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▼"The Singularity is Near" film
... film home page: http://bit.ly/cDHYS1
... film screening introduction [video; 30 min]: http://bit.ly/akCsTo
... film screening Q&A [video; 25 min]: http://bit.ly/cvULze
Kurzweil accelerating intelligence
... news feed: http://bit.ly/cs30GC
... blog feed: http://bit.ly/9O2BTC
Upcoming singularity summit reading list: http://bit.ly/c1vecH
Ray Kurzweil on the accelerating change - itc.conversationsnetwork.org
[Tech Nation; audio; 40 min]
... film home page: http://bit.ly/cDHYS1
... film screening introduction [video; 30 min]: http://bit.ly/akCsTo
... film screening Q&A [video; 25 min]: http://bit.ly/cvULze
Kurzweil accelerating intelligence
... news feed: http://bit.ly/cs30GC
... blog feed: http://bit.ly/9O2BTC
Upcoming singularity summit reading list: http://bit.ly/c1vecH
Ray Kurzweil on the accelerating change - itc.conversationsnet
[Tech Nation; audio; 40 min]
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Tristan Tager - Although the hypotheticals Kurzweil generates are very interesting, there isn't very much evidence behind them. In particular the idea that we can maintain exponential growth forever is clearly ludicrous. If the human population keeps doubling every 50 years, we'll fill up the known universe in less than 15,000 years. It's good to keep these facts in mind when reading his material.Sep 6DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼Fast Company article, inline comments: http://bit.ly/9zQSrA
Other talks: http://bit.ly/bV0iuf
FearLess QA: http://bit.ly/9vEDOZ
Alex Bogusky on corporations - vimeo.com
[Turning the tide 2010; video; 1 hour; April 2010]
Other talks: http://bit.ly/bV0iuf
FearLess QA: http://bit.ly/9vEDOZ
Alex Bogusky on corporations - vimeo.com
[Turning the tide 2010; video; 1 hour; April 2010]
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survey: http://www.thetimeparadox.com/surveys/
animation: RSA Animate - The Secret Powers of Time
Philip Zimbardo on the perception of time - www.thersa.org
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Philip Zimbardo on the perception of time - www.thersa.org
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Hocine Amrane - Absolutely brilliant video about The Perception of Time thx @Alex Slobodnik please reshare this video need a good BuzzJun 15DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Alex Slobodnik - Thank you, Hocine. You might also like 2 part talk by Sean Carroll on the arrow of time:
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Hocine Amrane - @Alex Slobodnik don't know why I haven't receive your comment by email? any way you see its some time good to go back on your stream, Ill get back to you for Sean Caroll, as I told you your Buzz are really worth to watch and to read, thx againJun 17DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Hocine Amrane - And it works also for people from the same culture but with different time perception, past present or future orientedAug 13DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Alex Slobodnik - True, even within a single national culture and language there are differences because of the subcultures that hardly interact. Cross national differences are much more pronounced though. Here is a good illustration: "how to take a walk" -- http://bit.ly/cerRHW
Masha du Toit - I enjoyed the "take a walk" article.
A big cultural difference I experienced when I was in America is Americans strange attitude to bare feet. They seem to consider it a health hazard, and if you walk barefoot anywhere where other people might be, you get treated as if you were doing something disgusting, like urinating in public. Or anyway, that was my experience! :)Aug 13DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
A big cultural difference I experienced when I was in America is Americans strange attitude to bare feet. They seem to consider it a health hazard, and if you walk barefoot anywhere where other people might be, you get treated as if you were doing something disgusting, like urinating in public. Or anyway, that was my experience! :)Aug 13DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Hocine Amrane - Hum let's have a walk for the sake of walking and nothing else, if we consider walking as a relief to the human thought then yes we all need a rest from our own thought, and having a walk might be the first steep to enlightenment
Thought can be harmful sometime but not all the time, this is an obvious point for all of us:)Aug 13DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Thought can be harmful sometime but not all the time, this is an obvious point for all of us:)Aug 13DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Jakob Jenkov - Well, if you have a foot disease, walking barefoot is not good.Aug 15DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼Paul Zak: social networking triggers the release of oxytocin - www.fastcompany.com
[FastCompany; article, short video]
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Hocine Amrane - If you found an Oxytocin spray pls let me know am interested in:)Jun 28DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Tristan Tager - The article is a little overblown, although the general subject is every bit as fascinating as the articl suggests. Oxytocin is involved in social behavior, trust, cuddling, and sex as the article says, but the point is that oxytocin is involved in virtually all (positive) friendship interactions. So the fact that social networking triggers oxytocin release is completely expected, although it's still good that it was verified. Equivalently one could do a study on oxytocin release during phone calls. If you're on the phone with a friend or lover, and it's a good conversation, there will definitely be oxytocin release -- that doesn't mean phone companies should perk up and pay attention.Jun 28DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Alex Slobodnik - Tristan, while I am also wary of sensationalism, it doesn't seem to me that "E-connection is processed in the brain like an in-person connection" is a conventional wizdom.
I didn't realise the importance of oxytocin studies until I heard what Zack Lynch had to say when interviewed about his book "The Neuro Revolution": http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4223.html Jun 28DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
I didn't realise the importance of oxytocin studies until I heard what Zack Lynch had to say when interviewed about his book "The Neuro Revolution": http://itc.conversat
Radha Narayan - Alex, that was the exact line that caught my attention too. I don't know if I believe the statement though. That an e-connection is processed in the same way by the brain as an in-person connection is a red herring. The amplitude of change should be several orders of magnitude greater. That statement is like saying "Walking and Running have exactly the same effect on the body, because they use the same muscles."
On another note, I like your posts, but I'm not sure if / how I know you. Sorry?Jun 28DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
On another note, I like your posts, but I'm not sure if / how I know you. Sorry?Jun 28DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Alex Slobodnik - Radha, if I understand the results of the experiment correctly, the claim is the measurement of the change in oxytocin is as high as in-person. It doesn't mean that there is no difference in terms of "other muscles" (using your metaphor).
> On another note, I like your posts, but I'm not sure if / how I know you. Sorry?
Thank you. I think we have e-connection with a couple of common in-person acquaintances.
I assume you had Jon Kleinberg as one of the teachers at Cornell. What is it like to have that privilege ?Jun 29DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
> On another note, I like your posts, but I'm not sure if / how I know you. Sorry?
Thank you. I think we have e-connection with a couple of common in-person acquaintances.
I assume you had Jon Kleinberg as one of the teachers at Cornell. What is it like to have that privilege ?Jun 29DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Tristan Tager - Alex, I disagree. The 4 possibilities would be e-connection involves no oxytocin, less, the same, or more. Obviously the "no" and the "more" possibilities are highly unlikely. But in a species where we can achieve feelings of trust, or betrayal, via a 3rd party recounting just as effectively as if we witnessed the action in 1st person (and in a culture where websites like match.com enjoy high levels of success), clearly the best bet is either on "very close" or "same", which is effectively what the article claims was demonstrated. Now to be fair I'm somewhat familiar with the subject -- but then again the researcher was much more so. My point is that without question the researcher had virtually no doubt that his hypothesis was correct, and most of us wouldn't either, having heard the hypothesis before the study. Still good to have it verified, but I stand by my claim that the result was in no way surprising.Jun 29DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Alex Slobodnik - Tristan, would you hire someone or give a loan based on the rise of candidate's oxytocin level during the interview ? Well, that's exactly what Zack Lynch suggests can not be faked and would become a common practice. If Paul Zak hasn't surprised us and it's not a big deal, then there is nothing to worry about, people are not manipulated by networks, fully in control of the decision process that rationally divides their time between e-connections and in-person connections.Jun 29DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Tristan Tager - Not sure what your point here is Alex. Yes, if I could measure a candidate's oxytocin level, I would use that information to help compute the probability that I'd get a good return on my investment. Again, not surprising if you know anything about oxytocin -- certainly nothing the study in the linked article proved that was uncertain beforehand.Jul 2DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Alex Slobodnik - Tristan, we lacked an explanation of some social media phenomenon such as Farmville:
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/content/cultivated-play-farmville
Now we know. Zynga business is not unlike selling tobacco or tranquilizers.Jul 3DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Now we know. Zynga business is not unlike selling tobacco or tranquilizers.Jul 3DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Steve Pirk - If you want a fun social game that allows you to just create an account that will not be spammed or shared, check out FreeCiv - http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page - Community written, community supported, community shared. Cool.Jul 3DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼Nicholas Carr: the web shatters focus, rewires brains - www.wired.com
[Wired, article, via William Huber]
[Wired, article, via William Huber]
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Vladimir Kelman - Very interesting article, thank you.
I think an immediate implication would be to consider moving [part of the] links to the end of articles, similar to how people add[ed] references to scientific documents.Jun 4DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
I think an immediate implication would be to consider moving [part of the] links to the end of articles, similar to how people add[ed] references to scientific documents.Jun 4DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Bud Gibson - @Vladimir Kelman, which is an interesting point. When I first encountered hypertext, 20 years ago in a non-web setting, my complaint was that you sort of fired off in all these directions and just sort of lost track (no back button). Some of the old ideas of citation might make sense here.Jun 4DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Vladimir Kelman - @Bud, your feeling was absolutely in line with what is described in Nicholas Carr's article. But I just thought that a very adaptive human mind could partially overcome these issues as time is passing. (As Nicholas said, "One much-cited study of videogaming, published in Nature in 2003, revealed that after just 10 days of playing action games on computers, a group of young people had significantly boosted the speed with which they could shift their visual focus between various images and tasks.
It’s likely that Web browsing also strengthens brain functions related to fast-paced problem-solving, particularly when it requires spotting patterns in a welter of data.")
Also, I wonder if e-Ink readers like Kindle are better, because they resemble sequential way of book reading.Jun 4DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
It’s likely that Web browsing also strengthens brain functions related to fast-paced problem-solving, particularly when it requires spotting patterns in a welter of data.")
Also, I wonder if e-Ink readers like Kindle are better, because they resemble sequential way of book reading.Jun 4DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Patrick Haverkamp - Very interesting points. But I wonder if long time multitasking folks can organize their thinking and compartmentalize their brain functions. For example many of us have many web pages open at the same time and check each often. But we can still control ourselves to 'think deeply' and read a e-book or long article in longer periods. I feel like there is an assumption here... all multitaskers are made equal... That said I do often feel the effects of cognitive overload.Jun 4DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Anurag Sharma - I think, web certainly have a part to play here. Consider me, I am reading these buzz' here show it....Jun 4DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Lev Gorenstein - @Bud Gibson - My personal solution to the problem of "no back button" was to always open in-text hyperlinks in a new window (or, lately, in a new tab). Middle mouse button does wonders ;-)Jun 4DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Alex Slobodnik - Links are not a problem if the system is not online. Paul Graham offers one drastic solution in this 2 year old essay:
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Alex Slobodnik - Declutter the pages you read with "readability", fantastic tool from Arc90 labs:
Home page, short demo video and bookmarklet for Firefox: http://bit.ly/b5KlbT
For Chrome, use this extension instead: http://bit.ly/d0bpa1
My option preferences are eBook style, large size and narrow margin. There is even the option Vladimir suggested - to convert hyperlinks to footnotes.
"Readability" has been recently featured by google as one of the top 10 recommended extensions for Chrome.
If you liked, shared or commented on Nicholas Carr's article or book, I added you to the following list. Short demo video makes it easy to understand installation/configuration of "readability" extension and start using it for reading articles on the web. Enjoy !
@Hocine Amrane @John Hardy @Steve Law @Peter Roksheel @@trench hcnert@ @William Huber @Jessica Jacobsen @Chris Pirillo @Henk Nouwens @Hans-Dieter Zimmermann @Duane Sampe Tua Aritonang @metalerik . @Aaron Curtis @Mahendra Palsule @Gianto Widianto @Nick Waye @CT Avon @Justin Levy @Bryan Foster @Tracy Crawford @Thomas Hawk @M Farber @Jhenifer Gaston @Andriy Burkov @Tracy Magnen @Elisheva Sterling @Pat Graham-Block @Kurt Starnes @Denis Labelle @Donald Jordan @Brian McNely @Kevin Marks @Logan Bowers @Jack Hebert @Sierra Michels Slettvet @Buddha Rocks @mil joshi (via @Vin Bhalerao) Jul 19DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Home page, short demo video and bookmarklet for Firefox: http://bit.ly/b5KlbT
For Chrome, use this extension instead: http://bit.ly/d0bpa1
My option preferences are eBook style, large size and narrow margin. There is even the option Vladimir suggested - to convert hyperlinks to footnotes.
"Readabili
If you liked, shared or commented on Nicholas Carr's article or book, I added you to the following list. Short demo video makes it easy to understand installation/configu
@Hocine Amrane @John Hardy @Steve Law @Peter Roksheel @@trench hcnert@ @William Huber @Jessica Jacobsen @Chris Pirillo @Henk Nouwens @Hans-Dieter Zimmermann @Duane Sampe Tua Aritonang @metalerik . @Aaron Curtis @Mahendra Palsule @Gianto Widianto @Nick Waye @CT Avon @Justin Levy @Bryan Foster @Tracy Crawford @Thomas Hawk @M Farber @Jhenifer Gaston @Andriy Burkov @Tracy Magnen @Elisheva Sterling @Pat Graham-Block @Kurt Starnes @Denis Labelle @Donald Jordan @Brian McNely @Kevin Marks @Logan Bowers @Jack Hebert @Sierra Michels Slettvet @Buddha Rocks @mil joshi (via @Vin Bhalerao)
Hocine Amrane - @***** and followers I also recommend the following close to the article especially regarding the brain activity for web users
doc http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/ Jul 20DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
doc http://www.pbs.org/w
Alex Slobodnik - Tried to copy more people on Readability (http://bit.ly/b5KlbT ), simple free tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you're reading and recommended by google as top 10 extension for Chrome.
Sadly, copying to more people fails, Google Buzz simply removes comments when total number of people referenced in the comments on the same post exceeds some number between 25 and 50, even when referenced in small batches of 4 people in each comment. And once this happens, then Google Buzz doesn't allow to reference anyone again - neither in comments nor in a new buzz post, gives "try again" error.
Hocine, PBS film is spectacular and a must see.Jul 21DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Sadly, copying to more people fails, Google Buzz simply removes comments when total number of people referenced in the comments on the same post exceeds some number between 25 and 50, even when referenced in small batches of 4 people in each comment. And once this happens, then Google Buzz doesn't allow to reference anyone again - neither in comments nor in a new buzz post, gives "try again" error.
Hocine, PBS film is spectacular and a must see.Jul 21DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Ruchira Datta - I heard part of this conversation between Carr and Peter Norvig on the radio yesterday: http://integral-options.blogspot.com/2010/06/nicholas-carr-is-google-making-us.html I read long books pretty often; I don't see the web preventing me from doing that.Jul 21DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Alex Slobodnik - Ruchira, thanks for pointing to Norvig/Carr debate on fora.tv
Expected something as lively as Joel Spolsky/Steve Yegge pairing (http://bit.ly/boSsGC and http://bit.ly/aUqGV3
Expected something as lively as Joel Spolsky/Steve Yegge pairing (http://bit.ly/boSsG
Alex Slobodnik - Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris (authors of the famous test of attention -- http://bit.ly/aUXRbo
PBS film illustrates well both of these but without making explicit focus.Jul 26DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
PBS film illustrates well both of these but without making explicit focus.Jul 26DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Ruchira Datta - I suspect "ambient thought" is closely related to the brain's default network. Nancy Andreasen, neuroscientist and author of The Creative Brain http://amzn.to/9fFswb , calls it Random Episodic Silent Thought (REST) and posits that it's essential to the creative process.Jul 23DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Alex Slobodnik - I think both this essay and the one by David Gelernter on low-focus thought (http://bit.ly/9Md7BF ) are philosophy of mind works, not neuroscience. Questions and anecdotes, not a testable hypothesis.Jul 24DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼Andy Grove on globalization - www.bloomberg.com
[Bloomberg, article]
[Bloomberg, article]
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Richard Karpinski - I sent this to Gio Wiederhold who teaches outsourcing at Stanford. He responded within the hour saying, "I wrote a letter to Andy. He really doesn't have any sharp suggestions.
Don't know if I will get any response."Jul 11DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Marco Bonechi - The real issue is one of accounting and PR.
To make an ipad/car/etc... it is not enough to have the white collar high paying jobs.
You have an army of poorly paid people, in bad factories with crazy hours.
All of this though is well hidden to the consumer that only sees the nicely polished brand when they go and buy something.
Transparency will come out eventually though, you can't fool all the people all the time, right? Jul 11DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
To make an ipad/car/etc... it is not enough to have the white collar high paying jobs.
You have an army of poorly paid people, in bad factories with crazy hours.
All of this though is well hidden to the consumer that only sees the nicely polished brand when they go and buy something.
Transpar
Richard Karpinski - Gio says the base problem is that the IP is now located in tax havens so that the profits from it are not available for making jobs in the USA. Only the best Congress that money can buy is able to change that detail, but their owners don't like that prospect. Is this a job for direct democracy? There is a free conference on direct democracy, initiatives etc., at Hastings July 30 to Aug 4 in San Francisco.
Toyota shows that you can build great market capitalization while treating workers as worthy human beings. They learned from W. Edwards Deming in 1950 and kept at it. Not only are they now the largest car company in the world, their market cap exceeds that of all other car companies in the world put together. That is more than half the value of all car companies is vested in just one. They had a little safety problem recently, largely caused by US managers trying to save money by avoiding big recalls.Jul 11DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Toyota shows that you can build great market capitalization while treating workers as worthy human beings. They learned from W. Edwards Deming in 1950 and kept at it. Not only are they now the largest car company in the world, their market cap exceeds that of all other car companies in the world put together. That is more than half the value of all car companies is vested in just one. They had a little safety problem recently, largely caused by US managers trying to save money by avoiding big recalls.Jul 11DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Marco Bonechi - that's not a smart argument, IP has no concept of country, just like finance.
most of the IP at american companies has nothing to do with americans or the US, so why should it benefit?
there's only one solution to this, which is what is being done for food.
you must put the actual manufacturer on the box of what you sell.
for example, all ipads/iphones etc... must have 'foxconn, shenzen factory' in the case somewhere.
when you buy a house, you want to know both the name of the architect and the construction company. they are distinct items.Jul 11DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
most of the IP at american companies has nothing to do with americans or the US, so why should it benefit?
there's only one solution to this, which is what is being done for food.
you must put the actual manufacturer on the box of what you sell.
for example, all ipads/iphones etc... must have 'foxconn, shenzen factory' in the case somewhere.
when you buy a house, you want to know both the name of the architect and the construction company. they are distinct items.Jul 11DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Dana Bacon - This conversation by itself makes me glad I'm on Buzz.Jul 11DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Alex Slobodnik - Richard, Marco, excellent points.
Andy Grove's motto is "only the paranoid survive". One must admit it explains high tech history pretty well.Jul 11DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Andy Grove's motto is "only the paranoid survive". One must admit it explains high tech history pretty well.Jul 11DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Bob Foster - Consumers largely ignore origin labels on fruit. It's not like the labels give them any choice. If you want an orange in January, it's going to come from South America. Same would be true for origin labels on manufactured products.
You actually can fool all the people all the time. The mob gets angry when jobs go away, but their anger is easily misdirected.Jul 11DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
You actually can fool all the people all the time. The mob gets angry when jobs go away, but their anger is easily misdirected.Jul 11DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Marco Bonechi - Bob, maybe on fruit they don't care, but on big ticket items they do.
Country is a brand.
German cars would not be worth much if they were made somewhere else, right?
Japanese high-end items are still made in Japan.
Same for fashion, the high-end fabrics are all made in italy.
When you are about to shell out a large amount of money at once, everything counts.
If I like panasonic, I won't be happy to buy 'xyz-pansonic' I want panasonic 100%.
Others won't care, but let me tell you people brag about having expensive items, so the social game will make this quickly prominent.
Besides, there is no money saving for consumers anyway.Jul 11DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Country is a brand.
German cars would not be worth much if they were made somewhere else, right?
Japanese high-end items are still made in Japan.
Same for fashion, the high-end fabrics are all made in italy.
When you are about to shell out a large amount of money at once, everything counts.
If I like panasonic, I won't be happy to buy 'xyz-pansonic' I want panasonic 100%.
Others won't care, but let me tell you people brag about having expensive items, so the social game will make this quickly prominent.
Besides, there is no money saving for consumers anyway.Jul 11DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Matt Sweeney - I don't think they care regardless of the cost of the product:
BMW has manufacturing plants in South Africa and (non-union) South Carolina
Panasonic products are made in China, Malaysia and the Philippines (Just like the Apple/Foxconn relationship)
Commercial "high" fashion is sourced from all over the place (Vietnam, Eastern Europe, China)
It will be interesting to see if the yuan continues to strengthen, and if that makes the non-domestic manufacture everything that's not bolted down less appetizing Jul 11DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
BMW has manufacturing plants in South Africa and (non-union) South Carolina
Panasonic products are made in China, Malaysia and the Philippines (Just like the Apple/Foxconn relationship)
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It will be interesting to see if the yuan continues to strengthen, and if that makes the non-domestic manufacture everything that's not bolted down less appetizing
Marco Bonechi - Matt, the point of the article is that the yuan can strengthen a lot, but it doesn't matter, it took a generation to destroy the electronics industry, it will take at least as much time to rebuild it. With plenty of government intervention.
Or are you thinking that the average factory worker in china will jump from $10 to $30k in a years time?
Besides, there's a couple billion poor people to step in once the currently poor ask for more.
In some way the world is slowly becoming more fair, but that means we'll all need to share what we have, hence become personally poor.Jul 11DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Or are you thinking that the average factory worker in china will jump from $10 to $30k in a years time?
Besides, there's a couple billion poor people to step in once the currently poor ask for more.
In some way the world is slowly becoming more fair, but that means we'll all need to share what we have, hence become personally poor.Jul 11DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Bob Foster - > Country is a brand
> German cars would not be worth much if they were made somewhere else, right?
Wrong. "BMW Manufacturing Co has been manufacturing the X5 and, more recently, the X6 in Greer near Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA.[58] The smaller X3 is slated to begin production in Spartanburg in 2009–2010. BMW's with a VIN number starting with "4US" are manufactured in Spartanburg." --Wikipedia BMW. BMW's are made in five countries.
"The Mercedes-Benz M-Class Sport Utility, the R-Class Sport Tourer, and the full-sized GL-Class Luxury Sport Utility Vehicle are all built at the Mercedes-Benz production facility near Tuscaloosa, Alabama." --Wikipedia Mercedes Benz. Besides Germany, Mercedes-Benz vehicles are also manufactured or assembled in 22 other countries.
I confess I feel a little happier with my made-in-Japan Prius than I would if it had been manufactured in Blue Springs, Miss. but I think jingoists would feel the opposite.
Ok, Italian fabric is on a roll. (Couldn't resist.) But nobody is going to stop buying Apple products because they're made in China. The Apple brand is far more powerful than the somewhat negative China brand.Jul 11DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
> German cars would not be worth much if they were made somewhere else, right?
Wrong. "BMW Manufacturing Co has been manufacturing the X5 and, more recently, the X6 in Greer near Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA.[58] The smaller X3 is slated to begin production in Spartanburg in 2009–2010. BMW's with a VIN number starting with "4US" are manufactured in Spartanburg." --Wikipedia BMW. BMW's are made in five countries.
"The Mercedes-Benz M-Class Sport Utility, the R-Class Sport Tourer, and the full-sized GL-Class Luxury Sport Utility Vehicle are all built at the Mercedes-Benz production facility near Tuscaloosa, Alabama." --Wikipedia Mercedes Benz. Besides Germany, Mercedes-Benz vehicles are also manufactured or assembled in 22 other countries.
I confess I feel a little happier with my made-in-Japan Prius than I would if it had been manufactured in Blue Springs, Miss. but I think jingoists would feel the opposite.
Ok, Italian fabric is on a roll. (Couldn't resist.) But nobody is going to stop buying Apple products because they're made in China. The Apple brand is far more powerful than the somewhat negative China brand.Jul 11DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Brad Morrison - I agree with the branding arguments in that what's on the package and what's communicated through advertising is what sways the consumer, even engenders loyalty.
But the brand can be bullshit. This is true for consumer products -- and more profoundly, for politics.
I love the idea of total transparency for manufactured goods. Ideally, I want to know who the workers were who made the products I buy. That could, however, lead to more bullshit politicking, e.g., a fictional Chinese artisan who makes the best shoes for some mulitnational, sold by Zappos, which is really Amazon, which is really ...
Essentially I am completely cynical about corporate messages, from cat food to Presidents and Prime Ministers.Jul 21DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
But the brand can be bullshit. This is true for consumer products -- and more profoundly, for politics.
I love the idea of total transparency for manufactured goods. Ideally, I want to know who the workers were who made the products I buy. That could, however, lead to more bullshit politicking, e.g., a fictional Chinese artisan who makes the best shoes for some mulitnational, sold by Zappos, which is really Amazon, which is really ...
Essentially I am completely cynical about corporate messages, from cat food to Presidents and Prime Ministers.Jul 21DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼List of articles:
http://www.kk.org/articles.php
Kevin Kelly on books vs screens - www.smithsonianmag.com
[Smithsonian, essay]
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[Smithsonian, essay]
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Like▼[Edge, essay]
recent interview on BigThink:
http://bigthink.com/davidgelernter
David Gelernter on low-focus thought - edge.org
recent interview on BigThink:
http://bigt
David Gelernter on low-focus thought - edge.org
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LikeHocine Amrane - Thx Alex as usual your post are worth to be seen!Jun 24DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼Chip Heath on how to change[TechNation, audio, June 2010]
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4527.html
"Made to Stick", chapter 1:
http://heathbrothers.com/downloads/MadetoStick_Chapter1.pdf
"Switch", chapter 1:
http://heathbrothers.com/downloads/Switch_Chapter1.pdf
Chip Heath on finding the lead - fora.tv
[video; 30 minutes; 2007]
http://itc.conv
"Made to Stick", chapter 1:
http://heathbrothe
"Switch", chapter 1:
http://heathbrothe
Chip Heath on finding the lead - fora.tv
[video; 30 minutes; 2007]
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Like▼part 1: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1518214192
part 2: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232/?video=1518210242
writeup: http://www.cnbc.com/id/37610064/
Nassim Taleb on debt, austerity, currencies, treasuries - www.cnbc.com
[CNBC europe; video; 2 parts, 18 min total; June 10, 2010]
part 2: http://www.cnbc.com/
writeup: http://www.cnbc.com/
Nassim Taleb on debt, austerity, currencies, treasuries - www.cnbc.com
[CNBC europe; video; 2 parts, 18 min total; June 10, 2010]
Agnieszka Tokarska - I think Europe and the US has started changing priorities slightly,now the budget deficits are becoming the major issue.Jun 14DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
K Ko - At least for US, Krugman is suggesting otherwise.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/the-bad-logic-of-fiscal-austerity/
It should be interesting how this plays out.
http://krugman.blog
It should be interesting how this plays out.
Derrick Best - the budget deficits was always a major issue. It was formally known as "Bank's Debt" or losses. today we call it our problem by transferring them to our pension funds and taxes.Jun 14DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼[20 minutes talk/slides, 15 minutes q&a]
Article on Netflix challenge cited in the talk
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-03/mf_netflix
Richard Eoin Nash on book publishing - rnash.com
Article on Netflix challenge cited in the talk
http://www.wired
Richard Eoin Nash on book publishing - rnash.com
Vladimir Kelman - In my opinion Netflix failed on social and prediction aspects of its services http://goo.gl/Gy3rJun 2DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Alex Slobodnik - Vladimir, actually that's exactly the point. Netflix $1M challenge was to improve the quality of recommendations by only 10%. It was nearly impossible to do, took several years and thousands of attempts. The fact of the challenge itself was an acknowledgment that recommendations dont work and not gonna work without an additional information about the users.Jun 2DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Vladimir Kelman - I think that "additional information about the users" might be the key. I don't know how to formally explain it, but as human who likes to watch movies, I am apparently much more complicated than Netflix's algorithms. Algorithms cannot (don't have enough handles?) catch on subtle differences between what I like and what I don't like. But my friends do it much better. So, I think it would be more efficient for Netflix to add social component to their site, to encourage recommendations/discussions by users. Jun 2DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Hocine Amrane - What do you think about a total anonymous social networking to collect data? You keep the option do share your identity with whom you want to, whereas you are still able to share, comment interact in a total anonymous way, using a simple nickname full stop, what prevent me as a user to feel free to chare if am no one, am not scared any more to reflect who I am cause obviously am nobody or just a nickname, you manage you privacy, identity etc
Just a thought am certainly wrong :) in a wayJun 2DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Just a thought am certainly wrong :) in a wayJun 2DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Alex Slobodnik - @Hocine Amrane Many things can readily be expressed in the digital form, feelings can not. Two people who love the same movies and hate the same movies according to the rating they give, might not feel the same way when they watch it. The big assumption of any recommendation algorithm would be that they will continue to love and hate the same movies in the future. But if they feel differently, that might not be the case. Unless a machine can share the feelings not just bits, its chances to match human in the recommendation game are hopeless. That's the fundamental limitation. Now how much better a social network at sharing feelings ? than a machine ?Jun 2DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Hocine Amrane - @Alex Slobodnik I did get the point for the “fundamental limitation”, for you a machine cant play the recommendation game for human,
I still need more clarification for “Now how much better a social network at sharing feelings? Than a machine?” Is it about Internet of things and the Machine to Machine Pattern?
And what is you opinion on being anonymous online? Do you think there is a future for this, I am expecting this to come up soon or latter and am again probably wrong, it always good to have a doubt to keep you mind awake,Jun 2DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
I still need more clarification for “Now how much better a social network at sharing feelings? Than a machine?” Is it about Internet of things and the Machine to Machine Pattern?
And what is you opinion on being anonymous online? Do you think there is a future for this, I am expecting this to come up soon or latter and am again probably wrong, it always good to have a doubt to keep you mind awake,Jun 2DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Alex Slobodnik - Social network, as we know it now, does have biological brains in addition to transistors and optical fiber. It's not quite a machine philosophers have got used to deal with, but the answer to the question "can it share the feelings" is still "no", because of the differences in the cultural and external context that is not representable in the digital form.
On being anonymous, for the purposes of the present discussion, the question to ask - would it help or hurt recommendations ? One could easily argue the latter as being anonymous is about hiding or changing some parts of identity and thus distorting the information recommendations rely upon. That's not true if we look deeper, as Robert Scoble shows in his latest essay 'The “like, er, lie” economy'
http://scobleizer.com/2010/05/24/the-like-er-lie-economy/ Jun 2DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
On being anonymous, for the purposes of the present discussion, the question to ask - would it help or hurt recommendations ? One could easily argue the latter as being anonymous is about hiding or changing some parts of identity and thus distorting the information recommendations rely upon. That's not true if we look deeper, as Robert Scoble shows in his latest essay 'The “like, er, lie” economy'
http://scobl
Vladimir Kelman - Alex, I think that social network might be significantly better at sharing feelings than a machine. Social networks leads to establishing some kind of relationships / friendship between people, a good soc. network it encourages discussions, it's stops short on creating real "local" friendship (or hate).
As soon as we be able not only to read each other words through a social network, but also see, hear, smell, it'll become as good as local non-virtual communications. I'm not sure I'm ready to it, though :)
Anonymous might be different. If other party cannot say that my two posts belong to the same person, such anonymity just doesn't make sense.
If my identity persists, but other people just don't know who I really am, it's almost as good as having my real name.Jun 2DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
As soon as we be able not only to read each other words through a social network, but also see, hear, smell, it'll become as good as local non-virtual communications. I'm not sure I'm ready to it, though :)
Anonymous might be different. If other party cannot say that my two posts belong to the same person, such anonymity just doesn't make sense.
If my identity persists, but other people just don't know who I really am, it's almost as good as having my real name.Jun 2DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Alex Slobodnik - Social media forces us to question many concepts we used to take for granted. How sharing works, what connection means, what is the nature of identity. And break all of these concepts into smaller pieces and facets while losing some of their original meaning. For example, I like your question, Vladimir, how do we tell if a particular person on the network is the same person as before or some replacement has taken place. Even here we start to think within the framework of computational thinking as this reminds of course the description of the Turing test.
Let me give an example of what I mean by the cultural and external context. Imagine a foreign movie (everything is foreign - the language, the culture, the environment). Would you be able to feel what characters of such a movie feel ?Jun 2DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Let me give an example of what I mean by the cultural and external context. Imagine a foreign movie (everything is foreign - the language, the culture, the environment). Would you be able to feel what characters of such a movie feel ?Jun 2DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Vladimir Kelman - We are preparing ourselves for the first visit of aliens :)Jun 2DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼John Robert Jurisich - Alex, welcome to buzz and thanks for following me, if you are interested in art I would like to invite you to my gallery, http://www.youtube.com/fatherofprismatics Enjoy the work, JohnMay 29DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Alex Slobodnik - List of sources cited in the presentation:
Eric Chaisson, Cosmic Evolution, 2001
Smart, J., The Conversational Interface: Our Next Great Leap Forward, 2003
Angus Maddison, Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD, 2007
Francis Heylighen, Accelerating Socio-Technological Evolution, 2007
Smart, John et. al., Metaverse Roadmap (to 2025), 2007
John Gantz, The Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe, 2008
Fenn & Raskino, Mastering the Hype Cycle, 2008
Navarro, The Well-Timed Strategy, 2009
Halevy et. al., The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data, Intell. Sys. 24(2):8-12, 2009
Page, S., The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, 2009Jun 1DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Eric Chaisson, Cosmic Evolution, 2001
Smart, J., The Conversational Interface: Our Next Great Leap Forward, 2003
Angus Maddison, Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD, 2007
Francis Heylighen, Accelerating Socio-Technological Evolution, 2007
Smart, John et. al., Metaverse Roadmap (to 2025), 2007
John Gantz, The Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe, 2008
Fenn & Raskino, Mastering the Hype Cycle, 2008
Navarro, The Well-Timed Strategy, 2009
Halevy et. al., The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data, Intell. Sys. 24(2):8-12, 2009
Page, S., The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, 2009Jun 1DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
Wo Fat - Alex - Nothing personal. I look at this kind of stuff like "Pop" science. The way scholars do things at leading Universities, Institutions and even the slime ball private sector is very different. A bit busy now for specific examples but take my word for it.Jun 1DeleteUndo deleteReport spamNot spam
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Like▼In graphics: Supercomputing superpowers - news.bbc.co.uk
[BBC; article, treemap] The biannual Top 500 supercomputer list has been released.
[BBC; article, treemap] The biannual Top 500 supercomputer list has been released.
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Like▼[Nature, pdf, 3 pages]
1. The power and the pitfalls
2. Now let's lower costs
3. Bottom-up will be more telling
4. The end of vitalism
5. Synthesis drives innovation
6. Nature's limits still apply
7. Got parts, need manual
8. Origin of life just got closer
Perspectives from eight synthetic biology experts on the synthetic cell - www.nature.com
1. The power and the pitfalls
2. Now let's lower costs
3. Bottom-up will be more telling
4. The end of vitalism
5. Synthesis drives innovation
6. Nature's limits still apply
7. Got parts, need manual
8. Origin of life just got closer
Perspectives from eight synthetic biology experts on the synthetic cell - www.nature.com
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