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Since no supercomputer can yet predict the future, we need your help. Readers are invited to make predictions and collaboratively edit this timeline, which is divided into three sections: a sampling of past advances, future predictions that you can push forward or backward in time (but not, of course, into the past), and a form for making and voting on predictions. The most prescient prophet might receive an iPad 2 in 2050. But if the past is any guide, this prediction will almost surely be wrong.

Armés d'un scanner et d'un ordinateur, des scientifiques ont pu décoder des signaux cérébraux et reconstruire les images d'un film visionné par trois sujets, pour les convertir en modèle informatique. Shinji Nishimoto, principal auteur de cette étude parue dans la revue américaine Current Biology, et ses collègues ont regardé deux extraits de film.

The web and its related disciplines have grown organically. I think it’s safe to say the web is not the domain of just the geeks anymore—we all live here. And those of us who work here should have sophisticated, native tools to do our jobs.

Founder of world wide web says some of the most successful social networking sites 'have begun to chip away at its principles'

Andy Adams, the creative juice behind the online magazine Flak Photo recently contacted me about a “crowd-sourced” blog posting relating to photobooks, in conjunction with Resolve, the Livebooks blog. Was I game in posting something on my own blog? Sure. I’m always game for a discussion about photobooks.

3 Dimensional Thinking for Web Designers 3D Slides from a presentation given by Mike Kus. The Future of Web Design 2009 / New York.

I am a researcher at INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique) working in the Willow project at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. I completed my PhD at the University of Oxford working with Prof. Andrew Zisserman. My thesis dealing with efficient visual search of images and videos was awarded the Sullivan Thesis Prize and was short-listed for the BCS Distinguished Dissertation award - the prize for the best Computer Science thesis in the UK. Before coming to France I spent six months as a post-doc in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT, working with Prof. William Freeman.

Interactive video has a long way to go, but Netherlands based yellowBird and their 360 degree offering might help move it along. We, as a species, watch a lot of vids. Buckets full, really. And for the most part, we're comfortable pressing play and being spoon-fed the story. This, at least in part, explains the lukewarm reception - commercially speaking - of interactive films. Most of the 'interactivity' centers on controlling the story.

C’est une chose que Dogen répète tout le temps : il ne faut pas pratiquer la Voie de Bouddha, notre zazen, avec un esprit de profit, ushotoku. Mushotoku, c’est le non-profit. Cela est valable surtout pour zazen, mais aussi pour toute chose. Dans la vie quotidienne, dans le travail, il est nécessaire d’avoir l’esprit ushotoku. Mais même dans le travail, si finalement vous voulez seulement gagner de l’argent, vous ne pouvez y parvenir. De même dans l’art, dans la diplomatie, dans l’amitié : si on agit avec un esprit de non-profit, mushotoku, les mérites arrivent vraiment.

… L’éducation moderne enseigne, dit que vous devez devenir riche. L’éducation moderne n’enseigne pas – Drop ! Lost ! L’individu qui veut devenir riche, c’est complètement idiot. N’enseignez pas cela ! Vous devez faire des efforts, autant que possible, pour ne pas réussir.

Dans un billet de blog à l’acide, le journaliste indépendant David Dufresne (ex-Libé, ex-I-Télé, ex-Mediapart) prend la défense de Denis Robert, mis en cause dans le procès Clearstream, et shoote dans la fourmilière des « journalistes d’investigation ». Des Etats-Unis où il tourne un webdocumentaire sur les prisons, il s'explique sur son coup de gueule.

The web is abuzz over a project over at Stanford that aims to revolutionize how we think about photography by building an open source camera (dubbed Frankencamera). That’s right… Open. Source. Camera. While you try to wrap your mind around this new paradigm, I’ll point out of a few of the important aspects of the project and throw in some of my thoughts on it.

My name is Nicolas Guyon and I am French. Currently I am a fifth year student at L'Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique. This school, in Nantes, offers a 5 year Industrial Design degree; and I am more specifically in the New Media program. Just recently, as part of my course requirements, I spent 6 months in Asia (Seoul, Shanghai and Hong Kong) as an exchange student.

I met today’s news about Opera’s new initiative — called Unite — with a mix of shock and awe. On the one hand, I was sickened by the lack of analysis from the echolalic blogger news corps. It appeared that Opera PR had successfully reached out to all of them, shoved a news release down their throats and waited to give them the go-ahead to regurgitate it on their blogs, using the same screenshots, same content, and differing only in the pithiness of their post titles.

A coté de ça, je viens de faire un petit test comparatif entre 4 sites proposant des tirages photo : fnac, foto, photoweb et photoways. Si ça intéresse le groupe je publierais une petite synthèse.

For all of the advantages the web has with distribution of content, I’ve always lamented the handiness of the WYSIWYG design tools from the print publishing world. When I set out to redesign my personal website, I wanted to have some of the same abilities that those tools have, laying out pages how I saw fit, and that meant a flexible system for dealing with imagery.

“A l’heure de la rédaction de ce mémoire, je constate un rapport extrêmement inégal entre l’amplitude que prend, dans nos études de design graphique, la notion de “graphisme d’auteur” et sa place réelle dans la pratique de ce métier. Je mesure également la distance qui distingue le monde des auteurs, monde savant regardant tantôt avec dédain, tantôt avec amusement les autres formes de graphisme, et celui des amateurs, ignorant presque tout du graphisme et à fortiori du graphisme d’auteur. J’ai par conséquent eu la volonté de me dégager de la vision unilatérale que me propose (malgré lui) l’enseignement en communication visuelle en étudiant le graphisme le plus opposé au graphisme d’auteur: le graphisme amateur. ”

Hisashi Fukui Aomori, Aomori, Japan Après avoir vécu à Montpellier pendant dix ans, je suis retourné au Japon, mon pays natal, l'été dernier. Je suis traducteur interprète.

Ubiquity is an experiment two parts. It’s both an interface and a development platform. Ubiquity 0.1 focuses on the platform aspects, while beginning to explore language-driven methods of controlling the browser.

A somewhat random (hence uncataloged) collection of thoughts about the work of museums (particularly history museums): what our work means to those of us who work in them, what our audiences might be thinking about, and the place that history museums occupy in today's culture.

Aurora is a concept video exploring one possible future user experience for the Web, created by Adaptive Path as part of the Mozilla Labs concept series. For more, visit adaptivepath.com/aurora