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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Moore's Law Explains Poor Education

Few people would debate that our educational system is flawed. Look in any newspaper, magazine, or blog that has an education section and you will find way too many articles which try to point out the problems and suggest how to fix them. According to these articles the problems range from anything and everything from poor teaching, to poor parenting, to not enough time in the classroom, to too much time in the classroom, to too much homework, to not enough homework, to poor curricula, etc. etc. etc. We are not here to debate any of this; only to give another perspective. It has become apparent to us that the best way to explain why our educational system is failing and is gradually getting worse is by looking at Moore's Law.
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The Myth Of "The Myth of the Paperless Office"

Will the office become paperless? Yes! In some areas it already is.

Stephen Wolfram: Computation & The Future of Mankind 6 @Singularity Summit 2011

Here is the conclusion of the lecture delivered by Stephan Wolfram, titled, Computation & The Future of Mankind, delivered at the Singularity Summit 2011.

Riley Crane, Reality Mining & Red Balloons

Alex Pentland, professor and founder of the Human Dynamics Lab in MIT, is using electronic ID badges, mobile phones and digital media to extract subtle patterns and predict human behavior. One of his postdoctoral students, Dr. Riley Crane has been assisting him in related areas of this research.

Andrea Rossi, ECat & Cold Fusion 2

We conclude our brief discussion of the research that has gone into producing cold fusion or more properly Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR).

FuturICT's Crisis Observatory 5b: A New Deal On Privacy

The dangers and blessings of a connected world? A "New Deal" on privacy is needed.

FuturICT's Crisis Observatory 5a: Data Mining, Reality Mining & Privacy

Have we inadvertently built a global time bomb, as our ad hoc global patchwork of devices make autonomous decisions based on their subjective interpretation of their surrounding world?

FuturICT's Crisis Observatory 4: Global Flight Simulator

We continue with FuturICT's proposal for a paradigm shifting initiative to bring the world together.

FuturICT's Crisis Observatory 3: Artificial Global Nervous System

How is top-down control the enemy of predictive systems?

FuturICT's Crisis Observatory: A Computer Model Of The Entire World 2

We continue with FuturICT's Living Earth Simulator.

FuturICT's Crisis Observatory: A Computer Model Of The Entire World 1

A knowledge accelerator turning massiva data into knowledge and technological progress called the Living Earth Platform? This is the plan of FutureICT's Dirk Helbing.

Culturomics: Time Wave Zero, Web Bot & Predictions 3a

Terrence McKenna's Time Wave Zero, and the Web bot - were they precursors to Culturomics?

Culturomics: Computers that Predict The Future? 3

Libyan revolution predicted? Bin Laden's location within 200 kilometers known?

Culturomics: Computers That Predict The Future? 2

Culturomics 2.0 - the new way to analyze the world.

Are there computer models that predict the turn of world events? Can they predict the actions of large numbers of people? What are geocoding, tone mining, and network analysis?