Posts tagged with ‘technology’

According to Dave Evans, Cisco’s chief futurist and chief technologist for the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group, about 5 exabytes of unique information were created in 2008. That’s 1 billion DVDs. Fast forward three years and we are creating 1.2 zettabytes, with one zettabyte equal to 1,024 exabytes. “This is the same as every person on Earth tweeting for 100 years, or 125 million years of your favorite one-hour TV show,” says Evans. Our love of high-definition video accounts for much of the increase. By Cisco’s count, 91% of Internet data in 2015 will be video.
The Technology Liberation Front
curiositycounts: Google and Carnegie Mellon researchers team up on cloud-powered facial recognition that would enable you to take a photo of a complete stranger and track their real identity in mere minutes

curiositycounts:

Google and Carnegie Mellon researchers team up on cloud-powered facial recognition that would enable you to take a photo of a complete stranger and track their real identity in mere minutes

This is a technical demo for face substitution technique. The application works in real time and it’s developed using the opensource framework for creative coding openFrameworks: openFrameworks.cc

Most of the “magic” happens thanks to Jason Saragih’s c++ library for face tracking web.mac.com/​jsaragih/​FaceTracker/​FaceTracker.html. The face tracking library returns a mesh that matches the contour of the eyes, nose, mouth and other facial features.

Continued here: http://vimeo.com/29279198
Another (better and creepier) version here: vimeo.com/​29348533

(Source: thedailywh.at)

From Google Chrome: An interactive infographic, built in HTML5, which details the evolution of major web technologies and browsers.

From Google Chrome: An interactive infographic, built in HTML5, which details the evolution of major web technologies and browsers.

Ray Kurzweil talks #transhumanism on CNN.

Where I finish with the sentiment that multiple online identities should be encouraged.

From the site:

Transatlantic Network 2020 member, Zadi Diaz, discusses the future of cities, the networked world, and the benefits of managing multiple online identities.

The British Council’s Transatlantic Network 2020 programme (britishcouncil.org/​tn2020) connects young leaders from across Europe and North America who bring various cultural and social experiences together to act on global issues.

We believe bringing these future young leaders together will strengthen mutual understanding, respect and trust between both continents.

The TN2020 network focuses on three key areas: Sustainable Living; Creativity and Innovation and Building Resilience in Communities.

This week in Berlin, members from various transatlantic networks will discuss the big issues for the next decade and how they will affect the world we live in.

Join the conversation on Twitter (#TN2020) or Quora:

Why are cities becoming more important than countries?
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What new business opportunities will arise from the networked city?
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How will notions of work and play merge?
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How can we overcome the generation gap in understanding of networked society?
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What consequences do multiple online identities have on professional life?
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Watch more TN2020 videos at youtube.com/​user/​Transatlantic2020

soupsoup: iPad 2 in new white color shown above  Same prices as iPad : starting at $499  Available on March 11th Available on both AT&T and Verizon for 3G service (no 4G yet) 1/3 thinner than iPad Front and back camera Back camera: Video recording, HD (720p) up to 30 frames per second with audio; still camera with 5x digital zoom Front camera: Video recording, VGA up to 30 frames per second with audio; VGA-quality still camera A5 dual core processor Twice as fast CPU Graphics are nine times faster Same screen resolution as iPad White iPad option shipping on day one Same 10 hour battery life as iPad, 1 month of standby Same memory configurations as iPad HDMI video out You can charge and do video out at the same time Lighter, thinner “Smart Covers” Fast enough to run 9 live video streams at once Ability to stream video and audio from iPad and iPhone to your TV using Apple TV Photobooth video conferencing works between iPad 4 and iPhone as well as between iPads Full specs here Will update as more information comes in. Candy.

soupsoup:

iPad 2 in new white color shown above 

  • Same prices as iPad : starting at $499 
  • Available on March 11th
  • Available on both AT&T and Verizon for 3G service (no 4G yet)
  • 1/3 thinner than iPad
  • Front and back camera
  • Back camera: Video recording, HD (720p) up to 30 frames per second with audio; still camera with 5x digital zoom
  • Front camera: Video recording, VGA up to 30 frames per second with audio; VGA-quality still camera
  • A5 dual core processor
  • Twice as fast CPU
  • Graphics are nine times faster
  • Same screen resolution as iPad
  • White iPad option shipping on day one
  • Same 10 hour battery life as iPad, 1 month of standby
  • Same memory configurations as iPad
  • HDMI video out
  • You can charge and do video out at the same time
  • Lighter, thinner “Smart Covers”
  • Fast enough to run 9 live video streams at once
  • Ability to stream video and audio from iPad and iPhone to your TV using Apple TV
  • Photobooth video conferencing works between iPad 4 and iPhone as well as between iPads
  • Full specs here

Will update as more information comes in.

Candy.

culturite: Gone Forever: What Does It Take to Really Disappear? With so much recent discussion about the relative permanency of our digital selves and the virtual impossibility, let alone desirability, of self-removal from the online world vs. the need to preserve our digital existences for posthumous posterity, Evan Ratliff’s remarkable 2009 project/piece/ARG, VANISH, for Wired is worth revisiting & reconsidering. Is it even a question of how to disappear completely?

culturite:

Gone Forever: What Does It Take to Really Disappear?

With so much recent discussion about the relative permanency of our digital selves and the virtual impossibility, let alone desirability, of self-removal from the online world vs. the need to preserve our digital existences for posthumous posterity, Evan Ratliff’s remarkable 2009 project/piece/ARG, VANISH, for Wired is worth revisiting & reconsidering.

Is it even a question of how to disappear completely?

kenyatta:

ni9e: Freedom, Art & Viral Media…. in 40 mins

Evan’s brilliant Freedom, Art & Viral Media presentation at Learning Without Frontiers. It truly is worth 40 minutes of your time. On his challenge to students of his ‘Urban Hacking 101’ Class:

“Start looking at the city in a different way… looking at the city like hackers: looking for systems that repeat, looking for places they can exploit and change the meaning of.”
techspotlight: Christopher “moot” Poole created 4chan, an online community where people are free to be wrong. Now big investors want a piece of his ideas. (via Technology Review: Radical Opacity)

techspotlight:

Christopher “moot” Poole created 4chan, an online community where people are free to be wrong. Now big investors want a piece of his ideas. (via Technology Review: Radical Opacity)

Last week I was on FourCast, a show on the @TWiT network hosted by Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson, with fellow guest Casey McKinnon. I have to say, I had so much fun on this show. It’s basically 50 minutes of predicting future technologies 10, 100, 1,000 years from today. I love, love, love to let my imagination run wild, and I had to kind of hold back from just spilling out the TONS of wild things I think may happen in the future.

If you don’t have time to watch, you can also download the audio track and listen to it at your leisure. Thanks again Tom and Scott for inviting me on!

What do you think will happen 10, 100, 1,000+ years from today?

Google Goggles: Visual search on the web for the Android phone.

No more typing in a search term, now all you have to do is point your camera and shoot.

stevewoolf: For the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been developing what they expect will be the world’s most advanced “question answering” machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday human elocution — “natural language,” as computer scientists call it — and respond with a precise, factual answer. In other words, it must do more than what search engines like Googleand Bing do, which is merely point to a document where you might find the answer. It has to pluck out the correct answer itself. Technologists have long regarded this sort of artificial intelligence as a holy grail, because it would allow machines to converse more naturally with people, letting us ask questions instead of typing keywords. Software firms and university scientists have produced question-answering systems for years, but these have mostly been limited to simply phrased questions. Nobody ever tackled “Jeopardy!” because experts assumed that even for the latest artificial intelligence, the game was simply too hard: the clues are too puzzling and allusive, and the breadth of trivia is too wide. Full article

stevewoolf:

For the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been developing what they expect will be the world’s most advanced “question answering” machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday human elocution — “natural language,” as computer scientists call it — and respond with a precise, factual answer. In other words, it must do more than what search engines like Googleand Bing do, which is merely point to a document where you might find the answer. It has to pluck out the correct answer itself. Technologists have long regarded this sort of artificial intelligence as a holy grail, because it would allow machines to converse more naturally with people, letting us ask questions instead of typing keywords. Software firms and university scientists have produced question-answering systems for years, but these have mostly been limited to simply phrased questions. Nobody ever tackled “Jeopardy!” because experts assumed that even for the latest artificial intelligence, the game was simply too hard: the clues are too puzzling and allusive, and the breadth of trivia is too wide.

Full article

Content is King” — no longer. Today, the world has changed. “Curation Is King.

Steve Rosenbaum (via soupsoup)

It’s a niche not yet fulfilled the way it should be.

(via tanya77)

This is the key to the next couple of years.  Delivering the right content to the right person at the right time is the next great challenge.  Those who get it right will win.

(via evangotlib)

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To create proper curation filters and not rebuild old gatekeeper models will be the trick. Can it be done? Yes. Will it be done properly? If human greed doesn’t get in the way.

Side note: Steve and I came across old files of writing while packing. Some old scripts we had forgotten about that made us laugh. We don’t have digital versions of these files. I thought about how now we have access to all of the content we’ve ever created. I can just type in a keyword or tag, and it’ll show up. But what about serendipity? What about surprise? What about experiencing something new outside of our self-made tags or the box an advertiser/network has put us in? Is that just stumbleupon? I’m sure we’ll find a way to code kismet into our future experiences. ;)

Don’t get me wrong, I’m looking forward to figuring all of this stuff out. These are truly and undeniably exciting times. The hope is to not lose our sense of wonder, discovery and self-growth in the race to curate and filter our world.

A post-privacy world, increasingly operated by generations that traded privacy for connectivity and interactivity, naturally features the onerous spectre of surveillance. The future you move into, however, will be characterised by inverse surveillance: the open monitoring of authority objects. The flow of statistics into the street. The point of a “digital city” is a city that reports to you, not on you.

Extend that out of the cities. Build your 3G masts and your chains of Wi-Fi routers so that your fields and woodlands and towpaths can speak to you as clearly as your roads and squares. Yours may be the last generation where a child can get lost. As often as some people will like to tell you that you are living in “late capitalism”, you’re not.

Warren Ellis: Making the century weirder

If I encountered Warren Ellis in meatspace and told him that I find him inspiring, he would probably snarl at me with five new swear words he’d just made up in that moment. But that is the advantage of not knowing him in meatspace.

(via lizlet)

I think it’s still unclear who will surveil who, what will report on what. It’s still very possible that the elites will have more data on normal people than normal people have on the elites. This is an important question: power comes from information assymetry.

(via mikehudack)

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In the past, I learned the most when I got lost. I’ll miss that.