюс фото — это достаточно дешево и быстро, а за год сбора таких слайдов получается вот такая колода как раз. #карты_и_колоды - × × ×

«В начале апреля открылся сайт «Теории и практики», афиша публичных лекций в Москве. Лекции подаются как альтернатива вечеринкам и потреблению блокбастеров. Ненавязчивый акт приемки знаний у практикующих теоретиков для офисеров и прочих бездельников. Никакой скуки академического образования. Собрав на одном сайте информацию обо всех доступных в столице выступлениях, семинарах и мастер-классах, создатели сайта хотят превратить город в гигантский университет, открытый для каждого.» #trendtaste - High Gualipy Tools

Самое счастье — то, что из всего поминальника мне знакома лишь Маша Денисова, а всех остальных прекрасных людей ещё только предстоит когда-нибудь узнать. - High Gualipy Tools

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