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Pew Report: Increasing Technology Use among Seniors

CTOvision

While younger generations are known to quickly adapt to technological advances, older adults and seniors have traditionally lagged behind – preferring TV to the Internet or landlines to cell phones. Today, 59% of seniors use the Internet, com. To read more please log in.

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Top 10 Advantages of eBooks Over Printed Books

Kitaboo

Printed books vs digital books is an age-old debate. There are and will be people who support printed books as well as electronic books (eBooks). Let us see some of the advantages that eBooks have over the traditional printed books. Here are the Top 10 Advantages of eBooks over Printed Books: 1.

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Bezos’ Amazon: from bookstore to backbone of the internet

The Verge

to found an internet-based bookstore. It launched in July 1995; the first book sold was Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought. In July 1996, Amazon introduced its Affiliate Program, which rewards other websites for referring traffic to Amazon books. Shaw & Co.

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Free webinar July 19 on the Future of Media – Mobile, Social, Cloud… and Paid? with Ross Dawson and Gerd Leonhard

Trends in the Living Networks

As part of our intent of working more together in both public forums and with leading media organizations we are announcing a free webinar: The Future of Media: Mobile, Social, Cloud… and Paid? Gerd Leonhard is a greatly valued friend and colleague in our shared calling as media futurists, and work together in The Futures Agency.

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The global brain is like a child’s brain – let’s nurture it

Trends in the Living Networks

In my book Living Networks I wrote about how the networks in which we live are coming to life, making us all part of what we can quite accurately think of as a global brain. I wrote an extended introduction to the book that went into this concept in depth. Watch it below, preferably on full screen.

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Is our propensity for social media part of our design - so humans are stepping stones to the creation of a global brain?

Trends in the Living Networks

Now Robert Wright, to me best known as author of the fabulous book Nonzero , has written a couple of articles on the global brain in the New York Times - the public response to the first one meriting another column. Tags: Future of humanity Social media globalbrain whattechnologywants.

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7 Problems Faced By Self-Publishers And How to Avoid Them

Kitaboo

Online publishing services such as Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Smashwords, or Draft2Digital have enabled new authors to self-publish their books. Self-publishing your books on platforms such as these is relatively simple and straightforward – all you need is a Word file and a book cover and you are set to become a self-published author.

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