Posted on December 20th, 2009 by Tim
A great title, and an interesting article based on a study looking at how data consumption has changed over 30 years. It’s been conducted by the University of California and suggests that we consume on average 34 gigabytes of information each day!
The speed of modern life is 2.3 words per second, or about 100,000 words [...]
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Posted on April 28th, 2009 by Tim
http://www.nma.co.uk/the-telegraph-becomes-most-popular-online-newspaper/3000317.article?nl=DN
This is interesting news – it marks a win for the Telegraph in the attention markets.
For some time iCrossing’s Head of Social Media Antony Mayfield has banged on about how the Telegraph set up their new Victoria offices. It was set up to be much more like a trading floor, and indeed uses the same [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2009 by Tim
Posted on February 9th, 2009 by Tim
There’s a fantastic post by over on the URBEINGRECORDED blog by Chris Arkenberg. Lots of amazing future gazing ideas, and stimulating all sorts of thoughts for technology and innovation.
Within 10-15 years mobile devices will constantly interact with the world around us, analyzing objects, faces, signage, locations, and anything else their sensors can engage. Camera viewfinders [...]
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Posted on October 6th, 2008 by Tim
In a previous post I wrote about how information overload is making us stupid and there’s an article in the Sunday Times today that goes to back this up – Keep clicking and you’ll be a snappy thinker.
Brendan Montague and Helen Brooks write about a new study that as been conducted in California that goes to [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Tim
I stumbled across a great article written by Nicholas Carr, who in 2003 wrote the Harvard Business Review article “IT Doesn’t Matter” which reminds us of the cold calculating computer HAL 9000 from the all time fave movie 2001:
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with [...]
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