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Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything - Gordon Bell - BooksAn e-memory is a type of interactive external personal memory. In a decade, it will be used to capture, store and find all of one’s past experiences, or those of others who have been immortalized. The e-memory machine is part of a network that preserves data, a familiar example of which might be ...
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Post-Review « Test Information SpaceWhat is your opinion of this {idea, book, product, system, media, economy, year, decade, culture}? Any recommendations? As trends 2.010 go, scifi is in hiatus. Party-goers are served irony and ice. Stereotypes trump sensibilities. Eastern projections edge UK, Orwellian that is. Yoda yields to ...
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The Art of Community: Building the New Age of ParticipationThis ambitious volume is smoothly written enough that it can be seamlessly read in a long session. The role in question might be likened to Dio's "Rainbow in the Dark". The book is part case study that benefits from hindsight and also a set of templates for strategic plans, teams and values ...
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The Art of Community: Building the New Age of ParticipationThis ambitious volume is written smoothly enough that it can be seamlessly read in a long session. The role in question might be likened to Dio's "Rainbow in the Dark". The book is part case study that benefits from hindsight and also a set of templates for strategic plans, teams and values ...
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Netvibes Wasabi EditionWasabi offers the best of both worlds: a personal dashboard (the best way to organize your feeds, widgets and friends) and the world’s fastest reader (easier to read new content). No reason to switch between multiple applications, when you can have everything you need all on one page!
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Simulation and Its Discontents (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) - Sherry Turkle - BooksSimulation is ubiquitous yet its own effects are yet to be fully understood. "These projections, 'inhabiting the rover,' occur especially as the scientists formalize and visualize plans for the next day in computer simulations." (p118) Human cognition seems designed for prediction to make it ...
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Makers - Cory Doctorow - BooksReviewers may be tempted to spend their time adding to this story rather than summarizing, so will keep this brief. The good news is that industrial society survives the recession and becomes social industry. The right 4 people (times 10 to the nth) of the status quo, however, do not go down ...
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One Second After by William R. ForstchenOne Second After New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send ...
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How Judges Think by Richard A. PosnerReviews (4) Sort: Usefulness | Date You must login/signup to post a comment. Learn more here . John Rodrigues , 7 minutes ago Book passes judgement on American system and sentences law schools to recognize empirical judicial method. Bayesian analysis is applied (which, incidentally, ...
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WWW: Wake by Robert J. SawyerWWW: Wake “One of the foremost science fiction writers of our generation”(SF Site) comes to Ace with a trilogy of the Web’s awakening. Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math—and blind. Still, she can surf the net with the best of them, following its complex paths clearly ...
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