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The assumption driving these kinds of design speculations is that if you embed the interface–the control surface for a technology–into our own bodily envelope, that interface will ‘disappear’: the technology will cease to be a separate ‘thing’ and simply become part of that envelope. The trouble is that unlike technology, your body isn’t something you ‘interface’ with in the first place. You’re not a little homunculus ‘in’ your body, ‘driving’ it around, looking out Terminator-style ‘through’ your eyes. Your body isn’t a tool for delivering your experience: it is your experience. Merging the body with a technological control surface doesn’t magically transform the act of manipulating that surface into bodily experience. I’m not a cyborg (yet) so I can’t be sure, but I suspect the effect is more the opposite: alienating you from the direct bodily experiences you already have by turning them into technological interfaces to be manipulated.
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How The Internet Of Things Will Revolutionize Search – ReadWrite
As mobile devices dictate the terms of search and how results are being conveyed to end users, there’s another phenomenon that will greatly influence the future of search - very soon, we’re going to be swimming in more data than we will know what to do with.
The rise of the Internet of Things means billions of physical objects will soon generate massive amounts of data 24 hours a day. Not only will this make traditional search methods nearly impossible to use, it will also create an environment where instead of looking for things in the world, those things will be seeking us out to give us all sorts of information that will help us fix, use or buy them.

smarterplanet:

How The Internet Of Things Will Revolutionize Search – ReadWrite

As mobile devices dictate the terms of search and how results are being conveyed to end users, there’s another phenomenon that will greatly influence the future of search - very soon, we’re going to be swimming in more data than we will know what to do with.

The rise of the Internet of Things means billions of physical objects will soon generate massive amounts of data 24 hours a day. Not only will this make traditional search methods nearly impossible to use, it will also create an environment where instead of looking for things in the world, those things will be seeking us out to give us all sorts of information that will help us fix, use or buy them.

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Rivers in the US. (par Nelson Minar)

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Rivers in the US. (par Nelson Minar)

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Delivering KFC by Tunnel
Smugglers bringing KFC meals into Gaza from Egypt. Palestinians pay about $27 for a 12-piece bucket of chicken. (© Wissam Nassar for The New York Times)

androphilia:

Delivering KFC by Tunnel

Smugglers bringing KFC meals into Gaza from Egypt. Palestinians pay about $27 for a 12-piece bucket of chicken. (© Wissam Nassar for The New York Times)

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the plot thickens!

the plot thickens!

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Kudos to this person for being so gentle but I would NOT be happy if I tried to save a bee and it tried to sting me in return.

I mean, it’s a perfectly natural instinct, but still! But still!!!!

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Sup dude! :D

Sup dude! :D

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clippie:

math just got important

clippie:

math just got important

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supermassiveasshole:

i was teaching my grandma to use computer so we can talk on skype and such but today she went kinda mad at me because “i didnt show her the knitting programme” and i was like what

and it comes out she accidentally opened ms excel and found out its a great way to create knitting patterns

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my grandma is 82

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Shipping containers serve as homes for Shanghai families

The containers, which house different families, were set up by a landlord who charges a rent of 500 yuan (£55) per month for each container.

Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters