Miscellanea
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The initial listing of examples, ideas, and miscellaneous technology or museum news was culled from a variety of sources, including the New York Times, PC World, Technology Review, InfoWorld, Wired, etc.
Please use the edit link below to add more items to the list (see format notes), or to add comments on how or why you think these technologies or developments may be or may not be important. As is the convention throughout the Horizon.Museum wiki, we ask you to identify items you think are of high interest to us, as I have here [LJ], as a means of helping start the sifting process.
Recommended Reading / Tagged Items
- Brooklyn Museum: Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/click/
The Brooklyn Museum has announced a photography exhibition that will be chosen entirely through anonymous online evaluation.
- Library of Congress Photos on Flickr
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/flickr_pilot.html
The Library of Congress has released more than 3,000 popular historical photos on the photo-sharing site Flickr, inviting visitors to tag, describe, or comment on the images.
- Smithsonian Images on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/publicresourceorg/collections/72157600214199993/
A collection of 6,000 photographs posted by public.resource.org "from smithsonianimages.si.edu which appear to be overwhelmingly in the public domain."
- Second Earth
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18911/
The World Wide Web will soon be absorbed into the World Wide Sim: an environment combining elements of Second Life and Google Earth.
- Sony Shows Off Paper-Thin, Bendable Video Display
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275514,00.html
In the race for ever-thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all — a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-color video.
- Unreal Meetings
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19035/?a=f
Second Life's virtual conference rooms might be more useful if they didn't resemble their real-world counterparts. The article makes a very important point about virtual spaces -- we will discover the most valuable uses when we are able to drop the need to mimic the physicality of the real world
- YouTube - A thing in my pocket in 2020
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb7CXcQhqRI
Student produced video for Horizon Project http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com/entertainment stories or videos, the company says.
- Artificial Intelligence Is Lost in the Woods
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18867/
A conscious mind will never be built out of software, argues a Yale University professor.
- Building a Better Search Engine
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/19109/
A new natural-language system is based on 30 years of research at PARC.
- Directing Digg
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/19057/
Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com, talks about why it's good that the site is out of control.
- Game Worlds Show Their Human Side
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6917924.stm
World of Warcraft and Second Life are proving a boon to social scientists who are using them as virtual laboratories.
- Good Vibrations
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/19041/
Tiny devices that harness the energy from ambient vibrations could one day be used to power a variety of wireless sensors.
- Nintendo to Open Up Wii Console
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6248780.stm
Home and independent game makers are getting a chance to put together titles for Nintendo's Wii console.
- Phone Responds to The Human Touch
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6722629.stm
A handheld device that recognizes the way a finger sweeps across the screen has been developed by Taiwanese phone maker HTC.
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