Full text of the Financial Times editor’s speech on the future of news and newspapers in the digital revolution.

futurejournalismproject:

Get ready for some serious reading. The New York Times has a new special out called Future of Computing. Here are just the first few articles in the series:

Power in Numbers: China Aims for High-Tech Primacy
China’s booming economy and growing technological infrastructure may thrust it to the forefront of the next generation of computing, many American experts say.

Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing
Facing the physical limits of conventional design, researchers work to design a computing architecture that more closely resembles that of the brain.

Vast and Fertile Ground in Africa for Science to Take Root
Computer science study in Africa shows great promise, with one Ugandan university even charting its own course in many aspects of mobile computing ahead of the developed world.

With a Leaner Model, Start-Ups Reach Further Afield
The business of Silicon Valley today is less about focusing on an industry than it is about a continuous process of innovation with technology, across a widening swath of fields.

A High-Stakes Search Continues for Silicon’s Successor
As silicon processors grow more packed with each generation, they lose efficiency, and researchers are looking for a new medium.

Out of a Writer’s Imagination Came an Interactive World
The author Neal Stephenson’s reputation for prescience about the online world is well earned, even if he regards it lightly.

Looking Backward to Put New Technologies in Focus
The science historian George Dyson, author of the new book “Turing’s Cathedral,” talks about the genius of Alan Turing and John von Neumann, and growing up in the birthplace of the H-bomb.

Interactive Map
In just four decades the Internet has spread to much of the world. Now, the shift to high-bandwidth connectivity and the global availability of supercomputing is accelerating. Examine the global hotspots.

Looking forward to reading these and the many, many more.

(Source: futurejournalismproject, via socialistscum)

Eastern bloc countries look to their recent, troubled pasts for a possible tourism future.

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This sad and beautiful picture is making the rounds today. I thought a credit would be helpful; it’s from the now defunct Rocky Mountain News, and part of a Pulitzer-winning special report. A memorial both to the war dead, and to the dead newspaper that won’t be bringing us this again. Article and photos by Jim Sheeler and Todd Heisler.

The night before the burial of her husband’s body, Katherine Cathey refused to leave the casket, asking to sleep next to his body for the last time. The Marines made a bed for her, tucking in the sheets below the flag. Before she fell asleep, she opened her laptop computer and played songs that reminded her of “Cat,” and one of the Marines asked if she wanted them to continue standing watch as she slept. “I think it would be kind of nice if you kept doing it,” she said. “I think that’s what he would have wanted.”

tiffanyalwaysknows:

Sorry, this is just a too epic picture not to post. (Courtesy of aryas)

amadeus3000:

Before I saw this, I’d read selections 1, 2, 5-8, 15, 16, 18, 20, 25, 28, 36, 38, 41 (hilarious), 45, 47, 49, 56, 59, 60, 74-78, 80, 83, 86, 89, 92, and 93. Plenty of reading material now…