The Principles and Child Empowerment of the One Laptop Per Child program and the Laptop’s design for learning.
Tags: OLPC, Sugar Labs, laptop per child, XO, open source, globalization, trends
Category: Technology
I have been very fortunate to have worked at Apple as a System Engineer during the introduction of some of the products in this visualization. Apple has really moved into the arena of design + technology as their recent products have proved…since so many companies both in and out of the computer business have stolen copied Apple’s lead in design, computing and communcation. Many Apple fanboy videos are just terrible. This one is short and smooth.
Tags: Apple, Inc., design, Mac, Newton, iPod, iPhone, iPad, trends
Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon and the co-creator of Photosynth, a monumental piece of software capable of assembling static photos into a synergy of zoomable, navigatable spaces. Check out how this technology will change our approach to imaging.
Tags: Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Seadragon, Photosynth, design, TED, Virtual Reality, imaging, trends
Google is planning to launch an experimental network that will make internet access better and faster for consumers.
Link to website
Tags: experimental network, Google, Network, internet access, Research, Internet2, Broadbandt, gigabit, high speed, trends,
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. The book has set off all the political rhetoric one would expect.
I found Chapter 11: Population rather interesting and worth the read alone. Clearly we live in a world that is experiencing a sustained population boom in China and India.
This brings ultra-large scale social responsibility as well. The impact of population on energy and food is obviously critical but the underlying issue on this still taboo subject must be moved to the forefront.
How will China and India care, feed and shelter their children? More importantly how can green fuels be utilized in favor of coal and other cheap, outdated solutions? There are options.