If You’re An Average Worker, You’re Going Straight To The Bottom
According to Seth Godin, the founder of Squidoo.com and author of 13 books, the current “recession is a forever recession” because it’s the end of the industrial age, which also means the end of the average worker. (via businessinsider,com)
In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle. But, today, average is officially over. Being average just won’t earn you what it used to. It can’t when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor, cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius. Therefore, everyone needs to find their extra — their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment. Average is over.
The Kills - The Last Goodbye
Amazon’s new Kindle Fire commercial.
Even if you love the iPad, you’re probably not keen to write your next novel using its on-screen virtual keyboard. You may not be thrilled to type up a lengthy email with it, either. Steve Isaac felt the same way. So the Seattle-based software designer got to work on a way to make the iPad easier to type on. Using a stretchy silicone, he invented a keyboard that sits atop the tablet’s on-screen keyboard when the device is turned on its side. He called it, TouchFire. Isaac, who worked on an early tablet at computing startup Go in the ’90s, isn’t unique in dreaming up this type of device. But his invention has garnered intense support on Kickstarter - a website where entrepreneurs and artists solicit funding for their projects
In the forthcoming book Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, Peter H. Diamandis (chairman and CEO of the X-Prize Foundation and cofounder and chairman of Singularity University) and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler give us an extensive tour of the latest in exponentially growing technologies and explore how four emerging forces - exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the Technophilanthropist, and the Rising Billion - are conspiring to solve humanity’s biggest problems.
President Obama hugging Gabrielle Giffords.
The BabyPing will turn your iOS devices into a baby monitor. The gadget works in conjunction with a free app on your iOS devices and WiFi connectivity. The BabyPing provides a full color video (640 x 480) over your WiFi network and a built-in microphone with the Smart Filter that blocks background noise and static. The BabyPing Video Monitor will be launched in February 2012.
Via BuzzFeed. #truth
Dudes, Ithaca and Ann Arbor have all of those things and actually affordable rent.
Yeah, but Portland and Brooklyn also have “near cooler places”, like the entire east coast and Seattle. Ithaca is sadly lacking on that front.
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We believe that the next stop in copying will be made from digital form into physical form,” TPB declares. “It will be physical objects.” Three-dimensional printers and scanners are just the first step toward a sharing environment that will be characterized above all by fluidity between atoms and bits. Or: “You will download your sneakers within 20 years.
When you’re cooking, your hands get grubby, sticky and wet - not the ideal situation for handling electronics. The iCookbook recipe app (for iPad, iPhone or Android) adds a screamingly obvious feature: hands-free page turning. You can turn pages (and start or stop cooking timers) with voice commands.
