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The Future Of... | The Next Battleground for Open Source Is Your Car
It all seems upside down: a major toy company releases its first tablet; a major search company works on its first car. Yet all of this makes sense when you realize everyone just wants to be – or...
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The Future Of... | The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It
It all began with the “lifestream,” a phenomenon that I predicted in the 1990s and shared in the pages of Wired almost exactly 16 years ago. It arrived in the form of blog posts and RSS feeds, Twitter...
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The Future Of... | Beyond the GUI: It’s Time for a Conversational User Interface
The GUI has served us well for a long time, but it's beginning to fray around the edges. We’re now grappling with an unintended side effect of ubiquitous computing: a surge in complexity that...
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Voices From The Field | Why Aren’t We All Talking With Our Devices Yet?
Why aren’t we all now talking to our phones … instead of squinting at them?
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Facebook Home Propaganda Makes Selfishness Contagious
Transforming vice into virtue, Facebook Home ads are social engineering spectacles that use aesthetic tricks to disguise the profound ethical issues at stake. This isn't an academic concern:...
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Will Bitcoin Change How Kids Learn to Count?
There’s been talk, buzz, and hype about Bitcoin ATMs, bubbles, ecosystems, miners, and more. But no one has addressed something about Bitcoin that only seems obvious in hindsight: what about its...
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Provocative Primers | An Insider’s View of the Myths and Truths of the 3-D...
It’s clear that 3-D printing has reached its inflection point. And perhaps its hype point, too. We’ve built a magical aura around it — sci-fi style replicator! — but the fact is that 3-D printing is...
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Opinions, Sketched | Forget Google Glass. These Are the Interfaces of the Future
When we talk about design nowadays, the focus has been on the lures (or dangers) of flat design and skeumorphism; whether there should be (or really are any) intuitive interfaces; and wearable, maybe...
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Voices From The Field | The Future of Design Is More Than Making Apple iOS Flat
Not only is the Jobs vs. Ive framing overly simplified, it’s also irrelevant to design discourse. Limiting our skeuomorphism and flat design discussion to what essentially boils down to a “do these...
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One of the Culprits Behind PRISM? Design Thinking (Really)
It’s telling that in citing 'ecosystems', private digital realms like Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google attempt to naturalize themselves. What else could there be in naming the infrastructure of the...
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