Ned Gulley’s Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds.
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 27th, 2007
I recommend this series of lectures by the Rocky Mountain Institute‘s Amory Lovins. He delivered the lectures at Stanford, and they’re now hosted at the Social Innovation Conversations site. Energy Efficiency in Transportation Energy Efficiency in Industry Energy Efficient Design For Buildings I first came across these lectures on Jon Udell’s blog. Udell does a [...]
Posted in MATLAB on Oct 9th, 2007
Tim O’Reilly likes to quote William Gibson when he describes his approach to predicting the future: “The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” In other words, if you can just find the people (O’Reilly calls them alpha geeks) who are leading the way, you can serve yourself a tasty slice of future [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 14th, 2006
I don’t know if you buy into the Web 2.0 meme, but I do. There’s an amazing amount of good stuff to keep up with these days. It’s getting ever easier to create, package, route, re-package, re-route, and consume information. Mashups, those unanticipated combinations of multiple websites, were a good indication that things were getting [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 2nd, 2006
Happy New Year! When a one year ends and another begins, pundits feel compelled to opine about the next big thing. I almost always find these predictions tedious and off base. Worse even than this is the speculative fiction that imagines what it will be to wake up ten years in the future, floating cars, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2005
Jon Udell’s Heavy Metal Umlaut video is being passed around a lot these days, and with good reason. He took a quirky page out of Wikipedia, coupled it with some quick and dirty video manipulation from Camtasia, and made a compelling illustration of how the Wikipedia actually works. Here’s the current Wikipedia entry that initially [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 2nd, 2005
This has been around since last summer, apparently, but if you haven’t seen it it’s worth the time. It’s a very slickly produced short video (Flash animation) put out by the ACLU that shows how information and identity might be abused in the near future. ACLU pizza video That’s one expensive pizza. (via Jon Udell)
