Four breakthrough trends that will transform the next generation. An energizing talk by Peter Diamondis, founder of the X Prize Foundation and head of Singularity University: computing power and access to it, robotics, artificial life, and personal space travel. Plus how to leverage the unbelievable amounts of untapped human potential out there. (Thanks to R.L. […]
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An eyebrow raiser from George Gilder’s The Silicon Eye (W. W. Norton & Company, 2005), a history of the development of the digital camera: “Leading-edge clean rooms at companies like Intel or National Semiconductor are ‘class ten’ or even ‘class one,’ meaning that there are between zero and ten such particles, making a microchip factory
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Great talk from TEDx at Carnegie-Mellon University: “After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the Internet for greater good. At TEDxCMU, he shares how his ambitious new project, Duolingo, will help millions learn a new language while translating the
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Natural News surveyed its readers asking which corporations they believed to be the most evil: Monsanto topped the list, followed by B.P., Halliburton, McDonald’s, Pfizer, Merck, Wal-Mart, and Nestlé. Natural News writer Mike Adams reported on the survey results, chiming in to agree and add his opinion that Monsanto is not only evil but psychotic
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Very cool ten-minute talk about thorium’s prospects as a large-scale source of energy. Sorenson blogs at Energy from Thorium. And here is a primer on thorium from the World Nuclear Institute. Currently, its seems that China and India lead the world in exploring thorium as an option.
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A stunning glimpse of the future of the new media:
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Count me a huge fan of Rosling’s work: See also his “200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes.”
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Stata Ventures is Kaizen interviewee Ray Stata’s venture capital vehicle. It recently provided funding to technology startup Lyric Semiconductor. Lyric is developing probability chip technology. Traditional chips use binary “yes/no” switches, but probability chips “can accept inputs and calculate outputs that are between 0 and 1, directly representing probabilities, or levels of certainty.” Commercial applications
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