Thanks to my job, i get in contact with interesting people. As preparation for the Innovation track at Sibos (called www.innotribe.com), our team is focusing on 3 themes:
Cloud
Crowd
Mash-ups
In total we’ll have more than 40 speakers during one week, combined with speedlabs, debates, and R&D pitches. And during the last day, Guy Kawasaki will be part [...]
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Thanks to xstof (again , I discovered daily galaxy site.
Two really interesting blog entries related to our Long Term Think Tank ambitions:
The first about robots developing at warp speed.
Hans Moravec, pioneer in mobile robot research and founder of Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. Yes, again that Carnegie Mellon University.
Whilst today, these robots are [...]
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I have a couple of days off, so we can have some lighter (albeit) subjects.
First enjoy this video:
Then read this article on Singularity Hub site, and dream away with all these great subjects like Longevity, Nanotech, Robotics, Genetics, AI, The Brain…
And then click on the link to disturbingly-real-replicants-from-hanson-robotics, and enjoy scary [...]
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Thanks to my twine.com subscription to “Technology Trends”, i found this.
You can read the related article here.
In case you doubted that man-machine are blurring more and more everyday.
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Something is going on at Carnegie Mellon University. Just a couple of days ago, my friend xstof twittered about claytronics research at Carnergie.
It’s about programmable matter. Not really sure what to image ? Have a look at the following video.
This model car is made of programmable matter !
Today the New York Times (this [...]
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There are 2 recent interesting posts on Google becoming too big.
Anil Dash had this post about “Google’s Microsoft Moment” on July 9, 2009.
It’s all about the idea that Google’s self-proclaimed identity of “Don’ be evil” does not match some realities of monopoly.
Also, some of its behaviors start smelling Microsoft’s way of doing things in [...]
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Wow !
This thing hit me in my face. It’s so right-on. So much in line with what i believe we should do about our value kit to survive the huge changes that will be caused by exponential technology progress.
This is the Generation M manifesto !
I just will cut & paste the first sentences to wet [...]
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Some interesting sources of inspiration, with thanks to xstof.
1) Fantastic on-line magazine H+ (Human +), and transhumanistic inpired: http://hplusmagazine.com/magazine
In the intro by the editor of the Summer 2009 issue of the H+ Magazine, there is a wonderful setting-the-scene statement that we can also apply to our Think Tank on [...]
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How relevant will the desktop be in the next 5 years ? I don’t know about you, but I do more an more in online tools such as hotmail, gmail, googledocs, etc
I want to offer you 3 perspectives to this trend:
- A business to business point of view (Salesforce)
- A 2007 (!) vision by Aza [...]
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The title of my very first post in April was inspired by an personal development course i followed in 2007-2009. The course was titled “Leading by Being”. For myself, i discovered my purpose in life as “Inspiring other people to dream”.
I can do this in many different authentic ways: in my family, at work, with [...]
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