Don't look at the words too closely, just read it…
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Although geared for K-12 students, this material looks pretty good for anybody interested in thinking about technology in general. We think about particular technologies (like computers, automobiles, nanotechnology) all the time, but it's important to be able to think about technology in general.
From their website (http://www.knowledgecontext.org/):
Technology, broadly speaking, pervades every part of our lives. While technologies emerge and change over history — from the simple wheel to the printing press to the personal computer — technology itself remains a constant. So whether or not a child chooses to become a technologist, he or she won't be able to thrive in society without an understanding of technology.
That's where KnowledgeContext comes in. We're dedicated to giving young people the tools to place technology in its overarching context — helping them grasp what technology is, how it ties into other disciplines, how it changes, and how to evaluate it. As a result, they're prepared to make the best choices in a world where technologies change with greater and greater speed.
So there is this Italian company, PowerGen. I'm sure they wanted
powergen.com, but that was already taken by some other site. Being
Italian, they decided to stick "Italia" onto the end of the domain. So
now their web site is:
There is nothing sadder than a lonely sock.
Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID) chips will probably replace
bar-codes. People may also attempt to use them as a tracking technology
or as a security technology. Like all many new technologies, this one
has some troubling privacy considerations.
This link is an excellent summary of the technology and the issues.
Last weekend visiting my brother in Calif, we got to ride a Segway briefly at the San Jose Tech Museum of innovation. The movies are 1.5 MB, and you'll need Quicktime 6.
http://www.netjeff.com/video/jeff-segwa
http://www.netjeff.com/video/joe-se
At first it felt a little unstable. By the end of the minute we each had, it was easier, but you still had to think a bit. I'll bet that after 15 minutes of usage, you wouldn't even have to think about it. Way easier than learning to ride a bicycle.
A great series of articles. Compares the history of copyright to the current situation.
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2
A little off-topic from my usual posts, but it was kind of inspiring. From http://www.kisrael.com/mortal/wasting.html…
There's a good chance that you'll be happier if you're not a crusader, or at least not a crusader all the time. So once you figure out what part of your life you need to devote to the causes are important to you, once you take into account the time you need to spend at work, to keep body and soul together, your time is yours. If you can fill it with exciting adventure, living one big beer commercial of a lifetime, that's good. If you live in simpler circumstances, if you rarely look beyond a night of tv, a few beers, a good book… that can be fine as well, so long as you can be fine with it. (Romantic love help as well; most people can find if it they search, but almost everyone will be stuck without it for some period in their life.)So figure out what makes you happy, and do it; be content in the fact that you can do things to make you happy, and don't worry that time is wasting or that you don't have forever to waste time in; you have your own lifespan, and that's all anyone will ever have or has ever had.
Tim O'Reilly wrote an essay
on the value of online file sharing without the need for onerous
digital restrictions (aka Digital Rights Management) or draconian
"intellectual property" laws (eg. DMCA).
Below are the 7 lessons (which he discusses in detail in the essay):
