When Sustainability Stories Are Good Business
Entrepreneurs can’t simply ignore their company’s environmental impact. Film producer Peter Glatzer, co-founder of SHFT.com, a Los Angeles-based multimedia platform for raising awareness about environmental issues, talks with media strategist Brian Solis about how sustainable practices have become critical in today’s marketplace.
Telling positive and inspiring stories about sustainability is important to help balance much of the negativity and fear-mongering people often hear about environmental issues, says Glatzer, whose co-founder is actor and film-maker Adrian Grenier. Two ways the company is doing this include SHFT’s first private-label product, SHFT House Wines, as well as its recently launched app called Food Tripping, which helps people find sustainable healthy places to eat on the road.
Internet Archives
Archive is a documentary focused on the future of long-term digital storage, the history of the Internet and attempts to preserve its contents on a massive scale.
Part one features Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and his colleagues Robert Miller, director of books, and Alexis Rossi, director of web collections. On a mission to create universal access to all knowledge, the Internet Archive’s staff have built the world’s largest online library, offering 10 petabytes of archived websites, books, movies, music, and television broadcasts.
The video includes a tour of the Internet Archive’s headquarters in San Francisco, the book scanning center, and the book storage facilities in Richmond, California.
The rise of human-computer cooperation
Brute computing force alone can’t solve the world’s problems. Data mining innovator Shyam Sankar explains why solving big problems (like catching terrorists or identifying huge hidden trends) is not a question of finding the right algorithm, but rather the right symbiotic relationship between computation and human creativity.
Design in a Nutshell
Gothic Revival was one of the most influential design styles of the 19th century. Revivalists adhered to the romantic notion that stuff could and should look more meaningful, with designs based on forms and patterns used in the Middle Ages.
Sonte Film - WiFi Digital Shades
SONTE Film is the first ever Wi-Fi enabled digital shade that instantly switches windows from opaque to clear in less than a second. The film pairs with a free smartphone app that allows users to turn SONTE Film “on” for see-through windows and “off” for opaque windows.
Users can also use the app to control a room’s privacy and transparency setting. The customizable digital shade is easy to install and affordable, and doubles as a projection screen.
Network Ubiquity
Information technology has become a ubiquitous presence. By visualizing the processes that underlie our interactions with this technology we can trace what happens to the information we feed into the network.
How to Build a Tech Brand
Blair Christie shares her advice on how to build a tech brand and leverage partnerships to create a “multiplier effect.” Christie is the Chief Marketing Officer at Cisco Systems.
Sparking Student Interests with Informal Learning
Sociologist and digital learning expert Diana Rhoten founded the New Youth City Learning Network to help organizations like museums and libraries design digitally-enabled learning activities built to tap into kids’ interests and teach 21st-century skills.
Ad-Tech Gold Rush Is On
Everywhere you look, people are using smartphones and other mobile devices. When you combine that with the billions of dollars spent on advertising each year, you get advertising technology.
We head to Metamorphic Ventures, a venture capital fund that runs an incubator for ad-tech startups, to learn more about the sector and the new opportunities for ad-tech startups.
Controlling a Flying Robot… With Your Mind
Researchers at the University of Minnesota developed a method of controlling a robot with a person’s mind. The study has “the potential to help people who are paralyzed or have neurodegenerative diseases.“
