“Our milieu is fantastically expanded in every direction and there is crisis on every side. Our horizons for comprehension, for planning, for control, are receding faster than we can conceive. No wonder that I see red: it must be a Doppler effect.” – Stafford Beer
Yes, I know the old saw that when you point your finger there are three pointing back at yourself.
Using Microsoft Tag (currently in beta) you can make almost anything you want interactive. Link real life with the digital world, by adding a tag to product packaging, print-based media, signage, outdoor advertisements, business cards, storefront signage , exhibit, video or wherever else you can imagine using a link to the virtual world from a physical space.
The tag above can be snapped by a phone camera (a free iPhone app is already available) and it will provide automatic opening of a browser and navigation to the home page of this website for example. I’m thinking of virtual supplements to sports museum displays as a potential use.
“The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay.
Nobody knows who invented hay, the idea of cutting grass in the autumn and storing it in large enough quantities to keep horses and cows alive through the winter. All we know is that the technology of hay was unknown to the Roman Empire but was known to every village of medieval Europe.Like many other crucially important technologies, hay emerged anonymously during the so-called Dark Ages.
Noted scientist Stephen Wolfram shares his perspective of how the unexpected results of simple computer experiments have forced him to consider a whole new way of looking at processes in our universe…
NASA astronauts Scott Altman and Mike Massimino of the STS-125 mission visit the New York Stock Exchange to support the release of Hubble 3D, the newest IMAX film, which documents the mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope and features never-before-seen 3D flights through Hubble imagery such as the Orion Nebula. In honor of the occasion, Altman and Massimino ring 'The Closing Bell' ending the day's trading at the Exchange on Thursday, March 18, 2010. Image Credit: NYSE (Used by permission) Read More
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