“For the last year, my colleagues and I at Institute for the Future have been researching the future of science to identify big areas of science we think will have a transformative impact over the next decade. We read a lot of papers, conducted interviews, hosted an Open Science unconference, held an expert workshop with researchers from UC Berkeley, Stanford, UC Santa Cruz, Scripps Research Institute, SETI, and private industry, and spent many weeks synthesizing what we learned. (...) The map focuses on six big stories of science that will play out over the next decade: Decrypting the Brain, Hacking Space, Massively Multiplayer Data, Sea the Future, Strange Matter, and Engineered Evolution. Those stories are emerging from a new ecology of science shifting toward openness, collaboration, reuse, and increased citizen engagement in scientific research. (...) Every forecast could be rephrased as a “what if” question. What if you could record your dreams? What if you could design a life...
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- Amira
from Bookmarklet
“Technology’s dominance ultimately stems not from its birth in human minds but from its origin in the same self-organization that brought galaxies, planets, life, and minds into existence. It is part of a great asymmetrical arc that begins at the big bang and extends into ever more abstract and immaterial forms over time. The arc is the slow yet irreversible liberation from the ancient imperative of matter and energy.” (...) The defining force behind life is not energy but information. Evolution is a process of information transmission, and so is technology, which is why it too reflects a biological transcendence. (...) Life is built on bits, on ideas, on information, on immaterial things. (...) When we think about who we are, we are always talking about information, about knowledge, about processes that increase the complexity of things. (…) Life is not a binary thing that is either there or not there. It is a continuum between semi-living things like viruses and very living things...
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- Amira
from Bookmarklet
"I always think of technology as a child: You have to work with it, you have to find the right role and keep it away from bad influences. (...) We are destined by the physics and chemistry of matter. If we looked at a hundred planets in the universe that were inhabited by intelligent life, I bet that we would eventually see something like the internet on almost all of them. (...) The...
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- Amira
I am experiencing the same thing as Sean McBride - twitter and facebook stopped getting updated via FF on Monday. I just deleted twitter from my ff update list...now i can't get it back. The message - We could not find the given account...appears when I attempt to add it back to the list. What happened?
Yeah, I just noticed the same thing. My tweets are being imported by Advanced Tweets, but when I try to push something to Twitter from FF (IDK if that happens through Advanced Tweets or if that goes through FF natively), it doesn't work.
- Fried Curdys
Twitter just imported for me! Hooray, it's back!
- Andrew C (✓)
Not back for me on any of my accounts (>20), so I'm moving some of them to dlvr.it. There is rate limted trouble from Yahoo Pipes to Dlvr.it, but at least you get an error message with a hint at what's going on.
- Ignace Rodriguez de R,
As of the moment, Friendfeed posts are not being exported to Twitter. (But Twitter posts are being exported to Friendfeed.)
- Sean McBride
It would be helpful if someone from Facebook would explain to loyal Friendfeed users with inquiring minds what precisely is the current status and future of Friendfeed.
Something about G+ rubs me the wrong way. I stopped visiting it a few days ago.
- Sean McBride
The overall look, feel, functionality and experience of Friendfeed feels smarter to me than G+. G+ feels like a somewhat clumsy knockoff.
- Sean McBride
Unfortunately no more iteration here. I think it's better at some things already, as previously discussed. It feels like friend feed to me and Sparks are just like Google alerts which many run through here in topic rooms with less robust functionality presently.
- Key West
Sparks is useless -- it's missing all the features for sifting, filtering, sorting and prioritizing news that provide a bare minimum of acceptable functionality in 2011.
- Sean McBride
If Google wanted to make Sparks useful they'd buy Zite and integrate the browser based app.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
People are trying to cram entire blogs into G+ -- it's a mess, a blob of blogs. Will people really wade through all that noise for very long? By comparison, Twitter (which is already much too noisy) is a clear signal.
- Sean McBride
Google buying Zite would be a smart move -- but I haven't noticed a single person at Google who really understands the state-of-the-art and future of smart news management. Google News is well behind the curve.
- Sean McBride
Presently that is true, but as Jimminy has suggested it is one obvious area that will in fact become more robust going forward. FF isn't adding new or changing existing functionality. G+ is.
- Key West
Facebook could meet the challenge from G+ by reviving Friendfeed and pushing it forward hard with the development of valuable new features.
- Sean McBride
I don't see that happening anytime soon. Volume of users is a major delimiter.
- Key West
Perhaps Facebook (the company) should develop a smart news reading and conversational platform that is separate from Facebook (the product).
- Sean McBride
Is there really no way on Google+ to search for circles or posts discussing particular topics?
- Sean McBride
Some news platforms that are well ahead of Google News and Google+ Sparks: Feedly, Flipboard, my6sense, Topsy, Trapit, Xydo, Zite.
- Sean McBride
*** I love that I can still search FriendFeed though posts from the past 3 years. I hope FriendFeed search is somehow incorporated into G+ or whatever succeeds in the future. ***
- Mitchell Tsai
The lack of powerful search functionality in Google+ is really remarkable. There is barely any search functionality at all. Forget about zeroing in on needles in haystacks. Friendfeed has spoiled me for this kind of thing.
- Sean McBride
I would +1 that last comment if I could.
- Key West
Owo,but mine is still failing...1 month ago~~
- sonarye
Mine is still failing for more than a month!!! Somebody fix it please...
- Ashalynd
mine is workin at the mom. but it seems to go back and forth.
- Roi
Mine has been not working for more than a month. Trying to remove the service and re-adding it returned "We could not find the given account" error.
- Natsuki Seika
Not working for me, roughly the last 24 hours, give or take. Re-authorizing doesn't do anything.
- Joe
I got it working by just using a Custom Atom/RSS import, rather than using the direct twitter integration. http://friendfeed.com/friendf... . It's not real time, but it works. At least it was. I wonder if twitter is blocking FF from grabbing stuff (a refresh of this entry on my feeds doesn't pull in the latest stuff, now).
- Andy Bakun
I am experiencing the same thing as Sean McBride - twitter and facebook stopped getting updated via FF on Monday. I just deleted twitter from my ff update list...now i can't get it back. The message - We could not find the given account...appears when I attempt to add it back to the list. What happened?
- Jack Olmsted
Same here. It is theFriendFeed-to-Twitter especially that I'm missing since I use that as a bridge to have URLs recorded and page content saved in Pinboard.in.
- Peter Murray
Guh, pinboard.in doesn't take an RSS feed?
- Andy Bakun
I also don't care if *my* tweets come through. It's annoying me because I don't see the Twitter people I follow here, that I won't follow on Twitter. It's already bad enough that most of them stopped importing in April/May and that was never fixed.
- Anika
pretty sure no one works on ff anymore, but Ben usually notices after awhile, I think the last few times they hit some api limit with twitter, but it looks like search is down also this time.
- John