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Plastic Breaks Down in Ocean, After All -- And Fast - 0 views
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Moore estimates plastic debris—most of it smaller than a fifth of an inch (five millimeters)—is "dispersed over millions of square miles of ocean and miles' deep in the water column.
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Pollutants also become more concentrated as animals eat other contaminated animals—which could be bad news for us, the animals at the top of the food chain.
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Plastic hits marine creatures with a double whammy, Moore said. Along with the toxic chemicals released from the breakdown of plastic, animals also take in other chemicals that the plastic has accumulated from outside sources in the water.
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Nanotechnology: Grey Goo is a Small Issue - 0 views
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A grey goo robot would face a much harder task than merely replicating itself. It would also have to survive in the environment, move around, and convert what it finds into raw materials and power. This would require sophisticated chemistry. None of these functions would be part of a molecular manufacturing system. A grey goo robot would also require a relatively large computer to store and process the full blueprint of such a complex device. A nanobot or nanomachine missing any part of this functionality could not function as grey goo.
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Grey goo eventually may become a concern requiring special policy. However, goo would be extremely difficult to design and build, and its replication would be inefficient. Worse and more imminent dangers may come from non-replicating nano-weaponry. Since there are numerous greater risks from molecular manufacturing that may happen almost immediately after the technology is developed, grey goo should not be a primary concern. Focusing on grey goo allows more urgent technology and security issues to remain unexplored
Grey goo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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Grey goo (alternatively spelled gray goo) is a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume all matter on Earth while building more of themselves—a scenario known as ecophagy ("eating the environment").
Move Over Microsoft, Google Chrome OS Is Here - Google has revealed its hotly anticipat... - 4 views
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consists of persistent application tabs, which will always be available to the user and are fully customizable. Apps can also be run in a "panel" that is a persistent light-weight window, which sits on top of the browser designed for apps like instant messengers.
Takahashi method - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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The Takahashi method is a technique of producing slides for presentations. It is similar to the Lessig method of presentations (credited to professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford). It is named for its inventor, Masayoshi Takahashi. Unlike a typical presentation, no picture and no charts are used. Only a few words are printed on each slide-- often only one or two short words, using very large characters. To make up for this, a presenter will use of many more slides than in a traditional presentation, each slide being shown for a much shorter duration.
Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The overthrow of the book would have happened long ago but for the great user asymmetry inherent in all media. It is easier to read a book than to write one; easier to listen to a song than to compose one; easier to attend a play than to produce one. But movies in particular suffer from this user asymmetry. The intensely collaborative work needed to coddle chemically treated film and paste together its strips into movies meant that it was vastly easier to watch a movie than to make one. A Hollywood blockbuster can take a million person-hours to produce and only two hours to consume. But now, cheap and universal tools of creation (megapixel phone cameras, Photoshop, iMovie) are quickly reducing the effort needed to create moving images. To the utter bafflement of the experts who confidently claimed that viewers would never rise from their reclining passivity, tens of millions of people have in recent years spent uncountable hours making movies of their own design. Having a ready and reachable audience of potential millions helps, as does the choice of multiple modes in which to create. Because of new consumer gadgets, community training, peer encouragement and fiendishly clever software, the ease of making video now approaches the ease of writing.
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User assymetry- for example, it takes hundreds of hours to produce a CD or a movie, but it only takes 3 minutes to listen to a song or 2 hours to watch a movie. Industries have come up with ways to reduce the time needed to produce something, by creating cheap and unviersal tools such as iMovie, Photoshop or phone cameras.
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The best editors can remix video as fast as you might type.
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In classic cinematography, a film is planned out in scenes; the scenes are filmed (usually more than once); and from a surfeit of these captured scenes, a movie is assembled. Sometimes a director must go back for “pickup” shots if the final story cannot be told with the available film. With the new screen fluency enabled by digital technology, however, a movie scene is something more flexible: it is like a writer’s paragraph, constantly being revised. Scenes are not captured (as in a photo) but built up incrementally. Layers of visual and audio refinement are added over a crude outline of the motion, the mix constantly in flux, always changeable.
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The classic way of making films would take a very long time. The film production would include a planning out of each scene and going back and forth from scene to scene. With the new screen fluency caused by the digital technology, a movie scene is considered "moer flexible". Scenes are not captured, but built up incrementally. The scenes can constantly be revised.
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The Technium: Better Than Free - 0 views
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Our digital communication network has been engineered so that copies flow with as little friction as possible. Indeed, copies flow so freely we could think of the internet as a super-distribution system, where once a copy is introduced it will continue to flow through the network forever, much like electricity in a superconductive wire. We see evidence of this in real life. Once anything that can be copied is brought into contact with internet, it will be copied, and those copies never leave. Even a dog knows you can't erase something once it's flowed on the internet.
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The internet is a super distribution system; once a copy is made, it will flow freely through the internet. The copies are not erasable and they never leave. Once something is on the internet, it is impossible to get rid of it.
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When copies are super abundant, stuff which can't be copied becomes scarce and valuable.
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why would we ever pay for anything that we could get for free?
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