July 2012
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Watchfuturescope:
GM working on Wi-Fi Direct application to prevent vehicle/pedestrian accidents
via physorg:
General Motors has announced that it is working on a way to use Wi-Fi Direct to alert drivers to the presence of pedestrians so as to avoid running over them. Wi-Fi Direct is a new technology that is beginning to be implemented into many new smart phones that allows the phones to...
Pixar’s 22 Rules to Phenomenal Storytelling... →
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Tim Holt shares his views on education, creativity, education administration, technology and the merger of all of them here. Whether it is links, articles, essays, or news, he shares a ton of information. He hopes you can keep…
Can Creativity be Automated? →
Christopher Steiner, technologyreview.com
In 2004, New Zealander Ben Novak was just a guy with a couple of guitars and distant dreams of becoming a pop star. A year later one of Novak’s songs, Turn Your Car Around, had invaded Europe’s radio stations, becoming a top-10…
The machine capabilities are steadily increasing - under the radar of the antropocentric man who still...
GigaOM: First they came for WikiLeaks, then the... →
When WikiLeaks was initially targeted by the Justice Department for investigation under the Espionage Act, there was very little criticism of the move, either from traditional media outlets like the New York Times (which has had a somewhat fractious relationship with WikiLeaks in the past) or from free-press advocates. It was as though no one wanted to admit that the same forces that were going...
The Internet of Things and Change - Will You Be... →
smarterplanet:
Will You Be Ready For the M2M World?
The Internet of Things, the Connected World, the Smart Planet… All these terms indicate that the number of devices connected to, communicating through, and building relationships on the Internet has exceeded the number of humans using the Internet. But what does this really mean? Is it about the number of devices, and what devices? Is it about...
Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods... →
A far-reaching new study suggests a staggering $21tn in assets has been lost to global tax havens. If taxed, that could have been enough to put parts of Africa back on its feet – and even solve the euro crisis
Socio-economic paradigm shift is ahead: Interview... →
energybulletin.net
Introduction The current period can be undoubtedly characterized as an economical, ecological, cultural, political, but also moral crisis. The solution seems to be as far off as ever and problems seem to be getting…
Four Technologies That Could Revolutionize The Way... →
Nick Clairmont on July 18, 2012, 12:00 AM, bigthink.com
In a recent Big Think interview with venture capital expert Bruce Gibney, we saw what technologies stand to go through revolutionary growth. 1) A rash of new companies have sprung up to meet the demand for transportation of crew a…
Car Sharing about to Explode →
emergentfutures:
I wrote a post back in May on
The Mental Shift in the Collaboration Economy and Why it Matters to Everyone
The post is about how collaboration and sharing is taking off and specifically mentioned car sharing as a key example.
On Tuesday GigaOm had a notice up that GM was partnering with Relay Rides to allow users of OnStar to rent their cars out via a mobile app:
GM opens up...
Power and Love by Adam Kahane | Berrett-Koehler... →
bkconnection.com
A new approach, proven in the field, for making progress on our most important and difficult collective challenges Based on Kahanes first-hand experiences working with teams of business, government and civil society leaders aroun…
Sounds like a must read!
Watchpoptech:
Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back, a new book by PopTech Executive Director Andrew Zolli, is available today!
After three years of work, Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back, which PopTech Executive Director and Curator Andrew Zolli co-authored with Ann Marie Healy, was published today by Free Press. The book explores a new framework for understanding change: resilience — why some...
IBM Research: A new era of computing: cognitive... →
smarterplanet:
Cognitive systems: A new era of computing
Over the past few decades, Moore’s Law, processor speed and hardware scalability have been the driving factors enabling IT innovation and improved systems performance. But the von Nuemann architecture—which established the basic structure for the way components of a computing system interact—has remained largely unchanged since the 1940s....
How Open Source Hardware Is Driving the... →
Brian Proffitt, readwriteweb.com
The potential of 3D printing to transform the way we get things - the market is predicted to hit $3.1 billion in the next four years - gets a lot of press. But not much of that attention has focused on the unique role of open source hardw…
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America's Generation Y not driven to drive -... →
From 2001 to 2009, the average annual number of vehicle-miles traveled by people ages 16-34 dropped 23 percent, from 10,300 to 7,900, the survey found. Gen Y-ers, also known as Millennials, tend to ride bicycles, take public transit and rely on virtual media.
More than a quarter of Millennials - 26 percent - lacked a driver’s license in 2010, up 5 percentage points from 2000, the Federal...
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