Two articles in the business news caught my eye recently, providing very different takes on entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. From Business Insider, Google’s Larry Page Does Exactly the Right Thing: […]
To these Thai fruit vendors, a train roaring through the middle of their makeshift market, coming inches away from their lychees — and their toes — is just another part […]
Talk about time compression. The Flip video camera went from being a red-shot start-up in 2007, to a best-selling item, to a half-billion-dollar acquisition target, to defunct, in only four years. […]
Talk about bottom-up collaboration to achieve large goals. This shows how to create a choir with over 2,000 voices from around the world, each singing alone, in front of his […]
There are two kinds of critters on this planet. One produces zillions of offspring, then pays scant attention to them, playing the odds that some will survive. The other produces […]
For most of the planet’s population, migration is not an option. Even as sea levels rise and deserts expand, resettling hundreds of millions or billions of refugees is not politically […]
This robot seagull has incredible elegance and style. Festo – SmartBird Aerodynamic SmartBird flight model – Bird flight deciphered: http://www.festo.com/smartbird_en Aerodynamisches Flugmodell SmartBird – Vogelflug entschlüsselt: http://www.festo.com/smartbird_de ——————————————————————————–————————- SmartBird is […]
Twelve deep thinkers over at The Edge have a series on risk after the Fukushima disaster. I won’t try and reproduce the complexity and subtlety of their arguments, but risk […]
The potential implications of human enhancement is one of the main reasons why I’m at CSPO, so I was excited and a little worried when the trailer for Limitless appeared. […]