This is the Google Street View “car” for Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada
It’s called the Trekker. They use it to map places where cars can’t reach… Iqaluit only receives a few ships every summer capable of off-loading vehicles. And that space is extremely expensive and very valuable to the community. So realistically, Google probably couldn’t get a Streetview Car out there.
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"South-by-Southwest is expecting a crowd of 28,000 for the Interactive portion of its 11-day tech, film and music festival… That’s 3,500 attendees more than in 2012, and 9,000 greater that what showed up two years ago."
- SXSW Expects 28K Attendees This Year—With or Without a ‘Highlight’ | Adweek
America of the Future, c. 1910s-30s.
"Data inherently has all of the foibles of being human. Data is not a magic force in society; it’s an extension of us."
- Mark Hansen (via stoweboyd)
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"Young people today have lots of experience… interacting with new technologies, but a lot less so of creating [or] expressing themselves with new technologies. It’s almost as if they can read but not write."
- MIT Media Labs’ Mitch Resnick | Everyone Should Code
"Of the most talked-about tech companies, Facebook by far received the least love. While Amazon, Apple and Google all ranked in the top five with total scores above eighty out of 100, and Microsoft ranked 15th with a “good” score above 75, Facebook came in 42nd – sandwiched between Best Buy and T-Mobile – with a score of just over 65, or what Fronk described as the borderline between “average” and “poor.”
“Facebook suffers badly from lack of trust,” Fronk said.
Amazon arguably collects as much personal data about its customers as Facebook does about its users, or at least if not as much, then possibly more intimate: purchase history, product search history, home address, credit card numbers."
- Hating Amazon Is Not a Thing. Facebook on the Other Hand …
"‘Amazon is predominantly a virtual company where you don’t get to see the people. You don’t see brick and mortar,’ says Robert Fronk, executive vice-president of reputation management at Harris. ‘For them to first of all have the highest reputation, but more importantly to be the company with far and away the highest emotional appeal, is amazing.’ Harris defines emotional appeal as trust, admiration and respect, not whether you get weepy when your package arrives."
- Hating Amazon Is Not a Thing. Facebook on the Other Hand …
"It’s often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better."
- Astro Teller: Google X Head on Moonshots: How 10X Is Easier Than 10 Percent | Wired.com (via ronenreblogs)
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