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Maria Gurova

How I Convinced My 8 Year Old To Choose Books Instead Of Minecraft - Forbes - 0 views

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Technology KE Social reading e-book

shared by Maria Gurova on 31 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • There’s dissonance between the cultural and psychological associations I have about technology and the associations I have about reading. The popular mythology tells me that words are good while tech is scary.
  • Bottom line: the eReader makes my son read more. And my son is not unique. According to PlayScience and Digital Book World study, the Kids eBook market “has basically tripled from 2011 to 2012, that is 500% growth.”  What’s more, “A staggering number of kids  (85%) e-read at least once a week.”
  • “Which do you like better,” I sent him a message with gChat, “eBooks or paper books?” “ebook” “Why?” “Its a elictrak devise” I forgive the bad spelling. But I should probably correct him. Or, even better, respond with sentences that use the words and model correct spellings. “What have you been reading?” “All the Horrid Henrys” “Cool. Are they good books?” “Ya.”
Ekaterina Yanovskaya

Mary Lou Jepsen: Could future devices read images from our brains? | Transcript | TED.com - 0 views

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devices brains science social Technology

shared by Ekaterina Yanovskaya on 16 May 14 - No Cached
  • We have little option but to open this door. Regardless, pick a year -- will it happen in five years or 15 years? It's hard to imagine it taking much longer.
  • Ekaterina Yanovskaya on 16 May 14
     
    Could future devices read images from our brains? As an expert on cutting-edge digital displays, Mary Lou Jepsen studies how to show our most creative ideas on screens. And as a brain surgery patient herself, she is driven to know more about the neural activity that underlies invention, creativity, thought.
Maria Gurova

Virgin Galactic Wants to Fly You From LA to Tokyo (Through Space, In One Hour) | Mother... - 0 views

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Technology travel space travel Virgin Galactic transportation supersonic airline

shared by Maria Gurova on 24 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • When Virgin Galactic finally takes its first tourists to space, it'll just be a a stepping stone to what the company's ultimate mission is: Flying people from one place on Earth to another place on Earth, just like any other airline. Except in this version, you'll travel through space and be able to fly from Los Angeles to Tokyo in an hour.
  • He's discussed creating a supersonic passenger plane himself, but why settle for an incremental change when, if it works, "point-to-point suborbital space transportation" promises to be a complete paradigm shift?
  • Virgin's daring, sometimes insane chairman Richard Branson has long had his eyes on a supersonic commercial airline
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  • The Concorde failed for a lot of reasons, not least of which the fact that it was very, very expensive. So far, hundreds of people  have shelled out $250,000 to take a quick suborbital spaceflight with Virgin Galactic, but are they going to be willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to save 12 hours flying halfway around the world?
Oleg Batluk

Digital media may be changing how you think: New study finds users focus on concrete de... - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...160508151944.htm

social digital dementia physical-digital overlap data digitalization

shared by Oleg Batluk on 31 May 16 - No Cached
  • Using digital platforms such as tablets and laptops for reading may make you more inclined to focus on concrete details rather than interpreting information more abstractly
  • wake-up call to how digital media may be affecting our likelihood of using abstract thought
  • Reading comprehension and problem solving success were affected by the type of platform used.
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  • For the abstract questions, on average, participants using the non-digital platform scored higher on inference questions with 66 percent correct, as compared to those using the digital platform, who had 48 percent correct
  • On the concrete questions, participants using the digital platform scored better with 73 percent correct, as compared to those using the non-digital platform, who had 58 percent correct
  • it's crucial to recognize the role that digitization of information might be having on this important aspect of cognition
al_semenchenko

В ОАЭ планируют создать рукотворную гору для увеличения количества осадков / ... - 0 views

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shared by al_semenchenko on 05 May 16 - No Cached
  • Поскольку цена на нефть сильно упала, и в скором времени вряд ли поднимется до прежних показателей, ОАЭ собирается снизить зависимость своей экономики от нефтяных доходов. В частности, планируется активно развивать туризм.
  • планируют улучшить климатические условия, чтобы превратить пустыню в цветущий сад.
  • А что для этого нужно сделать? Конечно, возвести гору.
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  • только в 2015 году было осуществлено 186 операций по «посеву облаков». Эта миссия действительно была успешной — в марте этого года в ОАЭ выпало рекордное количество осадков, что даже привело к затоплению части площадей региона (временное наводнение).
  • Сравнивать можно только с китайской программой уничтожения гор для постройки городов, что привело к экологической катастрофе.
  • al_semenchenko on 05 May 16
     
    Масштабные искусственные изменения биосферы все еще в тренде.
Maria Gurova

Disrupting the Playground - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...disrupting-the-playground.html

Technology KE kids learning Play Millennials behavior adulkids entrepreneurship

shared by Maria Gurova on 24 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Maria Gurova on 24 Sep 14
     
    it's not only contains lot's of trends about the shifting behavior patterns among younger generation, it's a fun read and may also be an idea for scenario format - a chain of emails from a nursery school teacher to the parents of a very disruptive and entrepreneurial minded kid 
evgeny lavrov

HowStuffWorks "Top 5 Ways We'll Have Fun in 2050" - 0 views

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DICO KE CIS play entertainment Technology games

shared by evgeny lavrov on 14 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • we won't need to teach children how to read and
  • write, but rather how to use computers and think creatively
  • world in which we all use voice-in, voice-out (VIVO) computers
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  • vast swaths of the population will be illiterate
  • interact with it via virtual realit
  • With this technology, your children will be able to interact with their favorite fuzzy friends by inviting them into the living room to dance around
  • we'll be able to meet up with friends and family around the world thanks to hologram technology
alexbelov

Podshare is like a hostel and hotel combined - Tech Insider - 0 views

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shared by alexbelov on 12 May 16 - No Cached
  • Guests get their own bunk with a TV, towel, outlets, and more for between $40 and $50 a night, depending on the location. They can also share the community fridge, food, bathrooms, toiletries, and work space areas.
  • Four years after launch, Podshare has hosted over 5,000 guests and has a loyal fan base. The company has a near-perfect five-star review on Yelp, 4.5 stars on TripAdvisor, and 16 members love it so much they had the logo tattooed on their body. Keep reading to see what it's like inside.
  • alexbelov on 12 May 16
     
    Podshare provides cheap and really small accommodation space to its customers who get their own tiny place to sleep and access to shared community space, which includes fridge, food, bathrooms and working area.
al_semenchenko

Artificially Intelligent Lawyer "Ross" Has Been Hired By Its First Official Law Firm - 0 views

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Technology Social economy robots ai digital workforce Human vs Machine

shared by al_semenchenko on 13 May 16 - No Cached
  • Law firm Baker & Hostetler has announced that they are employing IBM’s AI Ross to handle their bankruptcy practice, which at the moment consists of nearly 50 lawyers.
  • Ross, “the world’s first artificially intelligent attorney” built on IBM’s cognitive computer Watson, was designed to read and understand language, postulate hypotheses when asked questions, research, and then generate responses (along with references and citations) to back up its conclusions. Ross also learns from experience, gaining speed and knowledge the more you interact with it.
  • “At BakerHostetler, we believe that emerging technologies like cognitive computing and other forms of machine learning can help enhance the services we deliver to our clients.”
Irina Marchenko

10 Incredible Ways Technology May Make Us Superhuman - 3 views

http://listverse.com/2013/05/12/10-incredible-ways-technology-may-make-us-superhuman/

Technology science pls read item #5

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Maria Gurova

Your First-Grader is Going to Be A High School Drop Out | TIME.com - 0 views

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learning big data Technology behavior education

shared by Maria Gurova on 06 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • The predictive factors themselves—behavior problems, frequent absences from school, reading skills that are below grade level—are not so surprising.
  • Thanks to widespread automation and digitization, we now have access to more information, gathered at ever-earlier stages, about individuals’ performance at school
  • There is a danger, of course, that people who struggle early on will be written off too soon, before they’ve had a chance to prove themselves.
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  • The availability of very early indicators of performance puts a whole new spin on the Matthew effect: teachers can use these indicators to address trouble spots before the student or employee ever has a chance to fall seriously behind.
  • the evaluation specialist West pointed out that his formula only spots “signs of students who drop out—it doesn’t mean they are dropouts.” But the research is clear that we also shouldn’t wait to help them avoid that fate.
Maria Gurova

What It Really Feels Like to Ride in a Self-Driving Car | TIME.com - 0 views

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Technology Google self-driving car urbanization

shared by Maria Gurova on 15 May 14 - No Cached
  • Google’s project to change transportation by designing cars which can drive themselves is getting less secretive
  • a trip which will be far less tedious when I can do it while reading, answering email or otherwise being productive.
  • Sergey Brin has talked about self-driving cars being a reality for “everyday people” within five years–and he said that a year and a half ago, which would suggest he was thinking about 2017
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  • From a technical standpoint, the car uses lasers, radar and cameras to construct a 3D image of the world around it, and uses that to make driving decisions.
  • The driver has a small heads-up display which summarizes what the car’s vision system sees, with color-coded indicators for other vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists and other things it needs to contend with.
  • The Google cars drive safely in part because they’re programmed to be relentlessly cautious: Unlike many a human driver, they won’t push their luck.
Maria Gurova

New era of self-driving cars will transform cities - 0 views

www.straitstimes.com/...will-transform-cities-20140828

Technology social autonomous transport self-driving car sharing environment city planning smart cities navigation

shared by Maria Gurova on 24 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • it will certainly transform our daily routines: imagine driving hands-free while having the luxury of reading a book, taking a nap, or guiltlessly texting on the road. At the same time, something far more interesting - and still unexplored - is the potential transformation of our cities themselves
  • blurring the distinction between private and public modes of transportation. "Your" car could give you a lift to work in the morning and then, rather than sitting idle in a parking lot, give a lift to someone else in your family - or, for that matter, to anyone else in your neighbourhood, social media circles, or city.
  • This implies a city in which everyone can travel on demand with just one-fifth of the number of cars in use today
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  • Fewer cars may also mean shorter travel times, less congestion, and a smaller environmental impact.
  • Real-time data planning and smart routing are already a reality, and more advances are coming in the wake of "intelligent city" initiatives around the world,
  • Imagine a world without traffic lights, where vehicular flows "magically" pass through one another and avoid collision
  • Traffic accidents, though rarer, would still be a possibility; in fact, they might be one of the main impediments to implementation of autonomous systems, demanding a restructuring of insurance and liability that could sustain armies of lawyers for years to com
  • We are all familiar with viruses crashing our computers, but what if a virus crashes our cars? Resolving these issues is crucial, but none is insurmountable.
evgeny lavrov

Google's Got a Plan to Make the Mobile Web Less Slow | WIRED - 0 views

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Global Technology Society Content Internet

shared by evgeny lavrov on 07 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • it’s clear that in the future, tech companies—not publishers—will be the chief distributors of the news we consume.
  • Google’s AMP
  • is a continuation of that trend
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  • AMP aims to ensure that web content loads just as instantly, and looks just as sleek as it would in a native app.
  • This is about making sure the World Wide Web is not the World Wide Wait
  • The hope, among publishers, is that faster, cleaner content on the web will drive engagement. Attention spans on the web are short, after all, and there are plenty of other articles to read.
  • Google is opening this format to all publishers
  • It will also be interesting to see how Facebook responds to the news
  • While Facebook is onboarding publishers one by one
  • But now, more than ever, these platforms are not only determining what news matters to us, they’re determining the best way to present and publish it, as well
Maria Gurova

FuturePundit: Regulations For Offspring Genetic Engineering - 0 views

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bioengineering Health DNA genetic engineering inequality ethics Political population Future of Talent enhanced offsprings world government Humanity

shared by Maria Gurova on 07 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • The prospect of genetically much altered future generations is no longer in the distant science fiction future but rather in the "some of the people reading this will live to see it on large scale" future.
  • Some more competitive governments might mandate genetic editing to put a floor on intelligence. Want a first class high tech economy? Allow no kid below 120 IQ. The first government to do that will have the highest per capita income economy in the world 50 years later if not much sooner.
  • My expectation is that differences in regulatory response to germ line genetic engineering technologies will cause the populations of the world's various countries to diverge in a variety of ways that will be immediately visibl
  • Maria Gurova on 07 Apr 15
     
    in the highly delicate mater of genetic engineering that might become a reality sooner that one might expect, how would the individual governments react? And is this an internal affair that is to be handled inside the country that might get the first access to the high-end bio engineering technology. 
alexbelov

China's Great GREEN Wall to stop climate change - 1 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...alt-advancing-Gobi-Desert.html

Ecology climate change China forest Environment Eco-Empathy

shared by alexbelov on 13 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • Will China's Great GREEN Wall save the country from dust storms? 100 billion tree project could halt advancing Gobi Desert
  • advancing
  • China is planting huge strips of trees to stop the Gobi DesertFor decades the desert has been advancing and causing serious dust storms in key cities such as BeijingSince 1978 the government has been planting trees to reverse the widespread deforestation that took place in ChinaNow a recent study suggests the project has been a successThey found increased vegetation and lower levels of dust storm intensityBy 2050 100 billion trees will be planted across a tenth of the country 
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  • ‘From this result, we infer that the implementation of the GGW programme has effectively decreased DSI by improving the vegetation conditions,’ they write.
  • alexbelov on 13 Nov 15
     
    Since 1978 China has been planting huge strips of trees to stop the Gobi Desert which is advancing to the key cities such as Beijing.The interim project results are positive. They will plant 100 billion trees across the country by 2050 to cover 1/10 of the country. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2874368/Will-China-s-Great-GREEN-Wall-save-country-dust-storms-100-billion-tree-project-halt-advancing-Gobi-Desert.html#ixzz3rMg1Prmb  Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Vladimir Antonov

Boeing Says It's Made the Lightest Metal Material in the World | Motherboard - 1 views

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technology material science environment economy fuel efficiency intentional evolution

shared by Vladimir Antonov on 21 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Its structure is similar to that of a bone, in which the outside is rigid but the inside is mostly hollow
  • to save weight
  • efficient
  • Vladimir Antonov on 21 Oct 15
     
    A new material developed by Boeing is made of metal, but it's so light it can balance delicately on top of a dandelion. The product, called microlattice, is 100 times lighter than styrofoam, according to Boeing, and is made with interconnected hollow tubes.
al_semenchenko

British scientists create a 'tractor beam' of ultrasonic sound - 1 views

www.engadget.com/...actor-beam-of-ultrasonic-sound

Technology science tractor beam sci-fi to reality ultrasonic British scientists production methods force field Economic

shared by al_semenchenko on 28 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • A team of researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex have developed the world's first functioning sonic tractor beam able to operate outside of a lab environment.
  • These waves create an "acoustic hologram" (read: force field) capable of moving pea-sized objects without physically touching them. Adjusting the output of individual speakers allows the researchers to move, rotate and hold items at will.
  • al_semenchenko on 28 Oct 15
     
    A new way of manipulation without direct phisical contact may lead to creation of stractures that were impossible and innovate production methods in veriety of industries.
Oleg Batluk

Managing the Soft Skills Gap in Younger Workers - 0 views

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CIS HR soft skills millenials retention crisis

shared by Oleg Batluk on 04 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • If you read the latest headlines, it seems like more and more of young new hires are not working out.
  • They spend half the workday on their devices
  • they often don’t seem to appreciate that they are entering a pre-existing scene
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  • They forget that they are joining an organization with its own mission, history, structure, rules, and culture
  • research at RainmakerThinking, there is an ever-widening “soft skills” gap in the workforce, especially among the newest new young workforce
  • soft skills gap has gotten much worse in recent years
  • Smart managers must not only acknowledge a lack of critical soft skills in their younger workers, they need to work with talent development leaders to find ways to bridge the soft skills gap
  • Oleg Batluk on 04 Apr 16
     
    Many young workers don't fit due to the lack of soft skills
Oleg Batluk

Office Space: Your last status update may cost you a shot at a new job | Reading Eagle ... - 0 views

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CIS Social afordable monsters facebook survey

shared by Oleg Batluk on 05 Apr 16 - No Cached
  • A new survey from OfficeTeam reveals the top social media mistakes that could cost professionals an opportunity when interviewing for a new job
  • Forty-five percent of HR managers agreed that negative, inappropriate or offensive comments are the most common social media faux pas that eliminate candidates from the running
  • the greatest offense is posting or being tagged in inappropriate, risque or questionable photos
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  • a lack of social media activity or presence is the greatest offense
  • no credit is bad credit
  • Social media profiles should be seen like a credit score
  • Candidates should change the way they handle their accounts
  • excess of photos may give the impression of an inflated ego and off-put hiring managers
  • Always remember to untag yourself from any photos that may raise eyebrows
  • Oleg Batluk on 05 Apr 16
     
    Social media profiles are now seen like a credit score by HR specialists making applicants consider changing their social network life
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