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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-22 http://goo.gl/fb/RPy6W # The counter arguments to Kurzweil’s Singularity thesis http://goo.gl/fb/sBM03 # @TGerigkPartners I have a shallow knowledge of each of these areas, but interested to know more. sources would be great. tks in reply to TGerigkPartners # London's bike lanes are now so congested I find myself moving [...] The graphic towards the bottom of this post was on Techcrunch this morning. It shows Google’s acquisitions over the last nine years. It is interesting for a number of reasons (not least size, (sub) sector, accelerating rate, and reason for acquiring) but I’m going to focus on geography. I did a bit of analysis [...] Netflix, the US DVD rental cum video streaming business is out cutting $1bn deals with movie studios for streaming rights and Hulu is contemplating an IPO – both developments which suggest the premium video streaming business is starting to reach maturity. The music streaming business, by contrast, is still finding its way, and is [...] Reading this Techcrunch piece on Chomp, a provider of search and discovery for iPhone apps, prompted me to explore a question that has been circling in my mind in a somewhat unstructured fashion for a couple of weeks now – namely what is the difference between an app store and a portal? It seems [...] This is the sixth and final post in a series summarising the key arguments of Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is near: When humans transcend biology. The previous posts were: Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity and the accelerating pace of progress, Kurzweil predicts personal computers with the power of the human brain by 2025, and Kurzwil [...] A couple of weeks back I ordered two jumpers from Marks & Spencer’s website. I have to say that it has been a pretty frustrating process from start to finish, or rather almost finish, because I haven’t got them yet. The annoyances: the jumpers weren’t in stock 3-4 months ago when I first tried [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-15 http://goo.gl/fb/dapTt # Unless I'm missing something it is impossible to stream BBC Radio One to an iPad. I'd like my license fee back. # @nicholaslovell I'll take a look tomorrow. TVs, Nic in reply to nicholaslovell # @chriskelly999 thanks Chris, works like a dream in reply to chriskelly999 [...] This is the fifth post in a series summarising the key arguments of Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity is near: When humans transcend biology. The previous posts were: Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity and the accelerating pace of progress, Kurzweil predicts personal computers with the power of the human brain by 2025, and Kurzwil predicts we [...] |
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