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'The Mobile' Is Reliably Unreliable

John Pavley | Posted 06.07.2013 | Technology
Read More: The Last Question, Game of Thrones, Hbo, Mobile, Isaac Asimov, Responsive Design, Data Plan, Prediction, Bandwidth Cap, Mobile Web, Mobile Apps, Nostradamus, Mobile Technology, Technology News
John Pavley

A smarter set of technologies is what we need for the mobile. During periods of high speed and high quality bandwidth, mobile apps should anticipate what we're going to read or watch and cache it for later. Don't make us have to remember to pre-download or prepare for being offline.

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WATCH: Climate Change Gets Autotuned With Bill Nye In Remix

The Huffington Post | Jacqueline Howard | Posted 09.19.2012 | Green
Read More: Video, Bill Nye, Bill Nye Climate Change Video, Richard Alley, Symphony of Science, Isaac Asimov, David Attenborough, Science, Climate-Change, Climate Change, Science News, John Boswell, Climate Change Video, Green News

A recent Symphony of Science video titled "Our Biggest Challenge" uses musical creativity to shed light on the seriousness of climate change -- all wh...

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Will the Democrats Speak for the People?

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 11.03.2012 | Politics
Read More: Democratic Convention, Bill Clinton, Tom Harkin, Mitt Romney, Keith Ellison, Joe Biden, Asimov's First Law of Robotics, Clint Eastwood, Joseph Stiglitz, Koch Brothers, Republican Convention, Occupy Charlotte, Isaac Asimov, Corey Robin, Paul Krugman, Hillary Clinton, Elvis Costello, DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION 2012, Elections 2012, 2012 Election, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Will the Democrats speak for the people? Will they fill Clint Eastwood's empty chair with human beings of passion and dedication? Or will they pursue a false "centrism," cheating the country of the debate it so desperately needs?

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A Conversation With Jefferson Starship's Paul Kantner, Plus Exclusives From The Roys and I Was Totally Destroying It

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.24.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Jefferson Starship, David Frieberg, John Rich, Donny Baldwin, Barry Milton, Forbidden Planet, Invaders From Mars, Isaac Asimov, David Bowie, Carthage, Creature From the Black Lagoon, Jason Aldean, Chris Smith, Chris Young, Cathy Richardson, Barry Bless, I Was Totally Destroying It, Bob Dylan, Country Joe & the Fish, Darryl Worley, George Jones, Jack Traylor, Janie Fricke, Doyle Lawson, Destination Moon, Jefferson Airplane, Video, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

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Close and Not-So-Close Encounters With Famous Authors

Dave Astor | Posted 07.23.2012 | Books
Read More: Barbara Kingsolver, Ernest Hemingway, National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Leo Tolstoy, Herman Melville, France, Cartoonists, Isaac Asimov, Novels, Emile Zola, Alexandre Dumas, Paul Cezanne, Mark Twain, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, John Updike, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles M. Schulz, Books News
Dave Astor

Literature fans love "encounters" with living or dead authors. These might involve seeing novelists at book signings, listening to them give a talk, or visiting homes/museums connected with famous authors of the past.

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Is "Psychohistory" Possible?

Quora | Posted 05.12.2012 | Technology
Read More: Isaac Asimov, The Future, Quora, Science Fiction Books, Science Fiction, Psychohistory, Technology News
Quora

Is it possible and useful to mathematically formalize human behavior on large scales sufficient to probabilistically predict the future? This questio...

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Guardian Readers Pick The Best Science Fiction Books

guardian.co.uk | Posted 07.26.2011 | Books
Read More: Ender's Game, Science Fiction Books, Doris Lessing, Philip K. Dick, Orson Scott Card, The Guardian, Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Best Science Fiction Books, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Books News

We asked for suggestions of your favourite science fiction books. Here are the results...

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What Do Hobbits, Robots, and Yahoos Have In Common?

Mark Peters | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Slidepollajax, Doublethink, Stephen King, Seuss, Definitions, Pie-Hole, Words, Nerd, Made Up Words, Dictionary, Yahoo Definition, Cyberspace, Language, Word Errors, Fake Words, Gulivers Travels, Huxley, Catch-22, Orwell, Isaac Asimov, Hobbit, Jrr Tolkien, Books News
Mark Peters

Words come from everywhere. TV shows are productive -- look at "Battlestar Galactica's" "frak," Stephen Colbert's "truthiness," and "30 Rock's" "blurg...

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The Solution to People Using Blackberrys at Meetings

William Klein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Blackberry, Meetings, Twitter, Corporate America, Corporations, Humor, Isaac Asimov, Business, Technology, Internet, Workplace, Email, Media, Comedy News
William Klein

Under my proposal, every meeting, conference and company lunch will include one person to make Designated Eye Contact (DEC).

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