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My TED favorites- The world’s oldest living things: Rachel Sussman on TED.com
- Fellows Friday with Bristol Baughan
- Keep your goals to yourself: Derek Sivers on TED.com
- The technology of the heart: His Holiness the Karmapa on TED.com
- Let the environment guide our development: Johan Rockstrom on TED.com
- Super foods superheroes
- The Happy Planet Index: Nic Marks on TED.com
- New Best of the Web talk: Jeremy Rifkin
- Animal instincts: Saturday TEDTalks playlist
- What physics taught me about marketing: Dan Cobley on TED.com
Tag Archives: america
Google to build multiple fiber cities ?
Google may launch more than one “fiber city” in America. This cyberinfrastructure project could will be a tipping point for a few lucky cities.
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Tagged access, america, bandwidth, broadband, change, culture, cyberinfrastructure, economy, Education, fibre, flat, future, Globalization, Google, Innovation, Milwaukee, Network, tipping point, trends, US
My latest read – Our Choice
Al Gore’s latest book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis should be considered by anyone interested in learning how the world can conserve resources with next generation technologies to reduce the globe’s carbon footprint.
Its easy to think this book is a political sequel to An Inconvenient Truth. That would be a mistake. [...]
Posted in Design • Education • Globalization • Google • Green • Innovation • Reading • Technology
Tagged Al Gore, america, carbon footprint, change, china, climate crisis, coal, dramatic changes, energy, energy tool, environment, generation technologies, Green, green fuels, india, internet, political rhetoric, population, population boom, social responsibility, Technology, TED
Shipping today: Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0
Today Tom Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America is available.
The 1.0 release was a very interesting read (my review here) and I’m looking forward to the update.
Check out Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 online in PDF format.
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Tagged america, bandwidth, china, crowd, flat, Green, green revolution, india, Innovation, k12, knowledge, the world is flat, toledo, tom friedman, trends
My latest read – The Assault on Reason
Must admit the timing at first seemed strange. I was reading Al Gore’s book The Assault on Reason when Michael Jackson died. Gore has written a book about what has gone wrong in our country. Yet I was able to watch it simply unfold right in front of me. The non-stop media coverage of Jackson’s [...]
China’s internet growth tops US
To no surprise globalization is bringing the world closer together and thereby making commerce “smaller” and faster as global financial markets increase the efficiency of established information systems. Recent growth of internet penetration has changed dramatically. Today China has more internet users than America has citizens.
Consider this form IF you can image everyone you know [...]
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Tagged america, china, citizens, efficiency, global markets, Globalization, information, information systems, internet growth, internet penetration, internet users, population, youtube
My latest read: Outliers: The Story of Success
I’m not sure why it took so long to read Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book Outliers: The Story of Success but I’m sure glad its just as enjoyable as his books The Tipping Point and Blink. As defined scientifically Outliers is an observation that is numerically distant from the rest of the data. Gladwell not only [...]
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Tagged airline pilots, america, bill joy, birth dates, bobby orr, children, computing, countless hours, culture, dominik hasek, Education, Globalization, gordie howe, hockey players, impact of globalization, knowledge, malcolm gladwell, mario lemiux, math, math students, steve yzerman, Technology, tipping point, wayne gretsky
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Tom Friedman’s book will be one of the hot reads this fall.
Order yours today: Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America
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Tagged america, flat, friedman, Green, revolution
Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0
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Tagged america, business, change, culture, economy, Education, energy, environment, first solar, flat, global warming, Globalization, Green, green revolution, Innovation, leadership, offshoring, outsourcing, planet earth, Reading, recession, research, revolution, solar, Technology, toledo, tom friedman, trends, wall street