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Curated News - Data Centers Waste Vast Amounts of Energy, Belying Industry Image - NYTimes.com

September 24, 2012

“EMC and the International Data Corporation together estimated that more than 1.8 trillion gigabytes of digital information were created globally last year. “It is absolutely a race between our ability to create data and our ability to store and manage data,” Mr. Burton said.”

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Curated News - Charles Bukowski, Arthur C. Clarke, Annie Dillard, John Cage, and Others on the Meaning of Life | Brain Pickings

September 24, 2012

“A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a ‘meaning’ as well, that will be a bonus?”

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Curated News - The Secret Life of Data in the Year 2020 | World Future Society

August 30, 2012

“Science and technology have progressed to the point where what we build is only constrained by the limits of our own imaginations.”

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Curated News - The Secret Life of Data in the Year 2020 | World Future Society

August 30, 2012

“Data doesn’t spring full formed from nowhere. Data is created, generated, and recorded. And the unifying principle behind all of this data is that it was all created by humans. We create the data, so essentially our data is an extension of ourselves, an extension of our humanity.”

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Curated News - Why Facebook’s face-plant is a good thing

August 25, 2012

“We’re seeing a new focus on people thinking about how they’re going to make money and build these big sustainable businesses,” Elman said in an interview at the event, held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. “It’s not just about how quickly you can attract a ton of users.”

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Curated News - How ‘Call Me Maybe’ and Social Media Are Upending Music - NYTimes.com

August 25, 2012

“The song’s trajectory also demonstrates the continuing power of radio, which record executives say is still essential to turn any song — no matter how much online buzz it has — into a genuine smash.”

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Curated News - Futurist Stewart Brand Wants to Revive Extinct Species | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

August 21, 2012

“The best counterculture now is in biology. As far as I can tell, biohackers are all adventurous young people, incredibly athletic, and they’re all traveling the world. I don’t know if biohackers are as much fun as the computer hackers were, but they’re way more responsible. They monitor their own potential misbehavior in a way that computer hackers never have.”

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Curated News - Futurist Stewart Brand Wants to Revive Extinct Species | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

August 21, 2012

“Your Facebook identity is the identity that’s confirmed by all the people who friend you—and therefore it’s the real you. It’s not somebody pretending to be you. Facebook created a largely self-policing model for online identity, and that has proven to be a cashable feature for it.”

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Curated News - The Science of Sleep: Dreaming, Depression, and How REM Sleep Regulates Negative Emotions | Brain Pickings

August 20, 2012

“Memory is never a precise duplicate of the original….it is a continuing act of creation. Dream images are the product of that creation.”

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Curated News - Entrepreneurs need just one thing to succeed

August 18, 2012

“If you are willing to innovate and work hard, the American Dream is very much alive and available to you. If you believe and you can execute and turn this belief into a reality, you can change the world.”

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“EMC and the International Data Corporation together estimated that more than 1.8 trillion gigabytes of digital information were created globally last year. “It is absolutely a race between our ability to create data and our ability to store and manage data,” Mr. Burton said.”

“A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a ‘meaning’ as well, that will be a bonus?”

“Science and technology have progressed to the point where what we build is only constrained by the limits of our own imaginations.”

“Data doesn’t spring full formed from nowhere. Data is created, generated, and recorded. And the unifying principle behind all of this data is that it was all created by humans. We create the data, so essentially our data is an extension of ourselves, an extension of our humanity.”

“The song’s trajectory also demonstrates the continuing power of radio, which record executives say is still essential to turn any song — no matter how much online buzz it has — into a genuine smash.”

“Your Facebook identity is the identity that’s confirmed by all the people who friend you—and therefore it’s the real you. It’s not somebody pretending to be you. Facebook created a largely self-policing model for online identity, and that has proven to be a cashable feature for it.”

“Memory is never a precise duplicate of the original….it is a continuing act of creation. Dream images are the product of that creation.”

“If you are willing to innovate and work hard, the American Dream is very much alive and available to you. If you believe and you can execute and turn this belief into a reality, you can change the world.”