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futurescope: Chemical reaction eats up CO2 to produce energy While there are plenty of ways to make carbon-based products from CO2, these methods usually require a lot of energy because the CO2 molecules are so stable. If the energy comes from the burning of fossil fuels, then the net result will be more CO2 entering the atmosphere. Now…
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laughingsquid: Apple Designer Jonathan Ive Receives Knighthood
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hangingfire: “GQ: Nowadays nobody would struggle with feeling inferior for working in television instead of movies, the way someone like The Sopranos’ David Chase once did, right? Matthew Weiner: Oh, there’s still a hierarchy. Forgetting about remuneration and public adulation, there’s still a hierarchy in terms of the writer’s Olympic Dream. I have to warn…
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In other words, the opposite of “complex” is not “simple,” the opposite of “complex” is “isolated. Jamais Cascio at Open the Future. Nine Meditations on Complexity Complexity not as a mathematical concept, but as an almost intuitive sense of both complication and interconnectedness. Both are necessary components of a truly complex system or situation. (via protoslacker)
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kickstarter: How good are you at lying to your friends? If your answer is “Not at all!” then you had better get good and fast, because you’re going to want to school them at Diamond Trust of London — the new Nintendo DS title from independent game designer Jason Rohrer. It’s two-player, turn-based, simultaneous-decision strategy…
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A “realistic” snow globe
kuvva: This brilliant “snow globe” was designed by the UK firm Dorothy to raise awareness to protest against the construction of a coal-fired power station in 2009. Instead of the classic, christmas-like miniature snow scene, they constructed a miniature power plant spewing black, ashy particles. A very thought-provoking piece of work. They have only made 2 globes of which there’s…
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Future Work Skills 2020
futurist-foresight: The Institute for the Future released a report on future work skills that will be needed by 2020. They are: Sense-making. Social intelligence. Novel and adaptive thinking. Cross-cultural competency. Computational thinking. New-media literacy. Transdisciplinarity. Design mind-set. Cognitive load management. Virtual collaboration. (Gigaom gives a quick breakdown) The graphic below from that report highlights areas…
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xtianw: How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later And—and I say this as a professional fiction writer—the producers, scriptwriters, and directors who create these video/audio worlds do not know how much of their content is true. In other words, they are victims of their own product, along with us. Speaking…
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futurescope: This Robot Makes Its Own Custom Tools Out of Glue Humans are generalists. We’re adaptable. If there’s a task we can’t do on our own, we find ourselves a tool to help us. Robots aren’t usually like this, because it’s very hard to design a robot that implements all the different tools that might…
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towerofsleep: translatingtheprintempserable: I fought Nazism, I fought fascism, I hated Duplessis, I didn’t make it to 94 years of age for this. NO to bill 78! Source NICE