Pattern Recognition: That Was Then; Losing My (Institutional) Religion; Mobile Native

Source: The Network Garden

Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals In terms of pure readability, I enjoyed In Defense of Food more, but this book feels more important in how it delineates the 'self-perpetuating' ethos of Big Corn, and what t ...
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Pixar’s 'Brave' Honors Steve Jobs

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Months after his death, the studio Steve Jobs helped build will honor him with its next release. Pixar Animation Studios' Brave tells the story of a young Scottish girl seeking to discover her own destiny, and features ...
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Sotheby’s to auction 1 of 6 working Apple I’s and rare Steve Jobs memo

Source: 9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence

As the first ready-made personal computer, the Apple I signaled a new age in which computing became accessible to the masses. The interface of circuitry and software that Woz created enabled users to type letters with “a human-typable keyboard ins ...
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Technology Round-Up: May 25th, 2012

Source: Absolute Punk

Google’s David Lawee: One-Third Of Google’s Acquisitions Are Failures (And Slide Is “Definitely” One Of Them) Doing the math, that works out to roughly 40 deals that didn’t quite pan out the way the folks in Mountain View had hoped. Of course, some them ...
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Apple CEO Cook's doing a good job, but Jobs 'would have lost his mind over Siri'

Source: Macworld UK

Steve Jobs would have “lost his mind over Siri,” according to an ex Apple employee. The ex-employee told Fortune that people at Apple are “embarrassed by Siri”. Siri is Apple’s voice-recognition ‘PA’ feature on iPhones that has come under fire recently i ...
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Restoring professionalism to education

Source: The Star-Press | Muncie, IN

Steve Jobs, the computer pioneer, warned Barack Obama that there can be no effective educational reform unless teachers are treated as professionals, not like workers in an assembly line (Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson). James Buchanan, the Nobel Laure ...
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News: Jonathan Ive Tells BBC He Wants to Stay at Apple

Source: The Mac Observer

Design guru Sir Jonathan Ive said in an interview on Thursday that he wants to stay at Apple, effectively squashing speculation that he would leave the company in order to return to England. Sir Jon made the comments to the BB ...
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Notable & Quotable

Source: Wall Street Journal

James Pethokoukis writing at the American Enterprise Institute's blog, April 30: Imagine if Steve Jobs a) were alive and b) somehow nabbed the 2012 Republican nomination. What would the Democrats be saying about this beloved American entrepreneur ...
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Tim Cook, Apple CEO, Not As 'Scary' As Steve Jobs

Source: The Huffington Post

Following the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs last October , his predecessor and Apple's current CEO Tim Cook has time and again been compared to the man who brought the world the game-changing iPod, iPhone and iPad. While it's been difficu ...
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