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“Topspin CEO Ian Rogers sketches out a different future. Rogers, the former head of Yahoo Music, correctly points out, as others have before him, that it is not the music industry that is dying. It is the CD business.”

“Here’s Far Cry 2 technical director Dominic Guay talking about the importance of “procedural content generation” for massive online games — basically, using software to create worlds that had previously been hand-built by artists.”

“Yup, the official Monty Python channel has launched with high-quality videos of their sketches straight from the vault. Now, you can impress your friends by quoting that hilarious scene from Holy Grail verbatim. Trust me – people love it when you do that.”

“tested machines included a few different rovers and prototype plants for generating oxygen and water from lunar regolith. Astrotoday has a picture gallery and a video report. This follows on the heels of the recent ESA lunar robotics challenge event held on Tenerife, which tasked student teams to build a lunar robot that would be able to search for water ice in lunar polar craters.”"

“Ein Buch gegen die globale Vernetzung: Der Internetskeptiker Nicholas Carr warnt vor den gesellschaftlichen Folgen des weltweit wirksamen Computers”