If you thought WALL-E’s world of garbage was science fiction, watch this video:
Filed under: PSA | Tagged: dystopia, ecology, green living, ocean, plastic, science, sustainability, TED, WALL-E | Leave a Comment »
The New Suburbs
Posted on February 4, 2009 by Eddie
In Allison Arieff’s post today for the New York Times’ By Design blog on “Saving the Suburbs,” there were a bunch of ideas, fired off like grape shot from a hundred-gun ship (it was a long post). One of these caught my attention: Transit-oriented residences, which would amount to high-density developments based near rail stations. [...]
Filed under: City Life, Uncategorized | Tagged: cities of the future, housing crisis, mass transit, neighborhoods, peak oil, suburbs, Urban planning | 2 Comments »
Tech Tech
Posted on February 3, 2009 by Eddie
As Boing Boing reported earlier this morning, Singularity University is to be unveiled today. The singularity, if you’re unfamiliar, is a term coined by Vernor Vinge that refers to the rapid acceleration of technological change*. For an example, think of how quickly computers have evolved. Here’s a graph of the exponential growth in mass use [...]
Filed under: Adventures, Creativity, Uncategorized | Tagged: awesomeicity, futurism, Google, nanobots, NASA, NASA Ames Campus, technological singularity, The singularity | 3 Comments »
