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The Beatles, Profits, CT Scans, and Waste
Today in 1979, Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield won the Nobel Prize for medicine for developing the theory and technology behind CAT scans.
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Steve Jobs
“The world will not have such a talent again in a hundred years!… I was quite besides myself for a long while because of his death, and could not believe that Providence would have so rapidly dispatched an irreplaceable man … Continue reading
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Lost and Found: GeoCities
Good alerts us to The Deleted City, “a digital archaeology of the world wide web as it exploded into the 21st century.”
Digital Preservation: Lost and Found Research
The fast pace of technology’s advance has left some data behind as data stored on tapes, floppy disks, and other media that is now unreadable by modern computers is essentially lost. In addition, file formats change as new programs are … Continue reading
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“A Few Million Monkeys Randomly Recreate Shakespeare”
In 1996, Robert Wilensky famously said: “We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.”
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Think, Think, Think
Today in 1997, Apple Computer launched the “Think different” marketing campaign. The campaign’s television commercials featured black-and-white footage of 17 iconic 20th century personalities and a free-verse poem read by Richard Dreyfuss:
Posted in Advertising, Apple, Computer history, Google, IBM, Quotes
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Privacy (4)
“The desire for privacy is strong; vanity is stronger.”–Nick Carr, “Facebook’s business model.”
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Of Internet and Things
“The Kinze Autonomy Project, [is] a new set of tractor and grain cart unveiled this Summer that drive themselves to harvest crops and that can make ‘intelligent operational decisions in real time based on field conditions.’
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Privacy (3)
“Google+ is Google itself. We are extending it across all that we do–search, ads, Chrome, Android, Maps, YouTube–so that each of those services contributes to our understanding of who you are….
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How Many Spiders it Takes to Make a Web?
Today is the fifth annual OneWebDay, raising “awareness of the importance of maintaining the open-networking principles that have made it the success it is.” Tim Berners-Lee in Weaving the Web: “When I first began tinkering with a software program that eventually … Continue reading
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