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Nicholas Carr on Impact of the Information Age | FiveBooks | The Browser
Let me begin by asking about this term “the information age”, which is bandied about as the successor, I suppose, to the industrial age. What precisely does it mean? I’m not sure it means anything precisely. It’s a term we use in a vague fashion to get across that information has become in many ways the most important commodity in society.
Christine Smallwood imagines the place where we live, in a freshly re-uploaded essay from The Baffler’s archives. The magazine has just re-launched; you can order issue 19 at The Baffler , and help fund its future on Kickstarter . In 2007, Popular Science broke important ground in Internet visualization theory—an ongoing effort to describe what happens behind our computer screens, or, more accurately, beyond them, inside Ethernet cables and satellites lying around in the upper atmosphere. What does all this activity look like? The answer, according to PopSci , is “an enormous, hulking Tootsie Roll pop.” The task your data faces is to lick its way to the center, where all the magic happens.
What Does the Internet Look Like? | Motherboard
Don't assume 3D printers are just for nerds who want to make customized chess pieces and spare parts for their model spaceships. Entire pieces of furniture, customized prosthetic limbs , and jewelry have come out of 3D printers. Office workers might also appreciate the following possible uses for a basic 3D printer, like the new MakerBot Replicator , which starts at $1,749. And not just for paper clips.
Why Your Office Needs a MakerBot Printer - Things to Make With a 3D Printer - Businessweek
The future of the Internet
To hear enthusiasts tell it, the technique of additive manufacturing, better known as 3D printing, has the potential to change not just manufacturing, but the world. 3D printing today makes prototyping and manufacturing complex, custom objects simpler but tomorrow, everyone will have a 3D printer on their desk and make their own sneakers and hats. 3D printing is getting hyped right now, with a front page story in The Economist and a long article in the Times, but we actually think it is underhyped.
THE NEXT TRILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY: 3D Printing
How Much Is Twitter Worth? - Business Insider
What that means is that the established value of Twitter has to be based on the value it brings its users, but not necessarily its advertisers yet. That would suggest that the users may have to pay something for it to ever reach its valuation, at least until the advertising world figures out how to monetize that audience. The five-year-old Twitter has 200 million registered users. While it is possible that many, if not most, people might be willing to spend a small amount of money each to be part of the Twitter universe, that is still a huge step that few internet businesses have been willing to take. Where does that leave the valuation of Twitter? The answer today is in the form of another question: “To whom?”.
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Eduardo Saverin is proving himself to be a canny and courageous investor. Apart from anything, news that he has invested $6.5 million into Jumio , and his earlier investment in Qwiki, illuminate what an incredibly innovative ecosystem the web is – was there every anything like it? And they show Saverin has an appetite to be at the forefront of how we function online, perhaps even to define it.
What Eduardo Saverin Did Next (And Why Jumio and Qwiki Matter) - Forbes
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'ACTA is More Dangerous Than SOPA'
SOPA and PIPA are stalled (or dead) in the halls of the U.S. Congress. Yet, there may be a bigger, perhaps more dangerous threat to Internet freedoms on the way, called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA. At least that’s how U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R. – Calif., sees it, telling an audience, “As a member of Congress, it’s more dangerous than SOPA.14.27 Economics and E-commerce | Calendar Stigler, George J. "The Theory of Economic Regulation."; Coase, Ronald.
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Social Business Design (Photo credit: David Armano) Social business is about to enter a new phase, according to SAP ‘s Sameer Patel . I agree. Patel has been a commentator and consultant on social but he recently crossed the divide and joined SAP.uShip - The Online Shipping Marketplace - Ship Freight, Furniture, Cars or Moves
uShip is a great service and we are so happy we went this way. Our shipper was very careful a great communicator and honest. Would do this again in a heart beat! - Dan D.Mar 28, 2012 ... During the late 1990s, when the internet first boomed, we talked a lot about creative destruction ... I am extremely excited for the future though.
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