links for 2006-04-10

• Haaretz - Israel News - Google buys search algorithm invented by Israeli student
  Search engine giant Google recently acquired an advanced text search algorithm invented by Ori Alon, an Israeli student. Sources believe Yahoo and Microsoft were also negotiating with the University of New South Wales in Australia, where Alon is a doctora
  (tags: search google)
• BETWEEN BOTH WORLDS: BT Reveals Insight into the Future
  'BT's futurology department has gazed into the future to predict the technological advances that will impact our lives. The timeline encompasses all areas of life influenced by technology developments including artificial intelligence, health and medical,
  (tags: future research)
• IFTF's Future Now: Mycroft: Open source peer production in convenient banner form
  We take a large, complicated job and divide it in to friendly, manageable chunks. We call them puzzles, and each one takes only a few seconds to solve. We serve them up to you in the space where that annoying web ad used to be. Without ever leaving the we
  (tags: collaboration culture future)
• Future Hi: Fractal Time (aka Timewave Zero) Available Once Again
  In response to popular demand this Fractal Time software, which has been publicly unavailable for six years, is now available again. This is version 7.00. It is a tool for exploring the theory known as Timewave Zero which was developed by Terence McKenna
  (tags: philosophy theory)
• Future Feeder » Archive » Tactile 3D : Your Desktop in 3D
  Tactile 3D is a user interface made to browse and organize all your existing files in 3D using shapes and sounds to identify folders and files on your hard drive.
  (tags: 3d virtualreality)
• unmediated: Ripple: Decentralized P2P money exchange network
  Ripple is a monetary system based on trust that already exists between people in real-world social networks. By cutting out the institutional middlemen, Ripple is both more community-oriented and more efficient as a means of exchange.
  (tags: socialsoftware)
• Control and Freedom
  "Wendy Chun's important new book explores one of the salient questions raised by networked computing: the paradox of furthering the directly opposed aims of surveillance and democracy, or, as her title puts it, control and freedom. Chun's interrogation of
  (tags: philosophy books)
• CNN.com - Welcome to the Future
  CNN explores realities the future might bring in the areas of technology, health, entertainment and more.
  (tags: research future)
• Here's an Idea: Let Everyone Have Ideas - New York Times
  they focus on an internal market where any employee can propose that the company acquire a new technology, enter a new business or make an efficiency improvement. These proposals become stocks, complete with ticker symbols, discussion lists and e-mail ale
  (tags: collaboration socialsoftware ideas innovation)