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POPSReaching The Stars Is Easy... compared to other things.. take a few minutes and watch this.. think about it as future inspiration (thks to XiXidu for calling my attention to this awesome vid)
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POPSSmart drugs. A smart idea? "I’ll leave you with this scenario: Would you use cognition enhancing drugs? What if others in your class/office do " could you risk being less competitive?" nothing to do with competition- and though the actual drugs mentioned are in no way smart- these will in the coming future arrive to our disposal, what then? would you join the smart class?
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POPSThe money illusion contrary to popular opinion there is no such animal as rational decision making when dealing with money..
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POPSParticipatory sensing:Powering Personal Choice for Global Impact "You care about the environment and factor it into your daily choices. But how do you know if your decisions actually make a difference? Knowledge is power: PEIR lets you see how your daily choices affect the environment and how the environment affects you." fascinating take..
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POPSThe Pragmatic (Internet) Optimist’s Creed by Adam Thierer "In sum, there are more reasons to be optimistic than pessimistic about the Internet and its role in shaping our lives, culture, economy, and society. But that doesn’t mean it will be all roses going forward." a highly important (and very good) read, go read all of it
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POPSBionic Legs, i-Limbs, and Other Super Human Prosheses You'll Envy at the end he says:""What is the obsession with looking human?" he says. "You think the only beauty is human? Bridges can be beautiful. Cars can be beautiful. Cell phones can be beautiful. They don't look biological. So why do you anticipate 30 years from now that amputees will give a shit about human beauty? They won't. Their limbs will be sculptures." I am fascinated by the idea of how we are almost imperceptibly changing our mind image of what is a human..
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POPSThe meaning of network culture "Digital culture, he observes, is fundamentally based on a process of abstraction that reduces complex wholes into more elementary units. Tracing this process of abstraction to the invention of the typewriter, Gere identifies digitization as a key process of capitalism."
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POPSDesigning emergent behavior "These are admittedly "toy" systems, but as synthetic biological circuits become more complex, the control of populations of cells in a precise way will undoubtedly be critical. Adding more rules and circuits that control different genes will lead to more complex and useful patters and a deeper understanding of the emergent properties of gene networks."
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POPSLike Convergence, Aggregation Is Better In Theory an interesting take, see what Louis Gray says at the end:" I have to believe that aggregation tools are interesting, and useful to a small minority of people. Lifestreaming tools are fun for individuals to highlight their activity. Sites are out there that do a good job, and more are coming, but I am thinking that "aggregation" is the new "convergence". It looks great on paper, and some people will carry a Swiss Army Knife with them everywhere, but most won't.
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POPS Learning’s online fate ,The digital age challenges teachers, teaching, books "This expansive, open age of digital information challenges the traditions of scholarship, learning, and even the act of reading. So what will be the fate of higher education in the digital age?" An important understanding concerning the changing face of higher education, we need more panels of this kind to fully realize the revolution taking place.
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POPSThe Possibility of Impossible cultures Heuser suggests that only humans have evolved four computational capacities, constituting a phylogenetic mind gap between humans and other animals. An important perspective, go read all of it
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POPSTHE SYNCHRONIZATION OF BRAINS JAMSHED BHARUCHA Professor of Psychology, Provost, Senior Vice President, Tufts University "An understanding of how brains synchronize " or fail to do so " will be a game-changing scientific development." Highly recommended, go read it all
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