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life of the party

life of the party

(Source: halemur)

‘when all i want, is for you to see. the side that i don’t show to anyone, in fear that they might turn and run. alone and incomplete, no more tears to cry and no more blood to bleed.’

(Source: thedailywhat)

futuramb: smarterplanet: IBM open-sources ‘Internet of Things’ protocol | KurzweilAI IBM announced it is joining with Italy-based hardware architecture firm Eurotech in donating a complete draft protocol for asynchronous inter-device communication to the Eclipse Foundation, ReadWriteWeb reports. A projected 24 billion simultaneous devices — sending billions of messages per hour — including RFID tags on shipping crates, heart rate monitors, GPS devices, smartphone firmware, automobile maintenance systems, and even earrings may become more socially active than any teenager presently alive by the year 2020. The new asynchronous inter-device communication protocol is called Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT), the machine-to-machine counterpart of HTTP (used on websites). I have some doubt about the lines above that says digital and sustainable society. I agree that communication is a key capability for achieving resilience and sustainability, but does a world of billions of interconnected individuals and things necessarily have the properties of sustainability? That is of course not true in all worlds… Could it even be that the emergence of an Internet of Things is not sustainable at all??

futuramb:

smarterplanet:

IBM open-sources ‘Internet of Things’ protocol | KurzweilAI

IBM announced it is joining with Italy-based hardware architecture firm Eurotech in donating a complete draft protocol for asynchronous inter-device communication to the Eclipse Foundation, ReadWriteWeb reports.

A projected 24 billion simultaneous devices — sending billions of messages per hour — including RFID tags on shipping crates, heart rate monitors, GPS devices, smartphone firmware, automobile maintenance systems, and even earrings may become more socially active than any teenager presently alive by the year 2020.

The new asynchronous inter-device communication protocol is called Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT), the machine-to-machine counterpart of HTTP (used on websites).

I have some doubt about the lines above that says digital and sustainable society. I agree that communication is a key capability for achieving resilience and sustainability, but does a world of billions of interconnected individuals and things necessarily have the properties of sustainability? That is of course not true in all worlds… Could it even be that the emergence of an Internet of Things is not sustainable at all??

Rickshaw by Banksy.


Rickshaw by Banksy.

how an alien sees our planet?

how an alien sees our planet?

(Source: nervemedia)

minusmanhattan: Inside the worm.  Some serious light painting going on here.

minusmanhattan:

Inside the worm. 

Some serious light painting going on here.

npr: The United Nations says today symbolically marks the moment when the world’s population reaches 7 billion. A little more than two centuries ago, the global population was 1 billion. How did it grow so big so fast? With the help of a sound montage and video, it gets a little easier to see how the Earth can produce that kind of a crowd. Watch our video: 7 Billion: How Did We Get So Big So Fast Photo: Adam Cole, Maggie Starbard / NPR

npr:

The United Nations says today symbolically marks the moment when the world’s population reaches 7 billion. A little more than two centuries ago, the global population was 1 billion. How did it grow so big so fast? With the help of a sound montage and video, it gets a little easier to see how the Earth can produce that kind of a crowd.

Watch our video: 7 Billion: How Did We Get So Big So Fast

Photo: Adam Cole, Maggie Starbard / NPR