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65 bookmarks by garrettc
"Controlling macro and micro layout in a new era of responsive web design."
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"We've co-authored a paper that forecasts how malicious actors could misuse AI technology, and potential ways we can prevent and mitigate these threats."
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"n this talk, author Charles Stross will give a rambling, discursive, and angry tour of what went wrong with the 21st century, why we didn't see it coming, where we can expect it to go next, and a few suggestions for what to do about it if we don't like it."
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Mistaken extrapolations, limited imagination, and other common mistakes that distract us from thinking more productively about the future.
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"For months, he recorded his dying father's life story. Then he used it to re-create his dad as an AI."
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"Coming almost 450 years after the world's first Atlas, this Atlas for the End of the World audits the status of land use and urbanization in the most critically endangered bioregions on Earth. It does so, firstly, by measuring the quantity of protected area across the world's 36 biodiversity hotspots in comparison to United Nation's 2020 targets; and secondly, by identifying where future urban growth in these territories is on a collision course with endangered species. By bringing urbanization and conservation together in the same study, the essays, maps, data, and artwork in this Atlas lay essential groundwork for the future planning and design of hotspot cities and regions as interdependent ecological and economic systems."
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The design and presentation of data is just as important as the underlying algorithm. Algorithmic interfaces are a huge part of our future, and getting their design right is critical—and very, very hard to do.
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Interesting look at where AR is now, and where it's going.
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A sci-fi short about augmented reality. "Strange Beasts" is an augmented reality game. It allows you to create and grow your own virtual pet. How far can it go?
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The position of specialised professionals is coming to an end - machine learning and AI is set to change it
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"The rise of mobile video consumption, ‘cord cutting’ and streaming services have led many to claim that TV, as a device in the home, is dead. Despite this, the sales of televisions and connected devices – including the new Apple TV – increased significantly in 2015, and data shows us that this trend is set to continue into 2016 and beyond. In this three part series we look at the current state of TV, attempt to analyze some of the challenges it faces as it attempts to stay relevant with evolving audiences, and present some concepts for our future vision of TV."
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A platform for public participation in and discussion of the human perspective on machine-made moral decisions
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"The strongest force propelling human progress has been the swift advance and wide diffusion of technology."
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This November, we’re hosting a SingularityU Summit in Christchurch, New Zealand, focused on exponentially accelerating technologies and…
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"...Today, you can send a design to a fab lab and you need ten different machines to turn the data into something. Twenty years from now, all of that will be in one machine that fits in your pocket. This is the sense in which it doesn't matter. You can do it today. How it works today isn't how it's going to work in the future but you don't need to wait twenty years for it. Anybody can make almost anything almost anywhere."
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Here's my talk from #dConstruct last week. (glued together my slides with the audio from @drewm ). @dconstruct
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"Pages that are empty without JS: dead to history (archive-org), unreliable for search results (despite any search engine claims of JS support, check it yourself), and thus ignorable."
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From Roo Reynolds
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"…new devices are just so new and require such new insights, that our quaint, old school notions of UX design are completely blinding us. We are stuck between the classic paradigm of desktop computers, and the futuristic fantasy of smart dust. The world is either fastidious or fantastic. The path ahead is hard to see. Alan Kay said the best way to predict the future is to invent it… but what if we don't know what we want?"
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"By crafting meaningful content & adaptive experiences, we're better prepared for what lies ahead"
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Charlie Stross' funny and insightful USENIX 2011 Keynote on security in the future.
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The network of things: designing for emotional engagement, character, and attention (or lack of).
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What could a publisher as an API provider achieve?
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Memory in the digital age. Hauntingly beautiful piece of writing.
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'The iPad as a particular device is not necessarily the future of computing. But as an ideology, I think it just might be. In hindsight, I think arguments over “why would I buy this if I already have a phone and a laptop?” are going to seem as silly as “why would I buy an iPod if it has less space than a Nomad?”' - Steven Frank's well thought out examination of the next few decades of computing.
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Some lovely 50s and 60s art explored in this guest post on BERG about art and technology in the early space race.
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With iPhone 3.0 allowing developers access to the 30 pin connector, the world of augmented reality (both overlay and immersive applications) is going to explode.
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Clever animation which helps answer the traditional arguments against opening up content.
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"I believe that we're collectively working on an Internet Operating System, and that it will ultimately look more like Unix than it looks like Windows. That is, it will be an aggregate of best of breed tools produced by an army of independent actors, all playing by the same rules so that those tools work together to produce a whole greater than the sum of the parts."
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"In this article, we'll analyze the trends and technologies that power the Semantic Web. We'll identify patterns that are beginning to emerge, classify the different trends, and peak into what the future holds."
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"the API is becoming the product; or service as the case may be. And, if not the full product, at least the first wave of a product’s release."
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Kevin Kelly's fantastic essay on what you'll need to know to survive in the new digital economy where everything is infinitely copyable.
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