“New associations and fresh ideas are more likely to come out of a varied store of memories and experience than out of a collection that is all of one kind.” — Insight into combinatorial creativity circa 1957. (via explore-blog)
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“The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again… You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t.” — Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things (via thatwordbumsmeout)
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Arts fest (Taken with instagram)
the understatement: Are Smart Phones Spreading Faster than Any Technology in Human History? -
I’ve written an article with associated charts for Technology Review, tracking the adoption rate of mobile phones and their inevitable replacement, smart phones, relative to other similar technologies.
It really has been quite an astounding 30 years:
In 1982, there were 4.6 billion people in…
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” — Thoreau
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The World Mapped According to Wikipedia Articles in 7 Different Languages - information aesthetics writing up work by Mapping Wikipedia [tracemedia.co.uk].
As IA says, “There is something strangely mesmerizing about maps with a lot of dots.”
Maps of information data points > just about anything.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2nl5oC2GH1qznh46o1_500.jpg)
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The World Mapped According to Wikipedia Articles in 7 Different Languages - information aesthetics writing up work by Mapping Wikipedia [tracemedia.co.uk].
As IA says, “There is something strangely mesmerizing about maps with a lot of dots.”
Maps of information data points > just about anything.
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Steve Jobs on creativity
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