The Web Curated!
Social Entrepreneur, Content Curator, Digital Nomad, Futurist.
By any measure, Google GOOG +1.24% Glass will go down in history as the most anticipated – and banned – consumer product ever released. Today Google has by most reports no more than 2,000 devices out in the wild, in the hands of carefully selected partners, customers, and reviewers. Which is my way of [...]
Next week, thousands of developers will converge on WWDC, the vast majority representing companies and products that didn’t exist before the creation of Apple’s iPhone and App Store. They’ll talk about the future of mobile gaming, photo sharing and, of course, Snapchat. But what likely won’t be center stage is how transformative Apple’s devices and [...]
Spanish startup Moodyo is growing itself in the Spanish countryside away from big metropolitan areas like Madrid and Barcelona. In the town of Seville, where Moodyo was born, there are less than 10 active tech startups, making talent and capital extremely hard to find. That didn’t stop Javier Padilla though. via Spanish Startup Moodyo Is [...]
“We’re finally getting at that seminal moment in human history when we can talk to our machines and our machines will understand us in regular, natural language,” says Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT professor Erik Brynjolfsson. In this video, he explores the role of big data in business performance, the rise of robotics, and the [...]
Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek were awarded the Nobel for discovering asymptotic freedom, more colloquially known as the strong force that binds the components of the atomic nucleus, the protons and neutrons. Forty years ago, their counterintuitive calculations plugged an important gap in the Standard Model of physics, which describes the 61 known [...]
The internet ideology is easy to mock but difficult to reject. It doesn’t really matter if some dismiss it as “cyber-utopian”, or ignore it while enjoying the internet’s practical benefits, or find aspects of it, such as the Singularity, ridiculous. (Sceptics are welcome to take a ten-week, $25,000 course at Singularity University in Silicon Valley, [...]
Cars and trucks drive themselves, and theres hardly ever an accident. Robots root through the earth for raw materials, and miners are never trapped. Robotic surgeons rarely make errors. Clothes are always brand new designs that day, and always fit perfectly, because your home fabricator makes them out of recycled clothes from the previous day. [...]
There is a new player emerging on the cultural and business scene today: the idea entrepreneur. Perhaps you are one yourself — or would like to be. The idea entrepreneur is an individual, usually a content expert and often a maverick, whose main goal is to influence how other people think and behave in relation [...]
For centuries, books have been written in an attempt to share knowledge, inspiration, and discoveries. Sometimes those books make such an impact that they change the way the world thinks about things. The following books have done just that by providing readers an education in politics and government, literature, society, academic subjects such as science [...]
Gregory Nagy, a professor of classical Greek literature at Harvard, is a gentle academic of the sort who, asked about the future, will begin speaking of Homer and the battles of the distant past. At seventy, he has owlish eyes, a flared Hungarian nose, and a tendency to gesture broadly with the flat palms of [...]
Its not an accredited university, and it doesnt actually teach the singuarity, the supposed superintelligence that will result when man merges with machine, due according to prolific inventor and author Ray Kurzweil sometime around 2045. Still, the official welcome at Singularity Universitys SU opening executive-programme class this fresh December afternoon in Nasas Ames research campus, [...]
Bitcoin. Everybody’s talking about it. What’s true, and what’s hype? Perhaps the only thing that’s clear about Bitcoin is that it’s not going away anytime soon. Who am I to say? I’m not an economist; I’m a hacker, who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks. And networks may very well be how [...]
How’s this for a reality check? Clutter is expensive: 1. An average of ten dollars per square foot to store items in your house. 2. Almost ten percent of American households rent storage units, spending more than $1,000.00 annually in rent. 3. A quarter of people with two-car garages can’t even get their cars in [...]
Most progressive and “cool” companies and brands have embraced social media. They have created a Facebook page, a Twitter account and a YouTube channel.If they are real pioneers they may even have learned how to spell Instagram and know that “pinning” is not just something done by the grannies at the weekly sewing club.The “geniuses” [...]
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