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Luc Sante on the bookshelves in his basement office:
The books are there not just because I esteem them and need to look things up, but also because they represent an external hard drive for my mind. That is, running my eye down the rows will refresh my memory, reframe my thoughts, alert me to counterexamples and lacunae in my lines of argument.
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Iâm making explorations. I donât know where theyâre going to take meâŠ. I want to map new terrain rather than chart old landmarks⊠As an investigator, I have no fixed point of view, no commitment to any theoryâmy own or anyone elseâs. As a matter of fact, Iâm completely ready to junk any statement Iâve ever made about any subject if events donât bear me out, or if I discover it isnât contributing to an understanding of the problem. The better part of my work on media is actually somewhat like a safe-crackerâs. I donât know whatâs inside; maybe itâs nothing. I just sit down and start to work. I grope, I listen, I test, I accept and discard; I try out different sequencesâuntil the tumblers fall and the doors spring open.
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Top Heroes of the Year
Top Heroes of the Year
Elon Musk â For being one of the few people in Silicon Valley, or in all of the US really, to think big enough. He earns the top spot just for saying that he hopes to die on Mars.
Thomas Piketty â For providing this data-eager media climate a much-needed data infusion showing how the post-WWII period was a blip, and we have reverted to historical levels of inequality.
Lawrence Lessig â For tryingâŠ
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Top 10 Media Trends of the Year
Top 10 Media Trends of the Year
Recycle Journalism â This was the year that recycle journalism came to the fore. Itâs been a trend for a long time, already when I was writing for the magazine Space in the 90âs, I was experimenting with it, and Swedenâs Nojesguiden had a fun tradition of creating interviews using questions from other magazinesâ interviews, but this year, it was everywhere. New media outlets such as Buzzfeed,âŠ
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2014 Top 10 Things that make me pessimistic for the future
2014 Top 10 Things that make me pessimistic for the future
A few days ago, we covered the top things in 2014 that made me optimistic, but unfortunately, there were also many things that left me more pessimistic for the future. Here are the top 10 of pessimistic events and trends.
Internet balkanization â One of the unfortunate effects of the Snowden leaks has been previously democratic countries such as Germany and Brazil wanting to join Iran and ChinaâŠ
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Top 10 Things in 2014 that made me optimistic for the future
Top 10 Things in 2014 that made me optimistic for the future
In 2014, we witnessed many tragic events, from Ebola deaths to the attacks on schools in Nigeria and Pakistan, but there were also glimmers of hope for the future. Some of the events that spelled the most promise for the future were the following:
Medical 3D-printing â With the breakthroughs in the use of 3D-printing for medical purposes, the potential for breakthroughs in healthcare is huge,âŠ
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Top Words of 2014
Top Words of 2014
This year has seen unparalleled word creation, given the potent combination of rapid technological change which creates the need for new words with the meme-generating powers of the internet. This list contains interesting words that were created, or became an inextricable part of culture this year.
Algocracyâ To be ruled by algorithm. These days, so much of our activity, both online andâŠ
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Top 10 Most Fun Uber for X of 2014
Top 10 Most Fun Uber for X of 2014
There have been gazillions of startups launched during the year, in the current VC frenzy. Given the many pitches VC firms get, the simplest way to make a one-minute pitch for your startup idea has always been the âitâs like Y, but for Xâ formula. Given the runaway success of Uber, with its recent $40 billion valuation, it has become the simplest âXâ to refer to. Here are some of the most funâŠ
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Real Time 3D LIDAR
Demonstration of LIDAR laser imaging tech developed by Heikki Hyyti features two rotating sensors working simultaneously. The video embedded below shows a data capture using the device whilst moving:
Sensor fusion with inertial and LIDAR data to estimate the position and velocities in real time. The current 3D point cloud is compared to the previous one to reduce errors caused by the integration of noisy and uncertain inertial measurements. The visualization shows two adjacent 3D point clouds on top of each other as the device, attached to an all-terrain vehicle, is driven around a parking lot and a young forest. The color of point cloud is determined by its height. Higher points are colored more lighter and greener as lower points are brownish. The visualization uses open source Point Cloud Library (http://pointclouds.org/) to present 3D data.
Real time LIDAR tech is already used in various ways (one example is in Austrailia, robotic âshepherdsâ are being trialed to remotely check on cattle), but this is the first example I have seen online using this method.
A couple of much shorter video examples can be found here
David Lynch's paintings â a fine addition to the little-known side-talents of famous creators. Also see Lynch on where ideas come from and using meditation as a creative anchor.Â
2014 Top 10 Historic Moments Echoing During the Year
2014 Top 10 Historic Moments Echoing During the Year
2014 has been a year when the wings of history have been unusually prevalent throughout. Here are the historic events that perhaps reverberated the most during the year:
The onset of World War I, given its hundred-year anniversary this year, and the many apt comparisons that can be made between the declining empire of the time (Britain) and now (the US), and the path of the rising power thenâŠ
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Top countries of 2014 that we didn't see coming
Top countries of 2014 that we didnât see coming
Iran, China, North Korea, Greece, Syria, blah blah. These are the usual suspects, countries that everyone knew would be interesting this year. But there are 196 countries in the world, most of which donât get mentioned in the global media. This year, however, a few unsuspected countries, countries that no one expected to be on the map, did get the worldâs attention. Not always for good reasons,âŠ
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Top 10 Fails of the Year
Top 10 Fails of the Year
Google Glass â Very disappointingly, Google Glass seems to have become a failure. There are still a few reports of it getting new usage in various industrial settings, but Google seems to have stopped promoting it. But then again, itâs early days for this kind of revolutionary technology, so we donât know yet if this was a Newton or an iPhone 1.
Twitter changes â In their new shape as a publicâŠ
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Top 10 Trends of 2014
Top 10 Trends of 2014
Some of the key trends that shaped 2014:
Inequality â The growth in inequality, both within countries and between countries, was one of the key themes of the year, from Obamaâs speech in the beginning of the year to Thomas Pikettyâs book which defined large parts of the academic debate.
Commoditization of all assets â This was the year that the sharing economy really took hold, with all its manyâŠ
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Top 10 artifacts of 2014
Top 10 artifacts of 2014
Moby Dick in emojis â No comment
New York High Line â The third and final part of one of the most influential urban developments of the last years opened this year, and it continues to see copies all over the world.
The Treadmill Desk â First, we had the standing desk. Then, we got the the treadmill desk. Finally, we had the logical conclusion â  the human hamster wheel.
The little green men ofâŠ
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Top 10 Risks of 2014
Top 10 Risks of 2014
Some of the top risks that featured in the debate this year:
Artificial Intelligence and superhuman machine intelligence â A trio of impressive people have this year highlighted the threat of âtoo smartâ AI in the long run. Elon Musk said that we are summoning the demon by developing AI, Stephen Hawking cautioned against its unrestrained development, and Nick Bostrom, in his outstanding bookâŠ
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