Future Of Internet IV | AAAS View more presentations from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Pew recently conducted a survey of 895 technology “stakeholders,” comprised of both technology experts and individuals who represent the Internet savvy public. The survey presented “potential-future scenarios to which respondents [reacted] with their expectations based on current [...]
Dan Pink delivered an interesting talk on motivation and the problems associated with extrinsic motivation. According to Pink, research has shown that certain sorts of extrinsic incentives or what Pink refers to as “contingent motivators” actually dull thinking and stifle creativity. Even though the scientific research conducted over the past forty years seems to support [...]
TED is a nonprofit firm designed with the purpose of sharing “ideas worth spreading.” Each year TED hosts important conferences that include world renowned speakers from different academic areas– science, math, business, education, etc. Through their program TEDTalks, the nonprofit provides viewers with free access to hundreds of these presentations online. Most of the “talks” [...]
In an attempt to compete with more open social networking platforms like Twitter, Facebook’s management made an important and very controversial decision in December to change the privacy settings for the popular social networking site. In a recent piece in ReadWriteWeb, Sarah Perez makes a few helpful recommendations users should take to protect their privacy [...]
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