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Ike Kapetan
Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 3039 Location: Europe
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Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:22 am Post subject: Future World |
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Reddit: Miracles You’ll See In The Next Fifty Years (printed in Feb, 1950)
"When I was younger my grandfather told me that he thought he'd
own his own personal helicopter by now, just like everyone else in
the neighborhood would."
Miracles You’ll See In The Next Fifty Years” was an article featured in the
“February 1950? issue of Popular Mechanics. |
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XNote Kapetan
Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 532
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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Reddit: As the rest of Europe slowly dies out, France abounds with babies. Why?
"because most of our modern societies function pretty much like a
pyramid scheme and relies on growth; think about social security for
instance, but even purely commercial ventures requires a continual
growth... on the long term we are screwed, unless we find a truly
sustainable economic model." |
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delovski
Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 3523 Location: Zagreb
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Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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Slashdot: No More Coding From Scratch?
"In the science fiction novel, 'A Deepness in the Sky,' Vernor Vinge
described a future where software is created by 'programmer archaeologists'
who search archives for existing pieces of code, contextualize them, and
combine them into new applications. So much complexity and automation
has been built into code that it is simply infeasible to build from scratch.
While this seems like the ultimate code reuse fantasy (or nightmare), we
think it's starting to happen with the availability of Open Source software.
We have observed a number of projects where software development is
driven by the identification, selection, and combination of working software
systems. More often than not, these constituent parts are Open Source
software systems and typically not designed to be used as components.
These parts are then made to interoperate through wrappers and glue
code. We think this trend is a harbinger of things to come.
What do you think? How prevalent is this approach to new software development?
What do software developers think about their projects being used in such
a way?" |
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delovski
Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 3523 Location: Zagreb
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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Digg: Google.org Begins Hiring to Save the Planet
"Google's philanthropic arm has started hiring employees to help make
the world a better place in several key areas — including global poverty,
climate change and global public health. Today, a link was posted on the
Google.org website to a list of job openings they are looking to fill." |
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Ike Kapetan
Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 3039 Location: Europe
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XNote Kapetan
Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 532
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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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Scanned pic: Future Games! |
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Ike Kapetan
Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 3039 Location: Europe
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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Digg: Some Wacky Technology Predictions from 1994
" 'The Tomorrow Show' is an article from the June, 1994 issue of Playboy.
It cites what the "masterminds of entertainment, fashion, food and electronics
have in store for the next few decades." Richard Branson: Planes will have
jacuzzis. Nathan Myhrvold: Lightbulbs and walls will be computerized. Todd
Rundgren: Songs will cost about a dollar." |
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delovski
Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 3523 Location: Zagreb
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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Paleo Future: Sea City 2000 (1979)
"The Sea City 2000 shows some great paleo-future technology such as
the dish-shaped antenna that beams microwave energy, generated by solar
cells, to a receiver on the nearby coast." |
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delovski
Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 3523 Location: Zagreb
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Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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reddit: 1979 Living Room of the Future (PIC) (flickr.com)
"Obviously some of the predictions were entirely wrong, and some of the
timetables optimistic, but we do indeed have giant, flat-screen TVs, electronic
mail, and digital cameras; ..." |
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delovski
Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 3523 Location: Zagreb
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Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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dark roasted blend - Retro-Future: To The Stars!
Rare & Beautiful Vintage Visions of the Future
"Soviet & Eastern Bloc "popular tech & science" magazines, German, Italian,
British fantastic illustrations and promotional literature - all from the Golden
Age of Retro-Future (from 1930s to 1970s)." |
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delovski
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XNote Kapetan
Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 532
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delovski
Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 3523 Location: Zagreb
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 1:14 am Post subject: |
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edge.org - A Short Course In Thinking About Thinking
"The correlation between what the change that actually happened in their ta-
stes and the change that they predicted was absolutely zero.
It turns out—this I think is now generally accepted—that people are not good
at affective forecasting. We have no problem predicting whether we'll enjoy
the soup we're going to have now if it's a familiar soup, but we are not good
if it's an unfamiliar experience, or a frequently repeated familiar experience." |
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Ike Kapetan
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delovski
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delovski
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2016 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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techcrunch - Apple's AI if by Air
"Pairing the AirPods is incredibly easy, thanks to the W1 chip. The method
is so easy in fact that Apple does not use the word pairing anywhere in its
instruction manual - using the word 'connect' instead. It's marketing, but it's
also a fair differentiation between the baroque drama that is most Bluetooth
pairing sessions and the process of connecting AirPods." |
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Ike Kapetan
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