Category: Disruptive Tech
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A Good Week for Computer Gaffes
From MIllenials to Snake People to Alexa’s creepy unsolicited laughter, this has been a good week for taking a look at how computers are just machines and it is our attention as people that makes them good tools or sloppy tools. Shared this with my familty group this week: Still loving the NYTimes editor’s use of […]
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Radio beaming in differently
Of all media, radio will undergo the most dramatic change in the coming decade, and these changes will radically transform the industry. Below are some of the most important of those changes, based in insights by various media forecasters and analysts and media buyers, and the Media Life’s radio advisory panel. (via The future of […]
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Chromebooks 2016
(via Ranking the 10 Best Chromebooks You Can Buy Right Now (June 2016) :: Tech :: Galleries :: Paste)
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It’s that time of year. Pew’s State of the News
It’s that time of year. Pew’s State of the News Media is out. Eight years after the Time of Shedding and Cold Rocks sent the U.S. newspaper industry into a tailspin, the pressures facing America’s newsrooms have intensified to nothing less than a reorganization of the industry itself, one that impacts the experiences of even […]
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Side-Effect of Zika Virus
(via What it’s like to get the rare, WWI-era autoimmune disorder affecting Zika patients | Public Radio International)
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Dan O’Neil Reflects on the “Community” in Community Technology
A lot of it was an education—and sometimes not a very pleasant one. I was a believer in open data, a believer in the power of technology to help people, a believer in the founding idea that technologists could solve problems if they just coded the right things. I came to see the limits of […]
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June 2016 FCC Reverse Spectrum Auction Explainer
In what’s known as a reverse auction, the initial process will run over a month and include 52 rounds of bidding in all, with the FCC picking over the inventory and offering stations a price the agency thinks that station’s airwaves are worth. If the price is right, the station gives up its space on […]
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Build Your Own Chatbot
A platform allowing anyone to visually build, train & deploy chatbots to do just about anything. (via A look at Motion AI, available in public beta today. | Built In Chicago)
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Arresting Photos of Chicago’s Deep Tunnel
Amazing photos of DeepTunnel and related things. These photographs present the three major portions of the southeastern section of the system: the Deep Tunnel, the Thornton Reservoir, and the Calumet Water Reclamation Plant. These interconnected facilities serve large portions of Chicago and its south suburban communities. (via Exploring the Physicality of the Tunnel and Reservoir […]
Barbara K Iverson 