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How Books Will Become Machines
Books could survive by becoming closed interactive applications
The second way to continue the book mechanization process is to design a new close vehicle for its contents. [..] Applications are fully interactive programs adapted to dedicated interfaces like smartphones, tablets or desktop computers. They can fetch their contents directly…
Internationalized Resource Identifier - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
IRIs, URIs for every language
On the Internet, the internationalized resource identifier (IRI) is a generalization of the uniform resource identifier (URI). While URIs are limited to a subset of the ASCII character set, IRIs may contain characters from the Universal Character Set (Unicode/ISO 10646)…
I’m Still Here: Back Online After A Year Without The Internet | The Verge
The internet is reprogramming our relationships, our emotions, and our sensitivity
A couple weeks later, I found myself among 60,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews, pouring into New York's Citi Field to learn from the world's most respected rabbis about the dangers of the internet. Naturally. Outside the stadium, I was spotted by a man brandishing one of my own articles…
Blaming the internet is wrong
What I do know is that I can't blame the internet, or any circumstance, for my problems. I have many of the same priorities I had before I left the internet: family, friends, work, learning. And I have no guarantee I'll stick with them when I get back on the internet — I…
Liquidfeedback: What A Genuine Democratic Process Looks Like | David Bollier
LiquidFeedback and online deliberative democracy
At a time when representative democracy is increasingly revealed as ineffectual, phony or both – a kabuki theater of empty formalisms that disguise the offstage conspiracies of corporate/state elites – many people look to the Internet for salvation. After all, the Internet is…
Man Buys $27 Of Bitcoin, Forgets About Them, Finds They're Now Worth $886k | Technology | Theguardian.com
Mining bitcoin gets exponentially harder
To start it took 1000 calculations to reward a bitcoin, something easily achieved by one computer that was doing 100 calculations per second. However there were a few other computers/miners all mining the SAME bitcoin. After 999 calculations were made the computer that (by…
Notizie Di Libri E Cultura Del Corriere Della Sera
Fear of missing out (fomo)
Ma gli Internet Blocking Productivity Software, i programmi creati per bloccare l’accesso alla email e ai propri profili sui social network, funzionano davvero? «Si tratta di palliativi — spiega Luciano Floridi, filosofo e membro eletto della British Computer Society —…
Panton Principles
Science data should be open
Science is based on building on, reusing and openly criticising the published body of scientific knowledge. For science to effectively function, and for society to reap the full benefits from scientific endeavours, it is crucial that science data be made open. By open data in…
The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization
Exaptations
But evolution eventually crossed paths with another possible function: to control the movement of air around the feathered extremities, which allowed a primi-tive form of gliding. This is an example of what paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould called exaptation, by which a trait…
The Pirate Party Logs A New Politics - Nytimes.com
The Pirate Party's Liquid Feedback
The Pirates’ insight is that the Internet is both message and medium. Young Germans, who spend large amounts of time online, care deeply about government attempts to regulate or monitor their activity; at the same time, the Internet offers a way for the party to completely…
What Is Collective Intelligence? - Assembl
Collective intelligence
Intelligence is not just something that happens inside individual minds. It also arises within groups of individuals and this phenomenon can be quite powerful. [...] The widely accepted definition states that collective intelligence is the ability of a group of people to be…
What Will Happen When The Internet Of Things Becomes Artificially Intelligent? | Technology | The Guardian
Internet of things
Running parallel to the extraordinary advances in the field of AI is the even bigger development of what is loosely called, the internet of things (IoT). This can be broadly described as the emergence of countless objects, animals and even people with uniquely identifiable…
| Knowledge Blog
Academic publishing needs a new system
Scientific and academic publishing is a painful process for authors, reviewers and readers alike. No one really benefits from the current system which grew because of the expense of producing, printing and distributing books. The internet and the web technologies have changed…