Airborne, a potentially disruptive start-up in the music sector, hopes to “cure the music industry of its sickness” with their upcoming launch. Their cloud-based music sharing platform places fans and artists in direct symbiosis. It’s an interesting model, so take a look: Beyond all the virus metaphors (they even go so far as to call songs ‘strains’) the core […]
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Music is the Virus
Posted in Music
Also tagged airborne, audience, community, electronic, favourite, idea, ideas, interesting, Music, net, real world, remix, rights, share, sharing, soundcloud, viral, world
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Pixar’s Zoetrope and the 4th Dimension
As leaders in computer animation, in terms of box-office takings, technical prowess and industry awards, it’s easy to forget that Pixar’s roots are in traditional animation: the frame by frame progression of a set of still images at speeds that trick the eye into perceiving a single moving image. But in the Age of Mechanical […]
Posted in Comics, Film
Also tagged acquisition, animation, animator, box office, box office takings, cognitive leap, comic books, computer, computer animation, creation, disney, Dr. Manhattan, entertainment, eye, industry awards, interesting, marvel, mcluhanism, mechanical reproduction, Media, mind, moving image, observer, page, panels, perception, Pixar, reader, set, still images, technical prowess, The Walt Disney Company, traditional animation, wacom tablets, Warren Trezevant, watchmen, zoetrope
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The Future of Love
Love is here to stay Human beings are hard-wired to love. As babies, we rely solely on the love of our parents for our survival. As adults, our instinct to love keeps us producing those babies. So what is the future for love? Guest blogger Lindsey Mountford investigates: Love is a drug. The state we […]
Posted in Science, The Future
Also tagged algorithm, babies, body, books, brain, brains, data, drugs, education, fake, food, future, google, history, interesting, life, love, meme, mental, Mobile, mobile phone, money, Music, network, neurology, new, online, people, pharma, phone, play, playlist, power, psychology, robot, robotics, romance, sci-fi, science, social, social media, social network, software, spider, spotify, subscribe, The Future, therapy, track, universe, writing
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On the Potential for Branded Robots
Last year I wrote about these awesome fighting robots from Japan, where I asked this question: “I am very interested in at least progressing research into the potential for branded robotics, androids & cybernetics if any readers have thoughts?” I received an equally awesome response from one Pius Agius, who challenged me on my Western predilection […]
Posted in Technology
Also tagged Academic, android, artificial intelligence, brain, brand, cambridge, company, cybernetic, Design, development, Gaming, interactive, japan, network, neurology, play, potential, research, richard dawkins, robot, social network, society, steve grand, technology, The Future, thinking, virtual
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Top 60 Jobs That Will Rock the Future
Here’s a total re-blog of some interesting thoughts from Get Degrees. It’s lifted wholesale from their article Top 60 Jobs That Will Rock the Future: We know where the jobs are now… but where will they be ten years from now? Twenty? Some job descriptions will always be in need, but many others are evolving […]
Posted in The Future
Also tagged 3D, atmosphere, brain, brainstorm, business, clients, community, companies, company, computing, corporate, corporations, data, decade, Design, digital, drugs, economics, education, energy, entertainment, face, Film, fish, food, found, functions, Gaming, google, green, holiday, human, ideas, individuals, information, innovation, intelligence, interactive, interesting, interface, internet, jobs, learning, LED, life, light, location, love, management, maps, Media, mind, Mobile, money, movies, new, News, office, online, patient, pc, people, phone, plan, play, popular, potential, power, problem, production, reality, research, resources, robots, scary, science, screen, search, second life, security, service, site, social, society, sound, space, special, statistics, technology, The Future, therapy, thinking, time, travel, trend, trends, video, virgin galactic, virtual, water, wave, Web, website, wikipedia, world
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