Big science thinker John Brockman asked scientists around the world one question: what breakthrough will change everything? We’ve got their answers.
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What Will Change Everything?
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In Future, Science Could Erase Traumatic Memories
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112531962
Scientists are beginning to understand why fearful memories are so persistent in the brain, and how they can be erased.
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Tim O’Reilly: The War for the Web
The early days of the internet were truly astonishing. As people came to comprehend the power of networked information, they seized the many opportunities for innovation created by the open architecture of the web. Of course, the browser wars also showed that threats to openness and interoperability were a real danger. Today, Tim O’Reilly worries that escalating competition between large companies and closed platforms may drive the web towards a battle ground of locked down services and proprietary data.
Tagged with tim o'reilly web future business interoperability web 2.0 conference
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Stewart Brand’s ‘Ecopragmatism’
In the 1960s, Stewart Brand became one of the country’s first and most famous champions of a new ecological awareness. His Whole Earth Catalog spoke to a generation of hippies and back-to-nature commune dwellers.
Now, at 70, Stewart Brand is calling on environmentalists to reframe their understanding of the problem — and solutions. It’s too late for back-to-nature, he says. Global warming is beyond that.
To survive now, Brand says, we need nuclear power, genetic engineering, giant cities. We must manage nature or lose civilization.
This hour, On Point: In the face of global warming, Stewart Brand redefines green.
http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/10/stewart-brands-ecopragmatism
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What’s Next? How Mobile is Changing Design by Brian Fling
Mobile is evolving, the web is adapting, and these two colossal worlds are about to collide to create something new. In order to design the experiences of this new contextual web, we need to change the way we look at design. In this talk Brian will provide his insights on some of the emerging trends in mobile design and share his thoughts on how we will design the interfaces of tomorrow.
http://2009.dconstruct.org/schedule/brianfling/
Brian Fling has been a leader in creating interactive experiences for both the web and mobile mediums. He has worked with hundreds of businesses from early stage start-ups to Fortune 50 companies to leverage new media around the needs of real peoples.
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Science Times: The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
Composites literally take to the road, multitasking teens, and can the future really prevent the present?
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The Thermals - Here’s Your Future
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To The Best Of Our Knowledge - The Future of Science Fiction
Space, the final frontier. But is science fiction the final frontier when it comes to being a literature of ideas? In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll wax philosophical about science fiction with two of the genre’s greatest writers — George R.R. Martin and Ursula K. Le Guin. And we’ll explore H.P. Lovecraft’s literary philosophy of "Cosmicism."
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Do Memes Shape Our Future? (part 1 Of 2)
Phil and Stephen, from The Speculist, talk about the importance of Memes and ask "How important are ideas in shaping the future"?
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The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought
Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks about the challenge or failure of predications and Black Swans. Recorded before the current global economic turmoil
Tagged with taleb longnow black swan predictions economics future
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