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The future of mobile phones is perhaps… not a mobile phone at all, but rather a contextually aware and active mobile magic wand. It’s not about skins anymore. Not even about features, open source, multi-touch or iPhoney. It’s about who is going to make the device interact with your environment as well as capturing it in context. It’s a wand, I tell you. You know what, it’s going to talk with the clouds rather than with native applications. It might or might not link with the global brain... by Teemu Arina

Guatarri, em Caosmose, denomina maquínico o estrato de sentido formado por matérias expressivas heterogêneas, não-linguisticamente formadas, mas ainda assim de natureza semiótica. Substâncias de expressão heterogêneas como as codificações biológicas ou as formas de organização própria ao socius - como aquelas derivadas de instituições como a família ou a escola - atravessam, transversalmente, os domínios de sentido propriamente linguísticos. [Caosmose, p.35-38].

O mundo pequeno é pequeno pra caramba. Seis graus de separação linkam todas (sim, eu disse todas) as pessoas do planeta. Eu não te conheço, mas conheço alguém que te conhece, ou alguém que conhece quem te conhece... até o número de seis graus de separação.

One of the biggest news stories out of this year’s Computex wasn't of a new chipset, GPU, or graphics card, but rather of the announcement of the ASUS Eee PC, a small, slim, and light portable computer that is priced at $199. Introduced by Jonney Shih, Chariman and CEO of ASUS at Intel’s keynote address the first day of the show, the Eee PC has already made headlines world wide.

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Different technologies make different kinds of human action and interaction easier or harder to perform. All other things being equal, things that are easier to do are more likely to be done, and things that are harder to do are less likely to be done. All other things are never equal.