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Florence & The Machine - ‘Falling’
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I’ve been following the travels of Jan Chipchase for the last few months now after coming across his amazing TED talk. He has what I would consider to be the best job in the world, traveling the globe studying behavioural trends in developing countries for Nokia.
If you have a couple of spare hours over the holiday period, check out his blog, and read a copy of his paper on Designing Mobile Money Services. If you’re like me, you will find this kind of social consumer evolution fascinating.
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Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind. Someone is thinking of the way your breath escapes your lips when you are touched. How your eyes close and your jaw tightens with concentration as you give pleasure a home. These thoughts are saving a life somewhere right now. In some airless apartment on a dark, urine stained, whore lined street, someone is calling out to you silently and you are answering without even being there. So crystalline. So pure. Such life saving power when you smile. You will never know how you have cauterized my wounds. So sad that we will never touch. How it hurts me to know that I will never be able to give you everything I have.
–Henry Rollins
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If the brain is the most evolved and sophisticated system known, then creating a computer that exceeds human cognitive capacities is really the triumph of Technology over Evolution - of Human Selection over Natural Selection - no? Does this then place us technically in a new stage of evolution? Are we are already in the age of self-evolution?SuperBrain: The Brain Re-Creating Itself
IBM is attempting to replicate human scale creative intelligence through cognitive processing. The potential positive and negative outcomes are immense in scale.
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Everything But The Girl - ‘Missing (Todd Terry Mix)’
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Detroit's Unemployment Rate Is Nearly 50% →
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This is totally totally incredible. How a major city in one of the supposedly most developed countries in the world could have such high unemployment speaks volumes of the depths of disrepair that the former superpower has sunk to over the last 2 decades. Hopefully for everyones sake they can dig themselves out again…
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Sarcasm is a body’s natural defense against stupid
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When people think of computer science the image that immediately pops into many of their minds is of the computer geek surrounded by such things as computer games, science fiction memorabilia and junk food. That stereotype doesn’t appeal to many women who don’t like the portrait of masculinity that it evokes… [Ambient belonging] is the sense you get right away when you walk into a room. You look at the objects and make an instant appraisal of how you would fit with the objects and the people who are typically found in that environment. You also make a judgment of ‘I like it here’ or ‘I don’t belong here.’
–Sapna Cheryan, a University of Washington assistant professor of psychology, and the lead author of a study that shows the environment and trappings of computer science is what turns women away, not the field itself (via Physorg.)
Ambient belonging is so powerful. Immediately I can think of lots of examples from my own life. Universities (I love the idea of ADFA, but couldn’t go because imagine not being able to wear your own clothes on campus?), real estate (ugh, these people have framed movie posters, I can’t buy this house), gyms (I want to be healthy, not hang around with roid ragers and protein powder eaters) and social activism (I couldn’t go to that protest, I don’t have dreadlocks).
Ultimately every behavioural or purchasing choice you make is based on something as soft and emotional as how it accords with your vision of yourself.
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