2013-12-21 (Saturday)
Links
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IBM’s 5 predictions for the future - CNN.com
This is pretty depressing. Five ideas that all involve using computers to measure everything to “improve” our lives. It’s a ruthlessly automated future, with no room for humanity, thoughtfulness, common sense, caring, vision, or true spontaneous innovation. (via @thomasfuchs)
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@blogjam Their previous album, Firefox Explorer, was awesome! But I’d give their attempt at going classical a miss, Mosaic Opera.
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That retweet quotes an article about IBM’s “innovations that will change our lives”. They sound so inhuman. edition.cnn.com/2013/12/19/tec…
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It’s the attention to detail that makes Flickr so great, and I know 1 other people who agrees with me.
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@rooreynolds Didn’t mean to get at you specifically :) It was the aggregate communal, unthinking, growing rage.
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@rooreynolds Fair enough. But “this isn’t explained well, I need more info” is different to “WTF sites x and y are blocked, fix this O2!”
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@rooreynolds If you want your young child to be able to visit CBeebies etc, maybe a blunt tool is better than the mythical perfect tool.
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Maybe people could do that one Google search before freaking out and demanding O2 fix this? Oh, no, it’s easier to tweet OUTRAGE!
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O2’s ‘Parental Control’ looks like a setting for restricting access to kids’ sites. It’s not the default. o2.co.uk/support/genera…
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The first day of two weeks off and I’m already happy and relaxed.