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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #148

Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see?

My friends: Alistair Croll (BitCurrent, Year One Labs, GigaOM, Human 2.0, Solve For Interesting, the author of Complete Web Monitoring, Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks and Lean Analytics), Hugh McGuire (PressBooks, LibriVox, iambik and co-author of Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share one link for one another (for a total of six links) that each individual feels the other person "must see".

Check out these six links that we’re recommending to one another:

My 90 year old grandmother tries the Oculus Rift – YouTube. "A few months ago, I backed a nascent Kickstarter to make a workable, low-latency 3D VR headset. That project bloomed into the Oculus Rift, and thanks to being an early backer, my developer kit showed up this week. It comes in a black plastic gun case that feels like Q just delivered it to Bond, and it’s light, and fast. Fast. That’s the real key to immersiveness: making it work smoothly. This video of a 90-year-old grandmother trying the Rift demo — a walk around Tuscany — is beautiful. My dystopian side says it’s also the future of geriatric care." (Alistair for Hugh).
How to become internet famous for $68 – Quartz. "Possibly the single best article ever written on Twitter, our habit of substituting popularity for value, and just how little you can trust the Internet. Also, I think Quartz may have figured out how to do Internet publishing." (Alistair for Mitch).
Hawking: Mankind has 1,000 years to escape Earth – RT. "Yikes!" (Hugh for Alistair).
Kidney grown in lab successfully transplanted into rat – The Guardian. "On the other hand, soon we’ll be able to grow our own organs." (Hugh for Mitch).
Wired Still Connected After Two Decades – AdWeek. "I love Wired Magazine. Not just the stuff you see online or the iPad app (both are great), but the physical magazine. I still love going into magazine stores and book stores, and nothing makes me happier than seeing a new issue of Wired Magazine. Even with our instant-on, real-time Web-infested Twitter feed world, they still manage to publish in-depth and interesting articles that simply make me feel smarter and more ‘in the loop.’" (Mitch for Alistair).
The National Digital Public Library Is Launched! – The New York Review Of Books. "The National Digital Public Library launched on April 18th of this week. There are so many fascinating layers to this, it’s hard to figure out where to begin. First, it’s the Internet, so it will be interesting to see how this rolls out beyond America (which they claim they will be doing). Second, copyrighted books and publications that can be used in libraries was complex enough in their paper form… just imagine what this means for digital. Digital isn’t one copy/edition loaned out… every copy in digital is an original version. I’m so curious to see how all of this unfolds, especially after having just read an article in the latest issue of Fast Company titled, Second Life, all about ReDigi and their desire to enable people to sell their used digital media. It’s going to get a whole lot more interesting." (Mitch for Hugh).

Now it’s your turn: in the comment section below pick one thing that you saw this week that inspired you and share it.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.