Unused Office Space Is Like A Massive Untapped Natural Resource. Unused office space is a scourge of corporate bottom lines.
Photo: Neil MacWilliams/Flickr It’s out there, though it’s not easy to see: Empty desks, vacant conference rooms, unoccupied office parks. Over the past 30 years, the U.S. has added about 2 billion square feet of office space to its existing stock, most of which today’s highly mobile workforce no longer needs, at least not as a permanent home. That vast built environment now inhabits the American landscape like a massive untapped natural resource. But no need for fracking.
Liquidspace CEO Mark Gilbreath doesn’t have an office all his own. When I interviewed him via video chat, he was sitting at his desk in Ketchum, Idaho, where a picture window gave sweeping views of snowy mountains just over his shoulder. LiquidSpace may sound like little more than a version of Craigslist or AirBnb for offices. But Liquidspace aspires to more than app-based classifieds.
Online Education Is Replacing Physical Colleges At A Crazy Fast Pace. Educators knew the online revolution would eventually envelop the physical classroom, but a torrent of near-revolutionary developments in the past month are proving that change is coming quicker than anyone imagined.
In just 30 days, the largest school system in the U.S. began offering credit for online courses, a major university began awarding degrees without any class time required, and scores of public universities are moving their courses online. The point at which online higher education becomes mainstream is no longer in some fuzzy hypothetical future; the next president’s Secretary of Education will need an entire department dedicated to the massive transition. For over a decade, admissions-selective universities (e.g. not the University of Phoenix) resisted giving credit for their overwhelmingly popular online courses. I was wrong about one thing: the otherwise scientifically prudent community of higher education didn’t wait to see if the pilot was successful. A Map of the Geographic Structure of Wikipedia Topics.
Mountains, peaks, summits, etc.
A large number of Wikipedia articles are geocoded. This means that when an article pertains to a location, its latitude and longitude are linked to the article. As you can imagine, this can be useful to generate insightful and eye-catching infographics. A while ago, a team at Oxford built this magnificent tool to illustrate the language boundaries in Wikipedia articles. This led me to wonder if it would be possible to extract the different topics in Wikipedia. This is exactly what I managed to do in the past few days. Read on for more details, pretty pictures and slideshows. A bit about the process You can skip this section if you don’t really care about the nitty-gritty of the production of the maps. Getting the data Trains, stations, platforms, railways, etc. The first the step to create these map was to retrieve all Wikipedia articles.
Identifying topics. Gestures + Reveal.JS" by William Walter Wu. Robotalk personal assistant robot for everything you crave in a friend. CalypsoKey. Top 10 Tech Tools Perfect for the Modern Office. Whether you work in a tall skyscraper for a Fortune 500 company or at home for yourself, your office is a place you spend an inordinate amount of time.
Why not let it reflect who you are? In this day and age, we’re all looking for tech tools that not only increase our productivity but also speak to our design sensibility. That’s why, today, we’ve put together this list of the top 10 tech tools that are perfect for the modern office. From a device that seamlessly switches from a laptop to a tablet to a productivity app that’s simple and “clear,” these ten products will make your life easier and, your time spent working, all the more enjoyable. 1. The Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 Ultrabook™ features a unique 360-degree flip-and-fold design so that you can use this device as either a laptop or a tablet.
Cost: $999.00 2. Clean, clear sound coupled with incredible design, that’s what you can expect to find with the Harman Kardon SoundSticks III speakers. Cost: $169. An Android You Can Make With A 3D Printer. In no small part exacerbated by having a girl close to the same age, I tear up every time I see this video.
It's nice seeing technology as an implementation of our moral selves, and not simply a manifestation of our hubris or destructive tendencies. Well, I'd like to think there's just the tiniest shade of defiant hubris in this though. I watch this video and I think, "No! Nature deals us a bad hand, and no, we ain't just gonna just lie down and take it! We're gonna figure this out! Of course hubris is mostly bad—that's why we have all these cautionary tales.