August 11, 2010 – 12:01 am
As profiled on Worldchanging in November 2009, future-focused conference organization PopTech has partnered with Nike to convene a year-long “innovation journey” on new green materials and industrial processes. Their first event, the Ecomaterials Lab, occurred last week. About PopTech Labs: PopTech is bringing together a network of innovators and decision-makers, brilliant and unconventional, to explore [...]
April 29, 2010 – 10:47 pm
Possibly the greatest thing ever? Sweet Juniper’s dog wagon. One of the best things about being an incredibly childish adult is that there’s nobody to tell you that you can’t use the power tools. Or in this case, a simple ratchet and screwdriver, because that’s all I used to turn our old jogging stroller into [...]
January 27, 2010 – 12:58 pm
As a former management consultant at a firm that specialized in scenario planning, I love reading the sweeping statements and predictions people have made that have turned out to be wildly wrong. “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” – Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 “There is no reason anyone [...]
January 18, 2010 – 4:45 pm
The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo. A gorgeous, meditative tour through imagined spaces and structures. What struck me most was not that it was full-CG — which, yes, is amazing — but that here, at the beginning of 2010, an immersive virtual world like this can be produced by ONE GUY.
December 18, 2009 – 12:28 pm
When I lived in Mumbai, it took me months to figure out how to navigate the city. Rickshaws, trains, and taxis were easy enough — it was how to communicate where I wanted to go that was the problem. People didn’t pay attention to addresses – they knew building names. They didn’t say “the intersection [...]
