- May 2019
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placesjournal.org placesjournal.org
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It’s a major transformation for the grim streetscape of the Far West Side. A decade ago, The New Yorker’s John Cassidy described the neighborhood’s “notable architectural features”:
When visiting my Uncle in Chelsea growing up, I always wondered why it was so 'grim' in comparison to the rest of the city. Now, it is one of the greenest, tech-focused neighborhoods.
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As Chelsea emerged as the city’s new contemporary art hub, entrepreneurs toyed with the idea of building a new Yankee stadium above the rail yards. Then came the economic boom of the 1990s and the growth of the Silicon Alley tech corridor. A collective of business, labor, and academic leaders known as the Group of 35 saw a need for more office space in Midtown and planned to annex the Far West Side.
This shows how we were always ready to change and adapt with the times in New York City. There have been many proposals to redesign the Chelsea neighborhood. but, Hudson Yards came to fruition at the perfect time!
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Over the next decade, the $20 billion project
This is the most expensive neighborhood development ever! I am proud to have visited Hudson Yards and witness its progress as it was being built.
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- Feb 2019
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www.wired.com www.wired.com
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2005 The scope of the Web today is hard to fathom. The total number of Web pages, including those that are dynamically created upon request and document files available through links, exceeds 600 billion. That’s 100 pages per person alive. How could we create so much, so fast, so well? In fewer than 4,000 days, we have encoded half a trillion versions of our collective story and put them in front of 1 billion people, or one-sixth of the world’s population. That remarkable achievement was not in anyone’s 10-year plan.
This shows how far we have come and how fast technology evolves over time. Technology is the only thing that has exponentially increased and has continued to increase. I am excited for what the future has to offer me with technology.
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And who will write the software that makes this contraption useful and productive? We will. In fact, we’re already doing it, each of us, every day. When we post and then tag pictures on the community photo album Flickr, we are teaching the Machine to give names to images. The thickening links between caption and picture form a neural net that can learn. Think of the 100 billion times per day humans click on a Web page as a way of teaching the Machine what we think is important. Each time we forge a link between words, we teach it an idea. Wikipedia encourages its citizen authors to link each fact in an article to a reference citation. Over time, a Wikipedia article becomes totally underlined in blue as ideas are cross-referenced. That massive cross-referencing is how brains think and remember.
This was the main goal of the 'docuverse' where information will be cross referenced and everything will be related in someway to everything else.
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www.bitsbook.com www.bitsbook.com
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For at least three decades, theincrease in processor speeds wasexponential
PC's can be much, much faster but processor giants like AMD and Intel overprice their latest chips. This means it will take a lot longer for the average family household to be able to afford it.
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Even information that exists in digital form is useless if there are nodevices to read it. The rapid progress of storage engineering has meant thatdata stored on obsolete devices effectively ceases to exist.
What would be considered an obsolete device? An old media item or a device with no internet connection?
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New technologies interacted in an odd way with evolving standards of pri-vacy, telecommunications, and criminal law. The explosive combinationalmost cost Tanya Rider her life.
As new media is introduced to the world, we benefit from it. But, we struggle to provide proper regulations and codes of ethics. The inconsistencies and struggles for reasoning with evolving laws governing new media is called the Conceptual Muddle. The Conceptual Muddle introduces a policy vacuum which means there is a lack of ethics and a lack of rules. Policy Vacuums can hinder many processes. Such as, the discrepancy that may have costed the life of Tanya. We need to create a more efficient process to make up for the policy vacuums.
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