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Hindsight Links for Feb 4, 6:00 am
// February 4th, 2011 // No Comments » // Digests, Hindsight
- Procter & Gamble and Innovation in Asia, Scott Anthony @ HBR.org:
“Asia Fueling Global Innovation.” That was the theme of the 2-hour panel discussion I moderated as part of a full-day… - Yoga-Paws, Team @ Cool Hunting:
While shooting a yoga video at a cattle ranch in the Southwest, Jamie Getzwiller realized her colleagues were unable to maintain proper posture on the Navajo rugs they were using. The upshot was Yoga-Paws, fingerless gloves that allow you to get your downward dog on anywhere, on any surface…. - To Be a Better Boss, Know Your Default Settings, Team @ HBR.org:
Every day as managers and leaders, we bring ourselves to the job. We bring who we are as people, our… - Companies Can Help Customers Harvest Low-Hanging Fruit, Andrew McAfee @ HBR.org:
I travel a lot, baseball season starts soon, and the Red Sox are going to be fun to watch this… - Laura Ashley for People Tree, Laura Neilson @ Cool Hunting:
Led by ’90s revivalism, a particular floral trend has proliferated on runways these past few seasons, many directly inspired by the fabrics of heritage brand Laura Ashley and its English garden-feeling flower prints. Thanks to a collaboration with fellow U.K. clothing label People Tree, the 57-year-old label is undergoing…
Insight Links for Feb 2, 6:00 am
// February 2nd, 2011 // No Comments » // Digests, Insight
- The effects of mental model formation on group decision making: An agent-based simulation, Team @ Complexity Digest 2011.02:
We investigated dynamics of group decision making on complex problems when agents can form mental models of others from discussion history. Results indicated that as the agents’ memory capacity increases, the group reaches superficial consensus more… - A mathematical theory of communication: Meaning, information, and topology, Team @ Complexity Digest 2011.02:
This article proposes a new mathematical theory of communication. The basic concepts of meaning and information are defined in terms of complex systems theory. Meaning of a message is defined as the attractor it generates in the receiving system; in… - Event Announcements, Team @ Complexity Digest 2011.02:
IWSOS 2011, Fifth International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems , Karlsruhe, Germany, 2011/02/23-25 2011 Complexity Conference, Evanston, IL, USA, 2011/03/6-7 Natural Computing Winter School, Hakodate, Japan, 2011/03/15-16 Imagin… - Webcast Announcements, Team @ Complexity Digest 2011.02:
Lakeside Research Days 2010. Smarter Cities NYC. Posted on 2009/10/05 ASSYST Digital Library. Since 09/09 Complex Systems Teleconferences. Since 09/09 Symmetry Festival 2009, Budapest, Hungary, 09/08/1-4. (Read more…) - Other Announcements, Team @ Complexity Digest 2011.02:
ASSYSTComplexity One of the main goals of the ASSYST Coordination Action is to promote Complex Systems for Socially Intelligent ICT (COSI-ICT) and, more generally, Complex Systems (CS) Science in Europe and Worldwide. We do this by communicating wi…
Foresight Links for Jan 31, 6:00 am
// January 31st, 2011 // No Comments » // Digests, Foresight
- NASA’s Dreaming: Future Space Technologies, Anuradha Menon @ TFOT – The Future Of Things:
From antimatter rockets to flying robots, NASA’s wish list of technologies for space exploration stretches the imagination. The ideas appear in the agency’s proposals for technologies from propulsion to robotics it might develop in the decades ahead. T… - New Game Gives Microsoft’s Revenue a Lift, Anuradha Menon @ TFOT – The Future Of Things:
Microsoft rode strong sales of its new Kinect game device and its mainstay software products to deliver robust quarterly profits and sales. The world’s largest software company trails behind Apple and Google in fast-growing markets like smartphones and… - Seeing Melanoma, Ehud Rattner @ TFOT – The Future Of Things:
Scientists from Washington University, St. Louis, have developed new technologies that promise to solve one of the most difficult problems melanoma patients encounter. Although few people have this kind of skin cancer, the mortality rate among them is … - Arctic Ocean Feels the Heat, Anuradha Menon @ TFOT – The Future Of Things:
Water flowing into the Arctic Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean is about 2 °C warmer today than it has been for at least 2,000 years, according to a study published in Science. The findings add to the picture of Earth’s warming waters and melting sea i… - Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb, Anuradha Menon @ TFOT – The Future Of Things:
We already knew about Android 3.0′s (Honeycomb) 3D capability and its new look with larger, revamped icons and the like. But now Google has revealed the details on many more feature updates and additions in its Android operating system for tablets. The…
The Year The Future Arrived
// January 28th, 2011 // No Comments » // Foresight
Just got alerted to this great post by Rick Schettino relatively new to the futures field. As with so many, he’s been on a self-guided exploration, and constantly been amazed with what’s going on in our world. bravo I say;) The post declares 2010 The Year The Future Arrived and provides links to 250 headline making stories, neatly categorised, to show how our technological innovations/inventions and general advancements are starting to fulfil the future we (he?) grew up with in sci-fi books as a kid for example. Worth checking out. It is an amazing world out there… Oh, and it seems he’s doing a similar, if slightly more curated, links approach to my regular hindsight | Insight | Foresight links digests collections… automation in the information overload is definitely a future trend I’m happy to declare likely and necessary!
Hindsight Links for Jan 28, 6:00 am
// January 28th, 2011 // No Comments » // Digests, Hindsight
- Failure, Fred Wilson @ A VC:
Given the amount of startup activity we’ve been witnessing the past couple years in the web space, we are in for a bunch of strikeouts this year. We should not avoid talking about failure. Words like roadkill and deadpool should… - Why I don’t sell Kimchi, Seth Godin @ Seth’s Blog:
Years ago, I put together a really cool plan to get into the artisinal kimchi business (with a tofu sideline, of course). What, you didn’t know there was an artisinal kimchi business? Here’s the first draft of our packaging (click… - So It Turns Out Technology Really Does Empower Us, Team @ HBR.org:
It started with a car ride in Munich on Monday night. I was leaving a big party put on by… - Is Obama Gaining Power with Every Speech? (Are You?), Jeffrey Pfeffer @ HBR.org:
Everyone thinks President Obama is a great orator. I think he has moments of greatness but often misses important opportunities… - Case Study: A Rush to Failure?, Team @ HBR.org:
Editors’ Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from…
Insight Links for Jan 26, 6:00 am
// January 26th, 2011 // No Comments » // Digests, Insight
- Caught between, Dan @ Dan Ariely:
Although I’ve very clearly come down on one side of the debate about rationality in economics, there is another war that I’ve just found out I’m in the middle of. If you look very closely in the picture below from a recent iPhone commercial, Upside of Irrationality is one of … - Joe Griffin on the science of human well-being, Michel Bauwens @ P2P Foundation:
I’m very impressed with this integrative approach, which includes environmental, social aspects, of human psychology and psychotherapy and has important policy and philosophical implications. Really worth listening to: - The LWOT: Ghailani faces life at sentencing today; Alleged al Qaeda figure could be deported to U.S. – by Andrew Lebovich, ANDREW LEBOVICH @ Foreign Policy:
Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation bring you a twice weekly brief on the legal war on terror. You can read it on foreignpolicy.com or get it delivered directly to your inbox — just sign up here. - Scorecasting: A Guest Post, Team @ Freakonomics:
When my wife saw the cover of the new book Scorecasting by Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim, which was sitting on my bedside table, all she could do was shake her head. - Busting Docs Who Don’t Wash Their Hands, Team @ Freakonomics:
Here’s an interesting method of combating the hand-hygiene problem discussed at length in SuperFreakonomics: “A doctor enters a hospital room to examine a patient, but neglects to wash her hands. A special badge on her lab coat turns a deep shade of re…
Foresight Links for Jan 24, 6:00 am
// January 24th, 2011 // No Comments » // Digests, Foresight
- Treating Genetic Disorders Before Birth, Anuradha Menon @ TFOT – The Future Of Things:
Physicians may one day be able to treat genetic blood diseases before a child is even born. In a study of mice that was published this week in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have found… - Phil Bowermaster on the Singularity, Michael Anissimov @ Accelerating Future:
Over at the Speculist, Phil Bowermaster understands the points I made in “Yes, the Singularity is the biggest threat to humanity”, which, by the way, was recently linked by Instapundit, who unfortunately probably doesn’t get the point I’m trying to make. Anyway, Phil said: Greater than human intelligences might wipe (Read more…) - Waiting For Betelgeuse To Explode: 2012? Second Sun?, Randall Parker @ FuturePundit:
Either we won’t live to see it or Betelgeuse could do a supernova explosion at any time and for a couple of weeks it’ll be much brighter out. The second biggest star in the universe is losing mass, a typical indication that a gravitation collapse is oc… - iPad 2 Won’t Have 2048 by 1536 Resolution, Anuradha Menon @ TFOT – The Future Of Things:
It’s unlikely the rumored iPad 2 tablet will have a screen resolution of 2048 by 1536 pixels–four times that of the current 1024-by-768 iPad. But future iPads might, according to research firm IDC. Citing sources from component manufacturers, Taiwanes… - Dying Star Betelgeuse Won’t Explode in 2012, Anuradha Menon @ TFOT – The Future Of Things:
The super-giant red star Betelgeuse in Orion’s nebula is predicted to cataclysmically explode, and the impending supernova may even reach Earth — someday. But will it happen by 2012, as recent news reports suggest? Probably not, experts told FoxNews.c…
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