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The interactive storefront comes to life in this interactive window display
"Imagery
in which poetry and music
are melded into
an unchanging worth".
" It was August 2004, and Bezos and his new senior vice-president in charge of worldwide digital media, Steven Kessel, were exploring what seemed like a radical idea for an online retailer: making their own hardware. "
..."There is a sense, as one easily holds the Kindle Fire in one hand (try doing that with an iPad), that Bezos is working from the same set of principles as Jobs: Content matters. Simplicity is key." ...
We are the children of our times, and I look to the future with passion and expectation, despite the risks of an cyberpunk future described so many times and so well in literature, movies and videogames.
Everything is evolving so fast and Everything seems more natural. The Human enhancement technologies (HET) are techniques that can be used not simply for treating illness and disability, but also for enhancing human characteristics and capacities.
Because, the true thing that make us humans, is the capacity of success and overcoming even when everything seems impossible and the ability to create and innovate to make it happen.
When I was reading about Oscar, I couldn't think that even with his disability, Oscar has exceeded all expectations. For the first time in the human history, technology is evolving to a level of perfeccion that makes me belive that very soon will improve the skills and abilities of the human race.
Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius (known as the "Blade Runner") is a South African sprint runner. In 2008, Time magazine chose him as the one hundred most influential people in the world, in the "Heroes and Pioneers". Oscar Pistorius also is the new model of Thierry Mugler advertising campaign. In July 2011, he made history in Italy with a personal best of 45.07 seconds for the men's 400m, a result that saw him qualify for the South African national team and the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea (Aug 2011). Here he made history yet again, running against non-disabled athletes and qualifying for the 400m semi-finals.
Is Oscar a superhuman? Or he is just one of the first example of an enhance human? This can be taken as a radical idea, but today millions of men and women go through surgery to improve certain aspects of their anatomy "just on a whim" this way I think that is very realistic to think that all we will pass through surgery to improve ourselves with chips and implants sooner that we think.
Act Now: Stop Apple's iPhone Kill Switch
Dear Friend,
Think you own your smartphone? Think again.
Apple wants to patent a kill switch technology that can detect when people are using their phone cameras and give corporations the power to shut them down.1
Think that's bad? Imagine what would happen if this tool fell into the hands of repressive regimes. Thousands of people across the Middle East have used cellphone cameras to document government abuses.
This kind of technology would give tyrants the power to stem the flow of videos and crack down on protesters with impunity.
Apple says this new technology was designed to stop concertgoers from taking unofficial video at live events. But you can bet that governments and corporations will use it in other, more dangerous ways – to silence the voices of protesters, political opponents or anyone else they dislike.
As Steve Jobs obviously knows, smartphones have become extensions of ourselves. They are incredibly powerful tools for communication, education, political expression, community organizing and just plain fun.
Earlier this year, researchers discovered that iPhones recorded your every move for the past year in a hidden but unprotected file.2 The public was outraged, and Apple soon announced that it was updating its software to better protect users.
We must stop Apple again. This new camera-blocking technology is a pre-emptive strike against free speech. If activated, it would be immensely harmful to our rights to connect and communicate.
Please take action now to urge Steve Jobs to pull the plug on this censorship technology.
Thanks,
Josh Levy
Online Campaign Manager
Free Press
www.freepress.net1. "Is Apple Launching a Pre-emptive Strike Against Free Speech?" Huffington Post, June 22, 2011: http://act2.freepress.net/go/4692?akid=2596.9879142.Ccv_dD&t=7
2. "Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves," O'Reilly Radar, April 20, 2011: http://act2.freepress.net/go/4627?akid=2596.9879142.Ccv_dD&t=9
Groupon wants to introduce us to Derrick – he’s the guy who thought you’d enjoy receiving Groupon emails. Try it and see what happends!!
try { society.democracy();
} catch ( FinancialFailure e ) {
youth.charge(NO_FUTURE);
workers.charge(ALL_AS_POSSIBLE);
pensioner.charges(REDUCE_BENEFITS);
politicians.charge(AVOID_RESPONSABILITY);
managers.charge(AVOID_RESPONSABILITY);
banks.charge(AVOID_RESPONSABILITY);
}
Medical ethicist Harvey Fineberg shows us three paths forward for the ever-evolving human species: to stop evolving completely, to evolve naturally -- or to control the next steps of human evolution, using genetic modification, to make ourselves smarter, faster, better.
Now available ...FREE...May issue of WIRED (US edition) for IPad and Tablet.
Finally!!...I am so happy, I'm wired (paper) subscriber for years, but I still did not downloaded for the ipad (I don´t feel like pay twice)...That´s why I have watched many videos but so far not I didn´t have the opportunity to interact in my ipad.
Wired now offers us FREE full download of the May magazine free at this link for IPAD and this one for Tablet.
Enjoy:)
From time to time, advertising surprise us with a splendor that is close to art. Undoubtedly, the visually explosive TV Spot created by the ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty is one of the automakers coolest campaigns of the year. It´s a pity that is too Short....
Brendan I. Koerner (brendan_koerner[at]wired.com) wrote in Wired Magazine an article title "The Trouble With Humanoid Droids". The article is really cool and show as how humans behave with robots. In this article Victoria Groom, a robotics researcher at Stanford University says “The humanoid form is such a powerful social cue, If you see this humanoid shape, you’re going to respond to it like it’s a person.” That´s why Today’s military robots are ugly little buggers. Because when there’s the potential for violence, though, let’s stick with ugly robots.
What is Post-scarcity economy?
From Wikipedia ():Post scarcity or post-scarcity describes a hypothetical form of economy or society, often explored in science fiction, in which things such as goods, services and information are free, or practically free. This would be due to an abundance of fundamental resources (matter, energy and intelligence), in conjunction with sophisticated automated systems capable of converting raw materials into finished goods, allowing manufacturing to be as easy as duplicating software.
Read more about Post-scarcity at: http://www.pdfernhout.net/post-scarcity-princeton.html
Wallpaper gives a new twist and gave us the chance to play art director and design our own cover. The Handmade issue (August 2010) will be print with your own custom wallpaper cover. I belive that is the first time that a magazine do something like this. What makes this challenge great is the tailor made magazine print idea. Wallpaper will send to each participant that request it the magazine to his house via postal mail with the cover design that each one as created. When everthing is going digital this kind of actions give us the trend of the future of editorial industry and I have to admit that ...I just love it!
Facebook has updated the Learning Lab with some new resources, including the new Facebook Best Practice Guide, guidelines on Social Media Crisis Response, and a guide on the new Deals product now piloting in five U.S. cities.
Cool viral video and fun Facebook AdCampaign by Altoids Mints.
Altoids celebrates authenticity by showcasing people who embrace individuality and do what works for them. They are confident, honest, strong and authentic.
Read the stories of early space exploration from the original NASA transcripts. Now open to the public in a searchable, linkable format.
A powerful video from Resource Interactive shown at the Shop.org Annual Summit on how mobile, social media and geolocation will change shopping. Forever.
This monday begins Enter 5. Fifth Biennial ENTER multimedia deals with DATAPOLIS. Introduces visitors through exhibitions, symposia and performances, artistic reflection of contemporary urban reality, as it helps us to capture and convey new information and communication technologies. The exhibition will offer original audio-visual representation of data flowand signals that flows invisibly around us or take place in social networks. An important part of the exhibition will also feature projects at the interface between design, architecture and fashion, which combines sensitivity to environmental issues.A special feature of the exhibition will be the de facto connectivity and data sharing between some parts.
Google has published an online magazine called "Think Quarterly." However, it is a consumer magazine, that speaks of marketing and its sent (on paper) to its business partners in England and Ireland, where his base of operations.
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THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD: those who make an effort to learn another language, and the British. I’ve been trying to buck this national stereotype recently, by brushing up on my French. read more and have fun
