Archive for the ‘Efficiencies’ Category
At MIT, flowers as pharma factories
MIT invents what amounts to the universal chemical factory…genetically engineered periwinkles: here.
The technology appropriate to freedom
Michel Bauwens has another great article. This time on the future technologies of freedom: here.
Wireless sensors leading to “smarter” buildings
Wireless sensors for smart buildings
NRC (National Research Council Canada) has launched an ambitious multidisciplinary project to develop and link arrays of indoor environment sensors in order to help improve a building’s environmental health, energy efficiency and maintenance, as well as the general comfort of its occupants.
The previous link and quote comes from the wireless sensor networks blog: here.
Kashklash…a new form of collaboration?
Kashklash is an interesting idea about collaboration. I’m not sure it’s new or not new. Any ideas?
Electronic Goldmine…for those who can’t stand not building their own robots, etc
Find the store here.
Controlling diseases with math
ScienceDaily has an interesting discussion of collaboration between a mathematician and medical teams.
The future of battle robots
Wilson Quarterly has an interesting article that futurizes (if that is a word) the coming robotic battlefield. Perhaps the most interesting part is where robots are able to control and plan for combatants better than humans–robot officers.
People replacing institutions?
In a fascinating little article on Web Bank, Open Business askes whether people are replacing institutions. It’s a great question.
I’ve been re-reading March & Olsen’s Rediscovering Institutions lately. I must say it’s gotten a bit tired and I no longer burn with earlier enthusiasm for the work. Something profound is happening, and it is web-based.
A better solar collector
Technology Review has an interesting new short video on better solar collectors.
The large lecture class dying at MIT
From the useful Kurzweil AI daily newsletter…
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At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going
the Way of the Blackboard
New York Times Jan. 12, 2009
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In several leading universities, physicists have been pioneering teaching methods drawn from research
showing that most students learn fundamental concepts more successfully, and are better able to
apply them, through interactive, collaborative, student-centered learning. At MIT, students meet in
high-tech classrooms, where about 80 students…
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