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The Google Goggle Future
A little too boy-in-a-bubble claustrophobic for me, but I suppose one would get used to it. I didn’t look at this video and say, “Wow!” (as I expected to). Instead, I felt oddly vacant afterwards, as if Google Goggle Life would … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st century, goggles, Google, google goggles, internet, Nietzsche, technology, the future
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The Promethean Who Stole Fire from Google: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg on 60 Minutes
You’ll have to click over to YouTube to see this 60 Minutes segment on the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, but it’s really interesting. Talk about a Promethean! Zuckerberg’s genius, I think, is to have tamed a human form of … Continue reading
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Tagged 60 minutes, facebook, fire, Google, mark zuckerberg, networking, Prometheus, technology, the net, the web
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Google Books App for iPad
Free books by the millions? I haven’t downloaded the app for my iPad yet, but this looks really seductive. I wonder what the catch is: Here’s the link: books.google.com/ebooks And I looked up Thoreau’s Walden. It reads pretty nice: http://books.google.com/ebooks?id=yiQ3AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader
Google’s Press
According to Anthony Grafton at the New Yorker, Google is in the process of passing yet another milestone in the digitizing and distribution of books: Google announced [on Sept. 17th, 2009] that they would allow On Demand Books to produce paperback … Continue reading
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Tagged book industry, books, college, economy, Google, gutenburg, kindle, newspapers, students
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Today’s Number: 168,178,719
That’s the number of book titles in the world (according to Google’s cataloging project). And Geoffrey Nunberg is worried about how the translation of these titles into an electronic data base is going to be handled and managed: Whether the Google … Continue reading
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Crying (Softly) in the Wilderness?: Leon Wieseltier (Mildly) Channels John Ruskin
In the “Washington Diarist” column of the August 27 New Republic, Leon Wieseltier expresses angst at the direction of contemporary American culture, and is unimpressed by all of our contemporary whiz-bang technological advancement, asserting that things of real value have been dying—and are … Continue reading
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Tagged America, culture, Google, John Ruskin, John the Baptist, Leon Wieseltier, Santi Tafarella, technology, The New Republic
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