Packed into a small conference room, this rag-tag band of software developers has an outsized digital pedigree, and they have a mission to match. They hope to jailbreak the internet. They call it the Indie Web movement, an effort to create a web that’s not so dependent on tech giants like Facebook, Twitter, and, yes, Google — a web that belongs not to one individual or one company, but to everyone. “I don’t trust myself,” says Fitzpatrick. “And I don’t trust companies.” The movement grew out of an egalitarian online project launched by Fitzpatrick, before he made the move to Google. And over the past few years, it has roped in about 100 other coders from around the world. On any given day, you’ll find about 30 or 40 of them on an IRC chat channel, and each summer, they come together in the flesh for this two-day mini-conference, known as IndieWebCamp.
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Over a long breakfast with Chris Watkins of Appropedia recently, I realised that there are several distinct schools of Clean/Appropriate technology where different sets of assumptions drive optimisation for different outcomes. 
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"The improbable consists of more than just accidents. The internets are also brimming with improbable feats of performance — someone who can run up a side of a building, or slide down suburban roof tops, or stack up cups faster than you can blink. Not just humans, but pets open doors, ride scooters, and paint pictures. The improbable also includes extraordinary levels of super human achievements: people doing astonishing memory tasks, or imitating all the accents of the world. In these extreme feats we see the super in humans.
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Out in the Northeast Texas town of Ft. Worth, a company called CircuitCo started making something they called the BeagleBoard -- an open source hardware single-board computer for educators and experimenters.
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From LinuxCon & CloudOpen North America in New Orleans, LA. What comes after the Internet? What is bigger than the web? What will produce more wealth than al...
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Mark Stephenson, a possibilist, futurologist and author of 'Optimists Tour of the Future' recently featured on Radio 4's show, 'Bremner's One Question Quiz, What Does the Future Hold?'
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The virtual currency launched in 2009 is being used by homeless people in Pensacola, Florida in unexpected ways. Instead of begging for change, Jesse Angle, a homeless man, grabs his morning snack and coffee and makes his way to a nearby park with Wi-Fi access. Angle watches YouTube videos in exchange for bitcoins. For every video he watches, Angle gets 0.0004 bitcoins, amounting to about 5 cents, through the service BitcoinGet. The service drives artificial traffic to specific online clips. Jesse has a limit of 12 videos per day, meaning he can earn 60 cents daily.
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This 2-part piece aims to locate cybernetic systems theory and digital developments within the context of the now-structural economic ‘crisis’ and project of world libertarian communism, or to put this term another way, ‘the human project’…
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The iPhone 5s, released Friday, has a built-in fingerprint scanner, which will function as an alternative to conventional passwords. Some privacy advocates are concerned about how Apple plans to handle this highly sensitive data. Apple says it will only store the data collected via Touch ID on the device in an encrypted format rather than in a centralized server. Apple will also block third-party apps from accessing Touch ID.
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TZM Interviews is a new form of dialog that brings proactive, visionary and inspiring people into this conversation about how the scientific method for social concern applies to global sustainability
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Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), in conjunction with Arthur D. Little and Chalmers University of Technology, today releases results of a joint study on the economic effects of broadband access speed on households.
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Cloud computing means using software programs and/or storage space for your files, that exist and are installed somewhere “in the cloud”, that is on some remote hardware accessible through the Internet and any Web browser, instead of the computer, smartphone or tablet that is physically in your hands.
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The eccentric millionaire showed up in San Jose to reveal his plans for a device capable of creating surveillance-free, personal networks.
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There’s always something – usually many things – that I find interesting in a talk from Kevin Kelly. In this talk at LinuxCon he is in “thinking big” mode, placing the evolution of technology within the context of human history and the story of the whole planet – his model of the technium, seeing all technology as a network, effectively a super-organism that is evolving and growing rapidly. He explored this idea in his book,What Technology Wants.
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An astute observer of culture and technology, Thompson has plenty of terms to share. In Smarter Than You Think, a smart yet scattered book, he champions the idea that the Internet is not, in fact, turning us into a society of facile thinkers. Even as the Internet alters old literacies, it creates new ones. And rather than a society of people enslaved by computer screens, he sees a world where people become solvers of puzzles, fluent manipulators of data, people who use Internet connectivity to break down barriers.
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Clive Thompson, author of the new book, “Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better,” argues that technology is making us more intelligent and creating an ambient awareness of the people around us.
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Researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are showing the way toward low-cost, industrial-scale manufacturing of a new family of electronic devices.
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InsightaaS: One of our “pet peeves” is the (IT) industry-wide assumption that collaboration is a destination. It’s not: collaboration is a means, not an end. And yet, sales of collaboration systems are an end for many of the suppliers in IT, so we often see collaboration described as a destination rather than a tool.
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Marco Casagrande has been awarded the 2013 European Prize for Architecture. Finnish, Italian roots, 42, Marco is an original architect and environmental artist, urban philosopher, architectural theorist, writer, and professor of architecture.
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“Division of labor” drives both economic production and technological progress. Adam Smith illustrated the basic principle in his classic tome Wealth of Nations with a description of a pin factory, where each task was divided into standardized steps to be completed more cost-efficiently by different people. And the economist Leonard Read relied on the same idea with his classic story of why no single person alive knows how to make a simple, ordinary wooden pencil
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In a recent in-depth interview with Kathy Calvin of the United Nations Foundation, Elaine Weidman-Grunewald of Ericsson, Kate James of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Pete Cashmore of Mashable, Henry Timms of 92Y and Sigrid Kaag of UNDP, we discussed the creation, purpose, vision and global impact of the Social Good Summit—a three-day conference where big ideas meet new media to create innovative solutions. Held during UN Week from September 22-24 at the 92nd St. Y in New York, the Social Good Summit unites a dynamic community of global leaders to discuss a big idea: the power of innovative thinking and technology to solve our world’s greatest challenges. Read the full interview below.
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There’s been tremendous energy behind the movement to change the way that local governments use technology to better connect with residents.
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Recent studies and analyses indicate that automation has the potential to make 45% - 70% of today’s jobs obsolete in the coming decades, and that a key competency for the employee of the future may be the ability to work alongside collaborative robots.
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