The future according to Google's Larry Page Note: On Jan 3, as Fortune published this article, the Federal Trade Commission ended its investigation of Google's search practices saying it found no evidence that the company manipulated search results in violation of antitrust laws. The European Commission and other regulators continue to investigate the issue. FORTUNE -- When Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP Group, the giant advertising agency, visited Google this past fall, CEO Larry Page sent a car to pick him up at the Rosewood Hotel about 20 miles away. Page's chauffeurless car service is no mere parlor trick. MORE: Google - No. 1 on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For Sounds like a crazy mashup of the Jetsons and the '80s TV show Knight Rider. Outlandish ideas and effective, pragmatic management rarely go hand in hand. Tangible results are everywhere. MORE: Google - No. 2 on Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies Still, adding Page to the annals of great CEOs at this point would be premature. MORE: Meet the L-Team
Scotland Community Shows The World Why All Homes Should Be Made Out of Hemp Many people are becoming aware of ways to live that are more harmonious with the planet. It seems that we are transitioning to a very ancient understanding of how to operate here on Earth, with a very advanced ‘know how’ of technologies and methods to begin making that transition. New ways of living are coming to light and although you may not hear about them often, communities all over the world are starting to implement them. A new sustainable housing project in the Northwest of Scotland will use industrial hemp as the main building material. An English housing company that specializes in hemp-based construction called ‘Hemcrete Projects,’ supplied the system. Hemp has many uses, over 50, 000 to be exact. Combined with insulation made from Hemp fibre, Hembuild provides the village in Scotland with houses made from a combination of insulation and thermal inertia. Hempcrete is very versatile as it can be used for wall insulation, flooring, walls, roofing and more. Sources:
Building StrawBale Houses Strawbale houses are cheap, easy to build and can be put up in a relatively short period of time. Strawbale houses are usually made by stacking rows of straw bales with a moisture barrier between the bales and the supporting platform. Building with bales of straw has become very popular and can be seen in many areas of the Southwestern United States. Straw is a renewable building material and is a great insulator from the elements. Strawbale Homes Strawbale Resources: The inevitability of smart dust I’ve put forward my opinion that desktop computing is dead on more than one occasion, and been soundly put in my place as a result almost every time. “Of course desktop computing isn’t dead — look at the analogy you’re drawing between the so called death of the mainframe and the death of the desktop. Mainframes aren’t dead, there are still plenty of them around!” Well, yes, that’s arguable. The desktop will increasingly belong to niche users. For the rest of the world? People never wanted computers; they wanted what computers could do for them. Everyday objects are already becoming smarter. The sensors you carry with you may well generate more data every second, both for you and about you, than previous generations did about themselves during the course of their entire lives. The end point of this evolution is already clear: it’s called smart dust. Makes desktop computing look sort of dull, doesn’t it? Photo: it’s not fog… it’s smoke… by Guilherme Jófili, on Flickr Related:
Hemp building What is it? It’s building with ‘hempcrete’ which is a mixture of the following three components: hemp ‘shiv’: hemp is a plant that has been used for millennia for making textiles. The shiv is the waste from the textile industry – the woody / pithy core of the stemsa lime binderwater These 3 components are used in different ratios depending on the strength or insulative properties you require for the part of the building it’s going to be used on. A field of hemp on a farm in France. Hempcrete can be used for walls, for floors and as an insulation layer in roofs / ceilings – but it’s not structural, i.e. it’s not strong enough to support the weight of a building alone, and so it tends to be cast around a timber frame, where it provides stiffness and insulation. In areas where hemp is grown for textiles, hemp shiv has been used for generations as animal bedding. Shuttering being added to a very simple timber frame for a hempcrete kitchen extension; note the bags of hemp shiv and lime binder.
How to Drill Your Own Water Well Kurzweil joins Google to work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing Ray Kurzweil confirmed today that he will be joining Google to work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing. “I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining Google as Director of Engineering this Monday, December 17,” said Kurzweil. “I’ve been interested in technology, and machine learning in particular, for a long time: when I was 14, I designed software that wrote original music, and later went on to invent the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, among other inventions. I’ve always worked to create practical systems that will make a difference in people’s lives, which is what excites me as an inventor. “In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic.
This Pioneering Grandma is Building These Tiny Sustainable Homes Out of Hemp Hemp is the only plant that can feed you, house you, clothe you and heal you. The DEA considers hemp to be a dangerous substance and it’s still classified as a schedule I drug, alongside heroin and ecstasy, even though the plant contains almost no THC and has no psychoactive effects. Many believe this classification is the result of the oil industry’s grip on the legislative process in America, because hemp is one of the most viable alternatives to plastics, fuel and other building materials, in fact, it used to be an important domestically produced crop, and it even contains extraordinary health benefits. “Hemp is the only plant that can feed you, house you, clothe you and heal you.” The Tiny House Movement is Growing As a response to unbridled consumerism and desire for infinite growth inherent in our economy, some are finding that satisfaction in life is not dependent on having and maintaining the ‘American Dream.’ Unity – Tiny Hemp Housing Final Thoughts About the Author
How to Make Your Apartment Look Bigger If your studio apartment is starting to feel more claustrophobic than cute, listen up. Without the cost of moving, the hassle of remodeling, or an increase in rent, it is possible to score a "bigger" place. Following a few dos and don'ts, you can (almost) instantly create the illusion of a spacious interior without breaking the bank. Do declutter: If you've been in your space for some time, it's likely you've accumulated some clutter (no judgment!).
Revolutionary "Superman" Memory Crystals Can Store Data Virtually Forever Quartz Crystal photo from Shutterstock While most of us are just getting used to the idea of 3D printing, scientists are already working on technological marvels that operate two dimensions deeper. Researchers at the University of Southampton have succeeded in recording and retrieving five dimensional digital data using a quartz crystal. The ‘Superman’ memory crystal is a futuristic storage technique with unprecedented features – including a 360 terabyte per disc data capacity, thermal stability up to 1000°C and a practically unlimited lifetime. We’ve all seen those sci-fi movies where a gorgeous alien shoves a pointy crystal into some mega computer and the world is saved. Well, it appears that sci-fi has now become sci-reality. So how does it work? So leave a note for your great-great-grandkids to throw on some 5D glasses, and upload that file containing your life story to their cyborg brain by scanning it with their polarizing eyeballs – easy-peasy. Via Eureakalert and DVice
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25 Room Design Ideas for Teenage Girls Teenage girls room decorating ideas generally differ from those of boys. But while decorating a teenage girl’s room you should remember to make it look like a princess abode, and remember that a teenage girl’s room is her castle. So since you here we suppose that you are looking for fresh design ideas for pretentious and stylish teenage girls right? In this post we will try to give a hand. For today we’ve gathered together a set of 25 pictures which represent young girls’ rooms.