On February 17, 2011, non-violent protesters began to take to the streets in Libya, seeking an end to decades of dictatorship and calling for basic human rights, rule of law, and rudimentary economic development. It was apparent to me, that given; the violent history of the regime, the absence of international media inside Libya, the [...]
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/2272285 w=720&h=540] When I was a young boy, my Uncle gave me his stamp collection as a gift. He had spent much of his childhood in Africa and the album was full of stamps from exotic places and many more were over a hundred years old. Sometimes I would open the collection and run [...]
Here is a very interesting (and an uber-geeky) article from the Wall Street Journal that profiles New York graphic designer, Nicholas Felton’s obsession with tracking his daily activities and producing annual reports that afford some interesting insights into how he actually lives his life. Click here to read the article at WSJ.
Something big is now gone. Each second feels amazingly new. I think. Is it just a matter of time before the Narrative returns? Where are we all going to go? What is this town? Former train-passengers now mill around the entrance to the station, neither leaving nor arriving. I smell coffee and wonder why the [...]
For the last nine months I have not written an extended blog entry. Instead, I have posted shorter entries in what I call my “microblog.” In fact, things have gone even further so that now, my Twitters, Flickr postings and Lastfm annotations are automatically gathered into an even shorter form of micro-blogging known as a [...]
This is a multi-part BBC documentary examining the Singularity. The Singularity is a point in time, predicted by Ray Kurzweil to occur in 2029, when the processing power of computers will surpass that of human beings. In his book, The Singularity is Near, Kurzweil argues that this point is inevitable because while human processing power [...]
One of the many reasons why I am so excited about this election is because it is astonishing evidence of the impact of technology on the political process. Technology is of course agnostic and depends on humans for its moral value. In this election we have seen the Obama campaign use technology to devastating effect [...]
One of the reasons that I am so excited about innovations in the mobile space is clearly illustrated by this video describing a new application for the Apple iPhone. It is a relatively simple application that measures your heart beat based on the sound of your beating pulse picked up by the microphone. The excitement [...]
Here is a video of a speech given by Clay Shirky, author of the book Here Comes Everybody, at this year’s Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Shirky elaborates the idea that our society has enjoyed a bounty of leisure since the Second World War but that it has not known what to do with [...]
It appears to me that there are two ways in which the brain can learn; a structured way and an unstructured way. Structured learning occurs as follows: 1. Each act of learning begins with learning a basic building-block. This ability must become fluent before the next block is added, otherwise the structure will become weak. [...]
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