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Mobilize... but how?

Mobilize… but how?

Robert Reich (UC Berkeley represent!!) is quite the pro at providing digestible insight into economic and labor issues.  As Obama gets ready for his big jobs address on Thursday, both sides are already bickering.  We get the sense that once again, people will skirt away from engaging in dialogue about how we can solve this...
Our Post-Mortem Digital Personae - Powered by IBM?

Our Post-Mortem Digital Personae – Powered by IBM?

Shortly after reading a VentureBeat article about IBM’s new experimental computing chips modeled on the human brain, I came across an Adam Ostrow Ted talk on post-mortem social media profiles. While I don’t think IBM is necessarily creating chips to model our online behavior after we die, the juxtaposition of these two articles is a little chilling. Just...