The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future - Alexis Madrigal - Technology. After five years pursuing the social-local-mobile dream, we need a fresh paradigm for technology startups. Finnish teenagers performing digital ennui in 1996 2006. Reuters. We're there. The future that visionaries imagined in the late 1990s of phones in our pockets and high-speed Internet in the air: Well, we're living in it. "The third generation of data and voice communications -- the convergence of mobile phones and the Internet, high-speed wireless data access, intelligent networks, and pervasive computing -- will shape how we work, shop, pay bills, flirt, keep appointments, conduct wars, keep up with our children, and write poetry in the next century.
" That's Steve Silberman reporting for Wired in 1999, which was 13 years ago, if you're keeping count. He was right, and his prediction proved correct before this century even reached its teens. The question is, as it has always been: now what? Decades ago, the answer was, "Build the Internet. " That paradigm has run its course.
A Day in the Life of the Internet [INFOGRAPHIC] The Internet is, by most scientific estimates, friggin' huge. While only about one-third of the world's population is connected, the amount of data we generate and consume is likely to blow your hair back. Perhaps the best way to put all those petabytes in perspective is to look at what goes down in a single day. How much "stuff" happens on the Internet every 24 hours? Would you believe that 294 billion emails are sent?
That 2 million blog posts are written? That 864,000 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube alone? SEE ALSO: 10 Reasons Twitter Is Sexier Than Facebook The infographic below, courtesy of MBAonline.com, breaks it down even further. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, iPandastudio. The Next List: Yves Behar wants design to change the world - Feb. 24. Tune in to CNN's "The Next List" at 2 p.m. ET on Sunday to see a 30-minute profile of Yves Behar. For extended coverage of innovators and visionaries, check out The Next List's What's Next blog.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- You may not have heard of Yves Behar, but chances are you've seen his designs. He's the visionary behind the popular Jawbone Jambox sound system, Herman Miller's SAYL chairs, Swarovski chandeliers, and even New York City's free condoms. The Swiss designer, now based in San Francisco, has plenty of commercial hits. Now he's nearing completion of the sequel: A $100 tablet. "The tablet is a refinement of the laptop," Behar told CNN's Sanjay Gupta in interviews for "The Next List. " The project began six years ago when Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of MIT's Media Lab, approached Behar with an idea many deemed impossible: create an inexpensive and impeccably designed laptop for children across the world. The tablet's screen is both flexible and durable, Behar says.
Trends in Social Media. 10 Tech Concepts for 2011 - Technology Terms. 6 Optogenetics Until now, researchers looking to stimulate specific neurons had to rely on bursts of electricity—an imprecise and difficult-to-control technique. That's why the new field of optogenetics is so exciting. By combining fiberoptics and designer viruses, researchers can now stimulate neurons with a high degree of precision. This could allow, for example, the development of implants that can take over the functions of a brain region that might have been damaged by a wound or stroke. First, the brain is injected with a virus that is engineered to activate specific neurons when light hits them. A fiber-optic cable combined with an electrode then sends light into the brain, turning the neurons on and off, on command. Initial experiments used rodents, but researchers have now applied the technique to monkeys, and DARPA recently announced a project aimed at using optogenetics to help injured veterans. 7 Mechanophores 8 Cellphone Diagnostics 9 Homomorphic Encryption.
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