Month: August 2009
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The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence by Ray Kurzweil
The Age of Spiritual Machines was written by Ray Kurzweil. Kurzweil is a technological rock star, responsible for great music synthesisers and much of the developments around optical character recognition and speech recognition. This is what makes him a good futurist. The fact that he has had his hands dirty. The Age of Spiritual Machines:…
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A Colossal Failure Of Common Sense by Lawrence G. McDonald with Patrick Robinson
Every financial point of inflection be it a recession or a boom has its signature event. The internet boom was marked by the IPO of Netscape and the merger of AOL with media company Time Warner. The internet bust was marked by Worldcom and Enron’s collapse. The current subprime implosion in the US was marked…
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Free – The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson
Free owes a debt to work done by some of the early team at Wired magazine. Encyclopedia of the New Economy by John Browning and Spencer Reiss was originally published as a three-part work in Wired magazine back in 1998. Step forward a decade or so and current Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson has been…
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Friendfeed & more news
Friendfeed Revealed: why Facebook acquired FriendFeed – Brand Republic News – Brand Republic – Will McInnes talks about the Facebook | Friendfeed deal. Business Delicious Founder: I Wish I Had Not Sold to Yahoo Consumer behaviour Kids want to own, not stream, their music says survey – The Next Web Design Little Art Book –…