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.
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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.
I love this. And I can’t agree more with the article. Good enough is definitely the new just right.
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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.
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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.
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.
NSFW: Trust me on the sunscreen (and the future of journalism)
Excellent! This is the point I have wanted to make with regard to real journalism.
I am convinced that there needs to be either state funding for journalism or some independent financier needs to make this case to the public. If the Kindle were $150 I’d have a subscription to the NYTimes, Newsweek and The Economist right along side my Atlantic Monthly and Wired.
Seriously, I won’t miss the two page ads and classifieds at all.
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There’s a horribly pompous misconception amongst bloggers that they are somehow ‘taking on the mainstream media’….after camera phone dude helps us establish that the plane has crashed, who can we trust to tell us why it happened?
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Avatar’s Stunning Flora, Fauna Give Comic-Con an Eyeful | Underwire | Wired.com
The hype machine is winning. I am becoming increasingly more excited about this film.
I just want to see the damn preview already.
Very interesting read. Especially when you are at work and everyone is trying like crazy to get their own work done and clock out for the day…
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