“We have normality. I repeat, we have normality.
Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.”
Quote of the Day: “Personally, I don’t think there’s intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?” – Bob Monkhouse
If you are a good coder in Silicon Valley, you are among the pampered elite. You get big paychecks, people bring you free gourmet food, drivers shuttle you around town. Coders in Silicon Valley are treated a lot like talented entertainers would be in Hollywood. It’s a thought not lost on Altay Guvench, a coder himself who has become one of the first agents for software developers.
Continue reading… ““Show me the money!” Top programmers can now get agents”
By rejecting patent applications, developing countries have kept down the costs of much-needed medications.
Gleevec, a leukemia drug, costs $70,000 per year in the United States, but only costs $2,500 in India. Why does that drug cost so much more in the U.S.?
Continue reading… “Why does chemotherapy cost $70k in the U.S., but only costs $2.5k in India?”
Futurist Thomas Frey: In the late 1980s, I was an engineer working as part of an IBM team to build a mobile satellite command and control center for monitoring missile launches from space. This contract was part of Regan’s “Star Wars” missile defense system.
Continue reading… “Monitoring People from Space: The Good the Bad, and the Ugly”
The average CEO makes more in an hour than his or her average employee makes in a month.
The rise of extreme income and wealth inequality is one of the biggest crises in the American economy. One of the causes of the wealth inequality is the bizarre consensus that, when it comes to the pay scales of the people at the top, there’s no such thing as “too much.”
Continue reading… “The average CEO makes 380 times as much as the average employee”
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Bitcoin, launched in 2009 by an anonymous developer, is an intriguing technological and financial experiment. Quartz reports, there has been a recent spike in value (approximately 1,300% since the beginning of the 2013). Starting your own currency is “not as complicated as it sounds. All you need is a system other people can understand and, most importantly, trust,” according to The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson.
Continue reading… “What is Bitcoin? This video explains it in less than 4 minutes”
Advanced mapping technology has let one aid organization in Africa see more clearly the scope of the problems it’s trying to fix.
A good mapping app can be appreciated by everyone. Look what happened to Apple when it failed at providing a good mapping application. Maps save us from getting lost, ensure that we get to locations on time, and guide us through complicated public transportation systems. And in some places, they can save lives. Just ask World Vision, a humanitarian organization focused on poverty and justice.
Continue reading… “How advanced mapping technology can change the world”
Raymond Alvarez: “We are a nation of laws.”
There was a time when another nation found itself confronted with unwanted visitors who ignored their laws. The people fought these squatters and went on to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Cherokee Nation initially lost its case, but won on subsequent appeal.
David Carroll, nanotechnologist at Wake Forest University.
Nanotechnologist, David Carroll, is working on a simple material that he thinks will soon be a part of everything you own. Carroll’s research group at Wake Forest University developed a flexible fabric that makes electricity from heat or movement. It could revolutionize cheap, renewable energy.
Continue reading… “Electricity-creating fabric could be everywhere soon”
The Digital Video Benchmark for the U.S. for 2012 has been released by Adobe. The Digital Index team shows what it learned monitoring video performance throughout the year across digital platforms. Data was compiled from a study from Adobe Marketing Cloud customers, scoring viewing habits and also monitoring ad performance.There was a massive increase in mobile viewership in 2012 according to Adobe’s numbers, though desktop still dominates when it comes to online video.
Continue reading… “300 percent increase in mobile video views in 2012”
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CodeSpells is an immersive, first-person player video game designed to teach students in elementary to high school how to program in the popular Java language. CodeSpells has been developed by University of California, San Diego computer scientists.
Continue reading… “CodeSpells – a video game that teaches how to program in Java”
Marina Gorbis, author of The Nature Of The Future: Dispatches From The Socialstructed World, argues we are moving away from the depersonalized world of institutional production toward a new economy built on social connections and rewards–a process she calls socialstructing.
Continue reading… “The currency of the future will be your reputation”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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