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— We Need to Talk about the Burgeoning Robot Middle Class | MIT Technology Review (via wildcat2030)
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This algae-powered building in Hamburg is truely green!
The World’s First Algae-Powered Building Opens in Hamburg
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The world’s first algae-powered building just opened in Hamburg! Dubbed the BIQ House, the project features a bio-adaptive algae facade and it will serve as a testing bed for sustainable energy production in urban areas and self-sufficient living buildings. International design firm Arup worked with Germany’s SSC Strategic Science Consultants and Austria-based Splitterwerk Architects to develop the BIQ House, which launched as part of Hamburg’s International Building Exhibition.
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GOLDEN NICA DIGITAL COMMUNITIES CATHEGORY
Digital Communities – What are they?
Digital communities – regardless of whether their background is social or artistic – give rise to group action and interaction, engender constructive contexts and social capital, and promote social innovation as well as cultural and environmental sustainability. An essential precondition for this is making the respective relevant technologies and infrastructure more widely accessible or even developing them in the first place. But access to content and information is also a core consideration. A crucial aspect to help digital communities flourish is making relevant technologies and infrastructures more broadly available and/or developing new technological approaches. Digital communities are committed to facilitate the furthering of social development. A key aspect of this effort, then, is to reconfigure the power relations between citizens and political leaders, the state and administrative bureaus as well as between financial and commercial interests. In order to achieve this, digital communities is engaged in increasing participation, strengthening the role of civil society and establishing a framework through which democracy can flourish.
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“We wrote in late 2011 about some early research suggesting that many Twitter users in fact follow other people located within their same city, evidence, Richard Florida wrote, that the Internet is reinforcing the value of place instead of eliminating it.
But now that Twitter is a few years older – and considerably more global – Leetaru and several colleagues have conducted a massive new analysis of the site that suggests the opposite: ‘In effect,’ Leetrau says, ‘location plays a much lesser role now in terms of who we talk to, what we talk about, and where we get our information.’”
Read: How Twitter is Changing the Geography of Communication
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Almost time to leave Station. Hard to express all of my emotions, but mostly gratitude. I came here on behalf of so many people - thank you.
Simply fantastic. This whole thing with Col. Hadfield sharing so much from space… truly inspirational.
“Zero impact” climber’s cabin on Mt. Blanc, Italy.
Designed and photographed by LEAPfactory.
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Internet of cows: technology could help track disease, but ranchers are resistant
RFID chips offer sophisticated metrics for ranchers and big data businesses