Harvey Fineberg mostra três caminhos possÃveis para a nossa evolução: ou paramos de evoluir porque chegamos a um equilÃbrio com nosso ambiente, ou continuamos a evoluir naturalmente, ou começamos a controlar nossa evolução geneticamente, nos tornando mais fortes, mais ágeis, … Continue lendo
People often credit their ideas to individual “Eureka!” moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the “liquid networks” of London’s coffee houses to Charles Darwin’s long, slow hunch to today’s … Continue lendo
In one of the coolest presentations I’ve seen in the TED, Clay Shirky maps the differences between traditional media and the web, and through three stories, hints at how we can use the web to create environments that support groups … Continue lendo
Em uma das palestras mais bacanas que já vi no TED, Clay Shirky mapeia as diferenças entre as mÃdias tradicionais e a web e, através de três histórias, dá pistas de como podemos usar a web para criar ambientes que … Continue lendo
A computer (or computational power) occupied an entire building on campus in the 70 now lies in our pocket. It is possible, according to Kurzweil, that soon we will have various electronic components installed in our own body and that … Continue lendo
Um computador (ou seu poder computacional) ocupava um prédio inteiro no campus na década de 70 hoje ocupa o nosso bolso. É possÃvel, de acordo com Kurzweil, imaginar que em breve teremos vários componentes eletrônicos instalados em nosso próprio corpo … Continue lendo
Steven Johnson says the Web is like a city: built by many people, completely controlled by no one, intricately interconnected and yet functioning as many independent parts. While disaster strikes in one place, elsewhere, life goes on.
Clay Shirky is the author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, a book that deals with collaboration as a creative working mode. In this book that I just read, it makes interesting comparisons between the “way” … Continue lendo
Clay Shirky é autor do livro Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations que trata do tema de colaboração como modo criativo. Neste livro, que acabei de ler, ele faz comparações interessantes entre a “forma” criativa usada em … Continue lendo
Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary, Ray Kurzweil explains in great detail because, in the 2020s, we have done reverse engineering the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness. One of the most exciting TED talks, and I had the … Continue lendo