January 2012
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“The point of field upgrades is that your old TV will have all the...”
– Mike Loukides - Don’t expect the end of electronics obsolescence anytime soon (via Bruces)
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“Robots can be said to have their own culture precisely because they don’t need...”
– Stuart Geiger - The ethnography of robots
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“He found this response of “it’s old” (and therefore it’s...”
– John Maeda - Old vs New vs Good
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“We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into...”
– The Pirate Bay - Evolution: New Category
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“Pretty much every TV at CES had the same functionality: Wi-Fi. Gesture control....”
– Chris Heathcote - Sand in the Vaseline
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“Nine-fifteen, sang the clock, time to clean. Out of warrens in the wall, tiny...”
– Ray Bradbury - There Will Come Soft Rains
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“In this electric age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the...”
– Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media
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“There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who...”
– H.P. Lovecraft
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“It starts off with “huh?”, a sense of mystification about what the algorithm...”
– Greg Borenstein - Machine Pareidolia: Hello Little Fella meets FaceTracker
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“The Techno Rebels are, whether they recognise it or not, agents of the Third...”
– Alvin Toffler - The Third Wave (1980)
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“I don’t like [the Turing Test] that much, in part because I don’t...”
– Peter Norvig - Google’s go-to AI guy sees phones getting much smarter
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“And even if we don’t care about them having legal rights, there’s still good...”
– Ted Chiang