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- Randy Pausch: Last Lecture
Randy Pausch war ein Professor der Informatik, der 2008 an Krebs gestorben ist. Er hat aus seiner Erkrankung kein Geheimnis gemacht und war immer ein lebensbejahender und grundsätzlich positiver Mensch. Die an seiner Universität übliche ‘Last Lecture’ eines scheidenden Professors …
- Film zum Thema Grundeinkommen
Seit ich davon gehört habe, hat mich die Idee fasziniert – ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen für alle, was für eine Befreiung stellte das dar! Sh. das Buch von [intlink id="49" type="post"]Götz Werner[/intlink].
Unter grundeinkommen.tv ist das Thema aufgegriffen mit einem … - Genes-Memes-Temes
In the beautiful collection of TED-Talks I stumbled across a recent (June 2008) talk by Susan Blackmore – known e.g. for her book [asa mybooktitle]019286212X[/asa].
She starts out by talking about evolution being a ‘must’ given variation, selection and …
- Extrapolating visual input into the future – and optical illusions
As the visual processing takes some time (in the order of 1/10th of a second), the brain will try to extrapolate a given visual stimulus this time into the future. This makes sense, but of course can go wrong sometimes …
- Your “Permanent Age”
Interesting blog entry from Scott Adams musing about a ‘permanent age’ everyone is in – could be old or young, sometime/often then not perfectly suited to the real age. Also, in a similar …
- Roger McGough: Let Me Die A Young Man’s Death
I stumbled on this poem a while ago – and it makes you think: you want to get old, but then, it shouldn’t become boring, right?
Let me die a young man’s death
Let me die a young man’s death,
not a clean … - Startups As Future Way Of Work
Paul Graham has written an article Why to not not start a startup: it is interesting to see his reasons all speaking for doing startups – though they unfortunately (luckily?) do not fit …
- David Deutsch TED Talk
One important thought from David Deutsch in his a TED talk was considering how to deal with crises – e.g. global warming: if we come to the understanding that it is too late …
- Fear Incantation
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. …
- Brian Eno: The Long Now
This is lecture given in the series of seminars of the LongNow foundation.
It contains Brians perspective of the Long Now (and the Big Here), some discussion about his music and especially also his studies for a bell for the …
- What If All In Life Were Free
Very pointed article in Wired 14.04: Geekonomics – Why abundance sucks.Looking at the development of multiplayer games, one can observe the move from utopian worlds where all is free – and therefore …
- Singularity And Religion
From “A Rapture for the Rest of Us” by Glenn Harlan Reynolds:
Jihadists are strapping on suicide bombs today, in the hope of attaining the kind of environment that virtual reality will deliver in … - Steward Brand: Cities And Time
A LongNow seminar from Apr 02005, it is interesting to see him argue the importance of the cities in so many respects. Example: the over population will not very much longer be a …
- Good And Bad Procrastination
Nice article by Paul Graham about Good and Bad Procrastination . It basically leads via another viewpoint to go for the important rather than the urgent things in life – focus …
- Signs Of AI
There is a very interesting remark in an article Turing’s Cathedral by George Dyson at edge.org: For 30 years I have been wondering, what indication of its existence might we expect from …
- Pasteurs Quadrant
Recently I heard in a talk about research and innovation about Pasteur’s Quadrant, which is also the title of a book by Donald E. Stokes [1].
It puts different types of innovation and research along the two dimensions:Quest for fundamental …
- Francois Lelord: Hectors Reise oder die Suche nach dem Glück
Eine Erzählung, zum Teil ein wenig kitschig bzw vielleicht ‘einfach’ anmutend, die aber in der einfachen und direkten Art einem vieles vor Augen führt, was Glück bedeutet oder eben nicht. Ausgehend von einem Psychiater, der sich fragt, was Glück bedeutet, …
- Human Color Vision And Daytime Sky
Recently I found this article answering the famous question ‘Why is the sky blue’ a bit different and deeper than I read before. In physics the usual explanation is that the Rayleigh scattering is inversely proportional to the fourth power …
- Evolution And Intelligent Design
“Intelligent Design and Science”I liked the statements cited in the Boston Globe, August 8, 2005:”Intelligent design” boils down to the claim sarcastically summed up by aerospace engineer and science consultant Rand …
- Physics Vs Computers
When I moved from physics to computers, I thought a fundamental difference is that in computers you can have a fundamentally deeper understanding of everything which happens in them – because you constructed them and could (at least in …
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