• 13th May 2013

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  • Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class - Salon.com

    I like Jaron Lanier a lot, but this illustration as some sort of evidence of the internet hollowing out the middle class is, forgive me for saying so, idiotic. A child could figure out where those jobs went. 

    1) Instagram SHOWS the photos. We have to include all of the people who work on the cloud that supports that. 

    2) Kodak made cameras and film. Cameras are still being made - even moreso. At the very least, we should include the current #1 camera maker’s employees. At this point, that’s apple. Fifty thousand employees. Pro rate it to only the apple devices that have cameras, ignoring their mac business. 30,000 employees. 

    3) The film business still exists. It was just lost to Fujichrome, who still makes film and has over 30,000 employees. This has nothing to do with the web, but rather something called “Globalization.” 

    The internet didn’t kill a single job in photography. There are more cameras now than ever. There are still tens of thousands of people making film. 

    Take the market cap of JUST these three companies - facebook, apple, fujifilm, and we’re looking at $500 billion market cap, and nearly 90,000 employees. 

    Think that’s unfair? Canon has nearly 200,000 employees. Nikon has 24,000. 10,000 more than Kodak. Shit, ZEISS has 24,000 employees. 

    Never mind every single camera in an android phone. 

    Those jobs went overseas, and they went to computer companies, Mr. Lanier. They still exist. The internet didn’t kill a single one of them. 

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Here’s a current example of the challenge we face,” he writes in the book’s prelude: “At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 14,000 people and was worth $28 billion. They even invented the first digital camera. But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram. When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only 13 people. Where did all those jobs disappear? And what happened to the wealth that all those middle-class jobs created?

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parislemon:

christmasgorilla:

From Tyler Surfboards, courtesy of Lane Wood.

So true.

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New Statesman - Your brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks

Paul Fletcher, professor of health neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, says that he gets “exasperated” by much popular coverage of neuroimaging research, which assumes that “activity in a brain region is the answer to some profound question about psychological processes. This is very hard to justify given how little we currently know about what different regions of the brain actually do.” Too often, he tells me in an email correspondence, a popular writer will “opt for some sort of neuro-flapdoodle in which a highly simplistic and questionable point is accompanied by a suitably grand-sounding neural term and thus acquires a weightiness that it really doesn’t deserve. In my view, this is no different to some mountebank selling quacksalve by talking about the physics of water molecules’ memories, or a beautician talking about action liposomes.”

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http://dashkards.com

Great site and companion Dashboard widget for all the Mac app keyboard shortcut cheat sheets you’ll ever need. Not sure how I’ve missed this until now.

  • 30th May 2012

  • Robert Krulwich, on the RadioLab episode about Color, referring to the fact that if a dog looked at a rainbow, they’d only see blue and green. What’s really interesting is all the animals that can see so much more color than we can - like Mantis Shrimp, which have 12 types of color receptor cells in their eyes, whereas humans only have 3 and dogs have two. Listen to the episode here: http://instaca.st/b/q3
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So when God showed Noah the rainbow and promised he’d never again deluge the earth, the dogs weren’t that impressed.

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Obsessed

Last week, a coworker and I were discussing various iPad apps. He pulled out his iPad and was swiping across home screens to get to the specific app we were discussing. There was something funky - a good funky - about his home screens, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Someone else walked by and said, “Oh, is he showing you his obsessive home screen organization?” He went back to the home screen and I immediately saw how he organized his apps and folders on his iPad… by color.

He had 6 pages of apps. All grouped by color. A blue page, a green page, and so on.

And here I thought I was pretty obsessive about home screen layout. His organization makes might look downright lazy. Maybe I can get him so give me screenshots.

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emersunn:

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soxiam:

Kaleidoscope

Whoa!!! This takes me back. This and A-Dock. Makes me want to bust out the old Snow iMac hiding out in my basement.

So appealing at the time.

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rickwebb:

nevver:

Social Media Explained (with donuts)

Tumblr: This is a really beautiful photo of a high end donut.

Reddit: There is a conspiracy in the donut industry

4Chan: Donut. Hole. LOL. 

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minimalmac:

warbyparker:

Ten years of evolution: 2011 iPod vs. 2001 iPod.

Progress.

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chartier:

Apple sold more iPads last quarter than HP sold PCs. Those iPads are used to read books, write books, create and give presentations, get directions, teach med students and lawyers, run companies, drive home theater systems, play games—a thousand things we have done with computers for years, and much more.

But if you’re still not thinking about the iPad as a “personal computer” because it doesn’t ship with a hardware keyboard or some type of port, I hope 1995 is treating you well.

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