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Slideshow: Island Wisdom, Coded in Java

A frustrated London entrepreneur flees to a small island to find out how villagers communicate without technology. Now he's rolling his research into a collaboration tool he thinks will make cubicle slaves a lot happier. By Quinn Norton.
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Trampoline mail interface.

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Charles Armstrong presents his research from St Agnes and the software that incorporates it at the Emerging Technology conference in San Diego, California.
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Resident burning off gorse and bracken on Wingletang Down in St Agnes.
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Coast of St. Agnes, in the Atlantic.
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The Tramposcope, for visualizing social relationships within a collaborative project.