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Moore’s Law For Razor Blades | Economist.com

October 26, 2006

Shaving technology | The cutting edge | Economist.com For the most cynical shavers, this evolution is mere marketing. Twin blades seemed plausible. Three were a bit unlikely. Four, ridiculous. And five seems beyond the pale. Few people, though, seem willing to bet that Gillette’s five-bladed Fusion is the end of the road for razor-blade escalation [...]

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The Long Zoom – New York Times

October 11, 2006

Steven Johnson, author of “Everything Bad Is Good For You,” visits Will Wright (creator of Sim City) and writes about Wright’s new game, Spore, and computer gaming as an art form. “Most eras have distinct “ways of seeing” that end up defining the period in retrospect: the fixed perspective of Renaissance art, the scattered collages [...]

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Moot Court Hearing On The Petition of a Conscious Computer

September 7, 2006

Always on the cutting edge, Ray Kurzweil’s AI site features a mock courtroom drama, wherein a conscious computer argues for its inalienable right to self-determination. “ANTHONY DUTTON, ESQUIRE: We are in the Federal Court for the Central District of Florida. And we have today before us, myself and Judge Silverman, presiding. We have a petition [...]

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The Real El Dorado Is TV

May 26, 2006

“The best-kept secret in Hollywood, especially from Wall Street, is that the movie studios’ biggest profit center is not theatrical movies, or even DVD sales; it is TV licensing.” From SLATE, Hollywood’s profits, demystified. By Edward Jay Epstein

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Found Artifacts From The Future

May 25, 2006

What’s On Your Nightstand in 2050? Wired magazine offers a glimpse into the future, via tomorrow’s bookshelf, featuring such must-have titles as, “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Cyborgs,” “Coping With Post-Singularity Depression,” by Ray Kurzweil, “Talking to Your Kids About Mitochondrial De-Aging,” “A Short History of Blogging (And Why It Flamed Out),” and “Is [...]

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