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The Web in 2012
A panel on the future of commerce, journalism, and community on the Internet, featuring Barry Diller (fox/e-commerce), Arianna Huffington, and Craig Newmark (social media/Craigslist) from the 2007 New Yorker Conference. In a closer look at this webcast it was interesting to see the differing perspectives of Barry Diller and Craig Newmark. Diller argues that professional [...]
Inventing and Giving
Innovator Dean Kamen lays out his argument for the Segway shortly after its official unveiling. As he loops gracefully around the stage, his fact- and figure-reeling betrays his intensity: 50 percent of the world population lives in cities; 43 percent of the refined fuel produced in the world is consumed by cars in metropolitan areas [...]
Microsoft Surface Computing!
One of Microsoft Corp.’s biggest secrets looks like a normal coffee table. Until it’s switched on. Microsoft unveiled a new tabletop computing interface it is dubbing “surface computing.” In the works for five years in Microsoft Research as a project called Milan, the idea is to transform a surface as big as tabletop into a [...]
