From “The Internet Brain Implant: Why We Should Say No“:
This Fall pollsters Zogby International released the results of a survey that asked nearly 10,000 US adults the following question. “How likely would you be to implant a device into your brain that enabled you to use your mind to access the internet if it could be done safely?” 11% of respondents said they were very or somewhat likely to do so.
Two-for-two from ReadWriteWeb today, and not entirely unrelated if you think about it.
From “Technology Review: What Your Phone Knows About You“:
Sifting through cell-phone data to get at the truth of people’s social interactions falls under the umbrella of an emerging field that Pentland has dubbed “reality mining.” And he thinks that social networks are just the beginning. The same techniques can be applied to other sets of cell-phone data to help people communicate more effectively, manage their time better, and even make their neighborhoods more livable. And it’s all thanks to the ubiquity of cell phones–the ultimate data-collection machines.
Via ReadWriteWeb.
56 Geeks poster, by Scott Johnson.
I’ll leave to your imagination which 11 out of 56 types I could be associated with.
And by the way, it’s a rhetorical question. ;-)
Patrick Tanguay led me to Apple’s announcement of the new TV programming offering through iTunes Canada.
I have to admit that I share his lack of enthusiasm for their offer… There’s just no way I’m going to spend money on 4:3 ratio video.
All my screens are 16:9 or 16:10: mac laptop, external monitors, iPhone, and so on. And whatever I’ll buy in the foreseeable future will obviously not going to be any other way.
They’re obviously targeting the last two remaining iPod models with such screen proportions, the Classic and Nano, but it’s just not for me. Sorry.
Nice try though. A bit late maybe but nice.
To the left, Facebook‘s status edit field in the standard web interface. To the right, the equivalent status edit field, but in their iPhone interface instead.
Spot the difference. ;-)
