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GeekWire Podcast: Reclaiming our lives through more mindful use of technology

GeekWire

The startup, co-founded with Jorn Rigter (chief techology officer) and Tim Smits (chief product officer), offers an app, subscription service, and keychain tag designed to help people become more mindful about their use of smartphones, social media, and other addictive apps. “You have to think twice. .” month) for $59.95.

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Influence research: Duncan Watts and the debate on whether “influentials” really matter

Trends in the Living Networks

in mathematics in biological phenomena, which turned out to be based on networks, and to apply to subjects as diverse as society, technology, biology, infrastructure and beyond. Tags: Future of media Influence Social networks. He tells his story in his book Six Degrees , which begins by recounting how he found a subject for his Ph.D

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Timnit Gebru was fired from Google — then the harassers arrived

The Verge

To Gebru, the harassment wouldn’t be possible without Jeff Dean, who stayed quiet about the campaign for months, despite being tagged in numerous posts. “He Gebru would tweet something related to her firing, or Google, or AI ethics research, and Lissack would jump in with a response, often tagging Domingos. Who is fired?

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The top 10 trends for the 2010s: the most exciting decade in human history

Trends in the Living Networks

Tags: Future of business Future of humanity Global economy Social trends Technology trends 2010s decade forecasts future predictions trends. The Far East will fund the continued profligate spending of the West. The weightless economy based on innovation, media, and professional services will dominate growth. Exponential Bio Technologies.

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An Argument for Heterarchy: creating more effective organizational structures

Trends in the Living Networks

Unfortunately there appears to be no consistent definition of heterarchy available from standard dictionaries, and the term is in fact used differently in social sciences and biology. Tags: Enterprise 2.0 Crumley, Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, Volume 6. January 1995. [2]

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The fight against ‘murder hornets’: Kevlar thread to tie on trackers, thick foam suits to prevent stings

GeekWire

An Asian giant hornet that was tagged by the Washington State Department of Agriculture flies through the air with a bent radio tracker antenna. “We have switched to Kevlar thread this year,” Spichiger said, noting that three hornets were captured and tagged this year. But the tag was never recovered or relocated.

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Is our propensity for social media part of our design - so humans are stepping stones to the creation of a global brain?

Trends in the Living Networks

Tags: Future of humanity Social media globalbrain whattechnologywants. I have described our propensity to engage in social media and connectivity as our latent humanity - something which is fundamentally part of us but has not yet had the opportunity to be expressed.

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