A Year In Prevail
What a year it’s been! Starting with the little things, the Prevail Project itself has been active for about a year, running in stealth mode for most of that time. […]
Michael Burnam-Fink
Predicting the Future of Computing
The New York Time has a fascinating interactive tool for looking at the history of computing, and for crowdsourcing when new technological breakthroughs might arrive. It’s interesting to see what […]
The Robot Census
Robert Carr at the New Geography has a fascinating article on the growth of industrial robots, and the people keeping an eye over the phenomenon. In brief, in some industries […]
On the occasion of the end of the war in Iraq
By Dr. Richard O’Meara On December 15, 2011, the last US flag was cased and the War in Iraq was declared over. It is well to remember that since the […]
A few good people
The Prevail Project is looking for a few good people to accelerate the impact of this organization. Moderators: People who can spark conversations in our groups with their own postings, […]
Time-Lapse from the ISS
Time Lapse From Space – Literally. The Journey Home. from Fragile Oasis on Vimeo. Via Wired Science, astronaut Ron Garan made an amazing 7 minute time lapse video of Earth […]
Google the World
Google achieved dominance in the search engine market through a simple algorithm, PageRank, that made it easy for people to find information in an increasingly complex and deep internet. I […]
Pale Blue Dot
via YouTube Carl Sagan would have been 77 today. Sagan, better than anybody else, understood both the insignificance of <i>homo sapiens</i> in the cosmic scheme of things, and of the […]
Murmuration
Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo. When we say flock-like behavior, this is what we mean. The starlings don’t see the whole picture, they only see their neighbors. But […]
College, Jobs, and the Machine
Race Against the Machine, a recent report from two MIT professors, has gathered media attention by laying the blame for the Great Recession and weak recovery on advancing technology, particularly […]