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Past Meets Present to Create the Future of Easter Island
I am as remiss as I am delighted to be able to finally get around to sharing some of the fascinating work taking place on one of the world’s most remote locations, Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, and to introduce you to some of the even more fascinating ... Read More
CNN “The Moment”: 2nd time’s the charm with MS Photosynth?
Since I received a lot of responses and follow up (thanks!) to the posting Photosynth: Mashups of Our Collective Intelligence via Photos, I thought you would be quite interested to know the most recent use of Microsoft Photosynth, which creates 3D spaces from a mass of ... Read More
Update from Guatemala
Not that I’ve ever had a schedule in any typical sense of the word, but now I will have a very different one for the next month or so, and it will have some spillover effect on my writing and recording here on OCOT. I’m currently in Antigua, Guatemala ... Read More
Arthur C. Clarke: Discovering the Limits of the Impossible
Today (March 19, 2008), this world lost a great mind and great person with the passing of Arthur C. Clarke. I suspect another world gained an equal or greater amount. While I am not personally a big science fiction reader or watcher, I have long been fascinated by and most ... Read More
Inventing the Future?
I've been a big fan of Jane McGonigal ever since I had the chance to talk with her at the Learning 2007 conference where we were both speakers. One of the many reasons I so like her work is her focus on what is called ... Read More
Is the Sky Really Falling?
I recently read the article "AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010", which is pretty much summarized by ... Read More
Google Oceans: Another wish comes true!
While I can neither take credit for nor claim any influence on Google's recent announcement, I'm pleased to say that some of the ... Read More
The Encyclopedia of Life and the Network Effect
We are rapidly evolving towards a networked world—NOT "network" in the technical sense, but the concept of networks wherein literally everything and everyone is a "node" and is connected to every other node. As this degree of connectivity becomes more and more pervasive, a whole new set of characteristics begin ... Read More
The Encyclopedia of Life and Exponential Change
The day after posting my thoughts on "New Perspectives: Looking Down and Under" and Third Wave, I serendipitously came across a New York Times article called That's Life, which reviews a new project called "The Encyclopedia of Life" or EOL. This project ... Read More
Don’t Mean to Bug You, but …….
Jonas Salk, the man who developed the polio vaccine, once said "If all the insects on earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on earth would disappear. If all humans disappeared, within 50 years all species would flourish as never before." There would be some debate as to the precise ... Read More
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