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More on the Pros and Cons of Social Networking

Dan wrote a while ago about some of the pitfalls of social networking.  Stephen Dubner of Freakonomics fame is apparently curious about the debate as well, and polled several researchers in this area...

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Augmented Reality: A Preflection

A Story While I usually take the bus to work in the morning so I can get in some reading, on my way home I usually end up taking the Metro and making the 20-minute hike up Mt. Saint Alban to our...

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Mapping Our Memories

We’ve discussed augmented reality a little bit before, but this week’s New York Times Magazine featured an article that got me thinking about a similar concept: human augmentation, which I suppose can...

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The Pace of Human Progress

Ray Kurzweil and the Singularity Man… that would be a great name for a band, wouldn’t it? Alas, Mr. Kurzweil – to my knowledge – is not sick nasty at the guitar. He did, however, invent “the first...

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When I Heard The Learn’d Software Engineer

Clive Thompson, a columnist for Wired, contributed a fascinating piece to Sunday’s New York Times Magazine.  “I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You” examines the phenomenon of “ambient awareness” that...

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