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I agree with most of the ones listed but augmented reality as one of the top 7? I don’t think it is ready for wide use yet. I’d call it more proof of concept than “disruption.”

Maybe next year.

Posted at 10:47am and tagged with: wired, disruptions, tech,.

The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine
I love this. And I can’t agree more with the article. Good enough is definitely the new just right.

Posted at 3:11pm and tagged with: Wired,.

Jonathan Berger, a professor of music at Stanford University, recently completed a six-year study of his students. Every year he asked new arrivals in his class to listen to the same musical excerpts played in a variety of digital formats—from standard MP3s to high-fidelity uncompressed files—and rate their preferences. Every year, he reports, more and more students preferred the sound of MP3s, particularly for rock music. They’ve grown accustomed to what Berger calls the percussive sizzle—aka distortion—found in compressed music. To them, that’s what music is supposed to sound like.

I’d like to know what effect micro-blog popularity is having on this observation. It would seem to me that people would be much more likely to write on ad nauseam about whatever was on their mind if they weren’t expected to pump out wit at 140 characters at a time.

Posted at 4:43pm and tagged with: literacy, wired, clive, thompson, magazine, micro, blog,.

Not sure why I watched this the whole way through. It’s a technically impressive demo, and I am sure it has practical application, it’s just not something people would normally find interesting. Flash back 15 years though and I am sure someone from Hollywood would have tried to make a movie out of this.

Posted at 6:01am and tagged with: wired, science, visualizaiton, waves, boat,.