A Smarter Planet
October 2009
“I felt like a caveman seeing fire for the first time,” says David Curcurito, the magazine’s art director. (Esquire’s top editors are clearly enthused about the new technology, called “augmented reality.”)”
—The Associated Press: Esquire looks to energize print with 3-D animation
“Xerox announced a new silver ink that it’s calling, and apparently is, a breakthrough in printable electronics, a leading edge concept that’s generated a lot of discussion but few actual products to date, largely because of the issues that Xerox’s new technology addresses. In concept, printable electronics is just what it sounds like: using a printer, basically an ink jet, to print electronic circuits. If you can do that reliably, you can print electronic devices for far less than current methods cost. You can also print the devices on a variety of new materials.”
—Xerox Claims Printable Electronics Breakthrough - Reviews by PC Magazine
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“Our water infrastructure (like the rest of the world) is still largely fixated in the Deakin era, and our operational practices are definitely Sumerian/Babylonian in nature (although admittedly no longer temple-based) and suffer from low efficiency. This does not augur well for the future. It is essential to modernise the water infrastructure so as to improve water efficiency and in general achieve a more sustainable socioeconomic and environmental water-management outcome within the ill-understood constraint of the available water resource.”
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- Iven Mareels FTSE is Dean of the Melbourne School of Engineering, as quoted in Abandoning Babylonian principles to rebuild irrigation infrastructure (via Science Alert)
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