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  • My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated
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    My entire career is now technical debt, or the code has been deprecated.
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  • Opinion | How to meet the climate crisis? Redefine ‘abundance.’ - The Washington Post
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    What if we imagined “wealth” consisting not of the money we stuff into banks or the fossil-fuel-derived goods we pile up, but of joy, beauty, friendship, community, closeness to flourishing nature, to good food produced without abuse of labor? What if we were to think of wealth as security in our environments and societies, and as confidence in a viable future?
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  • What does it look like for the web to lose? - Chris Coyier
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    Better yet, let’s ditch the idea of native apps. All web! All web! All web!
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  • Transcribing all our conversations 24/7 will be weird and also useful maybe (Interconnected)
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    Sooner or later, every single conversation I have will be recorded and transcribed and I’ll be able to look back at it later – details from a phone call with the bank, in the hardware store asking a question, someone mentions a book at the pub, an idea in a workshop. Ignoring the societal consequences for a sec lol ahem… how should the app to manage all that chatter work?
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  • The End of Affordable Travel – 2069 – Medium
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    It could well be that future generations spend a fraction of the time we do today in transit but see far more of the world. Like preindustrial humans, they may work mostly in their homes
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  • WIPP Exhibit: Message to 12,000 A.D.
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    This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. This place is a message and part of a system of messages. Pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
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  • The Future of Work is "Turking for Uber" and you Won't Like it
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    80-90% of the work that is currently being done will be automated in the next 20-30 years.
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  • Paul O’Shannessy - Do We Need Node?
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    So what do I want? I want a world where the core JS engine is swappable. Maybe I’m deploying on an architecture not supported by V8 (Node on SPARC came up while working on SpiderNode). Maybe my employer only wants to use the JVM. Or maybe Microsoft can get some performance wins by using Chakra for Windows Azure. Back to modules, I don’t want to get rid of npm. Or maybe I do and I want something that only supports ES6+ modules.
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  • How the internet is making us poor – Quartz
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    Barring a civilization-ending event, technology is not going to move backward. More and more of our world will be controlled by software. It’s already become so ubiquitous that, argues one of my colleagues, it’s now ridiculous to call some firms as “tech” companies when all companies depend on it so much.
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  • Firefox's birthday present to us: Teaching tech titans about DIY upstarts • The Register
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    Given technology's focus on the latest and greatest, it's easy to forget that much of this "latest and greatest" wouldn't even be possible without the work Mozilla did for years with Firefox. Or that dominating the browser market was never Mozilla's aim with Firefox. Quixotic as it may sound, the purpose of Firefox was always to spread Web freedom.
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  • #shitsiskosays - Charlie's Diary
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    I've been struck particularly by two things missing from the DS9 universe--one unpredictable in the 1993-99 span of the series, and one predictable but unattractive from the creators' standpoint. Nobody uses social media, and nobody wastes time.
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  • You knew the old Mozilla, meet the new Mozilla – david ascher
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    While that fight is far from over, we’re now at a distinct point in the evolution of the web, and Mozilla has appropriately looked around, and broadened its reach. In particular, the browser isn’t the only strategic front in the struggle to promote and maintain people’s sovereignty over their online lives. There are now at least three other fronts where Mozilla is making significant investments of time, energy, passion, sweat & tears. They’re still in their infancy, but they’re important to understand if you want to understand Mozilla:
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  • No Copyright Intended - Waxy.org
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    Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone voices calling for temperance. You can criminalize commonplace activities from law-abiding people, but eventually, something has to give.
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  • Zittrain in Technology Review: The personal computer is dead
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    Both software developers and users should demand more. Developers should look for ways to reach their users unimpeded, through still-open platforms, or through pressure on the terms imposed by the closed ones. And users should be ready to try "off-roading" with the platforms that still allow it—hewing to the original spirit of the PC, perhaps amplified by systems that let apps have a trial run on a device without being given the keys to the kingdom. If we allow ourselves to be lulled into satisfaction with walled gardens, we'll miss out on innovations to which the gardeners object, and we'll set ourselves up for censorship of code and content that was previously impossible. We need some angry nerds.
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  • LukeW | The Web OS is Already Here…
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    Let me restate that simply. The Web (browser) is inside of every application instead of every application being inside the Web (browser).
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  • Must Watch: Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Pamela Gay, and Lawrence Krauss discuss our future in space [Video]
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  • Smartphone brain scanner
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  • Are jobs obsolete?
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  • Makers and breakers
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  • Karl Schroeder’s Space Shuttle send-off
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  • Blood sugar tech’s magic
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  • David Brin talks sousveillance | Blog | Futurismic
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  • Digging into our consciousness
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  • US and China to have manufacturing costs parity by 2015? | Blog | Futurismic
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  • US and China to have manufacturing costs parity by 2015? | Blog | Futurismic
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  • Evidence suggests that caffeine is a healthful antioxidant
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  • Meditation may help the brain reduce distractions and focus
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  • Smartphone app produces 3D scans
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  • Transcendent Men: is transhumanism ready for its close-up? | Blog | Futurismic
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  • First complete millimeter-scale computing system to be implanted in the eye
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  • This is why trying to prevent book piracy is utterly futile | Blog | Futurismic
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  • This is why trying to prevent book piracy is utterly futile | Blog | Futurismic
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  • Chinese Could Replace English as Dominant Internet Language
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  • Nanowire ‘racetrack’ memory could be 100,000 times faster
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  • Scientists suggest that cancer is purely man-made
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  • Emotiv EPOC EEG Headset Hacked
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  • Sugar Within Human Bodies Could Power Future Artificial Organs: Scientific American
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    "Now there is hope that future implants might be powered not by batteries but by the fuels in our bodies that are used for energy. Scientists have shown that fuel cells implanted in rats can successfully generate electricity from sugar in the rodent's bodies. The devices kept going for months at a time."
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  • Will Wall Street require Python? | ITworld
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    Charles Stross was right. "with Release 33-9117, the SEC is considering substitution of Python or another programming language for legal English as a basis for some of its regulations."
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  • Clifford Stoll: Why Web Won't Be Nirvana - Newsweek.com
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    This sounds so much more funny when read with a REALLY sarcastic voice. "Baloney. Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works."
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  • Redefining friendship: Facebook, MMORPGs and Dragon Age Origins | Blasphemous Geometries | Futurismic
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    "The end of human civilisation is millions of World of Warcraft servers with only one human player on each of them. Dragon Age: Origins seems to bring that day one step closer."
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  • Redefining friendship: Facebook, MMORPGs and Dragon Age Origins | Blasphemous Geometries | Futurismic
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    "The end of human civilisation is millions of World of Warcraft servers with only one human player on each of them. Dragon Age: Origins seems to bring that day one step closer."
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  • Lost in the Filth Simulacrum | h+ Magazine
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    "Yet what the media has failed to grasp is what 4chan can tell us about where we're headed. The Chans aren't the freak sideshow of the Internet. They are the heart and soul of the Internet. And they are the ones furthest ahead of the pack, leading us. At this point there should be little doubt that the Internet is mutating the human species into something completely different. Therefore it's instructive to look at the most extreme, freebased forms of the Internet to see where we're going -- and 4chan is that freebased version of mankind's new drug of choice."
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  • Detroit: the new frontier? | Blog | Futurismic
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    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh, wait, that's not The Onion. "Imagine for a moment that this trend continues – might Detroit become some sort of independent city-state, a mildly anarchic rough-and-ready town where the price of freedom is a willingness to work hard for yourself and with your neighbours?"
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  • Reasons to be optimistic for the future - opinion - 09 September 2009 - New Scientist
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    "Now, more than ever, science and reason must prevail. The scale of the challenge is hard to overstate, but New Scientist is optimistic that we can succeed: our boundless doomsaying is more than matched by our boundless creativity and our ability to, eventually, do the right thing."
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  • A Virtual Revolution Is Brewing for Colleges - washingtonpost.com
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    "If the mainstream of "college teaching" becomes a set of atomistic, underpaid adjuncts, we'll lose a precious academic tradition that is not easily replaced."
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  • Videogames And The Impossibility Of Escape From Planet Earth | > jim rossignol
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    "if space flight is really going to take thousands of years, hundreds of generations, and immense resources that could be better spent on having a good time, why should millions of sentient beings be expected to sink their lives into making it happen?"
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  • Ann Arbor and Warren: A Tale of Two Economies - WSJ.com
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  • Op-Ed Columnist - Time to Reboot America - NYTimes.com
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  • Schneier on Security: The Future of Ephemeral Conversation
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  • Where will all the web developers go? | Morethanseven
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    "So. What happens in 10–20 years time to the now quite large number of professional web developers.Do we all just do the same thing we’re doing now. Just with higher version numbers? ... Do we all become managers? ... Is their another industry that will have us?"
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