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lilly: Tumblr & Human-scale Design Lots of the chatter this morning is on the $1.1B headline, or the story of Marissa’s Yahoo, or Tumblr’s massive growth & relevance to youth, or New York’s continuing emergence on the world’s tech stage. But I want to talk about something else that I find remarkable about Tumblr, even…
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Stanford Graduate School of Business: 5 Core Skills of Disruptive, Visual-Thinking Innovators
Stanford Graduate School of Business: 5 Core Skills of Disruptive, Visual-Thinking Innovators stanfordbusiness: “Visual thinking is the foundation for being creative and solving some of the most complex problems,” explained author and founder of Innovation Studio Lisa Kay Solomon. Solomon and Emily Shepard of The Graphic Distillery discussed the key role of visual thinking in…
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rgr-pop: ood: the simcity 2000 flint scenario is really hard aw shit I didn’t know this was even a thing wikipedia says you “deal with the 1970s economic recession in Flint, Michigan” how can you even win that you literally can’t win that
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kateoplis: The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’ “THE New Digital Age” is a startlingly clear and provocative blueprint for technocratic imperialism, from two of its leading witch doctors, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, who construct a new idiom for United States global power in the 21st century. This idiom reflects the ever closer union between…
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Last year, Tom Gordon of the Fraunhofer Institute in Munich partnered with German company Init to start developing an AI application called Elterngeld – German for “parent’s money”. It is designed to make automatic decisions on child benefit claims to the country’s Federal Employment Agency (FEA), probably with some human auditing of its decisions behind…
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fylatinamericanhistory: Yesterday’s Peruvian Google doodle celebrated the National Day of the Potato, a holiday established in 2005 and commemorated annually on May 30. Potatoes originated in what is now Peru and were eventually spread throughout the world following European colonization of the Americas. Over three thousand varieties of potato are cultivated today.