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Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth?
(via The Johns Hopkins University Press)
“Paul R. Josephson here explores these utopian visions of technology—and their unanticipated human and environmental costs. He examines the role of technology in communist plans and policies and the interplay between ideology and technological development. He shows that while technology was a symbol of regime legitimacy and an engine of progress, the changes it spurred were not unequivocally positive. Instead of achieving a worker’s paradise, socialist technologies exposed the proletariat to dangerous machinery and deadly pollution; rather than freeing women from exploitation in family and labor, they paradoxically created for them the dual—and exhausting—burdens of mother and worker. The future did not work. “
Hillary Clinton
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Article: The iPad Is Unbeatable -
*The iPad Is Unbeatable*
Biologic for iPad on the iTunes App Store -
Biologic is a playful environment for exploring your friends’ activity streams from your favorite social networks. Log-in with Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn to explore the most recent updates from your network.
The basic concept: choose a social network from the Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn blobs on the opening screen. You will have to authenticate each one you try (only the first time) and then you will transition into a view of the people you follow represented as microbiological cells.
Glowing shapes inside the cells are activities (tweets, pictures, etc). The bigger the activity, the newer it is. The more the activity is moving, the more retweets/favorites/likes it has. Once you have read an item it gets darker so you can tell what’s new.
We load 200 activities to begin with. You can tell who has been most active recently because they contain the most shapes. The number of posts and the popularity of posts determines the size of the person’s cell. If someone posts a lot and their posts get a lot of attention, then their cell will be quite large.
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