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In this case it’s a room that you can talk to like a person, but it responds to you like a computer. Using available sensors, projectors, and voice- and motion-control technologies, frog has created a room in which objects and surfaces have become the interface. Call it Conversational Computing: a computer that literally surrounds us using walls and surfaces as screens.

We ran the election 66,000 times every night,” said a senior official, describing the computer simulations the campaign ran to figure out Obama’s odds of winning each swing state. “And every morning we got the spit-out — here are your chances of winning these states. And that is how we allocated resources.

Given the overwhelming preference for dogs apparent in mainstream entertainment media and in statistical analysis among Americans, the cat’s election as unofficial ‘mascot of the Internet’ is a phenomenon worth noting. Certainly, some of this can be explained by facts such as ‘internet culture pioneers are not representative of the norm’; ‘the internet is a haven for subcultures to express preferences less welcome in mainstream society’; and ‘people who are dog people are probably doing things like throwing a Frisbee outside, painting a fence in suburbia, driving to a relevant chain restaurant or giving birth to children in a hospital setting , not going online creating Tumblrs.’

If you want to write a codebase once and not update it, ship it on custom hardware that does not include networking capability and call it a day. If you want to write software that works on the Internet, commit to a certain amount of ongoing maintenance.

In my 25 years in IT I always stuck to one rule – give your customers an honest technical opinion, but if they decide to overrule it for whatever reason, do what they want. This strategy allows me sleep well at night knowing that I didn’t lie. I also know that I would have won more project bids if I wouldn’t stick to this rule.