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Revelling in the power of illustrations, tables and figures, Beautiful Science charts the course of data dissemination across the centuries, from the grim ledgers of death recorded by John Graunt in the 17th-century "bills of mortality" to the digital evolutionary tree dreamt up by an Imperial College researcher, complete with a mind-boggling zoomable function.
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A slightly revised version of this article was published in Karl Grandin (ed)., Going Digital: Evolutionary and Revolutionary Aspects of Digitization, Nobel Foundation, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, April 2011.
It can be exhilarating to contemplate the digital and evolutionary future.
Directed by Tiffany Shlain — the founder and initial producer of the annual Webby Awards for "excellence on the Internet" — this documentary essay ricochets among personal memoir, a social topology of the digital era, the evolutionary origins of human civilization and (deep breath) a cosmic history of the universe in the period after the Big Bang.
The evolutionary dynamics of the digital business ecosystem are influenced by the co-evolution of its participants' choices (Tiwana et al. 2010, p. 677).
"When all the available information is put together, including the digital brain and ear casts, the evolutionary relationships, and the growth pattern of the crest and its high degree of variability in different coexisting species, it supports the idea that the elaborate nasal cavity was likely used to produce sounds for communication".
In the Virtual Narcissism project, Italian artist Martina Menegon, perhaps sensing the selfie's near-future evolutionary strand, takes the digital self-portrait into virtual reality via 3D scanning.
Other taxonomic sections of the Digital Atlas provide information on the evolutionary history of the groups, and some of the descriptive pages allow the user to compare species photographs side by side.
There is also little excuse for continuing with the current loss in ecological and evolutionary data that has preceded the digital age.
With the explosion of mobile devices and the exponential growth of big data that flows into the digital cloud, cybersecurity has failed to keep up with the evolutionary toolkit used by hackers.
The films most memorable character, the computer Hal, is the embodiment of evolutionary anxiety as we leave the mechanical age for the digital one.
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