Searching for the Big Picture: Systems Theories of Accelerating Change
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The Singularity: A Hard or Soft Takeoff?
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Trying to Muse Rationally about the Singularity Scenario
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from slashdot:
Developing an overblown DRM system: Millions of dollars.
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Hiring consultants to tell you it’ll really, really work this time after firing all the ones who informed you copy protection is a cryptographic impossibility: Thousands of dollars.
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Paying lawyers to send cease-and-desist letters to thousands of websites after the key leaks: $500/hour.
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Watching yet another DRM scheme go up in flames shortly after its release: Priceless.
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also, check the formerly-known-as Secret Number as Photoshop art, from wired. stupid overpiced suits, just die already.

write it on your calendars: today is the day we realized, with no shadow of a doubt, that the traditional media corporate types know nothing about the internet age.
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stupid clueless arrogant pigs. how can we let them be in charge of our storytelling abilities?
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the image is from icanhascheezburger: cute animals and bad grammar, with love. imagine the fuzzy kitty powerpoint your female coworkers send out, with the power of the leet internetzz. fear.

i created my first pipe, a RSS feed collecting data from my music habits, twitter, blog and flickr.
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sadly it doesn’t show the title source, but so far, so good.
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the interface is sleek, and it does even more than automator, like conditionals (automator works only linearly, and pipes accept if/else). let’s see. emergence, indeed.