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“And so Silicon Roundabout has metastasised into Tech City, possibly because everyone feels a bit silly saying Silicon Roundabout. New name, same basic idea, but with misguided government glitz...

https://www.thoughtyoushouldseethis.com/post/79271518671

Surgeon, author and speaker Sherwin Nuland died on March 3, 2014, at age 83. Here’s a beautiful blog post with recollections from those who saw his *astonishing* 2001 TED Talk. But really, jus...

https://www.thoughtyoushouldseethis.com/post/78760914858

Tea and Geoff McFetridge . A charming combination.

https://www.thoughtyoushouldseethis.com/post/78481156519

“Where will learning be? Will we still consume degrees? Will we make learning on demand? Will we have the power to tailor learning to individual needs, not just the speed of learning but also w...

https://www.thoughtyoushouldseethis.com/post/75266093903

“Good design doesn’t feel like anything — it just feels good.” - New Kleiner Perkins design/VC partner, John Maeda takes a trip to Flipboard .

https://www.thoughtyoushouldseethis.com/post/75255307504

Our Drone Future, by Alex Cornell . This is great. (via Shoshana Berger .) 

https://www.thoughtyoushouldseethis.com/post/69524722442

“I was a consultant for the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II, and I worked on a drone concept for the game, a quadcopter called Charlene. Now defense contractors are trying to make Charlen...

https://www.thoughtyoushouldseethis.com/post/67621398876

I’m sure this will be everywhere, but Allan Chochinov from Core77 just sent it my way and, well, I think it’s charming so am happy to be part of the cacophony. The “Adjustable Clampersand ...

https://www.thoughtyoushouldseethis.com/post/67467966993

“Just as our ancestors domesticated vicious dogs and dangerous large herbivores, so too will we humans need to safely domesticate narrow AI organisms. Doing so will involve building social stru...

https://www.thoughtyoushouldseethis.com/post/67429503903

DRONES! I’m overseeing a package about the good and the bad of drones on ted.com this week . *Super* excited about it… such great content to come. And the team cut together this trailer, feat...

https://www.thoughtyoushouldseethis.com/post/67319148780

“ When HCI people debug their code, it’s like an art show or a meeting of the United Nations. There are tea breaks and witticisms exchanged in French; wearing a non-functional scarf is optio...

https://www.thoughtyoushouldseethis.com/post/67193209607

“When we speak truth to power we are ignored at best and brutally suppressed at worst. We are confronting a power structure that does not respect its own system of checks and balances, never mi...

https://www.thoughtyoushouldseethis.com/post/67088732570

“In late September, a vessel came apart shortly after leaving Indonesia, and dozens of asylum seekers — from Lebanon, Iran and Iraq — drowned. That people are willing to hazard death at sea...

https://www.thoughtyoushouldseethis.com/post/67087487621

“ I have a fundamental problem with a man who sits on a golden throne and lectures us about spending less, like a modern-day, white-tie clad sheriff of Nottingham. And all around him, the insi...

https://www.thoughtyoushouldseethis.com/post/66962245621

Keiichi Matsuda got in touch to remind me about a post about his work I wrote back in 2010… and to tout his new Kickstarter campaign . He wants to create a “science fiction short for our t...

https://www.thoughtyoushouldseethis.com/post/66535382977

“Unfortunately we live in a world where all too often, laws are for the little people. Nobody at GCHQ or the NSA will ever stand before a judge and answer for this industrial-scale subversion o...

https://www.thoughtyoushouldseethis.com/post/66212558268

Functioning “mechanical gears” seen in nature for the first time . Deep science with an added dash of art and community collaboration. Charming.

https://www.thoughtyoushouldseethis.com/post/61313908118

“ What I hope for you: That you combine that edgy mixture of self-confidence and doubt. That you have enough self-confidence to try new things. That you have enough self doubt to questio...

https://www.thoughtyoushouldseethis.com/post/60853045860

“You are not visualizing the system, you are visualizing measurements of the system. No measurement is ever fully accurate.” - Let the Data Speak – great interview with data visualizer, ...

https://www.thoughtyoushouldseethis.com/post/60279390344

“We are also reminded that Nixon was ahead of his time. Back then, his malevolent and obsessive quest to stem “the leaks, the leaks” at “any cost” was viewed as a sort of psychic illnes...

https://www.thoughtyoushouldseethis.com/post/58241601743