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Possibilities, we see.

Dubai to become first ‘four-dimensional city’ in the world

A group of technology companies in the UAE have launched a project to make Dubai the world’s first four dimension city, according to Al Arabiya News channel. The project, called “D4D” or Dubai 4 Dimension, will create a digital replica of the city in the shape of three-dimensional imagery and will allow users anywhere in the world to roam through the city in real time using tablets such as iPads.

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2015/08/022015/07/31

Robert Cordova: Arrationality

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Arrationality is an evolving term. It evolves specifically in reaction to rationality. Arrationality is as much a part of the 500-year process of welcoming science into our consciousness as anything else. In this sense, arrationality was how people thought before the early modern era began around 1500 – admittedly not always to the greatest effect.

2015/07/312015/07/29

Yoda: Google Translates 27 Languages

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Good, Google does (sometimes).

Google Translate app adds 20 more languages

By week's end, the Android and iOS app will offer instant translation in a total of 27 languages.

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2015/07/292015/07/27

Howard Rheingold: Networked Knowledge & Combinatorial Creativity

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This beautiful meditation on the networked nature of knowledge and collaboration turns on the fulcrum of attention to information.

Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity

How we choose to pay attention, and relate to information and each other shapes who we become, shapes our creative destiny and, in turn, shapes our experience of the world. And, in my mind, there’s nothing more important than that.

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2015/07/292015/07/26

Yoda: Death of Facebook?

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Why the Largest Social Network in 2015 Won’t be Facebook, and Will Be From Asia

Asian social messaging services get what users today are looking for out of social sharing: simplicity and fun.

2015/07/262015/07/25

Jean Lievens: Social Europe on Digital Revolution – Impact on Work and Inequality

03 Economy, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO

What Impact Does The Digital Revolution Have On Work And Inequality?

The following is a transcript of a Social Europe podcast in which Social Europe Editor-in-Chief Henning Meyer discusses the impact of the Digital Revolution on the nature of work and inequality with Michael A. Osborne, Associate Professor in Machine Learning and Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment at the University of Oxford.

EXTRACT

In our study we highlighted three bottlenecks to computerisation, as we call them. They were exactly creativity, social intelligence and perception or manipulation.

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2015/07/072015/07/06

Yoda: China’s Military Strategy – Winning Informationized Local Wars

02 China, Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Military

China’s New Military Strategy: “Winning Informationized Local Wars”

Jamestown Foundation China Brief Volume: 15 Issue: 13

EXTRACT

The phrase “winning informationized local wars” has appeared in the pages of the PLA’s newspaper, the Liberation Army Daily, only fifty times. But thirty eight, or 75 percent, of these references have occurred since mid-August 2014. The term first appeared on August 21, 2014 in an article announcing a new document published by the General Staff Department on improving the level of realistic training.