Today, we are increasingly moving towards more distributed forms of computing, including the use of grid and cloud computing infrastructures (also similar to what BU, MIT, Harvard, Northeastern and UMass are doing with the Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center).

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But we're not in any way changing our advice around the use of safe forms of travel at night.

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In the future, so many of the public forms and communications we receive could easily be put in Braille by the use of computer software and the transcription equipment now readily available to public authorities.

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"People get up every day and use a lot of different forms of transportation without thinking about the safety factor, and we don't want them to worry about the safety of the bus they ride on or the highway they drive on, " LaHood said.

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This brings us to where we are today, with a growing number of promising apps that use video as a tool in creating entirely new forms of media that are designed to browsable, watchable, and shareable.

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About 20 years ago psychologist Alan Page Fiske and author of Structures of Social Life (Free Press 1993), now Professor of Anthropology at UCLA, wrote about the Four Elementary Forms of Sociality that describe our mental orientation of the form of exchange that we think we should use in each interaction with someone else.

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