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Matthew Schuler

He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work) - New York Times - 0 views

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tech

shared by Matthew Schuler on 16 Apr 08 - Cached
  • developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a subject — broad or obscure — and, aided by his 60 to 70 computers and six or seven programmers, he turns the results into books in a range of genres, many of them in the range of 150 pages and printed only when a customer buys one
  • Mr. Parker has generated more than 200,000 books
  • “I guess it makes sense now as to why the book was so awful and frustrating.”
Adam Bohannon

PC World - Business Center: Anthropology's Technology-driven Renaissance - 0 views

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anthropology ict mobile technology

shared by Adam Bohannon on 18 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Mobile phones with flashlights are just one example of a product that can emerge from this brand of user-centric design. Others include mobile phones with multiple phone books, which allow more than one person to share a single phone, a practice largely unheard of in many developed markets.
  • Others include mobile phones with multiple phone books, which allow more than one person to share a single phone, a practice largely unheard of in many developed markets.
Mike Wesch

How English erased its roots to become the global tongue of the 21st century | Books | ... - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...english-language-robert-mccrum

shared by Mike Wesch on 18 May 10 - Cached
  • Mike Wesch on 18 May 10
     
    "journalist Ben Macintyre writes: "I was recently waiting for a flight in Delhi, when I overheard a conversation between a Spanish UN peacekeeper and an Indian soldier. The Indian spoke no Spanish; the Spaniard spoke no Punjabi. Yet they understood one another easily. The language they spoke was a highly simplified form of English, without grammar or structure, but perfectly comprehensible, to them and to me. Only now do I realise that they were speaking "Globish", the newest and most widely spoken language in the world.""
Matthew Schuler

Businesses praise chips as privacy groups worry - USATODAY.com - 0 views

www.usatoday.com/...2008-01-27-rfid_N.htm

tech

shared by Matthew Schuler on 30 Jan 08 - Cached
  • Already, microchips are turning up in some computer printers, car keys and tires, on shampoo bottles and department store clothing tags. They're also in library books and "contactless" payment cards
  • By placing sniffers in strategic areas, companies can invisibly "rifle through people's pockets, purses, suitcases, briefcases, luggage — and possibly their kitchens and bedrooms — anytime of the day or night
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