The Vital Edge by Gideon Rosenblatt Work, society and the human experience in an era of machine intelligence.
Reading Time: 2 minutes As robotics and artificial intelligence accelerate, software developers play a bigger role in shaping society. How they see the world really matters.
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A Pattern Language for New Media
Reading Time: 6 minutes A framework for understanding new media, its reliance on end user contributions, and what that should mean for the future of media ownership.
Read More »Sensor Technology: The Bridge Between Virtual and Physical Worlds
Reading Time: 4 minutes Sensor technology bridges our virtual and physical dimensions of reality. Big data, robotics and the Internet of Things are driving its rapid growth.
Read More »Facebook Experiment Reveals it Can Emotionally Manipulate its Stream
Reading Time: 5 minutes A Facebook experiment reveals the company knows how to emotionally manipulate its content stream. What do these practices mean for the future of software?
Read More »Technology Ecology: Connections that Sculpt Our World
Reading Time: 4 minutes Technology ecology focuses on technology's relationships with other technologies, with people, with organizations and with the planet.
Read More »The Truth Machine: The Lie Detector in Your Next Pair of Glasses
Reading Time: 4 minutes Eulerian Video Magnification is a new video processing technology that could soon turn your phone - or even your glasses - into a lie detector.
Read More »Our Technology Addiction: Who, or What, Creates It?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The deeper roots of our technology addiction and the puzzling question it raises for our future.
Read More »The Interest Graph Maps Our Connections to Ideas and Things
Reading Time: 7 minutes The Interest Graph is software for connecting us to our interests. Today, it makes us better shoppers. Tomorrow, it could change the nature of work.
Read More »Curating Smart Networks
Reading Time: 6 minutes Curating relationships keeps our content visible in the social stream and creates a powerful feedback loop. Why that matters to us and to society.
Read More »Testing the Wisdom of Crowds
Reading Time: 6 minutes Not knowing any better, I decided to test the Wisdom of Crowds with my own experiment on Google+, much to everyone's great annoyance.
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