Month: June 2013

Awesome 2.0

I took a fiction writing course once during a hazy undergrad phase. One memorable story I recall, written by a classmate, featured a character named Awesome. That was before awesome was awesome. The character Awesome was ironically named. But the

Microbots in Surgical Scrubs

You may recall the hypothetical respirocyte from the turn of the century. The salad days of the Network Age were filled with promise — anything was possible then, as new companies like google and yahoo seemed to transcend old school

Seeing Data

Just came across this fabulous article by Marcus Woo … Seeing Data. Big data, by definition, implies drinking in vast quantities of information that must necessarily be distilled down into a mixture which we humans can tractably consume and digest.

Telekinesis Now

By sensing a disturbance in the force, as it were, Network Age telekinesis at home is soon upon us. Through the analysis of ambient Wi-Fi signals a team at the University of Washington has developed code that senses very subtle

Hackers Spawn Web Supercomputer

Wired article worth the read: Hackers Spawn Web Supercomputer on Way to Chess World Record There are several Network Age themes of note in this one article. Consider: – Education has fundamentally changed. Immersion is emerging as a best practice.

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