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Insufficient, incomplete, uninspired
After so many hints that a major overhaul of the Kiwi economy was to come, Prime Minister John Key's speech today records a blow for mediocrity. Read more »
Betting on the bell curve
In this week's issue: betting on the bell curve, a high honour, a very handy device, money: that's what I want; how many is too many?, when art and maths collide, leaving on a poetic note, only in Japan and the quote of the week. Read more »
Urban facelift
In this week's issue: urban facelift, flying high, on the way to Webstock, welcome to hyperreality, sun sounds and Splore, art in the fields, a speck in the galaxy, the real life of chimps and the quote of the week. Read more »
The Mersey feat
The Beatles may have brought Liverpool fame, but the city was stuck in the Mersey Beat for decades. Now ambitious new architecture is reigniting interest in Liverpool and the city suddenly is celebrating its past and setting itself up for the future. Envious Aucklander Graham Reid reckons the formula could work in New Zealand’s timid cities, too Read more »
Augmented intensity
It’s one thing knowing where the nearest pizza joint is ... but when augmented reality has becomes the norm, it’s going to get intense. Witness this concept video by Keiichi Matsuda, complete with mode switches, Basic Life Skills tuition and even computer-assisted encouragement for those whose self-image needs some augmentation too.
If that freaked you out as much as me, take heart from this TED presentation showing SixthSense, a wearable augmented reality device that doesn't try to take over your world.
SixthSense is a concept product too—at MIT—but looks like something that we’ll see in production first … I hope.
Flying by the seat of your pants
In the notoriously competitive and difficult to differentiate airline business, Air New Zealand invests in design and experiential marketing Read more »
Back to business
In this issue: back to business, forward thinking, interactive building, bike in the sky, school for change, reduce reuse recycle, you're never too old for Lego, and the quote of the week. Read more »
Audi designer Wolfgang Egger brings the A5 Sportback to life right in front of our eyes. It’s all about three lines, apparently, but those three lines have been obsessed over. Enjoy the autospeak: the rear comes complete with both accent and elbow.
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We know; the paperback came out in 2008, as the review says. It's the way he's been proven right by events that makes it topical.
(As you probably know, Taleb also (re-)appears in Malcolm Gladwell' …
Great book and Author as was is his first "fooled by randomness" but no new thought breakthrough here in this article - this book (and Taleb's black swan theories) came out years ago.
At nearly 80 years of age I am filled with admiration for your opposition to Doc.
I have opposed them on other issues and am disgusted at their usually self serving attitude.If you are ever in Timaru …
Good article - more in this space / area of innovation would be awesome.