When 600 people gather into a freezing warehouse, alongside massive turbines that powered the first street cars in the United States, I feel reassured that the tech community extends far and beyond Silicon Valley.
(via Jake Lyell | Video Production | Photography | Based in East Africa) My friend Jake creates beautiful photos and videos for various NGOs in Africa. I liked this one a lot for obvious technophile reasons. It’s just neat to see how access to computers and training can change a life.
Once you see this pattern—a new story rearranging people’s sense of the possible, with the incumbents the last to know—you see it everywhere. First, the people running the old system don’t notice the change. When they do, they assume it’s minor. Then that it’s a niche. Then a fad. And by the time they understand that the world has actually changed, they’ve squandered most of the time they had to adapt.
“Shouldn’t everybody be on the internet? YESSS.”
Kids in adorable 90s haircuts predict the future of the internet (“by the time we’re in college, the internet will be our telephone, television, shopping center, and workplace”; “…and I even found a recipe for catfood cupcakes”) in an oddly prophetic PSA from 1995.
Then, see Arthur C. Clarke predict it way back in 1964.
I’m a little older than these kids but I was just as excited about the internet. Still am, apparently.
Bicycle built for 2: a person & camera! Google Maps Street View Team is mapping the Garden this morning. We’re excited you’ll soon be able to see views from our paths.
(And did you know you can add your photos of the Garden to Google Maps? It’s so cool when people do that!)
Flipboard is finally out for Android, and I LOVE IT. The dream of keeping up with the internet while out and about in a non-cumbersome manner has been realized! Highly, highly recommended.
Fantastic article.
Seems to be today’s theme…
Excerpt:
But as the proliferation of such essays and books suggest, we are far from forgetting about the offline; rather we have become obsessed with being offline more than ever before. We have never appreciated a solitary stroll, a camping trip, a face-to-face chat with friends, or even our boredom better than we do now. Nothing has contributed more to our collective appreciation for being logged off and technologically disconnected than the very technologies of connection. The ease of digital distraction has made us appreciate solitude with a new intensity. We savor being face-to-face with a small group of friends or family in one place and one time far more thanks to the digital sociality that so fluidly rearranges the rules of time and space. In short, we’ve never cherished being alone, valued introspection, and treasured information disconnection more than we do now. Never has being disconnected — even if for just a moment — felt so profound.
The Tumblr community could have predicted this. ;)
And now you know what exactly my husband does for a living over at Light Tape.
A state of the art company that has its product in just about every country you can think of (and then some) is based right here in town. What is Light Tape, what do they make, and why don’t more people know how amazing they are?
Now that Instagram is finally available for Android and I’m using it, allow me to recommend Carousel. If you’re like me and you spend way more time in front of your computer than in front of your smartphone, this app is a simple, slick way to view all those photos. Plus it’s made by Mobelux, who in my opinion are gentlemen worthy of your $1.99.
Things have been busy here at Mobelux and we almost forgot to tell you about the newest Carousel update. Carousel has been localized into Japanese, German, Russian and Spanish! We’ve also made it easier to reply to a comment (just option-click a username to reply) and added in a really cool extension for Safari and Chrome users.
Enjoy!
