In the latest edition of TL Infobits, Carolyn Kotlas mentions a Special Report on MIT’s Technology Review, listing 10 Emerging Technologies for 2008. Unlike similar year-start hacking pieces one sees around, the MTR drives a message filled with chutzpah and visionary élan — “Technology Review presents our list of the 10 technologies that we think are [...]
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A cigar for monsieur Jules Verne
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, NarrativesTags: Adobe Integrated Runtime, amazon.com, association mantra, Black Swans theory, Carolyn Kotlas, ContentGuard, Data Cloud, Data Mining, Distributed Storage, Jules Verne, MIT Technology Review, MTR, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, surprise modeling, TL INFOBITS, traffic forecasting
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Will books and Libraries dodofy anytime soon?
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, NarrativesTags: Carolyn Kotlas, Future Reading: Digitization and its Discontents, ITS, Marshall McLuhan, Outreach Consultant, Rob Amato, Teaching and Learning division, The Gutenberg Galaxy, TL INFOBITS, UNC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Vannevar Bush
The New Yorker is a powerfully engaging read. Before his untimely death in a car crash, the wonderfully versatile Rob Amato e-spoke to me about his plan (or was it still a dream?) of creating a local paper called The Johannesburger, what a mouth-watering prospect this would have been.