http://friggeri.net/blog/2009/03/10/statusphere-is-the-next-buzzword
Slow money
“The biggest opportunity that we have right now is to radically change people’s awareness of the purpose of capital markets.”
http://www.slowmoneyalliance.org/
http://www.globalonenessproject.org
From baheyeldin.com
“Work smarter, not harder” is something that sounds good, but in reality it is often a hollow sentence with no substance in it. In the corporate world, when a manager informs his team of staff cuts, while the workload is the same or more, “smarter” does not mean anything other than “do more with less”. If this “working smarter” was tangible and doable, then why was it not employed before the staff cuts? Huh?
Here is a Dilbert comic lampooning this misused non-wisdom …
Not sure if the double rotor copters seem quite as high tech and precise as the video footage, but if it’s MIT it must be real, right? And it would/will be amazing to see.
http://senseable.mit.edu/flyfire/
The interface method of the future? A collection of icons meant to help developers of multi-touch interfaces develop user manuals. An icon is worth a thousand words.
Gesturecons.com, more info at adamkinney.wordpress.com.