Posts Tagged internet
Role of public funding in innovation?
Posted by max in Case Studies, Opinions on November 30th, 2009
I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts on the role of public funding in innovation…. I’ve been reading this exciting book: The Department of Mad Scientists – How DARPA is Remaking our World, From the Internet to Artificial Limbs by Michael Belfiore. Its a particularly compelling story for anyone who wants to support the notion that great innovation need to be financed by government programs. And as you may know, our Fusionopolis office is shared by the public servants of A*STAR, Singapore’s agency for research and development. The type of research that is conducted there is the kind that is more fundamental in nature, and is not getting much attention by the private sector, because most of them wont be economically viable project in the foreseeable future. On the other hand, wouldnt this funding be just as smart if it was directed at “commercial” technologies? There are endless angles from which to address this topic… So lets try to simplify the problem by asking ourselves one simple question:
Tell us if you feel the Internet would’ve become what it is today without DARPA? And how?
Bye bye Outlook, never liked you anyway!
Posted by max in Opinions, World News on October 11th, 2009
Fax is dead, mail is dead, and now email is dead….. Turns out Rock & Roll outlived all of them in the end!
Check our the great story from today’s Wall Street Journal on the link below. Personally, seeing the rise and fall of email within 10 years makes me think again about the amazing accelerating pace of innovation, as well researched and documented by Ray Kurzwei…
Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203803904574431151489408372.html?mod=rss_US_News
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Posted by Adrian Rusu in Interviews, Multimedia on June 10th, 2009
Check out this interesting piece on how the internet, and google, have changed the way our neurological patterns functions, and how, to a certain extent, it is making us “stupid”.
It is acknowledged, that in every change, there is creation and there is destruction, so rather than calling us “dumber”, I’d rather see us as more “assisted”. Google can be perceived as an extention of your mind (like a chip upgrade), or as peripheral (USB plugin) but whichever way you see it, you have to admit that some of the functions performed by the human brain are already performed better by computers (calculus, chess, micro-trading). This is the subject of “A Whole New Mind” by Daniel Pink, which explores why right-brainers (the more creative types), will rule the future.
An invention that could change the internet for ever
Posted by romain in World News on May 10th, 2009
The new system, Wolfram Alpha, showcased at Harvard University in the US last week, takes the first step towards what many consider to be the internet’s Holy Grail – a global store of information that understands and responds to ordinary language in the same way a person does.
