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The Go-Nowhere Generation - NYTimes.com
All this turns American history on its head. We are a nation of movers and shakers. Pilgrims leapt onto leaky boats to get here. The Lost Generation chased Hemingway and Gertrude Stein to Paris. The Greatest Generation signed up to ship out to fight Nazis in Germany or the Japanese imperial forces in the Pacific. The ’60s kids joined the Peace Corps.

But Generation Y has become Generation Why Bother. The Great Recession and the still weak economy make the trend toward risk aversion worse.

“Young people raised during recessions end up less entrepreneurial and less willing to leave home because they believe that luck counts more than effort,” said Paola Giuliano, an economist at U.C.L.A.’s Anderson School of Management.
culture  economy  future  society 
11 weeks ago by mwfogleman
TEDxBrussels 2011 -22/11/11 - YouTube
On November 22, 2011, TEDxBrussels held an all day event whose theme was: "A Day in the Deep Future." Speakers were asked to try and contemplate what life will be like for mankind in 50 years.
ted  future 
december 2011 by mwfogleman
What if our tech is good enough? | News | TechRadar UK
The problem of 'good enough' is a huge headache for the tech industry. When your computer isn't good enough – when a slow processor, meagre memory and tiny hard disk struggle with even everyday tasks – you'll buy a better model as soon as it becomes available.

Now, though, the weakest link isn't your PC: it's you.

Will a 200-core processor make you type an email more quickly, make you work more productively or make your Facebook status updates any more amusing?

Like Frankenstein, the tech industry is creating strange hybrids by cobbling together whatever is to hand – and just like Frankenstein, its ultimate aim is to find a way to live forever.
technology  inspiration  future  ideas  trends  innovation 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
You Will Be Using FriendFeed In The Future — But It May Be Called Facebook
Facebook plans to turn on real-time updates as well. But when it does, it could well be looking at another major backlash from users. If we saw a backlash against real-time on FriendFeed — which not only has much fewer users, but also has a user base that is considered to be full of “power” web users — just imagine what the backlash will be like on Facebook. It will be ugly.

And that’s why filters are so important. These allow you to show only certain updates from certain people on your stream. But again, FriendFeed has done a better job on them than Facebook has. Facebook has made it fairly easy to edit who is in what filter, but it’s still not obvious as to how to do that from a friend’s actual profile page. On FriendFeed, it’s obvious.
business  friendfeed  stream  activitystream  lifestreaming  web  future  social  media  facebook  trends  interface  socialmedia  twitter  strategy  features  socialnetworks  realtime 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Human evolution and music | Why music? | The Economist
The truth, of course, is that nobody yet knows why people respond to music. But, when the carol singers come calling, whether the emotion they induce is joy or pain, you may rest assured that science is trying to work out why.
culture  psychology  interesting  science  article  news  economist  music  nature  sex  singing  society  anthropology  economy  brain  neuroscience  articles  future  evolution  research  human  biology 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
The Future of Our Cities: Open, Crowdsourced, and Participatory - O'Reilly Radar
Imagine now what would happen if cities did throw their weight behind this kind of innovation? The landscape of those cities would change virtually overnight, with legions of new applications springing up to provide residents with every sort of information conceivable, making their decisions more informed, making their movements more coordinated, and ultimately making the cities themselves work better. This change would happen at a fraction of the cost of any proposals for change currently being considered by cities around the world. And much of that cost, for development and operation, would be offloaded from the city itself to the individuals building and using these services.
internet  o'reilly  cities  opensource  grid  infrastructure  business  web2.0  future  community  collaboration  environment  architecture  crowdsourcing  city 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Obama to call for nuclear-free world
President Barack Obama will call for the elimination of all nuclear weapons across the globe, in remarks on Sunday he hopes will lend credibility to his message in atomic disputes with Iran and North Korea.
weapons  politics  obama  future  world  nuclear 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Five Technologies Tim O'Reilly Says Point Past Web 2.0 - ReadWriteWeb
Tim O'Reilly, co-founder of the Web 2.0 Conference, gave a short address on the 5th anniversary of that event at tonight's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and offered some thoughts on what's going to come next. He discussed five applications that he believes point the way.

Two themes stood out: sensors will surpass humans in front of their keyboards as the primary data source on the web and Moore's Law will need to be applied to humanity's greatest problems.

It's time for the Web to get smarter, O'Reilly said. Having just become a grandfather, he drew a parallel between the evolution of the web and human development. The early days of search engines were like a child just putting things in its mouth, wondering what they are. Now the web is starting to use all of its senses together to do do something with the information it has access too. Here's where he's seeing that happen.
software  technology  semantic  app  ibm  web3.0  blog  article  web  readwriteweb  google  web2.0  cisco  commentary  future  tech  webapps  trends  innovation  iphone  application 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
One of the people I was hanging around with online back then was Gordy Thompson, who managed internet services at the New York Times. I remember Thompson saying something to the effect of “When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.” I think about that conversation a lot these days.
technology  journalism  trends  internet  innovation  culture  revolution  copyright  business  gutenberg  advertising  history  news  change  article  web  newspapers  drm  future  media  publishing  economy  online  print  newspaper  information 
march 2009 by mwfogleman
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