The Future Belongs to the Curious from Skillshare on Vimeo.
here are some processing questions for your team:
How do I stoke my curiosity?
How do we inspire each other to be curious?
How do we concretely inspire our community to be curious?
What is curiosity?
What are the characteristics of a curious person?
I’m thinking about what’s after the laptop, after the ipad, after the iphone. The video below is a pico projector — a tiny LCD projector that is already available in South Korea and China and will be become widely available soon. But what next? Perhaps eyeglasses that let you see your computer screen and keyboard semi-transparently superimposed over the world around you?
And Man Made Life
The title of today’s post is the same as the title of the latest edition of the magazine, The Economist. Their full title is: And Man Made Life: the first artificial organism and its consequences.
A new world emerged recently and many of us missed it. On Thursday, May 20, 2010 the journal Science published an important announcement. For the first time since Genesis chapter 1, life has been created.
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Into the “Beautiful Unknown”: thoughts on what it means to be human
Sometimes I’m asked, What does “M” stand for?
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Have you looked at a photo from the 60′s and the 70′s lately? A couple of months ago, I stopped by Starbucks with my wife, Niza. Starbucks had recently begun an emphasis of getting back to their roots. In conjunction with that theme they had a photo from the early 70′s of their original Starbucks store.
We stopped to look at the photo and Niza made an interesting observation. Of the customers that stopped by to get coffee on that day in the early 70′s, some were wearing typical business suits or mainstream clothing. That’s when she opened my eye to something interesting. Continue reading »
The past is closed. It cannot be changed. The future, on the other hand, is open. It hasn’t been settled yet. In fact, there is no such thing as “the future.” There are only the futures (plural).
21st century planet Earth is engaged in a global conversation with seven participants plus. Imagine this global conversation like you would seven people seated around a dinner table. There is the Christian, the Secularist, the Jew, the Muslim, the Buddhist, the Primalist/Animist, the Communist.
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Premise A: Oil is a limited commodity.
Premise B: The world is dependant on it.
World oil consumption is definitely on the rise. As India, China and others join the gas guzzling contest, what happens when the pumps run dry?
Check out this article in the Washington Post on the use of robots in war. It will make you laugh and startle you at the same time. The emotions that the robot evoked from the Colonel will only magnify as Bots become more human like.
HT (i.e Hat Tip) to Tony Sheng who pointed us to this article in the comment section of a previous post titled “Getting Under Your Skin“.
God, I love this planet.
See you in the Mystic…
