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✖ Via I’m Not Actually a Geek : “Apple iPad and the Radical Innovation of Meaning” by Hutch Carpenter, Feb. 2, 2010
“OK, if iPad is innovating meaning even more than it is technology, what meaning might that be? Here’s my best guess:

iPad is tapping into an emerging dynamic of a more interactive, tactile experience with digital technology and information. These interactions make technology less of an interface, and more of an extension of ourselves and our environment.

The tweets above are a couple that show the natural way children engage with technology. Given the iPhone experience, they turn around and want to apply it to other devices. Buttons on devices, our traditional form of interaction, are divorced from the screen. They provide a measure of distance from the digital experience.

Touch, however, represents a new level of intimacy in the digital experience. In technology terms, it’s just an alternative form of interface. Touch, mouse, tab, whatever. But touch is a vital human sense, and a core part of experience. It’s how we interact with others, how we shop, experience textures and so much more.”

About Hutch Carpenter:

“I am the VP of Product for Spigit. Spigit helps companies manage innovation, providing idea management and prediction market software for enterprises. The goal is enable easy capture of ideas by employees, customers and partners, and convert the most promising to innovative initiatives. Spigit recently received a $10 million equity investment from Warburg Pincus.” (more)

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✖ Via MadTV: MadTv’s iPod Parody - iPad (2006)
“All of us use laptops and smartphones now. The question has arisen lately: is there room for a third category of device in the middle?

The new device will have to be far better than the laptop and smartphone at doing important things: browsing the Web, doing e-mail, enjoying and sharing photographs, watching videos, enjoying your music collection, playing games, reading e-books. Otherwise, “it has no reason for being.”

Apple’s answer: the iPad.”

“Live Blogging the Apple Product Announcement” by Brad Stone, The New York Times, Jan. 27th, 2010.


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✖ Via Tom Gauld: Reasoned Scientific Debate [click for hi-res]

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✖ Via Vaseline – Prescribe The Nation: “Who prescribed whom?”

Ad campaign create by Craig Andrew Smith for Vaseline. It’s an interesting illustration of Everett Rogers’ revised theory about the importance of social network for the diffusion process: that is “the process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system” (Diffusion of Innovations, 3rd ed., 1983, p. 5).

Find out more about this ad campaign on Craig Andrew Smith website.


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The contrast in scale between between consumer products we use in the home and the industry that produces them is I think absurd – massive industrial activity devoted to making objects which enable us, the consumer, to toast bread more efficiently. These items betray no trace of their providence.

So are toasters ridiculous? It depends on the scale at which you look. Looking close up, a desire (for toast) and the fulfilment of that desire is totally reasonable. Perhaps the majority of human activity can be reduced to a desire to make life more comfortable for ourselves, and has thus far led to being able to buy a toaster for £3.99 [among other achievements]. But looking at toasters in relation to global industry, at a moment in time when the effects of our industry are no longer trivial compared to the insignificant when our, they seem unreasonable. I think our position is ambiguous - the scale of industry involved in making a toaster [etc.] is ridiculous but at the same time the chain of discoveries and small technological developments that occurred along the way make it entirely reasonable.

✖ Via The Toaster Project by Thomas Thwaites.

About the artist: “I’m in the final year of the MA Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art.” Check his other projects at his officiel website.



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✖ Via iSteamphone

Exploded iPhone, da Vinci style. By artist Kevin Tong.


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✖ Via Open Atrium

About Open Atrium : “Open Atrium is a team portal starter package. What makes it unique is that it’s extensible and customizable. This means that you - and everyone - can develop new features for it, add other modules, change the skin, totally re-factor the workflow, and do anything else that you can think up to make Open Atrium meet your exact needs. Check out the Developer FAQ to get started.

We open sourced Open Atrium because we see it as a seed for something much larger - a community that makes great team communications tools. And it’s working. Open Atrium is being translated in more than a dozen languages and several hundred people are growing its base of features. Together we can develop the most advanced knowledge management tools.

This is all possible because everyone can access all of the code. Most of Open Atrium’s source code falls under GPL v. 2 b, since it’s built on the open source Drupal framework. All the code that’s not under GPL has a BSD license, which keeps it just as open and gives people even more flexibility.” (Read more)


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✖ Via EE Times

Moore’s Law, which has held as the benchmark for IC scaling for more than 40 years, will cease to drive semiconductor manufacturing after 2014, when the high cost of chip manufacturing equipment will make it economically unfeasible to do volume production of devices with feature sizes smaller than 18 nanometers, according to market research firm iSuppli Corp.

While further advances in shrinking process geometries can be achieved after the 20- to 18-nm nodes, the rising cost of chip-making equipment will relegate Moore’s Law to the laboratory and alter the fundamental economics of the semiconductor industry, iSuppli (El Segundo, Calif.) predicted.

“At those nodes, the industry will start getting to the point where semiconductor manufacturing tools are too expensive to depreciate with volume production, i.e., their costs will be so high, that the value of their lifetime productivity can never justify it,” said Len Jelinek, director and chief semiconductor manufacturing iSuppli, in a statement.

Moore’s Law, described by Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore in a 1965 paper, predicts that the number of transistors that can be placed on a semiconductor doubles every two years. The prediction has more or less held up since, as the industry has developed innovative ways to overcome technology challenges and continue to shrink process geometries—though some in recent times have pointed to trends showing that the pace of scaling has slowed.

Though Moore’s Law was originally a prediction by Moore, it eventually became a target for chipmakers, as industry-wide R&D efforts have been geared to keeping scaling on pace with it.” (article by Dylan McGrath, June 16, 2009).


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First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. We propose to accelerate the development of the appropriate lunar space craft. We propose to develop alternate liquid and solid fuel boosters, much larger than any now being developed, until certain which is superior. We propose additional funds for other engine development and for unmanned explorations—explorations which are particularly important for one purpose which this nation will never overlook: the survival of the man who first makes this daring flight. But in a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon—if we make this judgment affirmatively, it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
✖ Via John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum: “Special Message to the Congress on Urgent National Needs” by John F. Kennedy, May 25th, 1961.

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I think statisticians are part of it, but it’s just a part. You also want to be able to visualize the data, communicate the data, and utilize it effectively. But I do think those skills—of being able to access, understand, and communicate the insights you get from data analysis—are going to be extremely important.
✖ Via McKinsey Quarterly: “Hal Varian on how the Web challenges managers” (January 2009)

Hal Varian is professor of information sciences, business and economics at the University of California at Berkeley. He currently serves as Google’s chief economist. Follow the link to watch the video or listen to the podcast.



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