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Mobile scanning directly to PDF can revolutionize your document workflows. Equipped with features like automatic page detection, built-in flash for better lighting, precise color management, and camera settings tailored for creating professional-grade PDFs, you can achieve remarkable results with just a few taps on your smartphone, thanks to cutting-edge technology. The following guide outlines how you can harness the power of Foxit’s Android PDF SDK to swiftly develop an app with robust scanning capabilities. Whether you’re capturing multiple photos or selecting images from your gallery, generating a PDF is as simple as a single click. This project empowers you to seamlessly integrate scanning into your existing workflows, making it a valuable addition to your mobile application. You have the freedom to incorporate your own business or application branding effortlessly, without the need to toggle elements or redesign the user interface. It provides a blank PDF viewer with a dedicated mobile scanning button, serving as a foundation for building your unique app. System Requirements Android devices’ requirements: Android 4.4 (API 19) or higher 32/64-bit ARM (armeabi-v7a/arm64-v8a) or 32/64-bit Intel x86 CPU Android Studio 3.2 or newer (supports AndroidX) The runtime environment for our demos: • Android Studio 3.2 • JDK 1.8 • Gradle Version 4.6 • Gradle Build Tool 3.2 Note: Starting with version 8.2, Foxit PDF SDK for Android will only support AndroidX, and no longer service the Android support library. Development Configuration Start up Android Studio and open the androidrdk/samples/viewer_ctrl_demo project. Add the scanning dependency library in the gradle file (view_ctrl_demo/app/build.gradle) as below: implementation(name:'FoxitPDFScan-UI', ext:'aar') 
implementation(name:'FoxitMobileScanningRDK', ext:'aar') 
implementation 'com.nostra13.universalimageloader:universal-image-loader:1.9.5' Define permission settings Before calling the Scan function, you need to obtain storage permission and permission to take pictures. If the permission to use the camera and photo album is not obtained before calling the Scan function, the app will not run correctly. Follow the steps below to set permissions. Add permission-related declarations in the AndroidManifest file using the code below: <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> 

     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE"/> 

     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/> 

     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/> 

     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RUN_INSTRUMENTATION"/> 

     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO" /> 

     <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" /> Then add the following permission request code in MainActivity.java: if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) { 

    int permission = ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(this.getApplicationContext(), Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE); 

    if (permission != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) { 

        ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(this, PERMISSIONS_STORAGE, REQUEST_EXTERNAL_STORAGE);      

@Override 

public void onRequestPermissionsResult(int requestCode, @NonNull String[] permissions, @NonNull int[] grantResults) { 

    super.onRequestPermissionsResult(requestCode, permissions, grantResults); 

    if (requestCode == REQUEST_EXTERNAL_STORAGE) { 

        if (grantResults[0] == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) { 

         //Application permission is successful 

        } else { 

            UIToast.getInstance(getApplicationContext()).show(getString(R.string.fx_permission_denied)); 

            finish(); 

        } 

    } Now, let’s add the code related to the Scan function: Add a button to the UI to call the Scan function. First, write some code to add the camera button icon. You’ll define the layout, positioning and image resource for the button. This code is added to the onCreate method of the MainActivity file to make sure that the button is displayed as soon as the project loads. Make sure to add this after: protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { 

   (...) 

// Make sure to add this block of code after all the already existing          // view_ctrl_demo onCreate code is loaded 

    mRootView=uiExtensionsManager.getContentView(); 

    RelativeLayout.LayoutParams layoutParams = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, RelativeLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT); 

    mIvScan = new ImageView(this); 

    mIvScan.setImageResource(R.drawable.fx_floatbutton_scan); 

    layoutParams.bottomMargin = 80; 

    layoutParams.rightMargin = 50; 

    layoutParams.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_BOTTOM); 

    layoutParams.addRule(RelativeLayout.ALIGN_PARENT_RIGHT); 

    mIvScan.setLayoutParams(layoutParams); 

    mRootView.addView(mIvScan); 

    setContentView(mRootView); 

    initScan(); 

} Now, let’s set the foundation for the app’s scanning feature. The last line of code in the onCreate method above is a call to initScan(), which is the method we’ll use to initialize the relevant classes for the project. The code below shows how you will instantiate an object from Foxit’s main PDF Scan class (PDFScanManager), then use that class to initialize the scanner and the compression features. The final method displays the scan functionality once you click the camera button. PDFScanManager pdfScanManager = PDFScanManager.instance() 

if (!PDFScanManager.isInitializeScanner()) { 

    long framework1 = 0; 

    long framework2 = 0; 

    PDFScanManager.initializeScanner(App.inst().getAppActivity().getApplication(), framework1, framework2); 

} 

if (!PDFScanManager.isInitializeCompression()) { 

    long compression1 = 0; 

    long compression2 = 0; 

    PDFScanManager.initializeCompression(App.inst().getAppActivity().getApplication(), compression1, compression2); 

} 

if (PDFScanManager.isInitializeScanner() && PDFScanManager.isInitializeCompression()) { 

    //Loaded Successfully 

        pdfScanManager.showUI(activity.this); 

} The initialization code is then added to the initScan method as follows. This method will also be added to the MainActivity class and called as soon as the project loads. This ensures your project will have all the scanning libraries and functionality available. The following imports and variables are necessary for the project: import com.foxit.pdfscan.PDFScanManager; 

  

private ImageView mIvScan; 

 private ViewGroup mRootView; 

  

private  void  initScan(){ 

        final PDFScanManager pdfScanManager = PDFScanManager.instance(); 

        mIvScan.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { 

            @Override 

            public void onClick(View v) { 

                if (!PDFScanManager.isInitializeScanner()) { 

                    long framework1 = 0; 

                    long framework2 = 0; 

                    PDFScanManager.initializeScanner(getApplication(), framework1, framework2); 

                } 

                if (!PDFScanManager.isInitializeCompression()) { 

                    long compression1 = 0; 

                    long compression2 = 0; 

                    PDFScanManager.initializeCompression(getApplication(), compression1, compression2); 

                } 

                if (PDFScanManager.isInitializeScanner() && PDFScanManager.isInitializeCompression()) { 

  

                    pdfScanManager.showUI((Activity) mContext); 

  

                } else { 

                    UIToast.getInstance(getApplicationContext()) 

                            .show(AppResource.getString(getApplicationContext(), R.string.rv_invalid_license)); 

                } 

            } 

        }); 

    } Now that we have initialized the library and the foundation has been set, we will write two basic callback interfaces that will be used to save the document after it’s scanned: the first, ScanPDFDoneCallBack, which is entirely custom, and the second is IPDFScanManagerListener, which is available out-of-the-box in the SDK. See both below: public interface ScanPDFDoneCallBack { 

  

    /** Success, and no error occurs */ 

    int e_ErrSuccess = 0; 

    /** Failed, any unknown error occurs. */ 

    int e_ErrUnknown = 1; 

  

    /** 

     * After saving PDF successfully, return to the saving path 

     * 

     * @param errorCode if the scanned file is successfully saved as a pdf document, the errorCode is {@link #e_ErrSuccess}, otherwise is {@link #e_ErrUnknown} 

     * @param savePath the document file path. 

     */ 

    void doneCallBack(int errorCode, String savePath); 

} 

public interface IPDFScanManagerListener { 

    /** 

     * Success, and no error occurs 

     */ 

    int e_ErrSuccess = 0; 

    /** 

     * Failed, any unknown error occurs. 

     */ 

    int e_ErrUnknown = 1; 

  

    /** 

     * Called when if the scanned file is successfully saved as a pdf document. 

     * 

     * @param errorCode if the scanned file is successfully saved as a pdf document, the errorCode is {@link #e_ErrSuccess}, otherwise is {@link #e_ErrUnknown} 

     * @param path      the document file path. 

     */ 

    void onDocumentAdded(int errorCode, String path); 

} The difference between the two interfaces is if the monitoring of ScanPDFDoneCallBack is set, when you click the ‘Done’ button in the lower right corner of the figure below, it will directly save the document to the default path and exit the scanning interface, and return to the default save path through the parameter savePath. If ScanPDFDoneCallBack is not set, when you click the ‘Done’ button in the lower right corner of the figure below, an interface for selecting the save directory will pop up. The user selects the specified directory, and the document will be saved in the directory selected by the user. https://developers.foxit.com/dk_utwp/2021/10/android-mobile-scanning-tool-pdf-sdk-app.mp4 Now, you must implement the interfaces by adding them to MainActivity.java. pdfScanManager.setDoneCallBack(new ScanPDFDoneCallBack() { 

    @Override 

    public void doneCallBack(int errorCode, final String savePath) { 

        if (errorCode == e_ErrSuccess) { 

             //The document was saved successfully 

        } 

    } 

}); 

  

PDFScanManager.registerManagerListener(new IPDFScanManagerListener() { 

    @Override 

    public void onDocumentAdded(int errorCode, String path) { 

        if (errorCode == e_ErrSuccess) { 

             //The document was saved successfully 

        } 

  

    } 

}); If you want to implement further interfaces of the pdfscan class, please refer to the API Reference documents in foxitpdfsdk_8_1_android/docs. Done! The scan functionality has been successfully added to your application. Run the app, click the Scan button you’ve created previously and start your scanning experience. We work with you to add complete PDF library functionality to your project and develop across all platforms and environments on one core API. Take a 30 day free trial today by clicking here. Also published . here

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Artificial intelligence has captured the popular imagination for nearly a century. From the early dreams of British computer pioneer Alan Turing in the 1930s to the frightening voice and power of HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi epic in 1968 to the current hype surrounding Chat-GPT, A.I. has been growing in visibility. 2001: A Space Odyssey While these images have evolved, the discourse around A.I. has remained remarkably consistent: someday, these computers that we train will take over and render some human work nonexistent. Worse yet, if we don’t keep it under control, A.I. might make humans expendable. Popular images are often unrealistic. But underpinning these images is a fear of the unknown. Now that we know a lot more about A.I., and continue to learn more at a rapid pace, it is important to also update our perceptions. Rather than focus too much on the potential threats of A.I., we should take a more accurate and nuanced view of its current capabilities and limitations in order to move past the fearful discourse and have a more productive and informed conversation. With over 30 years of experience in the tech industry, as a pioneer in software development kits, I have witnessed many trends come and go. However, I believe that artificial intelligence will remain an essential tool for developers. With its potential now accessible to more people than ever before, rather than feed into the fearful vision of a soon-to-be apocalyptic future, I want to present a realistic assessment of what the current boom in A.I. means for the present and future of software development, a subject close to my heart and experience. Put simply, the rapid rise in A.I. will undoubtedly change the future of software development and the way people work in this field. Far from recoiling in horror, I believe developers will harness A.I. to streamline their workload and ultimately program better. In my estimate, there are three major ways A.I. will continue to influence software development: 1) A.I. will become an even more vital tool in the development process; 2) A.I. will lead to whole new ways to develop software; and 3) A.I. will offer developers new ways to work smarter. It’s in the Way That You Use It Like any good craftsperson, software developers have several tools in the proverbial toolbelt. Compilers, assemblers, code editors, debuggers, and many others assist in the development process. A.I. is unique here in that it is simultaneously both a tool and a tool-enhancer. For example, A.I. has truly enhanced code editing programs by helping to identify repeated error patterns in code. This has dramatically increased the speed at which we find and correct errors. Instead of banging our heads against the wall and squinting at the screen for hours, A.I. tracks code differences faster than our human eyes can. Moving beyond these frustrating and time-consuming manual processes allows developers to focus on the more meaningful aspects of development. No doubt that this is a net positive for the work of software development and underscores the enormous potential of this technology to enhance productivity and outcomes. As a tool itself, A.I.’s ability to automatically generate code on its own is extremely useful for providing examples, best practices, and sample code for unit tests as all of that significantly cuts down on time in development processes and minimizes the potential for human error. Far from replacing developers as the code currently generated by A.I. is not entirely accurate, its automatic responses and fast learning curve have certainly exceeded developer expectations. A.I. generating, replicating, testing, and fixing code has the potential to make coding languages even more expansive, detailed, and quick. In this instance, A.I. is not only useful in the need for speed but the need for depth as well. Too often we only focus on the speed enhancements that A.I. provides, overlooking the rich depths we can plumb with these powerful tools. It should be the goal of all developers to make the best possible software. In my opinion, this is one of the larger benefits of A.I. as a tool in the development process - improving the quality of our end products and solutions. If we can replicate or produce thousands of lines of code in seconds, test and detect errors more quickly and accurately, and create more time to focus our attention on the truly innovative and differentiating aspects of development, then we are simultaneously improving our code, development times, and our resulting software. These are essential goals for any developer, and A.I. only helps to make them more attainable. Changing Processes, Changing Outcomes I’m not Nostradamus, but I can clearly see that through our deep engagement with A.I., in the future, we will see new methods for creating software that will revolutionize the software development process. The automation and speed that A.I. brings to the table will give developers the confidence to try new things and experiment more freely. It provides a jump point from which developers can focus on application workflow, input testing, project management, and project ideation. This will certainly lead to richer and higher end-products. With the jump start that A.I. provides, developers are able to fast-track their ideas and think of new ways to solve more complex development problems. For example, we have developed our own patented A.I. engines that fuel a lot of our major technologies such as machine printed and handwritten text extraction (OCR/ICR), automatic form recognition, analysis, and processing, as well as speech recognition and intelligent document viewing, conversion, and editing. We offer developers the “vision” behind computer vision, providing them with tools and libraries to easily integrate generative A.I. into their own applications. Using A.I. in our own processes to speed up development and testing times enables us to make our SDKs available to customers more quickly. All told, the use of A.I. in our workflows and within our toolkits inevitably enables developers to create more dynamic and powerful software solutions. You Aren’t Going to Lose Your Job, But It Will Change The fear of the unknown surrounding A.I. often manifests in a “robots will eventually replace me” line of thinking. As mentioned earlier, this fear-driven mindset just isn't accurate within the software development world. Instead, we are seeing the need, more than ever, for skilled developers, and A.I. presents new possibilities and workflows that will only serve to increase the potential of all software developers. It’s been a common argument since the Industrial Revolution that more automation of menial tasks will allow workers the freedom to pursue larger or more creative ideas and tasks. It’s almost an equation - “more automation = more freedom of work.” While this “freedom” gives an unabashedly positive spin to some of the unknown effects A.I. will have on developers, I think we can all agree that it will change the job. As A.I. will always need to be trained and regulated to some degree, more and more programmers will become specialized in A.I. to accurately train the engines and make the data they collect useful. Tasks such as collecting, labeling, organizing, and cleaning data for A.I. training will make all developers become more practiced in curatorial data functions. More developers will lean into reliable A.I. powered SDKs and can shoulder a lot of the work and oversight that is required by using A.I. While I have argued that we need to fear A.I. less, that doesn’t mean that we need to embrace the information and speed it gives us as THE truth. Ethics are a crucial human value system, and the conversation around ethical A.I. shines a light on the potential misuse of it. Developers will have to continuously gain knowledge and evaluate their A.I. effectiveness, ensure that the A.I. is trained fairly, quickly recognize any problems created by A.I., and swiftly suggest improvements. Developers need to become the managers of their A.I. and continuously check its work as they are ultimately the people responsible for the output. While generative A.I. is fascinating, “generative” does not mean the same thing as “creative” or “accurate.” Those are human concerns whose answers are not automatically generated and will always need human intervention. A.I. has changed our world, and since the rabbit is already out of the hat, we need to figure out what sort of future we want for it. I have pointed to some of the ways it has altered the software development industry. In talking through problems and possibilities here, I hope I have also illuminated how much more we need to learn about A.I. and how we should question the unvarnished “good” or “bad” that current hype frames it as. The thing about A.I. is that it will always depend on its developers to point the way forward. Stan Lee’s statement in Spider-Man that “with great power comes great responsibility” is a very appropriate mantra for A.I. developers to follow.

The Present and Future of A.I. in Software Development

Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book . JOAN OF ARC here JOAN OF ARC ADDRESS AT THE DINNER OF THE SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS, GIVEN AT
          THE ALDINE ASSOCIATION CLUB, DECEMBER 22, 1905

          Just before Mr. Clemens made his speech, a young woman attired
          as Joan of Arc, with a page bearing her flag of battle,
          courtesied reverently and tendered Mr. Clemens a laurel wreath
          on a satin pillow.  He tried to speak, but his voice failed
          from excess of emotion. “I thank you!” he finally exclaimed,
          and, pulling himself together, he began his speech. Now there is an illustration [pointing to the retreating Joan of Arc]. That is exactly what I wanted—precisely what I wanted—when I was describing to myself Joan of Arc, after studying her history and her character for twelve years diligently. That was the product—not the conventional Joan of Arc. Wherever you find the conventional Joan of Arc in history she is an offence to anybody who knows the story of that wonderful girl. Why, she was—she was almost supreme in several details. She had a marvellous intellect; she had a great heart, had a noble spirit, was absolutely pure in her character, her feeling, her language, her words, her everything—she was only eighteen years old. Now put that heart into such a breast—eighteen years old—and give it that masterly intellect which showed in the face, and furnish it with that almost god-like spirit, and what are you going to have? The conventional Joan of Arc? Not by any means. That is impossible. I cannot comprehend any such thing as that. You must have a creature like that young and fair and beautiful girl we just saw. And her spirit must look out of the eyes. The figure should be—the figure should be in harmony with all that, but, oh, what we get in the conventional picture, and it is always the conventional picture! I hope you will allow me to say that your guild, when you take the conventional, you have got it at second-hand. Certainly, if you had studied and studied, then you might have something else as a result, but when you have the common convention you stick to that. You cannot prevail upon the artist to do it; he always gives you a Joan of Arc—that lovely creature that started a great career at thirteen, but whose greatness arrived when she was eighteen; and merely because she was a girl he can not see the divinity in her, and so he paints a peasant, a coarse and lubberly figure—the figure of a cotton-bale, and he clothes that in the coarsest raiment of the peasant region just like a fish woman, her hair cropped short like a Russian peasant, and that face of hers, which should be beautiful and which should radiate all the glories which are in the spirit and in her heart that expression in that face is always just the fixed expression of a ham. But now Mr. Beard has intimated a moment ago, and so has Sir Purdon-Clarke also, that the artist, the illustrator, does not often get the idea of the man whose book he is illustrating. Here is a very remarkable instance of the other thing in Mr. Beard, who illustrated a book of mine. You may never have heard of it. I will tell you about it now—A Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Now, Beard got everything that I put into that book and a little more besides. Those pictures of Beard’s in that book—oh, from the first page to the last is one vast sardonic laugh at the trivialities, the servilities of our poor human race, and also at the professions and the insolence of priest-craft and king-craft—those creatures that make slaves of themselves and have not the manliness to shake it off. Beard put it all in that book. I meant it to be there. I put a lot of it there and Beard put the rest. That publisher of mine in Hartford had an eye for the pennies, and he saved them. He did not waste any on the illustrations. He had a very good artist—Williams—who had never taken a lesson in drawing. Everything he did was original. The publisher hired the cheapest wood-engraver he could find, and in my early books you can see a trace of that. You can see that if Williams had had a chance he would have made some very good pictures. He had a good heart and good intentions. I had a character in the first book he illustrated—The Innocents Abroad. That was a boy seventeen or eighteen years old—Jack Van Nostrand—a New York boy, who, to my mind, was a very remarkable creature. He and I tried to get Williams to understand that boy, and make a picture of Jack that would be worthy of Jack. Jack was a most singular combination. He was born and reared in New York here. He was as delicate in his feelings, as clean and pure and refined in his feelings as any lovely girl that ever was, but whenever he expressed a feeling he did it in Bowery slang, and it was a most curious combination—that delicacy of his and that apparent coarseness. There was no coarseness inside of Jack at all, and Jack, in the course of seventeen or eighteen years, had acquired a capital of ignorance that was marvellous—ignorance of various things, not of all things. For instance, he did not know anything about the Bible. He had never been in Sunday-school. Jack got more out of the Holy Land than anybody else, because the others knew what they were expecting, but it was a land of surprises to him. I said in the book that we found him watching a turtle on a log, stoning that turtle, and he was stoning that turtle because he had read that “The song of the turtle was heard in the land,” and this turtle wouldn’t sing. It sounded absurd, but it was charged on Jack as a fact, and as he went along through that country he had a proper foil in an old rebel colonel, who was superintendent and head engineer in a large Sunday-school in Wheeling, West Virginia. That man was full of enthusiasm wherever he went, and would stand and deliver himself of speeches, and Jack would listen to those speeches of the colonel and wonder. Jack had made a trip as a child almost across this continent in the first overland stage-coach. That man’s name who ran that line of stages—well, I declare that name is gone. Well, names will go. Halliday—ah, that’s the name—Ben Halliday, your uncle [turning to Mr. Carnegie]. That was the fellow—Ben Halliday—and Jack was full of admiration at the prodigious speed that that line of stages made—and it was good speed—one hundred and twenty-five miles a day, going day and night, and it was the event of Jack’s life, and there at the Fords of the Jordan the colonel was inspired to a speech (he was always making a speech), so he called us up to him. He called up five sinners and three saints. It has been only lately that Mr. Carnegie beatified me. And he said: “Here are the Fords of the Jordan—a monumental place. At this very point, when Moses brought the children of Israel through—he brought the children of Israel from Egypt through the desert you see there—he guarded them through that desert patiently, patiently during forty years, and brought them to this spot safe and sound. There you see—there is the scene of what Moses did.” And Jack said: “Moses who?” “Oh,” he says, “Jack, you ought not to ask that! Moses, the great law-giver! Moses, the great patriot! Moses, the great warrior! Moses, the great guide, who, as I tell you, brought these people through these three hundred miles of sand in forty years, and landed them safe and sound.” Jack said: “There’s nothin’ in that three hundred miles in forty years. Ben Halliday would have snaked ’em through in thirty—six hours.” Well, I was speaking of Jack’s innocence, and it was beautiful. Jack was not ignorant on all subjects. That boy was a deep student in the history of Anglo-Saxon liberty, and he was a patriot all the way through to the marrow. There was a subject that interested him all the time. Other subjects were of no concern to Jack, but that quaint, inscrutable innocence of his I could not get Williams to put into the picture. Yes, Williams wanted to do it. He said: “I will make him as innocent as a virgin.” He thought a moment, and then said, “I will make him as innocent as an unborn virgin;” which covered the ground. I was reminded of Jack because I came across a letter to-day which is over thirty years old that Jack wrote. Jack was doomed to consumption. He was very long and slim, poor creature; and in a year or two after he got back from that excursion, to the Holy Land he went on a ride on horseback through Colorado, and he did not last but a year or two. He wrote this letter, not to me, but to a friend of mine; and he said: “I have ridden horseback”—this was three years after—“I have ridden horseback four hundred miles through a desert country where you never see anything but cattle now and then, and now and then a cattle station—ten miles apart, twenty miles apart. Now you tell Clemens that in all that stretch of four hundred miles I have seen only two books—the Bible and ‘Innocents Abroad’. Tell Clemens the Bible was in a very good condition.” I say that he had studied, and he had, the real Saxon liberty, the acquirement of our liberty, and Jack used to repeat some verses—I don’t know where they came from, but I thought of them to-day when I saw that letter—that that boy could have been talking of himself in those quoted lines from that unknown poet: “For he had sat at Sidney’s feet
               And walked with him in plain apart,
               And through the centuries heard the beat
               Of Freedom’s march through Cromwell’s heart.” And he was that kind of a boy. He should have lived, and yet he should not have lived, because he died at that early age—he couldn’t have been more than twenty—he had seen all there was to see in the world that was worth the trouble of living in it; he had seen all of this world that is valuable; he had seen all of this world that was illusion, and illusion, is the only valuable thing in it. He had arrived at that point where presently the illusions would cease and he would have entered upon the realities of life, and God help the man that has arrived at that point. About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Mark Twain (2004). Mark Twain's Speeches. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved October 2022 https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3188/pg3188-images.html This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at , located at . www.gutenberg.org https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html

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Let's learn about via these 79 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the to find the most read stories about any technology. Trends /Learn Repo 1. 3 Reasons Why Wordle is So Addicting Let's discuss three reasons behind the immense popularity of the Wordle game. 2. Culture Eats Diversity for Breakfast At a group job interview for a San Francisco startup, a woman hiring manager shot a Nerf arrow at my head to demonstrate the cliché “play hard” mentality in an interview setting. At first, I was embarrassed to be singled out in this way. Then, I was appalled. I wondered why any professional would do this, let alone a woman to another woman. The answer: company culture. 3. fitlive is a Better, Easier Way to Provide a Virtual Fitness Experience Fitness instructors are not necessarily all digital natives, although many have large followings. 4. Why is TikTok Obsessed With Tarot Card Readings? First of all, Nostradamus has nothing to do with Tarot. 5. Top Nodejs Trends to Follow in 2021 After AngularJS, Nodejs is another JavaScript technology that has won the hearts of millions of developers around the world. 6. 9 Data Trends You’ll See in 2023 2022 saw the data space grow by leaps and bounds. Here are the top 9 things our team of data experts expects to see in 2023. 7. Blanket Statements Do Not Help Define NFTs Most people (bloggers and journalists included) don’t have the time or the dedication to dive deep into it or really think deeply about blockchain. 8. Top Crypto Trends from 2016 to 2021 [Infographic] We can define recent years as the rise of a technology (DeFi, NFT, etc.) on the crypto market. The thing is that most of them rise long after their invention. 9. Play-to-Earn Games Regulate Ownership and Support NFT Growth Play to Earn games can become a new trend in the video game industry. Find out what Play to Earn games are and how this approach works below. 10. Developer Trends from Thoughtworks’ Technology Radar 27 Thoughtworks’ Technology Radar is a regular time to take a look at what trends are changing our industry. 11. Web Technology Trends in 2022: PWAs, Browsers as OS, Cloud Access Why Google Chrome is the most popular browser nowadays and what web development trends can shape that? 12. Quick Guide to the Python Ord Function In Python, the ord() function accepts a single unit of character and returns the equivalent Unicode of the passed argument 13. Revelation Hackathon Sponsors, Ankr, Celer, and NodeReal Announce BAS Testnet, a BNB Chain Sidechain BSC Application Sidechain (BAS) Testnet is a framework that enables dApps to create sidechains in the BNB Chain ecosystem. 14. NFTs are Not Dying, They are Evolving NFTs are now transforming into a useful instrument that can solve pain points in different industries and generate new opportunities for companies. 15. 7 Tips for Product Managers in Web3 Everything you need as a product manager to enter web3. Here is a list of trends and resources you should focus on to succeed. 16. The British Are to Blame for the Term "Soccer" The British coined the term soccer, NOT Americans 17. 5 Tech-Driven Solutions to Boost Your Business: Meet the 2021 Upgrades Here is a list of some of the best tech upgrades you should consider adding to your business this year. 18. 6 Not-so-obvious Tech Predictions By the time of writing of this article everyone knows, the "technologies of the future" as listed from various mainstream media. And I agree with most of them. It is worth discussing a few not so obvious though. I expect my "predictions" to be fulfilled by 2030. 19. 6 Best Web 3.0 Trends We Will See in 2023 The introduction of deep machine learning capabilities, artificial intelligence (AI), and decentralization are all part of the building blocks... 20. 3 Insurtech Trends We Will See More Of in 2020 In today’s digital world, all industries are making a massive shift towards technology to improve their products and services. Customers expect their problems to be addressed as fast as possible. And, those companies that can achieve that are going to put themselves in the driver’s seat. 21. Healthcare Technology Trends, Digital Innovations in 2022 Explore the main tech innovations that have the potential to transform your healthcare organization in 2022. 22. Gen Z and Millennials are Redefining Mobile Application Development What are the qualities of a good application for Gen Z and Millennials?" 2023 trends for app design and development requires user-friendly interface, security 23. 5 Trends That Show Where eCommerce Is Heading in 2021 Contributing significantly to eCommerce and its spiking sales levels, consumer habits, behaviors, and shopping trends in the USA are changing. And this change is not about to stop anytime soon, with post-Covid trends in eCommerce continuing to place further benefits on this sector and those that take advantage of these trends. 24. Link up With the Best Blockchain Development Companies in 2021 Although blockchain is a relatively young industry, many companies have emerged that offer Blockchain Development Solutions. 25. 10 Trendy Web Design Options to Make a Website That Converts What are the leading web design trends of 2021 are they worth investing in? From retro fonts to Augmented Reality to 3D modeling — there’s a lot to enjoy. 26. Reviewing 2021's Google Shopping Holiday Retail Trends We analyzed Google Ads data for the Holiday shopping season to look at what the trends were for ads, advertised, and sales/discounts in 2021. 27. Can People Reclaim Their Culture and Heritage With NFTs? Technology and cultural heritage can present a somewhat awkward partnership. 28. Science Labs of the Future: Perspectives and Predictions On AI, Automation and the evolving role of the scientist 29. SocialFi — Social Networks on the Blockchain & What to Expect From Web 3 How do social networks of the future differ from the usual ones, and what projects to expect in 2023. 30. An Insider's Look at the Fashion of Hollywood: Going Surreal with Season 2 of Euphoria Hit-show Euphoria is back with season two, with major fashion changes that always keep us on our toes and pull us closer to the characters. 31. How Do I Build High-Volume dApps With Ultra-Low Gas Fees? Like a #BAS BNB Application Sidechains (BAS), a community-driven framework built for BNB Chain, will go live with three decentralized applications. 32. 2023 May Spell Hope For Financial Markets & Crypto Transitioning into the new year, 2023, feels like a much-needed fresh start for cry on many accords. 2022 delivered some of the toughest conditions to remember. 33. Influencer Marketing Predictions for 2022 from Industry Experts What will be trending in 2022? What ideas and concepts will drive the flow? Industry experts are sharing their opinions. 34. The World Population Crosses 8 Billion People A look at the growth trends of the world's 8 billion people and beyond. 35. Investment Trend in Generative AI Shows No Signs of Slowing Down Generative AI refers to the use of machine learning to create new content. It has the potential to revolutionize industries 36. ‘Web3 Mass Adoption is Changing the World for Good,’ says Lakshmi Devan Lakshmi Devan, the Marketing Director of WOW Summit, shares her thoughts on the Web3 marketing trends in 2023. 37. The Future of Email Working in Sales for the past 5 years means the browser tab I most consistently have open is my email. It's also one of the very few active app notifications I have on my phone. 38. Ilya Rouss: “Travel Trends to Watch: digital nomads, non-mainstream places, local economies growth” When the travel industry will recover after the pandemic, what will the travel experience look like and how modern tech will influence it? 39. Stablecoins, the Dollar, and the Top 5 Ideas to Watch Out for in the Second Half of 2022 A way to manage crypto’s trademark volatility, what a concept. Stablecoins are one of the most successful ideas that the cryptocurrency industry has produced. 40. Subscriber Retention: Welcome to the 'Streaming Wars' The streaming space is clearly the future of entertainment. 41. A Look at the Trends in Developer Jobs: A Meta Analysis of Stack Overflow Surveys I'm really interested in the trends we see in the software engineering job market. 42. How to Lose Your Legitimacy Like feudalism and divine right monarchy before it, the creator economy (at least, in its current, highly centralized form) is experiencing a legitimacy crisis. 43. Kids and Tech: What We Know, What We Don't, And What Parents Can Do Today, you'd struggle to find a home that doesn't have multiple smart devices. One side effect is that children are being exposed to technology earlier. 44. Was the Mona Lisa the Result of a Fad? A picture is worth a thousand words. Throughout history, art has gone through many phases like Romanticism, Classicism and many other types of -isms. These are regarded as styles of painting of those periods. However if you think about it, from a modern perspective, these phases can be considered fads, although the more precise term would be trends, due to their longevity. 45. Protect Your Wealth: 10 Financial Predictions for 2022 Almost every government on Earth has started developing its own digital currency. 46. Small Business Digital Marketing Trends To Know in 2023 With so much development happening in the world of digital marketing, what are the trends to look out for in 2023? 47. How Will Blockchain Fix the Centralization of Data? “In order to have a standard of value [cryptocurrency] must stand outside all value schemes. It must have value in and of itself." 48. Technology Is Saving The World Amid COVID-19 Technology - often portrayed as an industry that the benefits only the privileged - is actually helping with the fight against the coronavirus. And we don’t mean Medtech. 49. UX And Agile Trends To Keep You On Top In 2020 The purpose of every product is to be fully functional without forcing users to invest too much time and energy in the process. This is exactly why UX and agile methodologies play such an important role in the 21st century business – everybody wants to design a product that maximizes functionality while minimizing consumers’ efforts. 50. How the Pandemic Hacked the Way We Eat Breakfast [Infographic] A look at how the pandemic shifted American breakfast trends. 51. Welcome to the Age of the Decentralized Storage Systems The decentralized and distributed file storage system, like others, has its strengths and weakness. 52. 6 Ground-Breaking Software Development Trends: 2020 Edition Artificial Intelligence is going to push development 53. Blockchain Trends: The Weak Died and the Strong Evolved 1.1 Three Core Characteristics are Vital for Blockchain Technology 54. The Latest Tech Trends for Boosting Your Business In order for your business to succeed in a market driven by digital devices, you absolutely need to take advantage of the latest developments being made. By staying on top of current trends, you can gain remarkable insight on what consumers want, how to focus your brand identity, and the best methods for increasing sales throughout the fiscal year. Take a look at these ideas that are being utilized by businesses of all sizes and learn how you can prepare your own company for the future. 55. 5 XR Communities to Help Keep up With the Latest XR Trends in 2021 Top 5 XR communities to join and stay updated with the latest XR trends, events, courses, and more in 2021. 56. Can We Predict the Future of Tech? Will the world be a more peaceful place? No it will not. 57. The Clouds are Thickening: An Overview of The SaaS Ecosystem and Big Cloud Providers The global cloud technology market is entering a new stage in its development and is becoming more mature. What to expect next? 58. How to Use Business Intelligence: 66% of Companies Want to Be More Data-Driven in 2021 How do BI solutions help to make the decision-making process driven by data, improve CX, and speed up reporting? And how can you implement it yourself? 59. What Tech Employers Should Know About IT Skills and Trends in 2020 Intro 60. Global Hackathon: 'Revelation' Kicks Off With Up to $10M in Prizes! Hosted By BNB Chain With millions of developers preparing to move to a more decentralized environment, the time has come to pick up the pace and reward early adopters. 61. Impact of Automation on the Future of Work Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing the nature of jobs and many believe that robots will completely put humans out of work in the coming years. 62. Top Tech Trends to Influence Business Recovery in 2022 The year of 2021 came to an end, which means it’s time for us to have a look at all the ups and downs that global business has gone through. 63. 5 Property Management Technology Trends: 2020 Edition Imagine showing the property to your potential tenant through interactive 3D models or Augmented reality models (AR) at a cafe meeting. Wouldn’t it appeal to and save time to your tenant? Imagine your property security personnel patrolling around the property through drones and keeping your property safe from theft or any suspicious activity. Wouldn’t it attract your potential tenant while you are describing it as one of the amenities your industrial building provides? Well, it's time you stop imagining and find a way to implement these technologies in your daily work of property management. 64. Technology Trends of 2021: Our Top Five Picks 2021 is just around the corner, which means it is high time to forecast what the IT industry is holding for us. 65. Top E-commerce Logistics Trends To Follow in 2021 Even though the months passed within the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, its effects on the e-commerce logistics industry are still riding a roller-coaster as they scramble to adjust to new limitations, new demands, and ecommerce logistics trends. 66. What is the Long-Term Impact of Living in a Technological World? A technological world sure has its pros and cons 67. Top 5 Gaming Industry Trends for 2022 The gaming industry is rapidly developing, and new trends are constantly emerging. I discuss 5 significant trends in the gaming industry for the rest of 2022. 68. Blockchain in the Outdoor Industry Disruption, disruption, disruption. That has been the name of the game when it comes to new technologies for the better part of the last decade. Virtually every industry has seen this buzzword used in some capacity over the last few years, and rightfully so. New advancements in technology have allowed companies in various industries to attract new customers, provide more value to these customers, and operate more efficiently overall. This has led to a change in the traditional way of doing things as new trends and methods emerge. One industry that is also noticing this trend of disruptive change is the outdoor industry. 69. The Rise of Non-Alcoholic Beverages: Trends to Keep an Eye On Sales of soda drinks in the U.S. have been declining for around a decade while non-alcoholic beverage sales reached $919 billion in just a single year. 70. What lies ahead for crypto-exchanges in 2020? Experts' opinion on the trade war, halving, and Libra The mid-term results for the cryptographic industry in 2019 still remain uncertain. On one hand, market capitalization increased by 125 per cent in the second quarter alone. On the other, users have already lost more than $4 billion this year due to the actions of hackers and scammers, which is more than the entire year of 2018. It is unlikely that 2019 will meet the original expectations. Yet, experts predict a lot of interesting happenings for crypto exchanges in 2020. 71. Angular or React: Which One Should You Choose and Why When to Choose React? When to Choose Angular? Features of React Features of Angular JS History of React JS History of Angular JS React vs. Angular: The Complete Comparison Advantages of React js Advantages of Angular js Disadvantages of React jsDisadvantages of Angular js Which is Better? 72. From Porn To Peloton: 5 Predictions For Tech And Social Media In 2021 This past year has disrupted the tech and social media landscape. What does 2021 have in store? Here are 5 predictions including OnlyFans' new model and more. 73. Top 7 Blockchain Trends for 2020 and Beyond Humanity may be a few steps away from the Internet of Anything and Everything (or whatever the all-encompassing global digital interweb is going to be called in the years to come), but don't kid yourselves: it's coming. Right now the brightest minds in computer science, software development, entrepreneurship, policymaking, and digital arts are hard at work designing the future tenets of the Web 3.0 and the process shows no signs of slowing down. 74. Here's Why Java Is Still Alive And Kicking Let’s see what awaits our favorite Java language directly, and then — what awaits the IT-sphere. 75. TikTok Ban: The Biggest Trends to Arrive from 2020's Controversial Social Network TikTok’s rise in popularity has taken the world by storm. Launched in 2017, the social network only reached world markets in the summer of 2018. Two years on and the video-based platform has amassed over two billion downloads globally. 76. 5 Macro-Trends That Will Impact Businesses Over the Next 10 Years The Big Picture: Macro-Trends That Will Shape the Next 10 Years... And how to take advantage of them 77. The Evolution of The Web as We Know It Website layouts change all the time, and there are more ways than ever to style a layout, with many frameworks available to help simplify the code, whilst keeping sites looking fancy. 78. Taking a Glimpse at The Post-Covid World Like most people, over the past 2–3 months I have spent an unhealthy amount of time incessantly checking for Coronavirus updates, reading opinion pieces and going down Twitter rabbit holes trying to make sense of the new world we now live in. As things started to settle into the new normal of social distancing and self-isolation, I shifted from thinking about the immediate to thinking about the future and was trying to answer one question. What are the the new trends and lasting tailwinds that will shape our future in the wake of this pandemic? 79. Revelation Hackathon Bounties Announced: Hosted by BNB Chain The BNB Chain Revelation Hackathon is a 50-day event co-hosted by DoraHacks. Thank you for checking out the 79 most read stories about Trends on HackerNoon. to find the most read stories about any technology. Visit the /Learn Repo

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