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The 100-Year March of Technology in 1 Graph
- In 1900, <10% of families owned a stove or had access to electricity
- In 1915,...
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Why Collaborative Storytelling Is The Future Of Marketing
Full Story: FastCompany
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Phoenix Pro: New Guitar Plugin Turns Hacks into ShreddersHah! If only.
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Reimagining business with a social mindset – Deloitte Tech Trends 2012
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Mazda Envisions Creating Their Future Car Today
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The Missing 20th Century: How Copyright Protection Makes Books Vanish
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Railroad Sensors Predict Derailments Wirelessly « Wireless Sensor Networks Blog
Union Pacific, the nation’s largest railroad company, says
When we think of geeks, we usually think of Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates etc. But beyond the recent present there is a name that we now but not always remember - Nikola Tesla. Sometimes considered the father of the electrical age, Tesla had pioneered inventions ahead of most people’s imaginations. For example: Marconi the winner of the noble prize for physics for creating the radio, based his work on Tesla’s research. I believe the infographic, provided via the title link, speaks to his contribution to science and how we should reconsider him as the one of the top 5 innovators in history.
The History of the Telephone | AT&T
View the original patent given to Alexander Graham Bell prior to the first telephone call. George Kupczak discusses the origins of the telephone and shows some of the first telephone models.
Joe Tree: Creating a Collective Human History
Human history is defined largely by the information our ancestors were able to create and store. But our record of the past is skewed by the powerful or privileged few who were capable of documenting the world around them. We are the first generation to record and share the smallest details of everday life on a massive scale, and the first with an opportunity to create a truly collective human history. But to secure our place in tomorrow’s past, we need to think much more carefully about what we’re doing today.
The State of Venture Capital
Considered “the guide of wisdom” in Venture Capital with close to 11,000 viewers, The State of Venture Capital has now been updated, turned into high-definition video and narrated by Georges van Hoegaerden.
The era of twenty-somethings blindly stampeding their way towards law school seems to be finally, mercifully, drawing to a close.
The Ultimate Timeline Of Social Networks, 1960-2012 | Infographic
“The Women of the Future” according to 1902 French Trading Cards
In 1902, a French trading card manufacturer released this curious batch of playing cards depicting women and their futuristic careers as soldiers, lawyers, journalists, and cigarette-chomping students. But because these cards were designed to titillate, many of these outfits aren’t entirely practical — note the firefighter and general’s lack of sleeves above. In fact, much of the military regalia pictured wouldn’t be handy whatsoever in the battlefield.
Robotic dinosaurs to be made with 3D printers.
Palaeontologists at Drexel University are using 3D printers to reconstruct dinosaur skeletons, which will be animated using robotics to see how the dinosaurs might have moved and behaved.
The team is first using a 3D scanner to analyse existing bones, before using a 3D printer to construct an exact replica of the skeleton. A mechanical engineer is working with the team to develop the robotic side of the project, but the 3D printing will also allow them to create small-scale models for educational use, and to create exact-size replicas for museum display, without the limitation on the number of copies made and materials and storage hassles of traditional casting methods.
The first goal is to have a working robotic dinosaur limb constructed by the end of 2012. A complete robotic dinosaur replica will take one to two years to create.
While 3D printers have been available for a few years, they have been slow to catch on with home users, instead finding niche markets like in medicine, where they have been used to print organs and tailored prosthetics for patients. The Pirate Bay launched a new category for 3D designs last month, predicting a world where “you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years.”
Who knows, maybe in the zoo of the future we will be wearing downloaded Nike shoes and watching a robotic Tyrannosaurus chase a newly cloned woolly mammoth!
(via 8bitfuture)
