Saturday, September 27, 2008

Eldery Airbags

What an interesting and useful idea ... Wonder if it will come to Singapore where we keep harping about our aging population ...



Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Sir Ken Robinson Interviewed by Riz Khan

Much like the TED Video, a delightfully refreshing insight into the modern education system. Take 20 minutes off for this one.


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[via: Presentation Zen]

Monday, September 01, 2008

Google Talk - No Time to Think






Vannevar Bush's 1945 article, "As We May Think," has been much celebrated as a central inspiration for the development of hypertext and the World Wide Web. Less attention, however, has been paid to Bush's motivation for imagining a new generation of information technologies; it was his hope that more powerful tools, by automating the routine aspects of information processing, would leave researchers and other professionals more time for creative thought. But now, more than sixty years later, it seems clear that the opposite has happened, that the use of the new technologies has contributed to an accelerated mode of working and living that leaves us less to think, not more. In this talk I will explore how this state of affairs has come about and what we can do about it.