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Ari Fishkind for I.B.M. David Lubensky, left, and Salim Roukos of I.B.M. are using many humans, namely the company’s 400,000 workers, to improve digital translation. via nytimes.com Crowd sourcing or maybe Employee-sourcing? This is an interesting way for an enterprise to develop internal tools. I wonder what other things could be done like this? Organization changes? [...] This Friday I had the internal speech within Volvo. I talked about Internet development and we are just in the middle of an exponential progress of the Internet.
Photo by mightyohm In 1985 the first CD ever was sold, it was an album by Dire Straits and later on Michael Jackson’s Thriller became the most sold CD (or LP) ever. Now when he is dead he will sell even more but that is also the death of the CD. For [...] Be it in assembly lines, the military or in surgery rooms in a hospital, today’s robots can perform highly complex tasks. The research of the day is to find robots that can work in team with us humans, also known as teamworkbots. They are supposed to observe human activity and try to understand the intentions. [...] In this video the surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr have a very fascinating speech about surgery in the past and in the future. She starts from the time when there was no pain killer, ouch! The main part is about surgery robots performing micro-surgery in places where humans just can’t. This quote (not verbatim), made [...] The paper-less society is near! Picture by Sarah G…
The next generation of eReaders have a great potential for saving paper and the next step some years later is digital paper or ePaper that eventually will replace eReaders. One thing that is so interesting with ePaper is that it’s flexible and bendable. The dream [...] Some technologies look so cool and nifty but they don’t change much of our life and behaviour. Other technologies might not look so interesting or sometimes even boring but will have a crucial role in our future lives. For instance 3D TV that I wrote about before will not have any special impact on our lives as [...]
Once upon a time we traded goods and services without any money at all. After a while we started to use gold and jewelry to pay goods and services. Later on we started to make coins with the same value as the metal it was made from. When banks where introduced and we [...] Maglev is short for magnetic levitation trains. These trains use electricity to power up magnets in order to float on a cushion of air over the ground. They reach 500 km/h and are really interesting alternatives to trains and [...] |
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