Finally. I’ve been trying to write this post for days, but keep getting distracted by current events. This isn’t another Google Glasses post, but they do make a handy example of my basic premise: that information recall has, and is going to continue to, become easier and easier to supplement with technology. If you don’t […]
Predictably, I am yet again not going to talk about education and information. Because I was watching an episode of NOVA last night that focused on energy solutions for the future and the protect of our environment. One of the innovations was a “branch” of CO2 removing material that was cut up such that it ended up […]
I swear, I am going to write about education and information recall eventually. But NPR asked me to do an interview about the New York Soda Ban (which is a lousy name, because soda is not being banned, just large containers; they should have called it the Container Ban). So instead of my previously scheduled […]
I had originally planned to talk about information access and how it is going to change education, but that’s going to have to wait until tomorrow. Just got home from a talk that got me thinking about affinities: the bonds created by some perceived similarity, whether in interest or personality or even appearance. Not because of the content […]
Lest I come off as too negative about Google Glass, it is actually just that I’m excited about all the possibilities of the technology. Good and bad, it is a breakthrough that can move us closer to the decision point for so many human behaviors and one that opens up a world of possibility. This […]
Much is being made of cities right now and the importance of the urban center as a solution to humanity’s ills: TED gave its prize to The City, people got up in arms about what we spend on rural post offices, and green living is oriented mainly at people who live nowhere near the green. […]
(I’ve been reading the Ender’s Game books recently, so I feel like everything I want to write somehow springs from there.) I think competition, of the sort that is anything more than hedonic, is bad for startups. And that may just be that I’m not a terribly competitive person and therefore try to justify my […]
Having just spent a week or so with my bright, shiny new nephew (eight weeks and already twice his birth weight), I think that part of what makes relatives magical is that you are allowed to delight in them completely. I’m sitting in SeaTac while I type this and next to me is playing a […]
Imagine the moment when you can wear Google’s Project Glass spectacles. Real-time information, all the time. The ability to take video and audio, and transmit it wirelessly to another storage medium. Which means, in theory, the ability to remember absolutely everything, forever. And while I doubt many scientists at Google have thought about it, that […]
Though I was a bit distracted by the Hackathon, I still managed to listen to and watch several talks from TED while out in Palm Springs. Here are a couple of brief notes and opinions, and links to the talks themselves from TED.com when available. Billy Collins: It wasn’t shocking when Collins got a standing ovation […]