Big protests set for early in week of NATO/G8 summits: With protests planned before and during the NATO/G8 summits, Ald. Rick Munoz says he’ll introduce legislation in the City Council to prohibit police from blocking access to social-networking sites and cellphone networks during the summits.
Under what conditions (if any) should authorities be able to restrict social media/cell phone networks?
Credit: infekted.it
Before dismissing the above story as an aberration, consider that the modern petroleum industry is a direct outgrowth of the practice of going out in wooden, wind-driven ships to hunt sperm whales with hand-hurled spears and then boiling their heads to make lamp fuel.
Has anyone read this yet? Thoughts?
Light Touch™ is an interactive projector that instantly transforms any flat surface into a touch screen. It frees multimedia content from the confines of the small screen, allowing users to interact with that content just as they do on their hand held devices – using multi-touch technology.
via Adlab
a (priceless) collection of ads that once appeared in Wired magazine…
The difference is that these young children “don’t remember a time without the constant connectivity to the world that these technologies bring. They’re growing up with expectations of always being present in a social way - always being available to peers wherever you are.
American University professor Kathryn Montgomery on “Generation Net” superceeding “Gen Y” (The Courier Mail “Here come the iGens”, Feb 26) (via lanipauli)
Can you imagine what it’s going to be like to explain pay phones to our kids?
“There’s more space than you thought.” - Advertising for SanDisk USB Sticks.
More great ads here. This campaign was created by BBDO Montreal.
