“There’s a powerful message here for nations and civilizations. Nations that look up go up. Nations that look down go down. Research on the fans of winning and losing sports teams show that when your team and mine wins, we, like lizards and crayfish, go through a biologically based lift. But if our team loses, [...]
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November 7, 2009
49.
November 6, 2009
“If the desire is to increase knowledge sharing, and the methods of compensation that Google controls include traffic/attention and money/advertising, then a more effective system than Knol would be to algorithmically determine the most valuable and well-presented sources of knowledge, identify the identity of authorities . . and then reward those sources with increased [...]
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August 1, 2009
“The knowledge-led accumulation regime has elements of an alternative development model beyond both Fordism and neoliberalism, in that it could upgrade workers’ skill and knowledge and enhance autonomy of workers in knowledge firms.”
–Hyungkee Kim
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June 23, 2009
“Humans won’t be taken out of the loop—in fact, many, many more humans will have the capacity to do something that was once limited to a hermetic priesthood. Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.
As the digital systems we rely upon become faster, more sophisticated, and (with the usual hiccups) more [...]
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May 23, 2009
“We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. … But we have failed utterly to prevent the concentration of economic power, or take account of how such concentration damages the conditions under which full human flourishing becomes possible (it is never guaranteed).”
–Matthew Crawford
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April 17, 2009
“If web 2.0 was all about democratizing publishing, then the next stage of the web may well be based on democratizing data mining of all that content [and raw data] that’s getting published.”
–Marshall Kirckpatrick
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March 30, 2009
“After these crashes, and periods of turmoil, the potential of the new technologies and infrastructures is eventually realised, but only once new institutions come into being which are better aligned with the characteristics of the new economy. Once that has happened, economies then go through surges of growth as well as social progress . . [...]
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February 27, 2009
“the protocol’s real power will be realized only when every company starts using it—to keep track of their own operations as well as to report their numbers to investors and regulators”
–Daniel Roth, Wired
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January 26, 2009
“It will have to be an evolutionary process of many innovations, trial and error, self adjustment, avoiding repetition of past mistakes and, above all, patience. It will also have to include one or more big game-changing elements of the order of magnitude of the influence of Google.
This is a change that will create a livable [...]
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January 14, 2009
“An aspect of some embodiments of the invention relates to providing a gloss to accompany textual material and thereby to providing an annotated text that is configured to aid a reader of the material in understanding and using the text. The gloss is produced responsive to attributes of the text and a database that defines [...]
