The company’s biggest (free) product placement coup since Phil Dunphy’s pre-release iPad.
In case you missed last week’s publicity, tonight’s episode of Modern Family takes place on the screen of an Apple computer — Claire Dunphy’s MacBook — and was shot almost entirely on iPhones and iPads.
via Modern Family’s all-Apple episode airs tonight – Fortune.
Philip K Dick on Disneyland, reality and science fiction (1978) – Boing Boing.
Here’s an excellent, rambling PKD riff on the relationship of Disneyland to science fiction (and Episcopalianism) and what is, and is not, real.
It was always my hope, in writing novels and stories which asked the question “What is reality?”, to someday get an answer. This was the hope of most of my readers, too. Years passed. I wrote over thirty novels and over a hundred stories, and still I could not figure out what was real. One day a girl college student in Canada asked me to define reality for her, for a paper she was writing for her philosophy class. She wanted a one-sentence answer. I thought about it and finally said, “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” That’s all I could come up with. That was back in 1972. Since then I haven’t been able to define reality any more lucidly.
President Obama unveils cybersecurity push in tech industry’s backyard – Fortune.
The president signed an executive order to encourage more sharing of information between companies about hacker attacks.
It may be Friday the 13th, but the White House is hoping a summit on cybersecurity and consumer protection will bring a bit of much-needed luck to the gloomy cyberthreat landscape.
The summit kicked off Friday morning at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. and featured a who’s who of leaders from both public and private sectors: the secretaries of Homeland Security and Department of Commerce and the CEOs of Apple, American Express, Kaiser Permanente, AIG and Pacific Gas & Electric, to name a few.
Free NASA sounds (MP3s and ringtones) – Boing Boing.
NASA offers a terrific collection of free MP3 sound files and M4R ringtones, from astronaut quips and greetings to the explosive liftoff of rockets to Sputnik’s pulsing beep.
What’s the Apple Watch Good For? | MIT Technology Review.
When Apple unveiled the first iPad in 2010, many pundits scoffed. Among the gripes: tablet computers had been tried before without success; most people already had laptops; and wasn’t it just a giant iPod Touch?+
The market, as we know, reacted differently. Tablet computers are now a hit—thanks in no small part to Apple’s savvy design, which offered people something that was instantly comprehensible and easy to use, but also flexible enough to suggest thousands of new applications.