358. Seawater Foundation – Greening Eritrea Video
Posted in GardenWorld, sustainability, tech and society on Mar 15th, 2010
Seawater Foundation – Greening Eritrea Video. The use of seawater to grow crops, like mangrove. amazing. Please take a look.
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333. Notion Ink
Posted in tech and society on Mar 2nd, 2010
For philosophy and new directions and youthful enthusiasm, i highly recommend thissite and pages as a window into the tech future. I don’t know what he told you. But this is what I told him. Our system is going to be a mix of GUI and LUI (language user interface) Now we don’t expect user to [...]
298..Tech and compassion
Posted in essays, paragraphs, tech and society on Jan 9th, 2010
Their combination is key to a better future. And wisdom. perhaps time to bring back wisdom, civilization
285. Obama’s MIT speech – analysis
Posted in sustainability, tech and society on Oct 24th, 2009
Key segments and analysis of Obama’s MIT speech I want I want to thank all of you for the warm welcome and for the work all of you are doing to generate and test new ideas that hold so much promise for our economy and for our lives. Note priority. Economy. Of course [...]
272. The costs technology: russian roulette.
Posted in key issues, sustainability, tech and society on Sep 22nd, 2009
This paper explores what might be called a “Russian roulette” theory of economic growth. Suppose the overwhelming majority of new ideas are beneficial and lead to growth in consumption. However, there is a tiny chance that a new idea will be particularly dangerous and cause massive loss of life. Do discovery and economic growth continue [...]
256. Stuff i didn’t know t-mobile german owned. Sprint next.
Posted in tech and society on Sep 14th, 2009
German phone giant said to go for SprintMarketWatch - Jeffry Bartash - 1 hour agoWASHINGTON MarketWatch – Deutsche Telekom AG is reportedly mulling a plan to buy Sprint Nextel Corp. and combine the company with its T-Mobile USA subsidiary via Google News.
179. tech choice: inflight cellphones?
Posted in tech and society on Jul 25th, 2009
This is a crucial indicator of market vs. democracy. In-flight calling soon to be allowed south of the border by Tim Stevens, posted Jul 24th 2009 at 7:33AM While in-flight WiFi is slowly becoming a reality in more and more jets going to more and more places, in-flight calling seems to be stuck in a [...]