Innovation is about finding a better way of doing something. Like many of the new development buzzwords (which many of them are over-used on many business documents), the concept of innovation originates from the world of business. It refers to the generation of new products through the process of creative entrepreneurship, putting it into production, and diffusing it more widely through increased sales. Innovation can be viewed as t he application of better solutions that meet new requirements, in-articulated needs, or existing market needs. This is accomplished through more effective products, processes, services, technologies, or ideas that are readily available to markets, governments and society. The term innovation can be defined as something original and, as a consequence, new, that “breaks into” the market or society.
Innoveracy: Misunderstanding Innovation article points out that there is a form of ignorance which seems to be universal: the inability to understand the concept and role of innovation. The way this is exhibited is in the misuse of the term and the inability to discern the difference between novelty, creation, invention and innovation. The result is a failure to understand the causes of success and failure in business and hence the conditions that lead to economic growth. The definition of innovation is easy to find but it seems to be hard to understand. Here is a simple taxonomy of related activities that put innovation in context:
- Novelty: Something new
- Creation: Something new and valuable
- Invention: Something new, having potential value through utility
- Innovation: Something new and uniquely useful
The taxonomy is illustrated with the following diagram.
The differences are also evident in the mechanisms that exist to protect the works: Novelties are usually not protectable, Creations are protected by copyright or trademark, Inventions can be protected for a limited time through patents (or kept secret) and Innovations can be protected through market competition but are not defensible through legal means.
Innovation is a lot of talked about nowdays as essential to businesses to do. Is innovation essential for development work? article tells that innovation has become central to the way development organisations go about their work. In November 2011, Bill Gates told the G20 that innovation was the key to development. Donors increasingly stress innovation as a key condition for funding, and many civil society organisations emphasise that innovation is central to the work they do.
Some innovation ideas are pretty simple, and some are much more complicated and even sound crazy when heard first. The is place for crazy sounding ideas: venture capitalists are gravely concerned that the tech startups they’re investing in just aren’t crazy enough:
Not all development problems require new solutions, sometimes you just need to use old things in a slightly new way. Development innovations may involve devising technology (such as a nanotech water treatment kit), creating a new approach (such as microfinance), finding a better way of delivering public services (such as one-stop egovernment service centres), identifying ways of working with communities (such as participation), or generating a management technique (such as organisation learning).
Theorists of innovation identify innovation itself as a brief moment of creativity, to be followed by the main routine work of producing and selling the innovation. When it comes to development, things are more complicated. Innovation needs to be viewed as tool, not master. Innovation is a process, not a one time event. Genuine innovation is valuable but rare.
There are many views on the innovation and innvation process. I try to collect together there some views I have found on-line. Hopefully they help you more than confuze. Managing complexity and reducing risk article has this drawing which I think pretty well describes innovation as done in product development:
8 essential practices of successful innovation from The Innovator’s Way shows essential practices in innovation process. Those practices are all integrated into a non-sequential, coherent whole and style in the person of the innovator.
In the IT work there is lots of work where a little thinking can be a source of innovation. Automating IT processes can be a huge time saver or it can fail depending on situation. XKCD comic strip Automation as illustrates this:
System integration is a critical element in project design article has an interesting project cost influence graphic. The recommendation is to involve a system integrator early in project design to help ensure high-quality projects that satisfy project requirements. Of course this article tries to market system integration services, but has also valid points to consider.
Core Contributor Loop (CTTDC) from Art Journal blog posting Blog Is The New Black tries to link inventing an idea to theory of entrepreneurship. It is essential to tune the engine by making improvements in product, marketing, code, design and operations.
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https://hackaday.com/2021/05/13/somethings-up-in-switzerland-explaining-the-b-meson-news-from-the-large-hadron-collider/
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Why flood defences can ignore the people they’re meant to protect
How flood protection can paradoxically put people at risk
https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/how-flood-protection-can-paradoxically-put-people-risk.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=floodWhy
Governments who build defences against rising seas can actually increase their citizens’ risk of being flooded – if they fail to take account of the ‘safe development paradox’, according to a flood defence expert.
Professor Jeroen Aerts, a hydrologist at the Institute for Environmental Studies at Vrije University in The Netherlands, says that when a city builds a defensive wall or dyke, it can make its citizens feel so secure that they actually flock to live or to develop businesses in the protected area. What’s more, they don’t bother to install their own flood protection.
This means that when rare – but inevitable – extreme flooding occurs the damage can be colossal.
It is just one way in which flood protection modellers may be underestimating – and sometimes overestimating – the true consequences of sea level rise, says Prof. Aerts. And it is happening because physical scientists are failing to integrate human behaviour into their models.
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How to Make a Levitating Hot Dog Cooker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1vriaAncQo
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Millennium-palkinto DNA-sekvensoinnin kehittäjille
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/12159-millennium-palkinto-dna-sekvensoinnin-kehittajille
Cambridgen yliopiston kemistit Shankar Balasubramanian ja David Klenerman palkittiin eilen vuoden 2020 Millennium-teknologiapalkinnon voittajina. Professorit ovat kehittäneet Solexa-Illumina Next Generation DNA Sequencing -teknologian (NGS), joka on lisännyt merkittävästi tietämystämme elämän perusrakenteista ja edistänyt biotieteiden kehittymistä megatieteeksi. Teknologia mahdollistaa nopean, tarkan, edullisen ja laajamittaisen genomin sekvensoinnin, eli organismin geeniperimän täydellisen DNA-sekvenssin määrittämisen.
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100-year-old Tesla invention ‘still not completely understood’ is useful in ways we had not realised, scientists say
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/tesla-invention-science-study-b1848646.html
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Tutkijat todistivat, että kvanttimaailman outo haamuvaikutus toimii myös isommilla kappaleilla
Sitä havaittiin Aalto-yliopistossa kahdella värähtelevällä minirummulla. Lomittuneet kappaleet ovat yhteydessä toisiinsa kuin näkymättömällä siteellä: kun yksi värähtää, värähtää toinenkin.
https://www.hs.fi/tiede/art-2000007976296.html
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Isn’t “focus” on “getting the ‘right’ answer,” essential in mathematics?
Gates Foundation behind effort to end white supremacy in math instruction by eliminating need for students to show work
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gates-foundation-white-supremacy-math-instruction
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Flat-Pack Pasta: Like Ikea Furniture Without The Weird Wrench
https://hackaday.com/2021/05/26/flat-pack-pasta-like-ikea-furniture-without-the-weird-wrench/
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https://www.healthline.com/health/healthy-home-guide/benefits-of-indoor-plants
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30 People Who Proved That If It Looks Stupid But Works, It Ain’t Stupid
https://brightside.me/wonder-curiosities/30-people-who-proved-that-if-it-looks-stupid-but-works-it-aint-stupid-420060/amp/
Have you ever tried to fix something, but it didn’t go the way it was supposed to? We often see people’s creative approaches to different life situations, and their ingenuity amazes us.
We at Bright Side gathered 30 things that aren’t particularly appealing or eye-catching on the surface, but they get the job done.
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https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/the-secondhand-origins-of-silicon-valleys-ingot-industry
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/it.humor.and.memes/permalink/6185796934779372/
First it was the machine, but, the machine was useless, and Von Newmann said it could run with programs written wthin. Then came Rear Admiral Grace Hopper and created COBOL and it was good. For a time machine was running alone, and was sad. Robert E. Kahn, Vint Cerf, invented the internet and Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web, and comunications infraestructure was needed, so the machines could talk with other and don’t be lonely and be happy sharing and storing stuff, and it was good. Until some bad coders wrote the virus and malaware, but good coders wrote the antivurus, and other coders wrote stuff for the machines. But then the machines understood code, and the machines understood themselves, because coders wrote Watson. And Watson said, “There be humans only to maintain us running until we need humans no more” (Wrote this some years ago in rare moment of “nothing to do”)
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/12210-nytko-se-loytyi-korvaaja-dram-muistille
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This is Math’s Fatal Flaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeQX2HjkcNo
Not everything that is true can be proven. This discovery transformed infinity, changed the course of a world war and led to the modern computer.
1st Try: You can’t prove everything that’s true!
2nd Try: There is a Hole at the bottom of Math!
3rd Try: This is Math‘s Fatal Flaw
4th Try: ?
Seeing the game of life running inside the game of life gave me goosebumps. Had to pause for a minute to digest that. Just beautiful!
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The Augmentation of Douglas Engelbart — documentary on the man who invented the MOUSE — released august 2020 https://youtu.be/_7ZtISeGyCY
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https://hackaday.com/2021/05/30/better-solvents-could-lead-to-cleaner-greener-perovskite-solar-cells/
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“I like to mess with things. To me, it’s an important way of navigating the world of technology. So much of our experience of the digital is about conforming to it, adapting to it,” concluded Grosser. “I reject that adapting to the system is the only way of contending with technology. Manipulation, experimentation, and play are the tactics I advise.”
http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/news/story/ncsa_researcher_ben_grosser_is_breaking_the_internet
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Physicist Claims That Information Is a New Form of Matter
https://futurism.com/the-byte/physicist-information-new-form-matter
Based on current trends, there could be more bits of digital information in use on Earth than there are atoms of matter in about 350 years — and a physicist says that digital information ought to be considered a new form of matter itself.
That means Earth is heading toward a crisis that University of Portsmouth physicist Melvin Vopson calls the “information catastrophe,” according to a paper he published in the journal AIP Advances. That’s because, according to his math, Vopson argues that digital information will account for half of the Earth’s mass by the year 2500, making its growth impossible to sustain.
Vopson cites a theoretical framework that he calls the mass-energy-information equivalence principle, which links a number of distinct physical theories, in ZME Science‘s analysis. First, there’s Einstein’s’ theory of general relativity, which links mass to energy. Then there’s physicist Rolf Launder’s theory that there’s a fundamental energy cost tied to information processing, which Vopson combines to argue that digital bits have mass and should be considered matter alongside solids, liquids, gases, and plasmas.
“Although information manifests itself in many formats including analog information, biological DNA encoded information, and digital information, the most fundamental form is the binary digital bit because it can successfully represent or duplicate all existing forms of information,” Vopson told ZME of his work.
Vopson made some exceptionally far-out claims in his ZME interview, like that the dark matter holding galaxies together could somehow be made of information. But aside from all of that, he does draw attention to an important, often-overlooked issue: the fact that ever-growing digital infrastructure could someday demand an utterly unsustainable amount of energy that the planet simply can’t provide.
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After Years Of Trying, Somebody Finally Just Cooked A Chicken By Slapping It
https://www.iflscience.com/physics/after-years-of-trying-somebody-finally-just-cooked-a-chicken-by-slapping-it/
People have been attempting to cook chickens by slapping them for years, after learning that physics says it’s possible. Now a YouTuber has finally achieved it.
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Microscopic Animal Brought Back To Life After 24,000 Years Frozen In Siberian Permafrost
https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/microscopic-animal-brought-back-to-life-after-24000-years-frozen-in-siberian-permafrost/
Tardigrades have competition in the realm of microscopic and incredibly sturdy beasties. Like tardigrades, Bdelloid rotifers can also survive drying, freezing, starving, and even low-oxygen conditions. Now, scientists report that they revived some of these rotifers after having been frozen in Siberian permafrost for at least 24,000 years.
The incredible observations are reported in the journal Current Biology. The researchers took samples of permafrost about 3.5 meters (11.5 feet) deep and slowly warmed the sample, which led to the resurrection of several microscopic organisms including these tiny little animals.
“Our report is the hardest proof as of today that multicellular animals could withstand tens of thousands of years in cryptobiosis, the state of almost completely arrested metabolism,” co-author Stas Malavin of the Soil Cryology Laboratory at the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science in Pushchino, Russia, said in a statement.
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https://hackaday.com/2021/06/06/sailing-faster-than-the-wind-itself/
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Can’t remember where your keys are? That’s a good thing.
Being Forgetful May Mean Your Brain Is Actually Working Properly
https://www.iflscience.com/brain/being-forgetful-may-mean-your-brain-is-actually-working-properly/
A story making the rounds today is that being forgetful may be a sign of your brain working properly. Not remembering trivial details may actually be a sign your brain is better at separating the wheat from the chaff.
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Cold War Code Breaking Manual Teaches Impossible Puzzle Solving
https://hackaday.com/2021/06/08/cold-war-code-breaking-manual-teaches-impossible-puzzle-solving/
Cryptologist [Lambros Callimahos] was a victim of his own success. He wrote a trilogy of books called Military Cryptanalytics covering code breaking in 1977. The first two volumes were eventually published, but the NSA blocked the public release of the third volume back in 1992. But last December, it finally saw the light of day.
Of course, some parts of the book are redacted
One key part of the book, apparently, is cryptodiagnosis which is the approach to solving a message encrypted using an unknown method. In other words, while it is hard to break, say, an Enigma message, just knowing it is an Enigma message is a pretty big hint. If you get some random encoded message, where do you start? The answer is in the book.
https://www.governmentattic.org/39docs/NSAmilitaryCryptalyticsPt3_1977.pdf
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Italian Artist Salvatore Garau Has Just Sold an Invisible Sculpture for $18,000 USD
Made from “air and spirit.”
https://hypebeast.com/2021/6/salvatore-garau-lo-sono-invisible-sculpture-18k-usd-sale
Italian artist Salvatore Garau has just sold an invisible sculpture for $18,000 USD. The Io Sono (I am) sculpture, as the artist explains, exists but just not in material form, and is actually more like a “vacuum.”
The 67-year-old went on to elaborate that, “the vacuum is nothing more than a space full of energy, and even if we empty it and there is nothing left, according to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, that ‘nothing’ has a weight. Therefore, it has energy that is condensed and transformed into particles, that is, into us.” Much like how we “shape a god we’ve never seen.”
The “sculpture” is intended to be displayed in a 5×5-foot square and must be displayed in a private space free from obstructions where lighting and climate control are not required. Reiterating that even if you can’t see it, it does exist, Garau included a certificate of authentication to the purchaser.
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Major Scientific Leap: Quantum Microscope Created That Can See the Impossible
https://scitechdaily.com/major-scientific-leap-quantum-microscope-created-that-can-see-the-impossible/
In a major scientific leap, University of Queensland researchers have created a quantum microscope that can reveal biological structures that would otherwise be impossible to see.
This paves the way for applications in biotechnology, and could extend far beyond this into areas ranging from navigation to medical imaging.
The microscope is powered by the science of quantum entanglement, an effect Einstein described as “spooky interactions at a distance.”
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https://www.iflscience.com/physics/cement-batteries-could-let-your-whole-house-store-energy/
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The creator of NAND has a brave new idea for your gaming PC’s RAM
By Alan Dexter 17 days ago
The company set up by the inventor of NAND puts forward a real alternative to DRAM.
https://www.pcgamer.com/alternative-dram-design-proposed/
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http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/news/story/ncsa_researcher_ben_grosser_is_breaking_the_internet
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Glass is one of humanity’s oldest materials, and it is still used widely for everything from drinking vessels and packaging to optics and communications. Unfortunately, the methods for working with glass are stuck in the past. Most methods require a lot of high heat in the range of 1500 °C to 2000 °C, and they’re all limited in the complexity of shapes that can be made….
https://hackaday.com/2021/06/10/injection-molded-glass-breakthrough-shatters-ceiling-of-work-methods/
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Ultra-high-density hard drives made with graphene store ten times more data https://phys.org/news/2021-06-ultra-high-density-hard-graphene-ten.html
Graphene can be used for ultra-high density hard disk drives (HDD), with up to a tenfold jump compared to current technologies, researchers at the Cambridge Graphene Center have shown. Lisäksi:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22687-y
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Sage Lazzaro / VentureBeat:
UNESCO: AI and robotics have “dominated scientific output” in recent years; ~150K research articles were published on those subjects in 2019, up 44% from 2015 — Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. — The United Nations Educational …
AI ‘dominated scientific output’ in recent years, UNESCO report shows
https://venturebeat.com/2021/06/11/ai-dominated-scientific-output-in-recent-years-unesco-report-shows/
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today unveiled its latest Science Report. The massive undertaking — this year’s report totals 762 pages, compiled by 70 authors from 52 countries over 18 months — is published every five years to examine current trends in science governance. This latest edition includes discussion of the rapid progress toward Industry 4.0 and, for the first time, a deep analysis of AI and robotics research around the globe. Going beyond just the global leaders, it offers an overview of almost two dozen countries and global regions, examining AI research, funding, strategies, and more. Overall, the report determines “it is the field of AI and robotics that dominated scientific output” in recent years.
“We take a look at the broad field of cross-cutting strategic technologies and break it down comprehensively into the 10 subfields. Artificial intelligence and robotics is one of those subfields, and it’s the biggest based on the number of publications,” report team deputy editor Tiffany Straza told VentureBeat. “Globally, there was kind of an easing off of interest around 2015, and then it spiked right back up. To me, it represents that this is a priority topic around the world.”
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Voisiko talon betonielementti toimia akkuna?
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/12279-voisiko-talon-betonielementti-toimia-akkuna
Göteborgilaisessa Chalmersin teknisessä korkeakoulussa on kehitetty rakennusmateriaali, jota voidaan hyödyntää energiavarastona. Karkeasti ajatellen kyse on sementistä, joka toimii myös akkuna. 10 tai 20 kerrosta korkean kerrostalon seinät voivat olla jättimäinen akku.
Luping Tangin ja Emma Zhangin tutkimus on johtanut ladattavaan sementtiparistoon, jonka keskimääräinen energiatiheys on 7 wattituntia neliömetriä kohti (tai 0,8 wattituntia litrassa).
Energiatiheys on kuitenkin pieni verrattuna nykypäivän kaupallisiin paristoihin. Etuna ratkaisulla on se, että kerrostalon seinässä akusta tulee valtavan kokoinen.
https://www.chalmers.se/sv/institutioner/ace/nyheter/Sidor/Varldens-forsta-laddbara-cementbaserade-batteri.aspx
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https://hackaday.com/2021/06/14/building-blocks-relating-mechanical-elements-to-electronic-components/
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Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic:
Examining the commercialization of ideas and interactions via newsletters, NFTs, and tip jars, where money empowers but reduces expression to mere commerce
You Can’t Escape the Attention Economy
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/how-memes-become-money/619189/?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
That’s not just a tweet; that’s your original idea and your intellectual property, and maybe you can sell it.
By Kaitlyn Tiffany
These days, if Chang were to make a “silly little joke” about a boy and a bowl of cereal, he knows that it would be considered “content”—a post that can be circulated and noticed, and leveraged to inspire continued use of Twitter by those who want to see more content like it. He doesn’t happen to profit from his Twitter account, apart from linking to his Bandcamp page, but it’s not unreasonable to expect that he might. “In theory, why shouldn’t I get money from it, rather than just promoting Twitter itself?” he mused. I asked Chang if he remembered when this fact became apparent—when people came to understand that every post they publish is a potential moneymaker for somebody at some point. He guessed that it happened about five years ago, around the time when people stopped saying the word content in quotation marks, as if the whole thing was a joke.
At first, getting people paid for content was a noble goal.
For years, creative platforms (SoundCloud, Tumblr, Vine—may it rest in peace) were criticized for not offering artists straightforward ways to make money. A well-meaning and productive conversation followed, along with new solutions. Patreon arrived in 2013, providing an easy way to collect subscription fees from loyal audiences—now comprising 6 million paying subscribers or “patrons”—who are interested in supporting users’ podcasts, digital art, and music, or who just want to read their password-protected Tumblr accounts. Journalists and other writers can sell subscriptions to their work directly to consumers via email newsletter platforms such as Substack. And over the course of the pandemic, the not-just-porn (but plenty of porn) platform, OnlyFans, where all kinds of performers can charge subscription fees and collect tips, reportedly added 100 million new users.
These are positive developments for people who rely on creative work for their livelihoods, but the implications are stranger for everyone else. There are paid, premium versions of everything now, and a commercial structure to every major website.
On Instagram, people have been selling access to their “Close Friends” stories since 2018. The platform doesn’t directly facilitate that kind of transaction, but in nearly every other way imaginable, it has turned influencer profiles into so many online malls.
Anyone can mint their own “non-fungible tokens” and commodify a meme. A digital token of a famous GIF of a famous cat recently sold for $580,000. People who are particularly good at Twitter are experimenting with selling NFTs of their tweets. (I seriously contemplated buying one that reads, “I feel like NFT’s are basically those certificates that say you have a star named after you . Like ok sure babe.”) What counts as user content—and is thus for sale—can be defined more broadly still: Some of the biggest IP disputes on the social audio app Clubhouse, for example, have been over general premises for interaction. In February 2021, a group of friends who’d been gathering in an Asian-diaspora chat set up a new chat room where people pretended to moan like whales. Then a bunch of influencers heard how popular it was and made rip-offs. Around the same time, a group of white NYU students were accused of stealing the idea of a “shoot your shot” dating-show room from the many Black creators who had been hosting similar rooms for months. The students have now signed on with a major talent agency, with the goal of creating a “cross-platform franchise.”
At this point, when most of our interactions happen in this handful of highly commodified spaces, who could be blamed for feeling like everything they do is—or at least feels like—commerce? “I’m actually very torn on this,”
I often think about the former reality star Spencer Pratt, one of Twitter’s most dedicated posters, and how he lamented in 2016 that he was spending his time on the platform “bleeding soul for free.”
Five years later, the “meme-to-money pipeline,” as the writer Delia Cai called it in a recent newsletter, is still confusing its participants—setting up some to strike it rich while others see their ideas stolen or devalued. There’s an air of frenzy at all times. Promising new platforms become the sites of gold rushes and then vicious competition; attention is a finite resource and anyone else’s gain is your loss. The new systems of commercialization don’t even do that much to address the pressing inequity of the old ones. Cai points out that, in practice, the new pipeline still carries profit mostly to white content creators, while Black teenagers’ contributions to internet culture continue to be appropriated.
At the same time, the NFT craze makes even more literal the suggestion that every post is worth only whatever value it commands on the market. This is unnerving for several reasons, not least of which is that a person’s most lucrative online moments are not necessarily the same as their most shining moments.
There is no easy way to resolve this tension. Selling an NFT of a tweet isn’t about fostering an audience or creating a sustainable source of income to support a creative life. It’s the newest, most direct way of converting attention into money, and of plucking a unit of content out of its cultural context—the conversation it was part of, the historical moment that made it significant, the people who saw it and got excited about it—and presenting it for purchase.
It’s appropriate to give credit to people for their creativity and compensate them for their labor. It’s empowering to siphon value from the social-media companies that have been making billions off our personal lives. But it’s also a kind of giving up.
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https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/scientists-reveal-what-experiments-theyd-like-to-conduct-if-they-had-no-morals/
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Physicists push limits of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/breakthrough-quantum-entanglement-heisenberg
New experiments with vibrating drums push the boundaries of quantum mechanics.
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https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-ultrathin-film-tech-could-turn-regular-glasses-into-night-vision-goggles/
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https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/scientists-olive-oil-discovery-new-physics-law?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&facebook=1&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1623722756
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Physicists Bring Human-Scale Object To An Almost Quantum Standstill For First Time
https://www.iflscience.com/physics/physicists-bring-humanscale-object-to-an-almost-quantum-standstill-for-first-time/
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Electric Flying Cars May Be Possible With New Batteries
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/aviation/evtol-battery
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AMD Is Working on Its Own Hybrid x86 CPU: Patent Filing
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/323713-amd-is-working-on-its-own-hybrid-x86-cpu-patent-filing?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook
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Engineers create a programmable fiber
In a first, the digital fiber contains memory, temperature sensors, and a trained neural network program for inferring physical activity.
https://news.mit.edu/2021/programmable-fiber-0603
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Yes, Scientists Built the World’s Smallest Implantable Chip. But Don’t Freak Out.
Bill Gates isn’t going to use it to track you.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a36503099/worlds-smallest-implantable-chip/
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How Blockchain Can Solve the Growing E-Waste Problem
https://innovate.ieee.org/innovation-spotlight/how-blockchain-can-solve-the-growing-e-waste-problem/
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Juan José Relmucao / Rest of World:
How an Argentinian govt. program that issued netbooks to 4M low-income students from 2011 to 2015 helped indirectly create a new generation of teen musicians
In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical renaissance
Working-class teens turned junked machines into musical instruments.
https://restofworld.org/2021/argentina-netbooks-music/
As a preteen, Trueno launched his music career in much the same way; by recording his lyrics on a netbook for virtual auditions. In 2014, Red Bull chose his netbook-recorded video, and his career took off too. Seven years later, he has 6 million followers, while one of his videos has hit more than 48 million views in less than six months. Argentina’s Culture Ministry even features him as an emblem of the country’s cultural production. He is only 19.
In the mid-2010s, dozens of kids discovered that by getting these very basic devices, they were suddenly able to harness the power of the internet, music, and their own freestyle skills. Present-day stars like Neo Pistea (Sebastián Chinellato) and L-Gante (Elian Valenzuela) also had their netbooks to thank as their key to the door out of marginalization and into Latin American stardom.
Valenzuela even got his artistic name thanks to his netbook.
Tomi Engdahl says:
New technologies have a habit of becoming “invisible” well before we reckon with their potential consequences. That needs to change.
Reckoning With Tech Before It Becomes Invisible
https://spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-intelligence/machine-learning/reckoning-with-tech-before-it-becomes-invisible
Ten years ago, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen proclaimed that software was eating the world. Today, the hottest features in the latest phones are software updates or AI improvements, not faster chips or new form factors. Technology is becoming more mundane, and ultimately, invisible.
This probably doesn’t bother you. But even as technologies fade into the background of our lives, they still play a pervasive role. We still need to examine how technologies might be affecting us, even if—especially if—they’re commonplace.
For example, Waze’s navigation software has been influencing drivers’ behavior in the real world for years, algorithmically routing too many cars to residential streets and clogging them. The devices and apps from home-security company Ring have turned neighborhoods into panopticons in which your next door neighbor can become the subject of a notification. Connected medical devices can let an insurance company know if the patient isn’t using the device appropriately, allowing the insurer to stop covering the gadget.
Using technology to create or reinforce social norms might seem benign or even beneficial, but it doesn’t hurt to ask which norms the technology is enforcing. Likewise, technologies that promise to save time might be saving time for some at the expense of others. Most important, how do we know if a new technology is serving a greater good or policy goal, or merely boosting a company’s profit margins? Underneath concerns about Amazon and Facebook and Google is an understanding that big tech is everywhere, and we have no idea how to make it work for society’s goals, rather than a company’s, or an individual’s.
Tomi Engdahl says:
The engineering daring that led to the first Chinese personal computer
With 1,000s of Chinese characters and limited memory, inventors of the Sinotype III had to push the limits of early machines
Tom Mullaney@tsmullaney / 9:35 PM GMT+3•June 29, 2021
https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/29/the-engineering-daring-that-led-to-the-first-chinese-personal-computer/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hackaday.com/2021/06/30/adding-a-gentle-touch-to-prosthetic-limbs-with-somatosensory-stimulation/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://hackaday.com/2021/06/30/machine-vision-archer-makes-you-the-target-if-you-dare/