David Pogue says "Simplicity sells"
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David Pogue from the NYTimes http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/
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Nicholas Negroponte, in 1984, makes 5 predictions - TED.com
With surprising accuracy, Nicholas Negroponte predicts what will happen with CD-ROMs, web interfaces, service kiosks, the touchscreen interface of the iPhone and his own One Laptop per Child project.
A pioneer in the field of computer-aided design, Negroponte was perhaps best known for founding and directing MIT's Media Lab, which helped drive the multimedia revolution and now houses more than 500 researchers and staff. An original investor in WIRED (and the magazine's "patron saint"), for five years he penned a column exploring the frontiers of technology -- ideas that he expanded into his 1995 best-selling book Being Digital. An angel investor extraordinaire, he's funded more than 40 startups, and served on the boards of companies such as Motorola and Ambient Devices.
But his latest effort, the One Laptop per Child project, may prove his most ambitious. The organization is manufacturing the XO (the "$100 laptop"), a wireless Internet-enabled, pedal-powered computer costing roughly $100. Negroponte hopes to put millions of these devices in the hands of the children in the developing world by 2010. Most recently, OLPC has managed to put an XO laptop in the hands of every schoolkid in Uruguay.
"If Nicholas Negroponte can achieve his ambition of distributing $100 laptops to the world's disadvantaged children, he will help redefine philanthropy and see his name added to a list alongside the likes of Carnegie, Ford and Rockefeller."
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Our mistaken expectations - Dan Gilbert
A interesting talk about how our brains calculates the odds of something to happen.
Rob Hopkins speaking about Transition Towns at TED Global
Over the last few days I have focused the videos on money. It's a popular subject and also one that has a lot of emotional energy behind it. We desire it, and yet it seems scarce - Rushkoff showed why very well, (before pointing to the way to radical abundance). The rich are getting richer and... the money is, well losing its buying power. Meanwhile people are printing their own for use in regional communities, and others suggest it's time we began firmly and lovingly questioning the rules we thought we were obliged to live by. If you want more then you might want to look at these from Fora TV, or search youtube for New Currency or Federal Reserve or Community Currency.
The financial implosion is almost certainly directly related to the state of our global energy reserves. Since Transition Towns look the energy issue and its related Climate issue squarely in the eye, I thought it was time to hear from Rob Hopkins about how people in communities all over the world are responding, to these very real challenges of the day.Oil - as we love it and leave it.
We've been astonishingly lucky [to have lived through the oil age]. Let's honour what is has brought us and move forward from this point, because if we cling to it, and assume that it can underpin our choices the future it presents to us is one that is really unmanageable. By loving and leaving all that the oil age has done for us we are able to begin the creation of a world which is more resilient, more nourishing, and in which we find ourselves fitter, more skilled and more connected to each other.
Rob Hopkins is the founder of the Transition movement, a radically hopeful and community-driven approach to creating societies independent of fossil fuel.
Where I live in New Zealand, the Transition model has been growing steadily, and offers a means for people to get involved and take some practical action towards building the brighter future they know is possible.
Question #46: Growing a rainforest
Humans growing rainforests on our planet is one thing... what does it mean for growing rainforests in other biospheres? Be that something like Biosphere 2 or another planet?
p.s. I watched Jane Poynter's Life in Biosphere 2 & Willie Smits's Restoring a rainforest TEDtalks a while ago, you should if you haven't already.
p.p.s. Are you aware of WeForest and BBC Tree O'clock?
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The paradox of choice - Barry Schwartz
A quite interesting talk about our modern culture, and the many choices that comes with it.
We're in for decades of chaos...
Media chaos that is.
Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, argues that the next 50 years of media will be chaos, as old models break faster than new ones are being created.
"шестое чувство" скоро будет у всех
Очень крутой talk о гаджете, позволяющем по-новому взаимодействовать в реальном мире с миром данных. Выпускник Массачусетского технологического института Pranav Mistry показывает, как с помощью изобретенного им девайса, можно звонить, писать, читать, искать и многое другое, используя практически любую поверхность.
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SixthSense revisited - exploring the interaction of the physical world with the digital world (TED)
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Pranav Mistry continues to develop his SixthSense technology and take the digital world into the realm of the physical.
