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I am more aware now than ever before of the importance of culture from the top.
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We get iPhones with credit/debit card readers. The developing world gets mpesa and mobile currency. This future is indeed unevenly distributed.
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"Because I don't think Dan's gone far enough. I think he's suggesting that we can learn from Movie OSs to make things more usable and easy to grasp. I think we should do it to make them more fun." Oh boy do I have a response to this.
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"With multiple personalities in hand, people can choose to take up creative endeavors they would not have been willing to enter into outside of social media because the risks of failure were too high. Multiple personalities can lower these risks." Only slightly terrified by losing grip on (one of) my mind(s).
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Akihabara is only one of the recently emerging game toolkits for HTML5/Canvas – it feels like we're in a Cambrian explosion of possibility right now.
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"Ping quo tient: mea sures your respon sive ness to other people’s requests for engagement." aka your flake score.
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Eggers: "I don’t want to wake up and look at a screen. I feel like as a society, we try to put everything on that same goddamn screen, and pretty soon we’re going to be eating on the screen or, like, making love through the screen. It’s just sort of like: ‘Why does everything have to be on the screen?’" Ellis has a fantastic riposte.
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Really useful to think about things this way.
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We're fucked.
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"So what will this Facebook’s redefinition mean, ultimately? No clue. But most of us, if we think about it, have seen Big Things like this come and go on the web. Remember when every third website required Microsoft Passport to unlock features or let you log in? And Mac and Linux users were angry, because the web is supposed to be an open platform, not a dominant vendor’s sandbox? Remember? Probably not. It was quite a big deal at the time, but almost nobody thinks about it now." Yes, so Hailstorm and Passport didn't come to pass. But the argument that Things are Different this time isn't necessarily invalid.
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Live-action Batman could potentially be awesome.
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You don’t run a team or a company on a Twinge. The ability to listen to random stories and quickly tease out a flaw in the logic or the absence of a critical dependency is just one of the skills you need to develop as a manager. Like building, both the discovery and the asking of these questions is an art; it’s just another nail you need to figure out how to hammer.
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"Michael Boyd, the RSC's artistic director, explains: 'This digital experiment allows our actors to use mobiles to tell their stories in real time and reach people wherever they are in a global theatre. It's a toe in the water for us and we look forward to seeing how people engage with this new way of playing.'" I'm trying to encourage @brrdatplay to write down what she's been talking to me about this.
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This is your Weyland-Yutani future, citizen
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Quite obviously a set for a Steven Moffat Doctor Who episode, if I'm honest
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"On the site of a thousand years of violent history, ACDC were pitted against Iron Man in a ground "breaking architectural projection mapping project. The front facade of the Great Keep at Rochester Castle, was brought to life using the latest in 3D animation techniques. This onslaught of the senses, saw the castle confront it's ultimate challenge. Warping, morphing, spewing and collapsing before the audiences eyes. Let there be rock!" Wow. Projection is getting pretty shit-hot these days.
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Yes, it's very exciting. Yes, I'm scared shitless.
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In an open-ended online multiplayer game like Left4Dead, moral choices affect games constantly, and in far more complex ways.
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How many people in the UK will suffer a mental health problem at some point in their lives? The most popular answer is one in four. For years, this statistic has been quoted by everyone from mental health charities to government ministers. The ongoing national Time to Change anti-stigma advertising campaign is awash with one in fours. But where does this number come from?
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What do the psychologists have to say about the way the decision-makers have acted? What have the behavioral economists learned from this? I am interested in hearing from the earth and atmospheric scientists, the aeronautical engineers, the physicists. What can science bring to the table?