Researchers claim many jobs at risk for automation. Here's what they missed. Photo by David McNew/Getty Images.
EMOTIV INSIGHT: Optimize your brain fitness & performance by Tan Le. Our mission to empower individuals to understand their own brain and accelerate brain research globally was set into motion with the launch of this Kickstarter campaign for Emotiv Insight.
Over the course of this campaign, you joined our community and pledged to change how people think about their brain and how we could use brainwear to improve how we live, work, and play. Thanks to you, we are making the Emotiv Insight a reality! Thank you again for being such an awesome community! The human brain, our most advanced organ, is an intricate and complex network of connections. Tom Wujec: 3 ways the brain creates meaning.
Five ingredients for innovation. TEDxCalgary - Nick Nissley - A Story About Leadership for Humanity 3.0. TEDxPugetSound - Andre Golard, PhD - The Neuroscience of Eureka Moments. Why you will fail to have a great career: Larry Smith at TEDxUW. Learning from Failure in Innovation: Turning Setbacks into Advantages.
The New Model for Innovation Is Social. Most business leaders are by now aware that the growing use of mobile phones is changing the competitive landscape for all companies, no matter what the industry.
The extent of those changes is greater than most appreciate, however. They include entirely new methods of designing products and completely revamped methods for selling them. They also involve a fundamentally reinvented relationship with customers: To be precise, the customers are now the boss. Those were some of the key ideas that emerged from a recent conference — “How Mobile and Social Are Transforming Innovation Models: Flipping the Paradigm?”
— hosted by Wharton’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the school’s San Francisco campus. COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE. It's also possible for groups of people to work together in ways that seem pretty stupid, and I think collective stupidity is just as possible as collective intelligence.
Part of what I want to understand and part of what the people I'm working with want to understand is what are the conditions that lead to collective intelligence rather than collective stupidity. But in whatever form, either intelligence or stupidity, this collective behavior has existed for a long time. What's new, though, is a new kind of collective intelligence enabled by the Internet.
The Forerunners Of Future Sexbots, Now ⚙ Co. Since I’ve started tracking the story of sexual computing I’ve received many emails and countless tweets stating that while developers and engineers may be working on sexbots and other sexual technologies, no “normal” person would ever use such tech in their sex life.
But now thanks to a few recent surveys we know that’s just not true. Here’s the first, as Alexis Kleinman writes for The Huffington Post: Nearly 20 percent of young adult smartphone owners in the U.S. between the ages of 18 and 34 use their smartphones during sex, and nearly 1 in ten U.S. adults who own smartphones use them during sex. While this survey was conducted with a fairly large sampling size of 1,100 people, it did not specifically ask respondents what they were using their smartphones for while having sex. Theoretically the smartphone use could have been for anything from checking texts, to taking pictures and recording videos, to referencing Kama Sutra guides.
Wrong. To put that another way: Previous Updates. How to think about the future: Give me the numbers. Why Is Facebook Blue? The Science Behind Colors In Marketing. Editor's Note: This is one of the most-read leadership articles of 2013.
Click here to see the full list. Why is Facebook blue? According to The New Yorker, the reason is simple. It’s because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green color blind; blue is the color Mark can see the best. Not highly scientific, right? So how do colors really affect us, and what is the science of colors in marketing, really? Thinking at the intersection of Einstein and DaVinci. The Ten Principles of 3D Printing. Why The Human Body Will Be The Next Computer Interface. By now you’ve probably heard a lot about wearables, living services, the Internet of Things, and smart materials.
As designers working in these realms, we’ve begun to think about even weirder and wilder things, envisioning a future where evolved technology is embedded inside our digestive tracts, sense organs, blood vessels, and even our cells. 12 Stories You Need To Know Today. This article titled “Do online courses spell the end for the traditional university?”
Nicholas Christakis: People Networks Impact Health. Bio Nicholas Christakis As director of Harvard’s Human Nature Lab, Nicholas Christakis leads a diverse group of scholars integrating biological, social, and computational approaches to understanding human health.
A physician and social scientist, he holds professorships in the Departments of Medicine and Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and the Department of Sociology in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. His research applies network science and mathematical modeling to study the dynamics of health in evolving social networks. Ten years from now: What we will do, have, and not have. Beating the Odds — How We got 25% Women Speakers for JSConf EU 2012. For every bad male speaker (sorry), there’s two good female ones who didn’t consider submitting a talk.
