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Cost Of Machines vs Cost Of People

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: September 3, 2009
Why the growing imbalance between the cost of people and the cost of machines? What prices are going up the fastest? Health care — the cost of maintaining human beings. What prices are going down the fastest? The cost of information and machines. What, really, is health-care reform? Human beings are being cared for by [...]
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Challenging Assumptions: Tractor vs Horse

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: September 3, 2009
Taking into account the annual feeds for work horses (1,300 kg of corn grain, 1,600 kg of alfalfa and 500 kg of harvested roughage) and the national yields for these crops during the past decade, they conclude that the 23 million horses would require 9 million hectare of agricultural land for food, or 6 percent [...]
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Heima – At home

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: July 24, 2008
Last night I watched Sigur Ros’s documentary called “Heima”. It’s currently ranked the number 1 documentary on IMDB. I had some expectations and what I got was totally different. The documentary is about Sigur Ros’s tour of Iceland. They played a series of free, unannounced concert throughout their home country, Iceland. The documentary focuses a lot [...]
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The Virtual Vacuum

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: July 22, 2008
I remember one night, a few months a go. It was about 10 pm and I was at home. I had not written an article I was supposed to publish that day, so I was working on it on my laptop. I don’t usually work that late but this was an exception. As my eyes [...]
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Just testing Twitter updates from uberVU

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: June 30, 2008
Twitter updates from uberVU
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Gregg Bleakney: From Alaska to Chile, biking

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: June 3, 2008
Meet Gregg Bleakney. Avarage software salesman, in his 30s. Why should we care? Because he pedaled the whole Pan American Highway, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. This trip took two years of hardship, peril, adventure and self-exploration. Many could say “2 years, that’s a lot”. Or “That’s too dangerous”. Or “He threw [...]
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What happens when people communicate face to face

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: May 21, 2008
We all feel on an intuitive level that when we talk face to face with somebody, a lot more than the words bouncing back and forth is being communicated. There’s been a study that has been quoted by lots of people regarding this fenomenon. The study says that communication is made up of: 55% body language 38% [...]
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Friending is Not Getting to Know People

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: May 14, 2008
Dozens of “Good morning Twitterers!” flow in my Twitter client. One of my “friends” has to go to the bank across town today. Good luck with that, friend. Another friend has just discovered a cool new video on YouTube. Of course she’s doing us the honor of sharing it, so we can have a laugh [...]
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History Of Social Software

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: April 8, 2008
As some of you may know, I’m building a great piece of social software right now together with our team: uberVU. As I dig deeper and deeper into the heart of what social software is, I find that it’s really useful to ponder about the history of social software a bit. While some of you may [...]
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