What you get when you swallow too much change too quickly isn’t a mass outbreak of twitching, hebephrenic breakdown, nor some neo-Amish wave of technological renunciation. You wanna know what it looks like? A hockey mom and former beauty queen with an upswept ‘do and a pregnant daughter in high school. Sarah Palin is future shock personified

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FORA.tv – Neal Stephenson: Science Fiction as a Literary Gen

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Blingable contact-lens

Now while you won’t ever catch me wearing these, I like the idea that this might be sort of thing I could mock from the other side of a club.

OK, maybe if they made them in black or red…

Blingable contact-lens

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The rise of the lifeloggers and self-trackers

The Washington Post has an interesting overview of the rising lifelogger scene. There is what might perhaps be a little generational-bias in there, but they have still come back with some…

The rise of the lifeloggers and self-trackers

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DIY lifestreaming sunglasses

One man’s pervy spycam is another man’s lifestreaming device.

Remember when phone-cam’s first came out and you couldn’t not disable the annoying faux-camera-click? Yeah, that lasted about a year….

DIY lifestreaming sunglasses

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teh_cute: Lego Wall-E

Wall-E still isn’t out in Australia, which, frankly is just freaking ridiculous; it’s like they want us to pirate stuff. In the meantime, all I can do legally is watch this freaking amazing…

teh_cute: Lego Wall-E

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