Ray Kurzweil, a world-renowned scientist and author of The Singularity is Near, thinks the world as we know it will be unrecognizable in 20 years. Our phones do things today that were unimaginable 20 years ago, so why not? What we know about technology and about the body continue to increase, and so, he says, […]
Month: July 2012
New from Annie Leonard, the Story of Change
A quick video about how change happens, and the roles needed to make a difference. Annie says that once you know what you are good at and what you like to do it’s easy to find what kind of change maker you are. Change, she says, is all about making the ‘right’ thing the easiest […]
The Law of Dissatisfaction vs. Gratitude
“The job of advertisers is to create dissatisfaction in its audience. If people are happy with how they look, they are not going to buy cosmetics or diet books; if people are happy with their old twenty-inch tube television they are not going to buy a sixty-inch LCD flat screen TV. If people are happy […]
Blown Away – where numbers rule, creativity suffers?
OMG. Microsoft’s internal corporate practices are creativity stifflers. Did you read the Vanity Fair article Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant? VF’s editor Kurt Eichenwald interviewed staff and found… “…a management system known as “stack ranking”—a program that forces every unit to declare a certain percentage of […]
Lost for Words? Try These
The beauty of having a selection of words to use gives a person the opportunity to select exactly the right one for the situation. Take a look, for example, at the options listed as possible alternatives for the word ‘bad’. Wouldn’t it be great to have a variety of options to choose from to select […]
Q&A session for $1 million US Gov’t Innovation Grant on July 12/12 from 1 – 2 p.m. Eastern Time
The US government is awarding up to $1 million to encourage and reward innovative, ground-breaking ideas that greatly expand innovation, commercialization and new enterprise formation across the United States. The 2012 i6 Challenge will award applicants submitting the best strategies to create Proof of Concept Centers that greatly increase innovation within their organizations, create processes […]
Cultivating Creativity from a Zen Psychiatrist
Strive for the right frame of mind rather than the answer There’s enough research around to entertain new notions for creatively moving forward. Feeling relaxed, happy and having a calm unfocused frame of mind encourages creative insights. A particular type of brain wave called alpha waves, are associated with states […]
Soap bubble display screens. Imagine. Real. 4-minute video
Fascinating view at what might be coming, from Japan, by way of display screen technology. How might widespread use of this application influence your interactions with various future onscreen realities? Research info here. Source article here. Marci Segal Related articles Soap screen is ‘world’s thinnest’(bbc.co.uk) Display team creates texture-changing bubble screen (w/ Video)(phys.org) 700nm thick […]
Dream on. An iPhone app experiment to see if dreams can be created. Where might it lead?
Professor Richard Wiseman is asking for your help to bring in a brand new future or two. He’s doing research using an iPhone app. Watch the clip below to see how it works, and wonder with me what the future implications might be – both positive and negative. Is this a kind of study you […]
How amazing are ideas? Watch Idea DJ Jason Silva’s 2-minute inspiration.
Article from Forbes on Jason Silva’s Ted Global 2012 talk here. Our Idea DJ recommends four approaches to inspiration. Nothing really new, and definitely worthy of attention. Take a trip. Change your pattern/schedule. Go to a new culture. Change a habit. Find yourself in awe of something. Be receptive. Open to new ideas. Tell a […]
