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    The Circular Periodic Table of Elements

    Inside the Mind of Microsoft's Chief Futurist

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    Image of Monkey Bars Monkey Bars
    10/09/09

    In reply to The Circular Periodic Table of Elements
    Obama didn't get the Nobel Prize for chemistry. Two Americans and an Israeli are sharing it for their research into ribosomes.
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    10/09/09

    @Monkey Bars: Did you completely miss the memo on humor? How did you manage that? What's your secret?
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    10/09/09

    In reply to The Circular Periodic Table of Elements
    oh whooops i thought that was the map for black rock city 2010.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/09/09

    In reply to The Circular Periodic Table of Elements
    The designer could've at least oriented the letters accordingly so that it was akin to a clock, that way, rotating the entire chart would not be necessary. The standard periodic table is not hard to read or navigate. If you need to find anything from Alkali metals to halogens, it's all color coordinated and oriented in the most usable way possible. No thanks.
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    Image of jamjen jamjen
    10/09/09

    In reply to The Circular Periodic Table of Elements
    Having taken way too many Chemistry courses, I'd say this is pretty useless, at leased in my view. Maybe if the groups were better labeled... But the whole "it shows the sizes of the atom" - so does the current table. I thin kit's way less intuitive also, things like electro-negativity look a bit more confusing to figure out (I guess you just need a starting and ending point, but still.)
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    Don Nguyen promoted this comment jamjen was starred jamjen was unstarred
    Image of Don Nguyen Don Nguyen
    10/09/09

    @jamjen: Absolutely agreed. It makes electronegativity harder to intuitively spot. Dumb organization for an already elegant model.
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    Image of tomsomething tomsomething
    10/09/09

    @Don Nguyen: Definitely. With Mendeleev's, you can put the darn thing on a wall, and everyone can glance at it without having to cock their heads.

    Also, when you put them in a circle like this, won't that put certain atoms adjacent to each other when they should actually be opposite each other?
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    Image of Sockatume Sockatume
    10/09/09

    In reply to The Circular Periodic Table of Elements
    The regular periodic table gives you an idea of the size of the atoms too. Going from one row - or PERIOD - to another, the size of the atoms increases because you add an electron shell. All he's done is stuck the left and right ends of the standard periodic table together to suggest a nonexistent circularity in properties in each period.

    I can't make head nor tail of the relationships this is supposed to imply. Why are the rare earth metals at the end of the period for the first two rows? Why do hydrogen and helium point at the transition metals? How does the atomic number change across the diagram?
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    Image of phunnyballs phunnyballs
    10/09/09

    In reply to The Circular Periodic Table of Elements
    Really?

    Umm, we used this bad boy in my chemistry class:
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    10/09/09

    @phunnyballs: They call this one The Inverted Fallopian.
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    Image of SuperTuna SuperTuna
    10/09/09

    @phunnyballs: So when I roll a 9 - where do I start?
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    Image of kagekiri kagekiri
    10/09/09

    @OCEntertainment: Looks like the infinity symbol developed a malignant growth...
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    Image of hoffmanbike hoffmanbike
    10/09/09

    In reply to The Circular Periodic Table of Elements
    wow... i made something roughly like in highschool ....... my chem teacher told me it was stupid
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/09/09

    @hoffmanbike: I hate dickhead teachers that flat out call ideas stupid, rather than actually explaining why something doesn't work.
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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    10/09/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: A friend of mine had a physics teacher who, when he didn't know the answer to a question, would say "because god made it that way." no joke. this was not a religious school.
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    10/09/09

    @lostarchitect: This makes my brain cry.
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    Image of BigDogues BigDogues
    10/09/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I had a science teacher in high school that berated me in front of the whole class because I made a reference to being able to see the sun and the moon in the sky at the same time. (she swore this was impossible)
    Try looking up once in a while stupid bitch.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/09/09

    @BigDogues: OK I need to know where the HELL people go to school where these are the kinds of science teachers you have, so I can stay the fuck away.
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    10/09/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: You should know by now Kaiser, no matter what you just heard there will always be something worse:

    [emailsfromcrazypeople.com]
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    Image of GreshamKnukka GreshamKnukka
    02/27/09

    In reply to Inside the Mind of Microsoft's Chief Futurist
    The thing with Quantum computing that scares me is that if Microsoft forgets about this:

    http://www.crimcheck.com/background-check-news/the-10-laws-of-computer-security

    we will have a much bigger problem on our hands. I wonder what criminals and hackers could do with quantum computers :)

    Then
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    Image of Wilson Rothman Wilson Rothman
    02/27/09

    @GreshamKnukka: Oh, I'm sure they won't "forget" about it.
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    Image of Spencer James Spencer James
    02/27/09

    In reply to Inside the Mind of Microsoft's Chief Futurist
    Not certain if this has been covered before, so sorry for the double.


    How does one land a job as a Futurist?

    What education and training is involved?

    And why are all the Futurists old folks?


    Any reply is awesome, though sort of a direct question to Gizmodo.


    Thanks!

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    Image of N@tedog N@tedog
    02/27/09

    @Spencer James:


    If it helps, in comparison, Simon Cowell is considered a futurist in the Music industry. Both he and Mundie have the uncanny ability to predict future popular trends in their respective fields. It's one part natural talent and two parts Rolodex.

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    02/27/09

    In reply to Inside the Mind of Microsoft's Chief Futurist
    Palpatine is the mind in charge of Microsoft's inventions?
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    Image of Curves Curves
    02/27/09

    In reply to Inside the Mind of Microsoft's Chief Futurist
    Guys with vision like this are rare, so he is obviously in the right job. No one can predict the future, but sometimes you can throw the odds in your favor. I am glad there are people like this; they dream it up, and people like myself help make their ideas come to life. Thanks for the future work Craig. Keep dreaming up this crazy stuff.
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    Image of JDickson87 JDickson87
    02/27/09

    @Curves: I have to wonder, how the hell do you get a job like this in the first place? Seems obscure. He is obviously doing the right thing, but how does one get there?
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    Image of Curves Curves
    02/27/09

    @jdickson87: You get Bill Gates, drunk and tell him he needs that position, and then you give him your resume and tell him youre the person for the job.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    02/27/09

    @Curves: You're discounting the possibility that Bill Gates is a supernerd, impervious to the effects of alcohol. Even as he staggers, he can probably still code a string of commands so make Ballmer's CD tray pop remotely for no reason just to drive him crazy.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    02/27/09

    In reply to Inside the Mind of Microsoft's Chief Futurist
    If it isn't "Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers", than I don't care. :)
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    Image of drewdrawshashtags drewdrawshashtags
    02/27/09

    In reply to Inside the Mind of Microsoft's Chief Futurist
    Very interesting.


    He must have just forgotten to write down "web 2.0, search and browser standards", huh?

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    Image of J. Nadeau J. Nadeau
    02/27/09

    In reply to Inside the Mind of Microsoft's Chief Futurist
    If I had to take a wild guess, I'd say this guy is pretty wise.


    Excellent read, thank you Gizmodo.

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    Image of j05hu4 j05hu4
    02/27/09

    @J. Nadeau: About suspension of disbelief he says: "We aren't yet trying to get people to think they're someplace else." while I have been computer gaming for 30 years. So that is where I stopped reading.
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    Image of Wilson Rothman Wilson Rothman
    02/27/09

    @j05hu4: Yeah, I'm gonna say you maybe should have kept reading. But thanks for sharing your ignorance with us.
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    Image of kahri kahri
    02/27/09

    In reply to Inside the Mind of Microsoft's Chief Futurist
    Just me or do those pics depict an old guy talking about his 'manhood'?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    02/27/09

    @kahri: Photobucket
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