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, industries clustered around key inputs, such as raw materials like iron and coal (think of Pittsburgh). More recently, as Richard Florida has so eloquently argued, knowledge industries chase labor …
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, landscapes, matrices, mandalas, clusters, and timelines - and showcased maps of each style. In addition, Kathi outlined the graphic team's design policies, explaining how different client demands result …
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I've started reading Bruce Sterling's Shaping Things . It's one of a cluster of books on smart things, pervasive computing, and the design and social challenges they'll present. (I'd definitely include Adam Greenfield's Everyware and John Thackara's In the Bubble in the genre; I'd also toss in Kim Vicente's The Human Factor , and Ben Shneiderman's Leonardo's Laptop .) I suspect I'm going to be alternately impressed and exasperated by the book. Sterling as always has some great ideas, and he's never dull; while I might occasionally be driven nuts …
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that has the potential to grow in scale and geographic distribution. Signals are very specific examples that, when clustered together, point to a larger trend or shift. When creating Artifacts from the Future, IFTF …
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of Health Information Ecologies. Ideally this exercise can be recreated, with much more rigor, followed by systematically clustering and mapping of the natural flows of what fellow foo camper, Ken …
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IFTF's Food Lab is mapping Epicenters of Food Innovation . As part of that process, we seek out signals of change . A signal is a small or local innovation with the potential to disrupt the status quo. It can be a new product, practice, market strategy, policy, or technology. In short, signals are things that catch our attention and point to larger implications and bigger changes ahead. Signals are building blocks for imagining the future and clustering them together can inspire forecasts. The Future of Food Automation? We went to try the newly opened San Francisco restaurant …
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. Makeshift distributed video processing cluster at sunset in São Paulo: With two borrowed laptops and a few major headaches, I managed to compress 18 hours of HDV video to the H264 codec and get …
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in science and technology. These signals will then be clustered into larger patterns and trends in the science and technology innovation landscape. Analytical and visualization tools will help users navigate …
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networks and were more likely to be clustered together. "If you look back at 1971, smokers and non-smokers alike were at the centers of social networks," said co-author James H. Fowler, PhD, associate …
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computational modeling to simulate networks and design network-based interventions. We’ll be able to identify clusters of people with similar health profiles to extrapolate health risks and intervene at the level …
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