Next up: Machines that understand you and everything you care about, anticipate your behavior and emotions, absorb your social graph, interpret your intentions, and make life, um, “easier.”
via The Future Of Technology Isn’t Mobile, It’s Contextual | Co.Design: business + innovation + design.
Google today announced that it has been taking its Street View Trekker – the compact backpack version of its Street View cars – and its underwater Street View cameras to the Galapagos Islands and that it plans to make these images available on Google Maps later this year. The company worked together with the Charles Darwin Foundation, the Galapagos National Parks Directorate and, for the underwater survey, the Catlin Seaview Survey.
via Google Takes Street View Trekker And Underwater Cameras To The Galapagos Islands | Tech Crunch
Tapping M2M: The Internet of Things | ZDNet – TechRepublic
A resource with a series of articles about M2M communication aka the Internet of Things.
Five lesser-known web browsers worth trying | TechRepublic
The article reviews:
Related:
Greatest Hits from Pew Internet’s Library Research from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project
Tech trends and library services in the digital age from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and also Pew: Tech trends and library services in the digital age | Stephen’s Lighthouse
Pew – Public’s Knowledge of Science and Technology | Stephen’s Lighthouse
Are we on the verge of a third industrial revolution? The editors at The Economist certainly think so. But while rapid prototyping and the open source movement have been around for decades now, we had yet to see anyone take a truly comprehensive look at the transformation in manufacturing. That is, until the New Museum’s latest show, Adhocracy, came along.
Adhocracy is, in the word of its curator, Domus editor Joseph Grima, “an exhibition about people who make things.”
The objects vary, but the ethos stays the same: making is no longer the purview of companies which manufacture millions of the same object. It’s the right of individuals, who are manufacturing one or two objects to fit their own unique needs, then passing along their code.
See the full article at Gizmodo: 8 Objects That Signal a New Industrial Revolution.
Unfold’s “Stratigraphic Manufactury”
The article is an interview with the author who challenges our obsession with digital culture.
“Kodak employed 140,000 people. Instagram, 13. A digital visionary says the Web kills jobs, wealth — even democracy.”
“His book continues his war on digital utopianism and his assertion of humanist and individualistic values in a hive-mind world. But Lanier still sees potential in digital technology: He just wants it reoriented away from its main role so far, which involves “spying” on citizens, creating a winner-take-all society, eroding professions and, in exchange, throwing bonbons to the crowd.”
via Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class – Salon.com.
10 Stellar Presentations from Computers in Libraries 2013 – iLibrarian
1.) Augmented Reality & Next-Gen Libraries
2.) Enabling Innovation
3.) UX & Accessibility Pecha Kucha
4.) Metrics That Work
5.) Becoming TechCentral
6.) LibGuides: Sustaining & Embedding Strategies
7.) Mobile Discovery & Search
8.) Top Tips From Top Searchers
9.) Mobilizing the User Experience: Mobile First and Responsive Design
10.) The Future of Libraries: Uncertainty & Imagination:Evolving Libraries Through Technology
“In a digital age where many commentators tolled the death knell for the book-bound library, we’ve reported time and time again that the libraries of the future are the ones that react and adapt to new technology, not run from it.”
Ouya Console Starts Shipping to Kickstarter Backers With 104 Games | Mashable
Related:
Ouya: A Game-Changing Game System | American Libraries Magazine
“Libraries should keep an eye on the Ouya. Not only as a relatively inexpensive way to bring console games to the library, but also as an example of independent publishing squaring off against the established giants.”
You may also like:
infophile 