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How robots are making us more human

In a world where the vast majority of information we encounter comes from people who, as far as we know, are just electrons, how do we determine humanness? And what happens when that doesn't work anymore?
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The Experience Points Economy

Experience points are quickly becoming as valuable as real money. What happens when they exceed it?
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Email must die

We're all getting more connected all the time. More connections equals more communications. Too many communications and we get nothing else done.
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Why creative people are really really really important

The rate of change and the level of complexity have come to a point where nothing is ever finished, because in between the prediction of a successful product and it's launch, everything's changed.
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Farmville 2020: Day of the Triffids

Its 2020. The building I live in has a vertical farm on the 5th floor deck. The garden is filled with sensors that make it a part of the larger Internet of Things. The sensors feed farming simulations that my neighbors and I play like a game. The garden feeds the people who play with [...]
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Farmville vs. Everything

Farmville vs. Everything. 2004 - present day
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Stuff we make makes stuff more fun.

Games that people are still playing after decades have something in common: user-generated content.
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