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The Death of Film: After Hollywood Goes Digital, What Happens to Movies?

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In this documentary, directors Jason Gwynn and Jay Sheldon interview film projectionists during their last days on the job at a soon-to-be-defunct movie theater. As Hollywood studios move toward digital distribution, many theaters are forced to abandon their 35mm projectors—and pay up to $150,000 for new projection technology. This change, as the documentary explains, is heartbreaking for the people responsible for…

Business, Corporate Welfare, Free Markets, Good Ideas, Government Spending, Technology

A Tech Company That Seeks Private Support

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What does a small tech company that seeks private support look like?  Often, we’ll not know, because those private companies seek the support of private venture capital, in thousands of encounters and presentations across America each day.  Sometimes, though, one sees more because a private tech startup looks to something like Kickstarter to win backing…

Food, Technology

What happens when a supercomputer runs a food truck?

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Food trucks are good for a community, but are they better when a supercomputer runs them? Let’s see: We know Watson has some Jeopardy skills, but putting IBM’s supercomputer in the kitchen? That’s a little different. Here at SXSW, the company’s set up a “Cognitive Cooking” food truck in partnership with the Institute for Culinary…