Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a the Constructal Law accounts for the evolution of these and all other designs in our world. Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, and Social Organization, written with J. Peder Zane, looks at how everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape and structure and evolves in a sequence of ever-improving designs in order to facilitate flow.
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Design in Nature
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Author Mark Hertsgaard: “Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years.”
Environmental journalist Mark Hertsgaard discusses his new book, "Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years." Writing from the perspective of a father, Hertsgaard outlines the changes he foresees happening in the global environment over the next fifty years, emphasizing how his five-year-old daughter’s generation will have to contend with the disruptions of climate change.
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The Speculist: The Technological Singularity
The World Transformed, Part 9
What is the Singularity? Is it the biggest transformation of all or wishful thinking on the part of nerds looking to have their very own "geek rapture?"
Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon welcome futurist and entrepreneur Ray Kurzweil to discuss how accelerating technological change will soon alter our world beyond recognition…and why that’s a good thing!
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/fastforwardradio/2009/08/19/The-Technological-Singularity
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Shift Index Report 2009
Moira speaks woth John Hagel about the long term trends in technology and the economy. Hagel is Co-chair of Deloitte’s Center for the Edge and the lead author of the Shift Index Report 2009: Measuring the Forces of Long-Term Change.
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Douglas R. Hofstadter: Trying to Muse Rationally about the Singularity Scenario
Tagged with singularity ray kurzweil future futurism innovation change ai intelligence
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Cory Doctorow: Singularity or Dark Age?
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On Point: Assessing the American Future (with Simon Schama and Niall Ferguson)
The British know something about rise and fall. Their Edward Gibbon wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Their own empire came and went.
Now, two big British historians and thinkers who live in the United States are thinking hard about the American future.
Simon Schama says he’s in love with America, and sees the makings of potential renewal emerging right now. Niall Ferguson admires America too, and sees — even so — the makings of disaster around us.
http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/05/assessing-the-american-future
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Compostmodern ‘08: Adam Webach
Adam Webach, CEO Saatchi & Saatchi S, discusses the sustainability revolution (and WalMart as a force for change in product and cultural improvement).
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Singularity Summit 2008 - Vernor Vinge and Bob Pisani
Vernor Vinge introduces the concept of the Singularity and explains why he believes it will happen before 2030.
All Singularity Summit 2008 recordings: http://singinst.org/media/singularitysummit2008
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To The Best Of Our Knowledge: Learning Outside The Box
Big box education is on the way out. Instead, imagine a future with schools of every variety available for mixing and matching, like sushi on a platter. Micro-schools, Waldorf Schools, part-time schools and more. And non-school alternatives like internships and single classes. That’s the future as seen by Matt Hern, an advocate for what he calls de-schooling. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, learning outside the box. And, redefining normal for kids on the short bus.
Jonathan Mooney says that "normal" is a social construct, not a medical one. Dan Zanes writes music for children of all ages. Matt Hern advocates alternative education. Michel Piechowski describes the way gifted children experience their lives. Sherman Alexie tries to teach an end to tribalism.
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