Infoenthusiasts may exult in the sheer volume of raw data, & just as industrial revolution society learned how to process a glut of "atoms," we must now learn how to process this glut of "information."
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StarSolar, a startup based in Cambridge, MA, aims to capture and use photons that ordinarily pass through solar cells without generating electricity...at half the cost of current solar cells.
A new mechanism for focusing light on small areas of photovoltaic material could make solar power in residential and commercial applications cheaper than electricity from the grid in most markets in the next few years...at half the cost of conventional so
Ubiquitous computing is roughly the opposite of virtual reality. Where virtual reality puts people inside a computer-generated world, ubiquitous computing forces the computer to live out here in the world with people. Virtual reality is primarily a horse
Ubiquitous computing is a model of computing in which computer functions are integrated into everyday life, often in an invisible way. Modern devices that may serve the ubiquitous computing model include mobile phones, digital audio players, radio-frequen
"Today, with affordable storage, effortless retrieval and global access, remembering has become the default, for us individually and for society as a whole."