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Sputnik Moments
Two things I like about this article. One – Sputnik Moments In recent months, China has quietly given the United States a series of new Sputnik Moments Although a tad fear mongering, still very very cool phrase Two – Quantum Communications China successfully tested the world’s first quantum satellite communication – relying on the physics…
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The value of information is immediacy
The more we get comfortable in our information age, the more valuable it is for immediacy. Tidal uses immediacy with invested artists to get subscribers. Record labels leverage it in negotiations with Spotify. You want to watch Game of Thrones without spoilers? You’ve got to watch it sooner. Maybe you should pay for HBO.
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Broke my phone, Stupid Rogers
My iPhone 5C is dead. Again I thought we had lost it, but a friend saved it. Then in my excitment to tell the story of the saved iPhone, I chucked it across the room and now the screen is broken. Dead again Rogers now wants to charge me a stupid amount of money for…
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Watching Mastodon. Carefully.
I want to sign up to one of the mastodon instances I Just can’t pick right now. It’s like registering for [insert absurd name here]@hotmail.com. Or using hotmail or yahoo for an aplication to any tech job. I feel it will be important soon. What’s really good is that Mastodon is the layer missing from…
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The dark side of McLuhan’s Tribal Man
Does the Global Village have a few dark alleys? If you don’t know McLuhan’s theory, here’s my super-duper simplified a-little-too-much version of it: Around 1964, McLuhan theorized that as technology advanced it would become a digital central nervous system of information connecting all media like our physical central nervous system connects our senses. In this connectivity,…