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Modern Internet-based social networking seems like a relatively recent phenomena. Yet, its roots can be traced back to basic human behavior. Early humans organized themselves into social tribes. As technical knowledge and know-how got better, and written communication emerged, human social interaction also became more sophisticated. The printing press and postal systems supplemented the local tavern and other forms of
New technology always disrupts. This has always been true, whether it was the invention of the wheel, the automobile, or modern electronics. With each new disruption, interactive business and social commerce is disturbed. Established business and social models are suddenly rendered partially or fully dysfunctional. For every new disruptive technology that comes along, an old business model is broken and
I read this article over at Home Cinema Choice and despaired. Despite being based on the same technology, the 3D specs used by Samsung and Panasonic aren't compatible....unless you wear them upside down. What were they thinking? And why couldn't someone have simply picked up the phone and said, "Hey guys, what way round are you doing your 3D glasses?"
At TED 2010, Nathan Myhrvold of Intellectual Ventures Laboratory showed off its Photonic Fence proof of concept. Basically, this is a very capable mosquito killer, which uses lasers to shoot the wee monsters out of the sky at up to 100 times a second. The concept is targetted (sorry) for malarial regions, potentially hospitals or schools, and the technology is able to tell the
So we had this pretty big snowstorm pass through the Midwest. Over a foot of snow, added to a plethora of horrible conditions. But one forseen issue happened that simply came from making the planet greener. Light Emitting Diodes. Green Bay WI put in some high - efficiency LED traffic lights throughout the town. The idea was straightforward. Save on
I, like a lot of us, had to travel over the Thanksgiving weekend. In my case, I had to travel to Grand Haven Michigan ( about 150 miles south of where I live ). I just got the Motorola Droid with Google Maps Navigation and wanted to compare it with my 1 year old TomTom One. First, around town.. The
Earlier this week I attended a seminar on “Emerging Healthcare Technologies”, presented by the University of Ulster. The content was fairly high-level but focussed on several areas that are in various stages of development but will reach the market in the next few years. The first area was that of providing easy-to-use self monitoring devices, often with local data storage