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Facebook’s silent majority holds the key to the company’s future

If Facebook can persuade that silent majority to become more engaged in the site its future looks pretty bright.

Facebook is a pretty divisive company. One group took to the the social network, sharing their lives in updates and shifting a good portion of their social interactions onto Facebook’s sprawling social graph. The other group  took the opposite direction, avoiding the site entirely, or canceling their accounts, or griping as they came to endure Facebook as a necessary evil of being online.

 

 

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Anticipatory Computing: Unlocking the Ultra-Human in All of Us


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Futurist Thomas Frey: Wouldn’t it be great if you could turn on your television and it instantly knew what show you wanted to watch?

We all dream of an easier life, so what if we got into our car and it knew where we wanted to go, or turned on a radio and it played the perfect music, or pressed “call” on our phone and we would instantly be connected to the person we most wanted to talk to.

 

 

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Alternative Transportation, Business, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Driverless Highways: Creating Cars that Talk to the Roads

Speaking at “Mobility Day” in Shanghai

Futurist Thomas Frey: Yesterday I had the privilege of speaking at a conference on the “Future of Mobility” in Shanghai, China. The event was produced by the very forward thinking people at Lanxess, a German-based chemical company that broke ground the day before on a new facility to expand its already significant base of operation in Shanghai.

 

 

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Analysis, Education, Latest Trend

The library becoming more popular than ever, but books no longer the primary focus

The New York Public Library recently embarked on a controversial plan to move two to three million books off-site.

The New York Public Library (NYPL) retired its pneumatic-tube system sometime last year. It had been used to request books for more than a century. The New York Public Library opened in 1911 and that pneumatic call system had changed little since then. You still filled out a slip, and you still turned that slip over to a clerk, who would load it into a metal cartridge. The cartridge would be driven by air pressure to a station down in the stacks, where another clerk would retrieve your book, which was then sent back up to the call desk by a dumbwaiter. In recent years, this procedure would take about 20 minutes. In decades past, I’m told, it was closer to five.

 

 

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Alternative Transportation, Analysis, Science & Technology News

Are we ready for driverless cars?

Driverless car

Governor Jerry Brown of California will most likely sign off soon on the proposed bullet train between Los Angeles and San Francisco.  It has been characterized by the Obama administration and its other supporters as an effective way to reduce highway congestion. These costs amount to more than $100 billion annually in wasted time and higher fuel expenses.

 

 

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9 technologies of the future that will radically change the world

Future of technology

The power of technology has been shaping our world. Within a generation we’ve seen space stations built, computing speeds quicken exponentially, and the internet boom. In fact, technological advances now happen so rapidly that our current way of life may seem hopelessly outdated within another decade.

 

 

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The future of personal computing

The cloud is starting to become the “mainframe” in the sky.

We are seeing the greatest shakeup in the world of computing that has ever taken place.  Three kinds of devices defined what computing was all about over a period of about 50 years.  We started out with mainframes, moved on to mini-computers and in the early ’80s entered the era of the personal computer.

 

 

 

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Four Key Trends Driving the Future of Patents

Futurist Thomas Frey: In July, David Kappos, Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, announced expansion plans for the USPTO that would involve opening satellite offices in Denver, Dallas, and San Francisco. These coupled with the previously announced office in Detroit would draw on a diverse new talent pool for future examiners.

 

 

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Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

The future of in-car connectivity

While driving we can get connected to the world through the internet.

Everyday the world of automotive technology changes.  Companies are designing very advanced in-car technology that needs to be secure but also easily usable to their customers.  Now a days big automobile brands introduce the internet facility  and secure navigation systems in cars. This is very beneficial to the consumers.

 

 

 

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