Latest on twitter:
How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries (by TEDEducation)
Jiro Dreams of Sushi Official Trailer #1 - Jiro Ono Documentary (2012) HD (by movieclipsTRAILERS)
Quand les montagnes servent de bande de patinoire.
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151045796300618.761269.666645617&type=1
"Before 2008, this was simply the complaint of one businessman, railing against an economic system that was designed around services, software and real estate, and seemed to be running very smoothly indeed. But the global economic downturn has given his message a new universality. After all, it was the financial-services and property sectors that collapsed; industry-driven economies such as Germany and Singapore experienced record-breaking export booms and avoided the crisis. Countries such as Canada and Britain have a weakness: Having abandoned manufacturing almost completely, they are vulnerable to the uncontrollable destinies of natural resources and the financial industry. But Mr. Dyson describes it as only one symptom of a larger problem: a Western world, especially the former branches of the British Empire such as Britain and Canada, that has lost its will to invent and make things."
James Dyson reinvented the vacuum. Now he wants to remake the economy - The Globe and Mail
Patrick McKenzie (by businessofsoftware)
A Conversation with Ray Bradbury (by TheRedCarChannel)
Steal Like An Artist Book Trailer (by Austin Kleon)
"Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, ‘Take me home!’ And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I’ve written every day in the last 75 years. I’ve never stopped writing."
writing is an addiction.
Ray Bradbury on doing what you love (via explore-blog)
(via fred-wilson)
"Taiwan is a barren rock in a typhoon-laden sea with no natural resources to live off of — it even has to import sand and gravel from China for construction — yet it has the fourth-largest financial reserves in the world."
Une belle pub pour la Gaspésie, la Baie-des-Chaleurs et le train Chaleur dans le livre L’art de vivre selon JoeBeef.
A new tech demo featuring sophisticated performance-capture technology made by the game developer Quantic Dream (Heavy Rain, Indigo Prophecy) was inspired by Ray Kurzweil’s bookThe Singularity is Near.
The clip, which David Cage, the head of Quantic Dream, unveiled on Wednesday at a Game Developers Conference presentation, shows an android named Kara becoming self-aware as she is being assembled, and desperately insisting that her sentience is a feature and not a bug.
“There will come a point where artificial intelligences are smarter than us, it’s inevitable,” Cage said in an interview with Wired prior to the grand unveiling. “This clip is about the moment that happens.”
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/03/kara-quantic-dream/
(Source : youtube.com)
The Violin Maker (by Dustin Cohen)
