9th Annual Year In Ideas

December 14th, 2009

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“Like a magpie building its nest, we have hunted eclectically, though not without discrimination, for noteworthy notions of 2009 — the twigs and sticks and shiny paper scraps of human ingenuity, which, when collected and woven together, form a sort of cognitive shelter, in which the curious mind can incubate, hatch and feather.”

If that sounds interesting to you, then you’ll probably like this extensive piece in yesterday’s New York Times Magazine. Among the ideas you’ll see discussed: Web searches in real time, that good enough is the new great, social networks as foreign policy and  the advertisement that watches you.

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