Talks 
BIL is an unconference, so anyone can show up and give a talk. But it's helpful to plan ahead and share
with others your idea for a talk. Also if we get more talks than our main room can hold, the Crowd Favorites
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Please browse through these, "Fav" your favorites and leave helpful comments.
Note: we have closed talk submission. If you want to give a talk, please propose it using one of the whiteboards at the conference.
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Proposed By: John Re 4 month(s) ago
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1) How GNU free software can benefit you & the world, &
2) HowTo join the global online meeting from anywhere using VOIP.
On Feb 7 Sat join with the friendly, educational, productive,
BerkeleyTIP people at the Global BerkeleyTIP online monthly meeting,
& get or learn about GNU(Linux) or BSD Free Software.
BerkeleyTIP is a monthly global meeting about
GNU(Linux), BSD, & All Free Software, Hardware & Culture.
Join from anywhere via VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol)
- Use a headset on your computer with Ekiga VOIP software.
http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/
http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal
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BerkeleyTIP: TIP = Talks, Installfest, Potluck, ProgrammingParty
Talks: HowTo use or develop GNU Free SW - Videos & live
Installfest: Assistance installing & using software & hardware
ProgrammingParty: Work on you own ideas, or the group project.
** Great talks at the Feb 7 Saturday Global Meeting **
Ekiga3, Asterisk, GPGPU, GStreamer, Debian Edu,
HowTo Present KDE at meetings
Join from anywhere via VOIP conference,
Join the #berkeleytip freenode.net IRC channel for help getting your
VOIP working.
http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal/web/irc-voip
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***** FEB 7 SCHEDULE (California PacificST = -8h GMT) *****
Time Activity & Talks
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10 A Setup. Installfest begin. IRC & VOIP online
11 Ekiga 3 VOIP HowTo - Live
12 N Asterisk Free Software Telephone System
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2 GPGPU - General Purpose computing w/ Graphics Processing Units
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4 Debian Edu - 100% in main
5 GStreamer Multimedia Framework
6 HowTo Rock the Show with KDE -HowTo Present at Meetings
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===== JOIN THE BERKELEY-TIP MAILING LIST
Join the mailing list, say "Hi", & introduce yourself, or just follow
the discussions.
Click "Join this group" on the right side of the page.
http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal
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These days everyone is throwing darts in every direction hoping something will stick. Stop, slow down and breathe. Before you jump to hire more "experts" to show you the golden pathway to riches, why not just think about how you can create a company that is useful and fills a need. Be passionate about what you are building and then explore (before you start building) the monetization model the most simply fits with the utility. Remember, a business is two thing. One, a solution to a problem. And two, built to make money.
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As we all know, millions of people around the world were laid off in 2008 and the unemployment rate is predicted to continue its steep incline into 2009. Billions of tax dollars are being poured into financial bail outs, with little to no money contributing to actual job creation (only 12% of the "Jobs Bill" is actually going to create jobs… if that much). Entrepreneurs, however, are responsible for 50% of all job creation and 50% of total GDP! In the words of Tim Draper, now more than ever the world needs entrepreneurial heroes. Plainly put, the world needs entrepreneurs NOW!
The first-ever "World Entrepreneurship Day" aspires to rejuvenate the world during today's economic turmoil by involving universities and countries across the world to organize a wide array of events, activities, discussion forums, and networking opportunities to encourage and foster innovative, entrepreneurial leadership.
This session will provide updates on "World Entrepreneurship Day," which is in the process of applying for UN recognition. Specifically it will outline:
1) Why WED is necessary and why now.
2) How and why young people will endorse and participate in WED.
3) How you can get involved / how we could use your help.
Come contribute to an insightful vision for tomorrow's entrepreneurial leaders!
Presenter Info: Lauren owns and operates her own speaker agency. In addition, her "Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization" chapter at Bryant University won #1 Chapter in the Nation out of 200+ chapters, becoming the first ever to win back-to-back championships. Additionally, Lauren was honored to receive "Best Student Leader", chosen out of over 1,600 students. Last fall she brought the TED 2008 favorite Benjamin Zander to speak to a large cheering crowd of college students. It was during this talk that Zander established the Lauren Amarante Factor, which has become the center of her blog www.findyourfactor.com.
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Talking about how to get involved in your community in emergency and disaster preparedness. Tips on training, free online modules, organizations and upcoming conferences. http://communitysafetyprograms.com
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Proposed By: John Re 4 month(s) ago
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1) How GNU free software can benefit you & the world, &
2) HowTo join the global online meeting from anywhere using VOIP.
On Feb 7 Sat join with the friendly, educational, productive,
BerkeleyTIP people at the Global BerkeleyTIP online monthly meeting,
& get or learn about GNU(Linux) or BSD Free Software.
BerkeleyTIP is a monthly global meeting about
GNU(Linux), BSD, & All Free Software, Hardware & Culture.
Join from anywhere via VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol)
- Use a headset on your computer with Ekiga VOIP software.
http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/
http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal
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BerkeleyTIP: TIP = Talks, Installfest, Potluck, ProgrammingParty
Talks: HowTo use or develop GNU Free SW - Videos & live
Installfest: Assistance installing & using software & hardware
ProgrammingParty: Work on you own ideas, or the group project.
** Great talks at the Feb 7 Saturday Global Meeting **
Ekiga3, Asterisk, GPGPU, GStreamer, Debian Edu,
HowTo Present KDE at meetings
Join from anywhere via VOIP conference,
Join the #berkeleytip freenode.net IRC channel for help getting your
VOIP working.
http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal/web/irc-voip
=====================================================================
***** FEB 7 SCHEDULE (California PacificST = -8h GMT) *****
Time Activity & Talks
---- -------------------------------------
10 A Setup. Installfest begin. IRC & VOIP online
11 Ekiga 3 VOIP HowTo - Live
12 N Asterisk Free Software Telephone System
1 P "
2 GPGPU - General Purpose computing w/ Graphics Processing Units
3 "
4 Debian Edu - 100% in main
5 GStreamer Multimedia Framework
6 HowTo Rock the Show with KDE -HowTo Present at Meetings
=====================================================================
===== JOIN THE BERKELEY-TIP MAILING LIST
Join the mailing list, say "Hi", & introduce yourself, or just follow
the discussions.
Click "Join this group" on the right side of the page.
http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal
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Search is important today and will become increasingly important in the future. What will stay the same, and what will change? I will discuss a set of themes for the future at a broad level and look more deeply at trends including increasing importance of semantic, linguistic, voice, and gestural technologies for search.
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Mastering the art of the pitch is paramount to successfully engaging interested parties in whatever goal, vision, or dream you are trying to accomplish. Research suggests that over 80% of those delivering pitches fail to engage the audience. Don’t be one of the 80%. This Bil Session will teach you the core fundamentals for mastering the pitch along with key strategies and tactics that will significantly impact your next pitch. You will walk out of this session knowing how to create the Hollywood Pitch and the 3 minute Elevator Pitch. Time permitting, Troy will also cover key elements of the 15 minute Board Room Pitch.
Presenter’s Background: In 2001, Troy Byrd founded the Bryant University Global Entrepreneurship Program, which he led to national rankings by Entrepreneur magazine. Over the course of 7 years, Troy has witnessed a couple thousand pitches in various formats, environments, and settings. Furthermore, he has created, organized or served as a judge for more than 30 business plan or elevator pitch competitions including the largest college entrepreneurship pitch competition and the Global CEO Elevator Pitch Competition. He has served a guest lecturer on Mastering the Pitch at the Harvard Business School, Princeton, Arizona State University and more.
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Do you feel that the terms gay, straight, or bi don't fully describe you? That the simplistic notion of gay vs. straight as a single axis doesn't cut it? Come to this workshop and discover that each of us is characterized by (at least) seven axes of sexual orientation along which we move continuously throughout life. You will have an opportunity to position yourself along each of the seven axes, trace your sexual orientation history, and project your trajectory into the future. Participants will be able to identify and commune with other men and women who have followed and are following similar or different trajectories. This workshop is based on the pioneering work of the late Fritz Klein, MD, author of The Bisexual Option, who originated the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid (KSOG).
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Chair Massage and demonstration of massage techniques.
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With recent concerns over cloud computing and information portability and security, new data models need to emerge that better meet user needs.
This talk will discuss the real-world value of your information and suggest possible data models to insure and protect it so that it does not devalue.
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The Playpower Foundation (playpower.org) seeks to produce radically affordable, effective and fun Computer-Aided Learning (CAL) Games on ultra-low cost computers.
A $12 computer is bound to be met with some skepticism. But $12 computers are already for sale in India and China. They come with a full keyboard, mouse, game controllers, and two game cartridges. They connect to a TV as a display-- eliminating the cost of a screen. Importantly, these computers are based upon hardware that is now in the public domain, due to expired patents.
These computers can teach BASIC programming and typing--these two skills alone can make a $12 computer an economically transformative product.
Playpower is developing a wide range of other 8-bit learning games to help improve educational access around the world. That's right, 8-bit. Remember the Apple II? NES? The 6502 is coming right back at ya.
This talk will describe the history and future of the Playpower Foundation and the "radically affordable" $12 computer.
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Love hurts.
Broken hearts heal.
Institutions do not love, people do.
No one else will love for me.
I cannot break my own heart. Only after I allow someone into my heart can it be broken.
I will love my neighbor.
I will love my enemies.
I must feel loved myself to sustainably love others.
I cannot love everyone;
We can love everyone.
We can plan and share virtually and globally, but we must love physically and locally.
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The man-machine convergence has been deepening and quickening at an exponential rate. Is complete integration with our technology inevitable? This process is underway, and is happening so seamlessly you probably can't even remember what life was like before the Internet or your smartphone. Can you imagine life without those enhancements?
What advances can we expect in the next 5-10 years? When will these advances become available on the mass market? Will they be accepted? Does this process of convergence have a conclusion? And what's been taking so damn long?
This panel will be more reality check than flight of fancy, featuring discussion and Q&A with scientists, engineers, and artists presently exploring the coevolution of man and machine.
Moderated by: Alex Kawas
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The time and tools have come to enable anyone to empower themselves and socially inspire everyone to empower the world. The Empowerment Project is prototyping a social empowerment platform that will provide an API through which all kinds of apps, games and entertainment media can plug into a lifelong learning and getting-things-done system. The Empowerment connects debating ideas, learning skills and obtaining tools with an Open Missions system through which people can not just get things done, but also socially inspire their peers to follow in their footsteps or join forces to achieve common goals and organize empowered groups. And since the number one source of apathy is feeling too busy and indulging in entertainment to recharge, the best way to beat Warcraft/Bejeweled addiction is to make a new kind of game. Empowerment games are already emerging like America's Army and Rock Band which teach you skills like shooting, first-aid, singing and drumming. These games can go beyond teaching skills by actually offering missions like "Join the army", "Start a rock band", and by using the Empowerment API they'll be able to connect with your real lifelong learning profile. We now have the means to empower ourselves and inspire everyone to find out what empowerment means for themselves. It's time to finish the platform and set developers free to shape the future.
Learn more about The Empowerment project at http://www.empowerthyself.com
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The explanatory title may say it all, but as I'm an art worker visiting a conference largely dominated by scientists I though some conversation was in order on the important differences between the two fields of human endeavor and perhaps even make a bold attempt to try to bridge the divide. Most scientists could care less about art, and most artists feel that science rarely if ever offers them any new points of view. The few times the two coincide, they often fail in Franksteinian monsters that satisfy none of the goals of either practice. This will be an open discussion on the differences between art and science and as the title tells all, points of interesting concordance.
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This is a practical talk that tells you how to do enjoyable things that will take you around the world, while making the world a better place. How to finance your projects and events and make a living without a formal employer is also included.
Specific actions to take include:
1. How to write a book without ever looking at a blank page.
2. How to get governments and companies to pay for your trips and introduce you to their smartest people.
3. How to learn other languages quickly.
4. How to get articles published and use them as the basis for getting a book published.
5. How to organize conferences, and then build a community around using newsletters.
6. How to raise sponsorships
7. How to write a business plan and use it to raise money (six out of six of my last business plans were funded).
8. How to get interviewed over 1,000 times, including 700 times on television.
9. How to get the US government to mandate a vital technology.
10. How to make a company together with your loved one.
11. How to make $100 million on paper.
12. How to lose $100 million on paper and millions, and still retain the will to live, love, and then do yet another cool thing.
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In the less than three years' time, TOMS Shoes has sold and given more than 115,000 pairs of shoes to children in need all around the world. Join TOMS Founder and Chief Shoe Giver, Blake Mycoskie, as he shares the secret to TOMS success and explains why giving is the best business of all!
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Advertising touches a huge part of our lives. Consider the 2009 Presidential Election and the different vehicles of advertising used.
What is the state of advertising today, and what will it morph into in the future?
This will be a critical look at advertising, featuring insights from advertising industry experts.
We will cover: traditional media (print, newspapers, magazines), television, radio, and online advertising, as well as provide a crystal ball glimpse into the future of advertising.
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Travel tips and techniques, including:
- How to give a successful bribe
- How to jump from a moving train
- The most likely way you will die
- What to do if you have no money
- Why you should take up smoking
- Why it's great to be an American
- Negotiating with criminals
Bio: Mike has spent time in approximately 25% of the world's countries. He has been held up at gunpoint three times, interrogated for drug smuggling, rented a tank, worked on an opium poppy plantation, hung out with war criminals, and been offered enlistment in one rebel army.
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We are on the cusp of a dramatic shift in computing: most of the next two billion internet users will use a mobile phone to browse the web. Forget the $100 laptop - a cheaper computer is probably sitting in your pocket right now. I'll be leading a discussion about the rise of the mobile internet, specifically:
- Data and trends: mobile internet usage in the US, India, China, and Japan
- The new platform wars: Apple's iPhone vs. Google's Android
- Mobile content: the rise of the App Store, the shrinking role of carriers, and changing cost economics
- Location: applications from advertising to social networking
- Mobile payments: the future of money and banking
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Why it actually does matter where you choose to shop. A review of resources, discussion of ideas, and call to action for people concerned with a healthy community and a strong local economy.
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As producer and host of the SIGGRAPH Cyberfashion Show from 2002 through 2005, I had the opportunity to try almost every major commercial wearable computer system that's ever been on the market. Some worked well, others were highly problematic, but all failed to create any noticeable consumer base. Yet even before I watched these products fail, I had an inkling that their general approach-- shrinking a laptop down to wearable scale-- was less effective than the possibilities for expanding up from mobile phones. The accelerating evolution of the mobile platform over the last few years supports this thesis, however few products have yet capitalized on the potential to transform the current race of high end smart phones into fully integrated and truly mobile information and communication systems. My talk will start with a brief overview of wearable computer history, covering both commercial systems and peripherals as well as some famous homemade rigs. From there I'll move on to some currently available accessories and DIY approaches that might help transform you and your phone into a Neal Stephenson style gargoyle. I'll finish up with imaginings for the future: What hardware and software will need to be developed for the most effective functionality? What role will style have in developing a strong consumer base for this new breed of gargoyle systems? What can we do to bring this nascent geek fantasy to life?
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(and why we keep repeating our mistakes)
A look at the sidelines of history, to many of the research projects and products that promised to change how we use technology, but ultimately failed to make a big change in our everyday lives. Nostalgy for the lost opportunities, reminiscing about the promised futures,
and an insistent hope that one day some of these things will come true, in one form or another. Hopefully these old new ideas will spur new innovation in you.
The topics covered will mostly be in the realm of computers and electronic gadgets, as that is what I've fiddled with.
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What if there was a simple and basic human skill that was overlooked, or perhaps forgotten? What if it were possible for ordinary people using only breathing and body awareness to consistently cause dramatic spontaneous structural realignment with only a light touch? What if first day students had ability to powerfully accelerate the body’s ability to heal itself and reduce pain as well as inflammation…?
To introduce myself, I’m considered one of the modern pioneers of energy healing. My first book, “Your Healing Hands” (a best-seller) came out 30 years ago and is still in print (now in 12 languages). My most recent book is in 14 languages and my business has a presence in over 50 countries.
While I’m not a physician or scientist, I do have a simple method which routinely astounds physicians, chiropractors, physical therapists, scientists, and virtually all who have closely encountered this work, Quantum-Touch.
Alternative Medicine Magazine called Quantum-Touch, “A Significant Breakthrough” and “An essential skill for every lay person and professional practitioner.” Dr. C. Norman Shealy, MD, Ph.D. tested QT on a group of his most difficult chronic pain patients and called it, “The first technique that may truly allow us all to become healers.”
Many will presume that our results are merely due a psychological mechanisms, however this works equally well with infants, animals, plants, and people under general anesthesia. In my opinion, the implications of this knowledge will eventually impact our understanding of physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, psychology, and botany.
Come experience demonstration sessions.
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What is this happiness thing and how do I get more of it? Many people seek happiness but how many take this search seriously? Have you spent as much time researching happiness as you spent researching the last car you bought?
I'll talk about some of the science related to happiness along with some personal anecdotes and ideas I can't find research to back up.
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Are you having difficulties finding the right man or woman to date?
Do you find yourself nervous when trying to approach new people?
Do you want to improve your social and dating lifestyle?
Many men and women are completely clueless about what attraction really is.
They make it so hard on themselves to find someone good to date when attraction really starts with yourself.
Are you open and in tune with who you are?
Do you really listen to your own desires?
Do you express yourself confidently and powerfully?
Do you live an attractive lifestyle?
David Wygant, the most trusted dating expert in the nation comes to explain to you what attraction really is all about and how attracting the opposite sex is a lot simpler than you think.
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How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? When does life begin? What do we know? Are there some things we never will have answers for?
In our race for science, faith and reason, the hubris of man is the detrimental obstacle to greater understanding and wisdom.
Gordy Grundy will read his piece that was first performed at 'Inauguration Subversion' at Stories in Echo Park. He will then open the topic for discussion.
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Traditionally open source development has been conducted under the direction of a "benevolent dictator" who guides the community of developers along a path they have crafted. Whilst this works for many projects in the early stages, it is easy for this "benevolent dictator" to become blind sided and loose real focus, fail to listen to the needs and demands of the community, or simply loose interest, which can leave the project to fail. Democratic Source Development changes this paradigm by ensuring that projects are carried out in a democratic fashion with no individual with ultimate control. Democratic Source is an idea inspired by the One Click Organisations project, in which it was first used. By ensuring that all team members have equal footing in a projects future, and a creating flat, dynamic contributor structure, you can ensure your projects are written by the community, for the community, with the ideas of the community.
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Though some areas of SENS, such as stem cells and amyloid immunotherapy, are sufficiently mainstream not to need Methuselah Foundation funding, most are still relative backwaters that rely on the MF to progress. As a result of the great generosity of our donors, we trebled the diversity of our research in 2008. I will give an overview of the research projects that the MF is now funding, their significance to SENS, and their potential to lead to accelerated progress towards the defeat of aging in 2009 and beyond.
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Hacker spaces have been around for years. But something is afoot! In the past several months new hacker spaces have been popping up all over our planet -- and established hacker spaces have become way more popular. There is even an international organization called Hackerspaces.org that exists to promote the continuation and formation of hacker spaces everywhere. Coinciding with this unprecedented movement is a growing popularity of hacker conferences, Maker Faires, Dorkbots, crafting groups, other geeky groups. What is going on here? And how can you benefit?
Mitch (co-founder of Noisebridge, a hacker space in San Francisco) and other members of Hackerspaces.org will talk about their experiences and outlooks, including how to start your own hacker space where you live.
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OpenStreetMap has been called the Wiki-map of everything. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive or unexpected ways. OpenStreetMap was born from a very simple idea; Let members of every community map all the important places in their lives and we will soon have a map of everything.
Steve Coast, Co-Founder of CloudMade and Founder of OpenStreetMap, will introduce you to the background, tools and methods of this community-sourced free world map. He will demonstrate why maps are more important than you may realize; highlighting some of the amazing innovations and collaborations you can foster when the underlying map data itself can be freely shared, allowing you to build different maps for your own (or anyone else's) special need. So what are you waiting for? Get out and get mapping so that next time, you can tell us about the way you are using the map that we couldn't possibly have imagined.
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Investors have been sold snake-oil solutions to the ailments of old age to such an extent that the industry has been damaged. Aging is incredibly complex, yet many biologists have attacked its health problems by looking for therapeutics affecting the proliferation of cells in culture and other reductive phenotypes. The complex multiple pathologies of aging and their interdependencies with each other, and with functional health, are beyond them. Smart investors know there is no magic bullet. There are biotech start ups promoting 21st century science that they say is part of the path leading to the elusive fountain of youth, and these will be surveyed. But the important question is how can an investor differentiate the charlatans and no-hopers from real prospects? A very substantial part of the answer can be found in the raw computing power of the most ancient of all of life's processes … evolution itself. For the past thirty years, evolutionary biologists have been using laboratory selection to turn short-lived animals into long-lived animals. By combining the raw computing power of evolution with leading-edge genomic tools, the systemic complexity of aging that has baffled biologists for so long can be overcome. Finally, we have the tools needed to manage the complexity of this risky aging business.
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Now is no worse than any other time to start a business. And many of us will have to do that. I'll help. I've started three and helped hundreds more, and self-sufficiency through entrepreneurship is my mantra and passion,
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Lulan Artisans is a locally driven social venture that forms an alliance of textile designers and gifted artisans in Southeast Asia to produce luxurious hand-woven fabrics. By providing economic opportunity, we help preserve artisan skills while creating environmentally sensitive fabrics and sustainable livelihoods for our artisan partners, their families and communities.
Come hear about Lulan Artisans, how we established our innovative business model, personal stories about the people and the countries in which we work, how we are ready to expand our reach but will need to navigate that during the global economic downturn.
To learn more about Lulan Artisans, visit www.lulan.com
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By 2050, the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) are projected to make up more than half the world's GDP. (Goldman Sachs) Already, China is the world’s fourth largest economy, but with a GDP per capita 10 times less than the US.
As Parag Khanna of the New York Times would say, the “second world” is taking over.
So, what’s going on in each of these four countries? I’ll be traveling to all four in 2009 and would love to talk with you about your experiences in each place and your prognostications for a globalized world. Check out my blog at www.brictour.blogspot.com.
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Far too many Americans have a soda habit. Whether regular or diet, soda is unhealthy in itself and also encourages bad dietary habits in general. However, it's hard for most people to switch to boring drinks like water.
I had a soda habit starting when I went to college. I also had an obesity problem after I graduated. I found quitting my soda habit to be the key to solving my obesity problem once and for all.
I didn't switch to water. Instead, I tried, and learned to appreciate unsweet drinks. In my talk I will share insight into how I made the switch.
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The Innovation Engine of our nation, our university system, is famous around the world for producing new technology concepts and ideas. These concepts sometimes become products that improve our lives and a few of them even disrupt existing industries. Yet for all the fame that the university innovation process gets, the truth is that it is difficult and unpredictable. Out of all the money going into university research there is only about a 1% return or less that results from commercialization. Bringing these technologies to market can represent a golden opportunity for entrepreneurs. However, they still run into obstacles. Successes out of our universities often happen by chance or luck. We will go over why it is currently so difficult to commercialize university technologies and try to come up with solutions to better harvest some of our brightest minds.
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The talk will explore how scripts, experiments, checklists, and
quality control can educate and save lives. Explore the history of
the cure for scurvy and the role checklists have come to play in
modern surgery. Learn about Project Follow Through, the largest
educational experiment ever performed. See the data on Direct
Instruction (DI), the method that demonstrated it could bridge the
educational gap between low social economic status and middle class
kids. Developed by Zig Engelmann, DI is a curriculum engineered to
teach all children. DI goes against the grain of modern education by
grouping kids based on skill and rate of learning, teaching to mastery
not the test, and building feedback and accountability into all levels
of the system. DI was empirically proven to work at teaching
children, but yet it failed politically. Why?
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It's 2009, and why don't we have artificial intelligence yet? A recent intriguing trend known as "deep learning" might be the key. In a deep architecture, the input is passed through multiple layers, for example pixels become edges become shapes become faces. This is similar to how, in the brain, an input signal is passed through many layers of neurons, from one to the next to the next and so on. Deep architectures for AI are plausible from theoretical, neurological, and intuitive perspectives. However, most current AI techniques are shallow. Why? People have been talking about deep learning for a while, but only as of two years ago do we really know how to train them. This talk will informally introduce deep learning. I will also suggest applications to information retrieval which are enabled by deep learning. Are you good at seeing how an important trend in one field can have an impact on everyday lives today? Then maybe you'll have other ideas!
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IS clean WATER the new GOLD?
IS high speed COMMUNICATION a NECESSITY?
Are WE ready to DRIVE ELECTRIC?
Can WE live NET POSITIVE?
An introduction to the design of The Triad Infinity Utility Station. Are we ready to change the way we live? Energy, Water, Communication, Transportation, and Waste Water Treatment for 100 homes, sustainbly generated optimizing renewable resources, solar, wind, biofuels, aerobic. What is a VWT, what is AWG, what is Solar Stirling, and what is Aerobic WWT?
How Obama's plan will sell us short. How Pickens's plan is a false solution with peak natural gas around the corner.
How can we deploy The Triad Infinity Utility Station on mass scale. Where can we find Angel funding, and why this is an easier solution.
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Fallen Fruit is a collaboration between artists David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Using fruit as our lens, Fallen Fruit investigates urban space, ideas of neighborhood and new forms of located citizenship and community. From protests to proposals for new urban green spaces, we aim to reconfigure the relation between those who have resources and those who do not, to examine the nature of & in the city, and to investigate new, shared forms of land use and property. Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration that began with creating maps of public fruit: the fruit trees growing on or over public property in Los Angeles.
Over time our projects have expanded from mapping public fruit to include Public Fruit Jams in which we invite the citizens to bring homegrown or public fruit and join in communal jam making; Nocturnal Fruit Forages, nighttime neighborhood fruit tours; Community Fruit Tree Plantings on the margins of private property and in community gardens; Public Fruit Park proposals in Hollywood, Los Feliz and downtown LA; and Neighborhood Infusions, taking the fruit found on one street and infusing it in alcohol to capture the spirit of the place.
From these projects we produce images, videos, and installations for a variety of public spaces. Fallen Fruit is focussed on producing art objects and on creating new rituals, events and formats to connect strangers in kinetic and nomadic ways.
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Come and see how we can tell what the climate is like on extrasolar planets and where new planets may be forming. The Spitzer Space Telescope is the last of the Great Observatories and after five and a half years of probing the universe in the infrared we have gained great new insight about a wide range of topics from planets orbiting around other stars, to the birthplace of new stars, to black holes in the distant universe.
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Here's an opportunity to check "Run a program on a supercomputer" off your things to do before you die list.
I'll walk through the steps required to create, edit, and submit jobs on the ASU supercomputer, Saguaro. We'll cover basic Unix commands, run some shell scripts, and do "Hello World" over thousands of processors. When its over, you'll have printable proof to show your friends.
This session is intended for beginners, but people interested or involved in high performance computing or scientific computing are welcomed to join and discuss their work.
This will be a technical talk and is more suited to small groups or one-on-one experiences, so look for it in one of the smaller side rooms.
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Water in the West is scarce, but much of this scarcity is man-made. We have encouraged demand by setting water prices too low. We have strained our supplies by moving water over long distances.
Even without this supply-demand imbalance things would be hard, but climate change is making things worse by increasing demand (hotter climate) and reducing supplies (less snow and rain, shifting northwards).
In this talk, I will outline an "integrated" solution to water mismanagement that works at the wholesale (environment vs urban vs agriculture) and retail (some water for free; pay for more) segments of water management.
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The Institute for Biomedical Gerontology in Tempe, Arizona is a volunteer operated rag-tag effort to cure human aging. In line with the methods of our parent organization, the Methuselah Foundation, we try to sustainably repair the damage that aging does to our bodies.
We will introduce proof-of-concept stage research results from our portfolio, in areas such as macular degeneration, atherosclerosis, diabetes and immune system aging. In all these areas, university professors in their bureaucratic wisdom had been failing for decades to develop direct damage-repair approaches. When our volunteers got to work on the same problems, their out-of-the-box thinking lead to success on a shoestring budget, using ancient technology, in no time at all. However, our journey has only just begun. Our next challenges are to rally and professionalize our portfolio, and become a streamlined translational research facility. We need carry on developing our unconventional approach to the point where we can attract interest from deep-pocketed partners to make these therapies available to the aging patients of earth.
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Over 100 artists from Los Angeles and around the US are collaborating on a new artistic endeavor designed to meld physics and metaphysics, heaven and earth through lightning experiences, a sort of Cirque meets Tesla. As we wrap preproduction and install the Lightning Temple this spring our magi are rewriting the rules of collaboration across diverse networks. Help us crowdsource the next evolution of energetic research as we explore opportunities for direct experiences with power, light and energy on tour this year.
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I run a blog (X Prize Cars) about the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize, a $10,000,000 prize for a race of 100 MPG vehicles. I created the blog in order to collect technical information and stories about the teams and their vehicles.
I'll present details of the prize, as well as the dozen most prominent teams/vehicles, and then open up the discussion for questions and concerns about the future of transport.
http://xprizecars.com/
http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/
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Meta-Civilization: how to think about civilizations as if you'll outlive them all.
Understand, steer, optimize, engineer...
http://www.metaciv.com/
http://wiki.metaciv.com/
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Lucid Living™: Consciously Harvest the Power of Dreams to Boost Success & Life Mastery (45 min.)
Discover how to tap and integrate powerful wisdom of the dreaming mind so
that it can become the inner compass, supportive life tool, and unparalleled source of creative inspiration and insight that it is meant to
be. Learn the science and history along with practical applications and proven techniques for inducing, recognizing and applying dreams, lucid dreams, and hunches to enhance success, fun and fulfillment in this waking world adventure that we call life. Understand how recurring themes in both our dreams and in our waking lives not only offer us direct feedback about where we are in
relation to our most fulfilled life blueprint, but also continually guide us towards it, both in our professional and personal lives. Find out about powerful consciousness techniques and tools to renovate your
psychophysiological operating system on all levels in order to make profound
physical, emotional and mental breakthroughs. Be prepared to have
your mind stretched, your heart opened, and your funny bone tickled.
About the Presenter
Craig Sim Webb is Executive Director of The non-profit DREAMS Foundation (www.dreams.ca), as well as a professional speaker/trainer/author, dream analyst/researcher, and performing/recording musician. He has participated in pioneering dream and consciousness research at Stanford University and Montreal's Sacre-Coeur Hospital, and has spent 15 years, practicing, studying, writing, and teaching about dreams, dream interpretation, lucid dreaming, conscious communication and biofeedback with a refreshing, style that blends soul, science, heart and humor.
As an author/columnist and hired/invited expert for feature motion pictures, international TV shows, magazines, and others, he's broadcast/published numerous cutting edge practical psychology concepts as well as interviews with leading visionaries. He and his work have made hundreds of international public/media/corporate appearances in such places as Fortune 500 companies, The Discovery Channel, ABC, BBC, CBS, TLC, AOL, MSN, The London Times, The New York Times, internationally syndicated articles/radio shows, and many others. He has also designed biofeedback technologies with worldwide distribution, and helped found/produce Making Contact, a progressive international radio show airing weekly on ~200 stations for nearly 15 years.
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If you can't make the presentation, Craig ia also available for private consultations/training (www.craigwebb.ca), plus an online training program will be starting in a few weeks, visit: www.dreams.ca/teleclass.pdf
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Change is difficult -- especially within organizations that are resistant to it. This talk outlines ways in which people within organizations can facilitate change without getting destroyed in the process... It is also a plea for help -- as I am interested in modeling some of the theoretical propositions outlined in the talk.
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You've probably heard about the concept of "Aging In Place," adapting homes to support people being able to stay there as they age. We think that's great, but not nearly enough. "Aging In Community" is a broad term for alternative models making a difference in the lives of our friends and neighbors, adding new choices
Aging in Community is a ragtag movement of ordinary people banding together and stepping forward to fill in gaps of the patchwork of care with overlapping efforts, regional and national, different models dedicated to:
* Building “village model” support structures that can help us stay in our homes, connecting to neighbors rather than isolating ourselves as we age.
* Creating new cohousing neighborhoods and EcoVillages specifically designed to provide homes that we can live out the rest of our lives in, transforming our collective impacts on the earth for the benefit of generations yet to come.
* Forming Elders’ Guilds and studying Sage-ing where we together re-imagine old age and embody the wisdom to help heal the future.
* Becoming Earth Elders dedicated to creating a just, sacred, and sustainable future.
* Embarking upon our Second Journeys together, creating new visions of conscious aging and community for the second half of life.
* Supporting developers creating ElderFire communities, ElderShire neighborhoods, and "GreenHouse" nursing homes
* Sharing strategies to make our cities and towns into Aging-Friendly Communities that will meet our aging populations’ needs.
* Supporting each other with Senior Networks that keep people connected and engaged through computer communications.
Come share your ideas and fears, concerns and questions, inspirations and opportunities about the one universal future for all of us: aging.
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With Social Media getting so much attention, most people focus on the latest tools (Twitter, Flickr etc.). All of these services are still powered by people, and the human psychology and sociology hasn't changed.
We'll be covering a few easy tips on understanding social dynamics that will help you do everything from improving your social media efforts, to getting more dates. Yes, getting dates is mostly psychology.
Come see applied psychology in usable, practical terms that they never taught us in college.
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I will be introducing the Information Integration Theory of
consciousness, the only plausible (and substrate-neutral!) theory of
consciousness Science has come up with. I will describe the theory, its ramifications, and present ongoing work to quantify the consciousness of small neural networks. Talk will include demos.
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At The Church of Internetology, we help you get to know the ONE so you can be prepared for the coming apocalypse. Please join me and Kelly Cree for a brief, invigorating mass that will both inspire you and challenge your perceptions and uses of the internet. We focus on a design methodology that anyone can apply to their own lives, using niche audiences and a lack of privacy to our advantage.
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I'd like to have a discussion of the magazines, blogs, research journals, etc that you read to get your science and technology news.
Heavy on the sciences please (less on the social tech side).
E.G. Seed, Science News, Scienceblogs, PhysOrg, Scientific American, etc.
Bring copies!
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Cutting edge technology is cool. But it really makes an impact in the world when it's practically applied.
I'll discuss questions to ask yourself to make your technology and discoveries more practical - and ultimately more adoptable and successful.
I'll draw on my experience as a product manager in Silicon Valley for VRML in 1996 and AJAX in 2000 and share what I learned.
I might have some examples of ways to make current technology (and science breakthroughs) more practical.
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I've given a number of talks on software design and documentation methodology in the past. It has recently occurred to me that there is a lot of overlap between elements of those systems and learning/teaching dance and martial art. In software engineering and mathematics, one of the primary paradigms is the concept of modularity -- that is, breaking complex tasks and systems down into more easily manageable units that can be independently completed and verified. In teaching dance and martial art, the general approach is to teach individual steps or techniques, and then as the student becomes more proficient, the modular elements become integrated into the whole.
Further, the iterative nature of the above tasks, and increasingly complex development lend themselves to new methods of self-organization and new approaches to personal metrics and planning. Hence the growing popularity of systems like Getting Things Done (GTD). In a lot of ways, GTD and the like are ways to implement software design methods and apply them to real world tasks. Although the concept of metrics is usually applied to software or to hard engineering disciplines, they can be very useful in any complex endeavor, and the same approaches apply.
Today, there are a multitude of tools available for implementing such approaches. This talk will be split between discussion of the philosophical principles linking complex systems and tools that make the process of working with them more manageable.
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Over 3 billion live on less than $2.50 a day. Half of humanity is struggling to improve their situation or die trying. Do we simply turn to Bill and Warren for answers? US AID? The more than 10,000 international development groups registered at WiserEarth.org?
Many common problems have been and continue to be solved at the grassroots level. How can those solutions be leveraged by the rest of humanity? What can possibly scale to reach 3B people?
You know the answer. Technology is not our challenge, and even deployment is well on the way. Instead, the challenge is establishing a culture of expansive collaboration among those doing good work.
A discussion on how to drive this culture.
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Presented by Alexis Bright and Gayle Young
Einstein said "The problems of this world can't be solved at the same level of consciousness that created them."
Personal evolution has to precede global, social and technological evolution at individual and collective levels to create a foundation for a more agile, innovative and compassionate future society (with better sex). We will give an overview of adult development over lifespan based on the work of Harvard researchers, and then talk about the broader implications for a future world that includes life extension, the Singularity, and other complexities that don't currently exist.
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In the face of a continually evolving global threat environment comprised of both natural and manmade threats, we must use 'Smart Power' to protect our nation and its interests. With 'Smart Power,' diplomacy and partnership are the vanguards of foreign policy. ‘Smart Power’ is the full range of tools at our nation’s disposal from ‘Soft Power’, or humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, to ‘Hard Power,’ or traditional warfare. The future of ‘Smart Power’ will be discussed with an emphasis on soft power research, experimentation, and collaboration.
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Todd and Tony and I would like to chat about coworking and outworking as solutions for the need to outsource innovation. That is, as large firms downsize and shed staff, legions of creative technologists are positioning to help redefine 'BigCo as a network of distributed talent that comes together on a project by project basis to solve wicken problems.' This is a corporate world where the company picnic has 4 atendees,and they are all losers. The value-adding contributors are on tour with the Grateful Dead!
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You're walking through an African urban center and you're trying to find stories that showcase African ingenuity. What do you see? Look closer.
It all looks like junk, it's dirty. Look closer.
You start talking to a few people and you realize that what you thought was junk isn't... In fact, it's an ingenious solution to something you never would have thought of in your Western-context run mind.
Welcome to AfriGadget and the art of finding cool stuff in Africa.
This is one of my favorite talks to give, because the audience takes part and makes it a truly participatory time.
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You've watched Gattaca. You've read a Brave New World.
And you hear all the time about how much information is stored in your
body. But when are we going to learn anything useful that will change
what happens when you go to the doctor's office? The answer: Sooner
than you think. In this talk, biotechnology advocate Jonathan Sheffi
explains personalized medicine and how it will change your life in
ways you never expected.
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Exercise is not only necessary for physical fitness, it's a vital component of mental fitness as well.
Drawing upon my research in Spinal Cord Injury and Parkinson's as well as current studies in education, I will discuss the ways exercise makes us smarter, happier, and can even treat disease.
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Imagine a vastly accelerated research and development cycle using an entire Open Innovation process from start to finish. In both commercial and academic labs, scientists would log results using Open Protocols such as Open Wetware. In the next stage, scientists submit to Open Access journals—but the process of peer review would be ongoing as “real time publication” allowed researchers to transform results into a publication along a continuum that ranged from initial reports to rough drafts to final submissions. A paper would never be “finished” as critique and response would be ongoing long after publication. New, sophisticated reputation "feedback" algorithms (like those powering Ebay or Amazon but designed for science), supplant the old static journal model. Young post-docs, instead of laboring under a stultifying grant system that rewards conservatism and incrementalism, pitting researchers against each other for an artificially limited number of spots, could simultaneously compete and collaborate with others around the globe, using platforms such as that being developed by India’s Open Source Drug Discovery Foundation. Work done on open source projects would allow young researchers to build prestige, without regard to traditional hierarchy. New funding mechanisms such as microfinance for science and Open Innovation prizes, would spur progress and provide further incentives.
Next, research tools would be widely shared and disseminated, not hidden behind industrial secrecy or priced out of reach via an exclusive license. Platform “enabling technologies” in some of the most important emerging biomedical fields (gene therapy/stem cells) would be maintained as a “protected commons.” Such “Open Standards” in biotech would clearly benefit all interested parties, especially patients desperately awaiting cures. The widespread penetration of these “upstream” technologies would utterly transform the landscape of the biotechnology industry, disrupting concentrations of power that have accumulated over the past few decades and allowing entire ecologies of enterprise to spring up, colonizing “niches” that multi-nationals neglect in the pursuit of only the highest margin returns.
In this revitalized context, as technologies approached commercialization stage, a
huge variety of business models would be available using non-exclusive licensing and Open Source inspired agreements where appropriate, or allowing royalty free use for "neglected" diseases, crops, etc. Whatever model a particular company pursued would depend on its particular sector of the life sciences (diagnostics, vaccines, drug discovery, plant breeding, etc)… the point is that there are a huge range of alternative organizational models that have remained unexplored. Tragically, the world’s citizens have silently stood by while stagnant multi-nationals pursued a typical merger/acquisition power grab that has consolidated critical technologies in the hands of a few who are not motivated to use them except when they can extract maximum monopoly rents.
Finally, regulatory reform would create transparency in clinical trials, preventing conflicts of interest and making sure the data was publicly available for all to see. Profits would not come at the expense of patients.
Now look at reality. I am many things, but naïve is not one of them. Without massive coordinated effort we shall surely fail to achieve a Free and Open Science and Technology Paradigm. The vision I sketch needs to come about within the next decade if humanity is to make any progress against our interrelated great challenges—Energy, Climate, Health, Food Security, and Poverty. By 2019 there must be a distributed, global network of institutions participating in the governance of Science and Technology. I hope you share my excitement for this unique instant in history when it is finally possible for mankind, a species distinguished and defined by its capacity to use tools, to unleash the unlimited problem solving powers of the tool of tools, science.
Join me so we can figure this out!
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Have you ever seen an awesome idea die because the people working on it couldn't get along? Or maybe they couldn't influence those who were supposed to benefit from using their idea, so nothing changed and the status quo just dragged on and on?
Or maybe you work somewhere that frustrates the daylights out of you because it COULD be so fantastic, but people go all knuckle-headed when they get into a group meeting or a personal disagreement. It's like the normally sane, cool people we know outside of work transform into some mentally/emotionally amputated version of themselves at work.
This fascinates me. And frustrates me. And motivates me. I think one of the biggest bottlenecks to making a better world happen is the way we relate to each other 1-1 and in small groups.
Whether you want to fix the organization you work in, be more effective in swaying people to get behind your great idea, or just laugh at how preposterously insane we can be when we have to deal with Those Damned Other People Who Are Doin It Wrong, I hope you'll join me and others for this session.
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This presentation will reveal the reality of technology and economics in the solar photovoltaic industry and how incredibly misdirected the billions of dollars in government subsidies are, to the detriment of the solar technologies and other solutions that could actually make a difference (hint: they're not the panels you helped your neighbor pay for to put on their roof). The talk will include an overview of some of the realistic solutions, how special interests have hijacked sustainability, and how the media has dropped the ball, contributing to the ongoing deception of environmentalists and the public at large.
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The age normalized cancer death rate in America has only dropped 5 percent over the last 55 years despite the dramatic advances in cancer screening. Most of the small reduction can be accounted for the large drop in smoking over this time period. Science, under its current paradigm, has largely failed to adequately address cancer, and many other leading diseases. The costs of clinical studies are very expensive so we cannot afford to test the numerous potential pre-clinical treatments clinically; therefore there is a need for selection of the best potential treatment for clinical testing. However, under the current science paradigm the selection of treatments for clinically testing is biased and flawed, and therefore leads to many failed clinical results and little improvement in cancer death rates.
Part of the current science problem is that there is a selective bias of publishing positive results, and when researchers fail to replicate a finding it is often not published, and/or ignored. Basic science research is largely politically (mainly at the scientist subfield level), and/or profit driven, as in every other aspect of society. It tends to be the large, well funded, labs or pharmaceuticals that can push a treatment to clinical testing, rather than the actual best treatment. Only when the built in biases in our science are eliminated will the optimal pre-clinical treatment be identified and significant improvements in cancer death rates affected.
What is required is a transparent, open-source, high throughput, blinded comparisons of numerous pre-clinical treatments. This paradigm would allow objective testing of treatments and eliminate the bias of; politics, monetary, scientists’ egos, funding pressure, false positives; selective reporting of results, fraud, etc, that dominates current health science research.
The proposal calls for a fully transparent (everything posted on the net from lab books to final results), open-source, testing done in a blinded, high-throughput, low-cost fashion. With grants from health foundations a small dedicated team of 5-8 PhD trained personal would set up a lab in a developing country (e.g. India) and train a large group of local technicians (first multiplication) to handle the high throughput standardized techniques. Much of the scoring of many tests (e.g. counting of dead or living cells from digital pictures) could be accomplished by online world-wide volunteers (user participation - second multiplication), performed in triplicate and compared, further lowering the cost and making the research user-driven. With the active end-user participation and with the users having a vested interest in the cure/treatment this could possibly lead to even greater donation to the project. Low cost cloud computing would be used to store and analyze the large data set of information (all open access), which can be done by anybody with net access.
This paradigm is not meant to replace basic research as for this new research paradigm to be possible the basic research has to first identify potential treatments. The implementation of this new science paradigm would allow for the first time in health science research an objective comparison, free of bias built in to the current system, and optimal selection of pre-clinical treatments for clinical studies. This idea has the potential to lead to less people suffering and dying from numerous diseases, including cancer, by unparalleled advances in health science. This is a call for a revolution in health science research.
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Currently there's a wave of interest in democratic innovation. This is mostly focused on parliamentary and electoral systems. But some of the most disruptive innovations are happening at completely different levels.
The One Click Organisations project is developing an electronic platform where you can set up and manage a legal structure for your club, campaigning group, social project or cooperative. Just select a name, choose from a menu of options (eg how new members can join) and click “Go”. One Click Organisations will take care of the rest: maintaining a constitution, a register of members and officers plus an streamlined system for voting on group decisions.
In this session Charles Armstrong traces the historical relationship between technology and new organisational forms, introduces the idea of emergent democracy and describes how One Click Organisations is putting this into practice for everyone to use.
More details at CIRCUS-foundation.org
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Any new ideas to cut the gordian knots in the Middle East? I have one that I'll present & would love to hear others.
I'll also present what I see as relevant background to the situation and, again, would love to hear what others see as relevant background. Our perspective on the Middle East is influenced by our own heritage, how far back in time we look, our notions of fairness, and our understanding of "realpolitik".
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From information architecture to mastering awkward social situations, the lessons I give during my sex ed class have helped me succeed at just about anything.
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As we create content online we develop our online identity, influence and expertise. Every Flickr photo, every blog post, every link on delicious, every tweet is a small piece of a complete picture that other people are collecting to determine our influence and expertise. Therefore, it’s imperative that there is some central location where potential clients, friends, colleagues can discover one’s social content in order to truly understand one’s influence/expertise. This is the act of building a personal brand.
How can we use various plugins, techniques, etc to expose our influence and expertise?
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EDAR (Everyone Deserves A Roof) is a 501(c)(3) charity that provides unique mobile shelters to those living on the streets all around us. Each EDAR is a four-wheeled mobile unit which carries belongings and facilitates recycling during the day and which unfolds into a special, framed tent-like sleeping enclosure with a bed at night.
While respecting permanent and temporary housing for the homeless in group settings which use buildings to provide shelter, EDAR addresses the unrepresented hundreds of thousands of homeless people amongst us for whom no beds are available or who are unable or unwilling to participate in those solutions.
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The Fertility Awareness Method crash course is designed to empower women to know more about their bodies and natural rhythms.
Using simple biofeedback tools such as daily body temperature, women can track their cycles. Having this information enables women to know when they ovulate, start a new cycle, chart patterns, and have an overall understanding of one's body.
Danielle has been using FAM for 3 years and has taught adolescent girls and moms. She looks forward to educating the clever ladies of BIL (and any men who may be interested)!
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Undecided on ultimate topic, may be on:
- freedom of choice in education after the world restricts you
- social-emotional curriculum/development programs or non-violent communication
- building a 'smart' culture/community
Encouraged by Desiree to come, who helped make this list. :)
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Last year at BIL many enjoyed my talk introducing the concepts of robocars -- autonomous robotic transportation and delivery vehicles able to drive on ordinary streets mixed with regular traffic.
In the prior talk I explained why the vehicles are coming soon, showed videos of today's models and talked about some of the consequences, including saved lives, and enabling the marketable electric car, and thus weaning the USA off of foreign oil and solving energy problems in the grandest way computer technology can do when Moore's law comes to transportation.
This this follow-up talk I will cover more of the roadmap for how we get to robocars, the downsides, and why energy may be the problem that brings the world to robocars (even though traffic deaths and congestion are still bigger issues.) I'll also cover new issues and concepts developed in the last year, including new whistlecar concepts and parking algorithms. (I only had 15 minutes last year.)
Details can be found at http://robocars.net
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The pendulum is swinging back to timesharing (now called cloud computing) from personal computing. But there is a darkness to this cloud with no silver lining in sight. Suddenly, the norm is shifting and using an "application" means giving other companies all your personal data to store and handle.
This is a problem because the 4th amendment doesn't protect data in the hands of 3rd parties. Are we erasing a section from the bill of rights to obtain an attractive engineering solution?
Cloud computing and "data portability" demonstrate some interesting contradictions. "Ease of Use" can be a bug if the thing made easy has dangers. "User Choice" can be a bug if it excuses something scary because users were forced to check a box (which was pre-checked for them.) When you make something easy to do, you make it easy to ask for, and eventually easy to demand.
The talk will discuss why the pendulum has swung back and forth, whether it will keep swinging, and what it means. Some possible technical solutions will be discussed, but for now the situation looks bleak, so where does it lead?
Brad Templeton is Chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a leading civil rights and privacy advocacy organization in cyberspace.
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We are entering a period of unprecedented change.
Your Energy Identity is a description of the total amount of the world's resources you consume.
This is increasingly being converted into numbers (e.g. your carbon footprint), and these numbers are increasing in accuracy as more of the world is measured.
These numbers have a substantial value. They help you understand your impact, they enable different types of competition, they stimulate change and they are tradable on financial markets.
All of this applies to you, to every business, every government and country in the world.
With Obama instigating Federal Cap&Trade this year, I'd like to bring some ideas to discuss what this might mean in the USA, and what impact that might have on the rest of the world.
I'd also like to be present via a virtual link-up, rather than flying to the USA, in line with my own desire to actively reduce my footprint.
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When 1776 Patriots were fighting naked in the snow for American Freedom, the didn't do it for our right to consume. They did it for a higher purpose.
"Freedom isn't Free" is a talk about a new American Responsiblity Movement. With all our rights, what are our responsibilities?
Tom Schaff, Chairman of the Board for the Statue of Responsibility Foundation (SORfoundation.org), will share controversial thoughts on what responsibility really is, invite all of you to care deeply, and show you how you can get involved in a movement to once again make responsibility a core value in the world. Along the way, he'll share a vision of a proposed Statue of Responsibility off of west coast, which will balance the Statue of Liberty off the west coast.
If we all don't get more responsible and change our world, who will?
Won't you join us for a conversation, debate, oral brawl on a topic certain to make many crazy?
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You have heard of hydrogen and bio fueled, electric and plug-in hybrid electric cars. Have you wondered about their cost, energy efficiency and environmental impact? Do you think about issues related to cars upon which the energy source has little bearing?
This talk is about zars, a proposed kind of car that can physically hitch with others having compatible coupling devices. Zars are so named because they would use about one-third as much road space as conventional cars and ought to be granted privileges – like hybrid access to HOV lanes - that someday allow them to “rule the road”.
It should be possible to join such auto-trains while moving even at highway speeds. A typical trip will involve coupling with several trains and also conventional operation as a single car. The zar trains would be equipped with electronics that help to prevent collisions and driven in an orderly manner. They would usher in the era of automated driving because the drivers in the follower vehicles would be off duty.
Physical coupling will facilitate aerodynamic streamlining and, because the followers may expect lead vehicles to have engines, encourage the use of all-electric cars using relatively small, light batteries. As the number of electric vehicles grows, it will likely become economic to power the highways using relatively high efficiency grid electricity coming from sources other than oil. The electrification of heavily traveled roads will probably be more cost effective than putting a large capacity battery in each vehicle, and also provide unlimited all-electric range. In areas that are not yet electrified, or which are rural and will never have enough traffic to justify the cost, there would continue to be combustion powered vehicles but with zar towing capacity.
In this interactive talk, we will delve into the comparative advantages in detail, discuss the psychology of driving and next steps such as the design of a steering/hitching mechanism that keeps the trains controllable in the event of failure of any electronic sub-system.
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A presentation advocating the creation of a University with an emphasis on:
Development of skills instead of the memorizing of information. For example, teaching you how to think, not what to think. Pieces of information become outdated more easily than an array of skills.
Renaissance style Curriculum: Excessive specialization would be discouraged in favor of a more well-rounded approach. Philosophy, Music, Arts and Sciences as well as physical activities will make an essential part of one’s development as well as real life skills usually neglected at mainstream educational institutions, like:
Being Cool
Getting Laid & Living Great Relationships (Pre-Requisite: Being Cool)
Knowing Yourself
The Art of Listening
Understanding Women (30-year course. Pre-Requisite: The Art of Listening)
Understanding Men (30-minute course)
Project Based learning - You’d learn by doing not by regurgitating what other people have done. Your projects would be aimed to be as “real world” as possible. Students would be encouraged to solve real world problems, legitimate enough so that they can become part of your future CV. By the time you’re out of school you already have a “track-record”.
Entrepreneurship: The approach: “I get an education *then* find a job” is outdated. Every week you will be encouraged to create your own company with the assistance of mentors who are successful in the real world giving you cutting edge advice on how to build and grow your idea into a business, whether profit or not profit. By the time you’re done with your degree you wouldn’t need to find a job because you would already have one.
Online Tools: The university would employ the latest array of Web 2.0+ tools for harnessing the collective intelligence for the benefit of all. Use the ideas of Bootstrapping as suggested by Doug Engelbart. The scope should be global and scalable.
Directed at All Ages: Learning is a life-long process. It’s not something you do when you were young and then are done with it. Older people need to have a way of re-educating themselves without leaving their current job & responsibilities. Multi-age classes sometimes make for a much richer learning experience for all.
Based on Alternative Business Models: Education should be accessible to all for free while at the same time being economically self-sustainable. Alternative business models are essential for achieving this vision. For example, students could pledge that a certain percentage of the profits (1%-5%) that would come from their future activities will be donated back to the University that enabled them to pursue them.
Main Ability Cultivated: The ability to create value and provide it to your fellow human beings in a form they can recognize and are willing to reward you for it so you can keep providing it. That reward need not be exclusively monetary.
Ultimately, a proper education should help people become the best human beings they can be.
Let’s make it happen.
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Come and see a new visual programming language called Boku. This can be used with an XBox360 or a regular PC. It's been designed for new programmers, particularly kids. Let's play!
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Biological systems evolve, and they also develop. These two processes are very different, but they are both necessary for life and intelligence to exist. While evolution (“evo”) is famously unpredictable, many aspects of development (“devo”) are quite predictable. For example, if you have a sense of what stage a developing system is at in its ‘replication’ cycle (birth, growth, reproduction, aging, or recycling), you have a pretty good idea what stage is coming next.
Organic molecules also evolve and replicate/develop. So do stars, and their dependent planets. In fact, that’s how our own life-generating solar system came to exist, through a long process of stellar “evolutionary development” (reproduction of progressively more chemically complex solar systems) in our galaxy. Ideas or ‘memes,’ which replicate between human brains, also evolve and develop. So do technologies, which replicate in cultures. There is some evidence that even our universe itself may replicate, evolve, and develop, if you believe some of the new cosmologists.
Finally, the always-accelerating pace of change that we have seen in both life and human history may not only be evolutionary and unpredictable in its specifics, but also probable and predictable in its generalities, if it is a process of universal development. This is like saying that though we can’t predict which particular computer manufacturer or design will be on top of the market in ten years, we can predict (for reasons we’ll skip here) that computers will continue to accelerate in their performance and capacity growth, and thus human-surpassing computers become a reasonable expectation, at some point in the foreseeable future.
So what? What does it mean to humanity if we live in a universe where things both evolve and develop? How would you tell the difference between these two processes, in your own life? Why is it important to try? What might an “evo devo” universe tell us about the future of humanity and of human-machine interactions in a world of frail and limited biology and powerful, accelerating technology? And if it turns out that we must evolve our computers, not just try to rationally design/develop them, how can we make an evolutionary AI that is friendly to humanity?
We’ll kick around some of these big questions on Sunday for as long as they will let us (up to two hours perhaps), because its fun and because we can.
Are you a reader? Here’s a 40 page background article.
The last 20 pages are the really weird stuff. Feel free to go straight to those if short on time.
http://accelerating.org/downloads/SmartEvoDevoUniv2008.pdf
Like a slide presentation on the article?
http://www.evodevouniverse.com/2008/SmartEvoDevoUniverseEDU2008v2.ppt
If you’d like to see some others doing work on various aspects of these ideas, check out:
http://evodevouniverse.com/
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The third generation of computer UI, direct manipulation interfaces, is emerging to replace the second generation of WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer), just as the WIMP GUIs replaced the first generation of command line interfaces.
Lightful is an open-source, collaborative project to create the most usable, efficient, and invisible interface possible. The goal is to create a reference design, and ultimately a complete hardware and software system, that can not be patented or owned by any one entity, but will be a platform for the next generation of computers to build upon.
Lightful re-examines all of the assumptions that constrain the current generation of interfaces, and asks, "what if we started over?"
After introducing the principles of the project, this talk will include an overview of the reference design for Lightful as it now stands. Afterward, there will be an extended workshop session where anyone interested in participating will be invited to join as we explore the future of the Lightful interface project.
User Experience and HCI specialists, engineers, designers, and anyone interested in moving beyond windows and mice, are invited to attend and participate.
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PODCAST!
You a podcaster? Wanna be a podcaster? Wanna know what podcasting is? Wanna be in a podcast? Just wondering what the heck I'm talking about?
Check out the BIL 2009 Podcast studio. We will host your show, and broadcast you on the interwebs! Slots are available during BIL - let me know what you want to do, and when you want to do it!
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Turn boring numbers into beautiful artwork.
A basic introduction into the world of fractal artwork. Demostrations of artwork, theory, and mathematics. Introduction to making it happen.
I will teach you to make neat artwork in five minutes. Don't know math? Niether do I. This is simple stuff - it just looks really complicated - and amazingly cool.
I will demo the major fractal programs available, including several open source options, and have a CD with demos available for attendees to play with. We will have several machines up for you to try this first hand.
Want to learn to make fun art in your spare time? Check it out.
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Over the next decade consumer electronics will vanish. Where will their capabilities go? If you are an enthusiast of emerging technologies, the answer is probably obvious, but how we get there from here may not be. We will follow digital media trends over the past decade into the next, briefly explore intersecting trends of interest, imagine the consequences of a consumer electronics Great Vanishing, and finally dismiss revulsion as a friction to widespread consumer acceptance of the Metaverse.
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As Executive Director of Humanity+ (formally the World Transhumanist Association) I will discuss the current state of Humanity+, transhumanism, and social movement in general related to emerging technologies and their impact on humanity.
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Re: Silicon Valley Conference Aims to Raise Planetary IQ http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/silicon-valley.html
Technology Luminary and Pioneering Visionary Doug Engelbart and the Dawn of Interactive Computing: SRI's Revolutionary 1968 Demo — A 40th Anniversary Celebration of "The Mother of All Demos" - 150 years ahead of its time.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/11/engelbart_celebration/
http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html
The Doug Engelbart Institute http://www.DougEngelbart.org was conceived by Doug Engelbart to further his lifelong career goal of boosting our ability to better address complex, urgent problems. As he sees it, both the rate and the scale of change are increasing very rapidly worldwide, and we as a people must get that much faster and smarter at anticipating, assessing, and responding to important challenges collectively if we are to stay ahead of the curve, and thrive as a planet. In other words, we must get faster and smarter at boosting our Collective IQ.
Watch Christina Engelbart's Driving Vision (35:33 min. streaming video) http://www.sri.com/engvideos/c_engelbart.html along with "The Girl Effect" - catalyzing positive change inspired by her father: http://www.girleffect.org
KQED's Forum program had an interesting piece that same morning. It was very fascinating http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R812090900
Also,
* Alan Kay (President, Viewpoints Research Institute) Significance of the Vision and 1968 "Mother of All Demos"(28:26 min. streaming video) http://www.sri.com/engvideos/kay.html
* Dec. 28, 2008 - WIRED Blog Network Post on Program for the Future http://nextnowcollab.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/wired-blog-network-post-on-program-for-the-future/
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The music business is in a tough spot. the web has reduced the marginal cost of distributing music to zero. Since price follows marginal cost, consumers are less willing to pay to own music unless new kinds of value can become associated with their purchase. This has caused a critical revenue problem (loss) in the music industry resulting in an urgent pursuit for new layers of value (revenue) created around music.
Bands and artists, labels and others in music must begin generating new layers of emotional value around music that are at once personal and social. Consumers, labels and brands are increasingly disinterested in paying to be "in" the music itself; they pay to be "around" music's emotional experience.
How can the music biz move past simple music discovery and toward emotional and engaging experiences around music?
What products and services can help create and distribute these valuable emotional experiences?
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A whirlwind walkabout through the fractal forest of networked naked pixels and their doppelganger oversexed dots and the myriad artists from caves in Southern France to new media hipsters everywhere who have harnessed all that energy to accrete amazing visual images.
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When my (now) editor telephoned me, suggesting this topic for a book, my first reaction was that it seemed a bit ambitious. Why not, I asked her, start with a less-sweeping topic, like "Zoroastrianism is Probably Not The One True Faith", or "A Few Minor Points the Rabbis Got Wrong", or "At the Center of the Catholic Church Lies a Murderous Conspiracy That Only Tom Hanks Can Uncover and Defeat"?
Someone named Dan Brown, she informed me, had already written on my Zoroastrianism idea, and Simon and Schuster (Jews both) would never allow such an overtly anti-Rabbinic book to be published. In addition, she continued, the publishing world was currently enthralled by what she called "The New Atheism", a concerted push by Communists (though she never explicitly identified them as such) and creators of series of vampire-themed young-adult detective novels ("Nancy Drew Blood" is the one I explicitly remember her mentioning) to purge the bestseller lists of religious mainstays like The Bible, Chicken Soup for the Zoroastrian's Soul, and Tony Robbins's Awaken the Giant Within, to make room for a new generation of heathen authors. A book like Your Religion Is False could be "publishing gold", she concluded, and could help her eradicate some of her payday-loan debt.
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Water and energy are the two most fundamental ingredients of modern civilization. Without water, people die. Without energy, we cannot grow food, run computers, or power homes, schools or offices. Water and energy are connected, their use and misuse greatly affecting the other. We consume massive quantities of water to generate energy, and we consume massive quantities of energy to deliver clean water. I want to help people understand how precious water really is and how changes in our everyday actions can help secure a more sustainable environment.
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Feeling apathetic about politics? We're here to give you hope.
Building new cities on the ocean may sound like a strange way to make government work better, but we at The Seasteading Institute are convinced it is our best chance at political reform. Learn why, how we are working to make it happen, and how you can join us.
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What needs to done to achieve high-level AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)? BY when may we have it? How does the timetable compare to that of IA (Intelligence Augmentation). I'll draw on some of our experience from 7 years of R&D, plus our current early commercialization efforts.
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It has been two years since winning the TED Prize and the birth of an idea and website called the Open Architecture Network - the worlds first open source (access) site for architectural solutions to humanitarian crises. This will be a critical look at whether it is working.
Also a brief look ahead and at the 2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom which launches the week before at Davos.
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If we could live to be 150-200 years old, how would that impact our financial lives? What new paths might we take with our careers? Would we be poorer or richer? Would the old guys ever get out of the way of the young so they can climb corporate ladders? What about retirement? These are questions Arrison will address in this 15 minute talk.
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Proposed By: Ben Huh 6 month(s) ago
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Ben Huh, the Chief Cheezburger in charge of I Can Has Cheezburger, will talk about discovering new things on the Web and how people find a way to pass their time.
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Exactly what the title suggest "15 minutes with an evil genius". Bring your questions on all things related or open source/open innovation and be prepared to participate.
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Challenging the boundaries of Conferences.
How I, and others, have gained access to TED and other conferences. Photos of TEDs past.
Techniques and ways in, and how to avoid being kicked out. Definitions of acceptable behavior.
How gleaning information and PR materials can enrich your, network, knowledge and social base.
Why can't more conferences be unconferences. What can we do to promote and further the practice of Conference Crashing.
This is meant to serve as a summary of topics for my talk followed by discussion. As I am not sure of my talks time alotment I will be working on several different scripts, Short Medium and Long. I had an extremely good time at the first BiL and mentioned the idea of presenting.
So let me know what you think.
Chris From Monterey.
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Turning ordinary places into interactive environments using computer vision, sensors, and gaming.
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This is an exploration of the field of robotics through the lens of its failures. How and why do robots fail, and how can we address their short-term and long-term obstacles?
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How teaching topics around free and open source software can alter disease reporting and disaster resilience in remote villages of Southeast Asia.
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Cellphones have long become the computer of choice for the developing world. In November of 2008 a new organization was formed by non-profits creating free and open source mobile technology to maximize impact, learning, and innovation through cooperation.
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The relationship between climate change and the Millennium Development Goals is a complex adaptive system with an existential importance. Bringing tools and techniques to bear on the problem is altering how we see the way clear to adaptation and mitigation strategies.
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What is the role we can all play in regards to making Transparent Government a reality?
Our first use case is a big one... The transparent federal budget (yah the US one) I dare say one on the largest budgets on the planet. If we can succeed here then the rest of the governance issues are easy!
I have a plan. I will first outline it and then we will all talk about the "sticky" bits.
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Check your RSS reader at the door and hear about what some of the most cutting-edge web developers are doing with syndication. After being pigeonholed for years, RSS is growing up and going social. Learn how new ideas like community RSS aggregation and Attention.xml are shaping the future of RSS.
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It has been two years since winning the TED Prize and the birth of an idea and website called the Open Architecture Network - the worlds first open source (access) site for architectural solutions to humanitarian crises. This will be a critical look at whether it is working.
Also a brief look ahead and at the 2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom which launches the week before at Davos.
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The pendulum is swinging back to timesharing (now called cloud computing) from personal computing. But there is a darkness to this cloud with no silver lining in sight. Suddenly, the norm is shifting and using an "application" means giving other companies all your personal data to store and handle.
This is a problem because the 4th amendment doesn't protect data in the hands of 3rd parties. Are we erasing a section from the bill of rights to obtain an attractive engineering solution?
Cloud computing and "data portability" demonstrate some interesting contradictions. "Ease of Use" can be a bug if the thing made easy has dangers. "User Choice" can be a bug if it excuses something scary because users were forced to check a box (which was pre-checked for them.) When you make something easy to do, you make it easy to ask for, and eventually easy to demand.
The talk will discuss why the pendulum has swung back and forth, whether it will keep swinging, and what it means. Some possible technical solutions will be discussed, but for now the situation looks bleak, so where does it lead?
Brad Templeton is Chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a leading civil rights and privacy advocacy organization in cyberspace.
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What needs to done to achieve high-level AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)? BY when may we have it? How does the timetable compare to that of IA (Intelligence Augmentation). I'll draw on some of our experience from 7 years of R&D, plus our current early commercialization efforts.
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Challenging the boundaries of Conferences.
How I, and others, have gained access to TED and other conferences. Photos of TEDs past.
Techniques and ways in, and how to avoid being kicked out. Definitions of acceptable behavior.
How gleaning information and PR materials can enrich your, network, knowledge and social base.
Why can't more conferences be unconferences. What can we do to promote and further the practice of Conference Crashing.
This is meant to serve as a summary of topics for my talk followed by discussion. As I am not sure of my talks time alotment I will be working on several different scripts, Short Medium and Long. I had an extremely good time at the first BiL and mentioned the idea of presenting.
So let me know what you think.
Chris From Monterey.
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A presentation advocating the creation of a University with an emphasis on:
Development of skills instead of the memorizing of information. For example, teaching you how to think, not what to think. Pieces of information become outdated more easily than an array of skills.
Renaissance style Curriculum: Excessive specialization would be discouraged in favor of a more well-rounded approach. Philosophy, Music, Arts and Sciences as well as physical activities will make an essential part of one’s development as well as real life skills usually neglected at mainstream educational institutions, like:
Being Cool
Getting Laid & Living Great Relationships (Pre-Requisite: Being Cool)
Knowing Yourself
The Art of Listening
Understanding Women (30-year course. Pre-Requisite: The Art of Listening)
Understanding Men (30-minute course)
Project Based learning - You’d learn by doing not by regurgitating what other people have done. Your projects would be aimed to be as “real world” as possible. Students would be encouraged to solve real world problems, legitimate enough so that they can become part of your future CV. By the time you’re out of school you already have a “track-record”.
Entrepreneurship: The approach: “I get an education *then* find a job” is outdated. Every week you will be encouraged to create your own company with the assistance of mentors who are successful in the real world giving you cutting edge advice on how to build and grow your idea into a business, whether profit or not profit. By the time you’re done with your degree you wouldn’t need to find a job because you would already have one.
Online Tools: The university would employ the latest array of Web 2.0+ tools for harnessing the collective intelligence for the benefit of all. Use the ideas of Bootstrapping as suggested by Doug Engelbart. The scope should be global and scalable.
Directed at All Ages: Learning is a life-long process. It’s not something you do when you were young and then are done with it. Older people need to have a way of re-educating themselves without leaving their current job & responsibilities. Multi-age classes sometimes make for a much richer learning experience for all.
Based on Alternative Business Models: Education should be accessible to all for free while at the same time being economically self-sustainable. Alternative business models are essential for achieving this vision. For example, students could pledge that a certain percentage of the profits (1%-5%) that would come from their future activities will be donated back to the University that enabled them to pursue them.
Main Ability Cultivated: The ability to create value and provide it to your fellow human beings in a form they can recognize and are willing to reward you for it so you can keep providing it. That reward need not be exclusively monetary.
Ultimately, a proper education should help people become the best human beings they can be.
Let’s make it happen.
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If we could live to be 150-200 years old, how would that impact our financial lives? What new paths might we take with our careers? Would we be poorer or richer? Would the old guys ever get out of the way of the young so they can climb corporate ladders? What about retirement? These are questions Arrison will address in this 15 minute talk.
more...
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The third generation of computer UI, direct manipulation interfaces, is emerging to replace the second generation of WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer), just as the WIMP GUIs replaced the first generation of command line interfaces.
Lightful is an open-source, collaborative project to create the most usable, efficient, and invisible interface possible. The goal is to create a reference design, and ultimately a complete hardware and software system, that can not be patented or owned by any one entity, but will be a platform for the next generation of computers to build upon.
Lightful re-examines all of the assumptions that constrain the current generation of interfaces, and asks, "what if we started over?"
After introducing the principles of the project, this talk will include an overview of the reference design for Lightful as it now stands. Afterward, there will be an extended workshop session where anyone interested in participating will be invited to join as we explore the future of the Lightful interface project.
User Experience and HCI specialists, engineers, designers, and anyone interested in moving beyond windows and mice, are invited to attend and participate.
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What is the role we can all play in regards to making Transparent Government a reality?
Our first use case is a big one... The transparent federal budget (yah the US one) I dare say one on the largest budgets on the planet. If we can succeed here then the rest of the governance issues are easy!
I have a plan. I will first outline it and then we will all talk about the "sticky" bits.
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Biological systems evolve, and they also develop. These two processes are very different, but they are both necessary for life and intelligence to exist. While evolution (“evo”) is famously unpredictable, many aspects of development (“devo”) are quite predictable. For example, if you have a sense of what stage a developing system is at in its ‘replication’ cycle (birth, growth, reproduction, aging, or recycling), you have a pretty good idea what stage is coming next.
Organic molecules also evolve and replicate/develop. So do stars, and their dependent planets. In fact, that’s how our own life-generating solar system came to exist, through a long process of stellar “evolutionary development” (reproduction of progressively more chemically complex solar systems) in our galaxy. Ideas or ‘memes,’ which replicate between human brains, also evolve and develop. So do technologies, which replicate in cultures. There is some evidence that even our universe itself may replicate, evolve, and develop, if you believe some of the new cosmologists.
Finally, the always-accelerating pace of change that we have seen in both life and human history may not only be evolutionary and unpredictable in its specifics, but also probable and predictable in its generalities, if it is a process of universal development. This is like saying that though we can’t predict which particular computer manufacturer or design will be on top of the market in ten years, we can predict (for reasons we’ll skip here) that computers will continue to accelerate in their performance and capacity growth, and thus human-surpassing computers become a reasonable expectation, at some point in the foreseeable future.
So what? What does it mean to humanity if we live in a universe where things both evolve and develop? How would you tell the difference between these two processes, in your own life? Why is it important to try? What might an “evo devo” universe tell us about the future of humanity and of human-machine interactions in a world of frail and limited biology and powerful, accelerating technology? And if it turns out that we must evolve our computers, not just try to rationally design/develop them, how can we make an evolutionary AI that is friendly to humanity?
We’ll kick around some of these big questions on Sunday for as long as they will let us (up to two hours perhaps), because its fun and because we can.
Are you a reader? Here’s a 40 page background article.
The last 20 pages are the really weird stuff. Feel free to go straight to those if short on time.
http://accelerating.org/downloads/SmartEvoDevoUniv2008.pdf
Like a slide presentation on the article?
http://www.evodevouniverse.com/2008/SmartEvoDevoUniverseEDU2008v2.ppt
If you’d like to see some others doing work on various aspects of these ideas, check out:
http://evodevouniverse.com/
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From information architecture to mastering awkward social situations, the lessons I give during my sex ed class have helped me succeed at just about anything.
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Presented by Alexis Bright and Gayle Young
Einstein said "The problems of this world can't be solved at the same level of consciousness that created them."
Personal evolution has to precede global, social and technological evolution at individual and collective levels to create a foundation for a more agile, innovative and compassionate future society (with better sex). We will give an overview of adult development over lifespan based on the work of Harvard researchers, and then talk about the broader implications for a future world that includes life extension, the Singularity, and other complexities that don't currently exist.
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Turning ordinary places into interactive environments using computer vision, sensors, and gaming.
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Feeling apathetic about politics? We're here to give you hope.
Building new cities on the ocean may sound like a strange way to make government work better, but we at The Seasteading Institute are convinced it is our best chance at political reform. Learn why, how we are working to make it happen, and how you can join us.
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Check your RSS reader at the door and hear about what some of the most cutting-edge web developers are doing with syndication. After being pigeonholed for years, RSS is growing up and going social. Learn how new ideas like community RSS aggregation and Attention.xml are shaping the future of RSS.
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Proposed By: Ben Huh 6 month(s) ago
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Ben Huh, the Chief Cheezburger in charge of I Can Has Cheezburger, will talk about discovering new things on the Web and how people find a way to pass their time.
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When my (now) editor telephoned me, suggesting this topic for a book, my first reaction was that it seemed a bit ambitious. Why not, I asked her, start with a less-sweeping topic, like "Zoroastrianism is Probably Not The One True Faith", or "A Few Minor Points the Rabbis Got Wrong", or "At the Center of the Catholic Church Lies a Murderous Conspiracy That Only Tom Hanks Can Uncover and Defeat"?
Someone named Dan Brown, she informed me, had already written on my Zoroastrianism idea, and Simon and Schuster (Jews both) would never allow such an overtly anti-Rabbinic book to be published. In addition, she continued, the publishing world was currently enthralled by what she called "The New Atheism", a concerted push by Communists (though she never explicitly identified them as such) and creators of series of vampire-themed young-adult detective novels ("Nancy Drew Blood" is the one I explicitly remember her mentioning) to purge the bestseller lists of religious mainstays like The Bible, Chicken Soup for the Zoroastrian's Soul, and Tony Robbins's Awaken the Giant Within, to make room for a new generation of heathen authors. A book like Your Religion Is False could be "publishing gold", she concluded, and could help her eradicate some of her payday-loan debt.
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As Executive Director of Humanity+ (formally the World Transhumanist Association) I will discuss the current state of Humanity+, transhumanism, and social movement in general related to emerging technologies and their impact on humanity.
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Have you ever seen an awesome idea die because the people working on it couldn't get along? Or maybe they couldn't influence those who were supposed to benefit from using their idea, so nothing changed and the status quo just dragged on and on?
Or maybe you work somewhere that frustrates the daylights out of you because it COULD be so fantastic, but people go all knuckle-headed when they get into a group meeting or a personal disagreement. It's like the normally sane, cool people we know outside of work transform into some mentally/emotionally amputated version of themselves at work.
This fascinates me. And frustrates me. And motivates me. I think one of the biggest bottlenecks to making a better world happen is the way we relate to each other 1-1 and in small groups.
Whether you want to fix the organization you work in, be more effective in swaying people to get behind your great idea, or just laugh at how preposterously insane we can be when we have to deal with Those Damned Other People Who Are Doin It Wrong, I hope you'll join me and others for this session.
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Exercise is not only necessary for physical fitness, it's a vital component of mental fitness as well.
Drawing upon my research in Spinal Cord Injury and Parkinson's as well as current studies in education, I will discuss the ways exercise makes us smarter, happier, and can even treat disease.
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Cellphones have long become the computer of choice for the developing world. In November of 2008 a new organization was formed by non-profits creating free and open source mobile technology to maximize impact, learning, and innovation through cooperation.
more...
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The relationship between climate change and the Millennium Development Goals is a complex adaptive system with an existential importance. Bringing tools and techniques to bear on the problem is altering how we see the way clear to adaptation and mitigation strategies.
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Exactly what the title suggest "15 minutes with an evil genius". Bring your questions on all things related or open source/open innovation and be prepared to participate.
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I will be introducing the Information Integration Theory of
consciousness, the only plausible (and substrate-neutral!) theory of
consciousness Science has come up with. I will describe the theory, its ramifications, and present ongoing work to quantify the consciousness of small neural networks. Talk will include demos.
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This is an exploration of the field of robotics through the lens of its failures. How and why do robots fail, and how can we address their short-term and long-term obstacles?
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You've watched Gattaca. You've read a Brave New World.
And you hear all the time about how much information is stored in your
body. But when are we going to learn anything useful that will change
what happens when you go to the doctor's office? The answer: Sooner
than you think. In this talk, biotechnology advocate Jonathan Sheffi
explains personalized medicine and how it will change your life in
ways you never expected.
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Though some areas of SENS, such as stem cells and amyloid immunotherapy, are sufficiently mainstream not to need Methuselah Foundation funding, most are still relative backwaters that rely on the MF to progress. As a result of the great generosity of our donors, we trebled the diversity of our research in 2008. I will give an overview of the research projects that the MF is now funding, their significance to SENS, and their potential to lead to accelerated progress towards the defeat of aging in 2009 and beyond.
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Last year at BIL many enjoyed my talk introducing the concepts of robocars -- autonomous robotic transportation and delivery vehicles able to drive on ordinary streets mixed with regular traffic.
In the prior talk I explained why the vehicles are coming soon, showed videos of today's models and talked about some of the consequences, including saved lives, and enabling the marketable electric car, and thus weaning the USA off of foreign oil and solving energy problems in the grandest way computer technology can do when Moore's law comes to transportation.
This this follow-up talk I will cover more of the roadmap for how we get to robocars, the downsides, and why energy may be the problem that brings the world to robocars (even though traffic deaths and congestion are still bigger issues.) I'll also cover new issues and concepts developed in the last year, including new whistlecar concepts and parking algorithms. (I only had 15 minutes last year.)
Details can be found at http://robocars.net
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As we create content online we develop our online identity, influence and expertise. Every Flickr photo, every blog post, every link on delicious, every tweet is a small piece of a complete picture that other people are collecting to determine our influence and expertise. Therefore, it’s imperative that there is some central location where potential clients, friends, colleagues can discover one’s social content in order to truly understand one’s influence/expertise. This is the act of building a personal brand.
How can we use various plugins, techniques, etc to expose our influence and expertise?
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How teaching topics around free and open source software can alter disease reporting and disaster resilience in remote villages of Southeast Asia.
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It's 2009, and why don't we have artificial intelligence yet? A recent intriguing trend known as "deep learning" might be the key. In a deep architecture, the input is passed through multiple layers, for example pixels become edges become shapes become faces. This is similar to how, in the brain, an input signal is passed through many layers of neurons, from one to the next to the next and so on. Deep architectures for AI are plausible from theoretical, neurological, and intuitive perspectives. However, most current AI techniques are shallow. Why? People have been talking about deep learning for a while, but only as of two years ago do we really know how to train them. This talk will informally introduce deep learning. I will also suggest applications to information retrieval which are enabled by deep learning. Are you good at seeing how an important trend in one field can have an impact on everyday lives today? Then maybe you'll have other ideas!
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The music business is in a tough spot. the web has reduced the marginal cost of distributing music to zero. Since price follows marginal cost, consumers are less willing to pay to own music unless new kinds of value can become associated with their purchase. This has caused a critical revenue problem (loss) in the music industry resulting in an urgent pursuit for new layers of value (revenue) created around music.
Bands and artists, labels and others in music must begin generating new layers of emotional value around music that are at once personal and social. Consumers, labels and brands are increasingly disinterested in paying to be "in" the music itself; they pay to be "around" music's emotional experience.
How can the music biz move past simple music discovery and toward emotional and engaging experiences around music?
What products and services can help create and distribute these valuable emotional experiences?
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This presentation will reveal the reality of technology and economics in the solar photovoltaic industry and how incredibly misdirected the billions of dollars in government subsidies are, to the detriment of the solar technologies and other solutions that could actually make a difference (hint: they're not the panels you helped your neighbor pay for to put on their roof). The talk will include an overview of some of the realistic solutions, how special interests have hijacked sustainability, and how the media has dropped the ball, contributing to the ongoing deception of environmentalists and the public at large.
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With Social Media getting so much attention, most people focus on the latest tools (Twitter, Flickr etc.). All of these services are still powered by people, and the human psychology and sociology hasn't changed.
We'll be covering a few easy tips on understanding social dynamics that will help you do everything from improving your social media efforts, to getting more dates. Yes, getting dates is mostly psychology.
Come see applied psychology in usable, practical terms that they never taught us in college.
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Come and see a new visual programming language called Boku. This can be used with an XBox360 or a regular PC. It's been designed for new programmers, particularly kids. Let's play!
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Currently there's a wave of interest in democratic innovation. This is mostly focused on parliamentary and electoral systems. But some of the most disruptive innovations are happening at completely different levels.
The One Click Organisations project is developing an electronic platform where you can set up and manage a legal structure for your club, campaigning group, social project or cooperative. Just select a name, choose from a menu of options (eg how new members can join) and click “Go”. One Click Organisations will take care of the rest: maintaining a constitution, a register of members and officers plus an streamlined system for voting on group decisions.
In this session Charles Armstrong traces the historical relationship between technology and new organisational forms, introduces the idea of emergent democracy and describes how One Click Organisations is putting this into practice for everyone to use.
More details at CIRCUS-foundation.org
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Turn boring numbers into beautiful artwork.
A basic introduction into the world of fractal artwork. Demostrations of artwork, theory, and mathematics. Introduction to making it happen.
I will teach you to make neat artwork in five minutes. Don't know math? Niether do I. This is simple stuff - it just looks really complicated - and amazingly cool.
I will demo the major fractal programs available, including several open source options, and have a CD with demos available for attendees to play with. We will have several machines up for you to try this first hand.
Want to learn to make fun art in your spare time? Check it out.
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Over 3 billion live on less than $2.50 a day. Half of humanity is struggling to improve their situation or die trying. Do we simply turn to Bill and Warren for answers? US AID? The more than 10,000 international development groups registered at WiserEarth.org?
Many common problems have been and continue to be solved at the grassroots level. How can those solutions be leveraged by the rest of humanity? What can possibly scale to reach 3B people?
You know the answer. Technology is not our challenge, and even deployment is well on the way. Instead, the challenge is establishing a culture of expansive collaboration among those doing good work.
A discussion on how to drive this culture.
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Cutting edge technology is cool. But it really makes an impact in the world when it's practically applied.
I'll discuss questions to ask yourself to make your technology and discoveries more practical - and ultimately more adoptable and successful.
I'll draw on my experience as a product manager in Silicon Valley for VRML in 1996 and AJAX in 2000 and share what I learned.
I might have some examples of ways to make current technology (and science breakthroughs) more practical.
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Over the next decade consumer electronics will vanish. Where will their capabilities go? If you are an enthusiast of emerging technologies, the answer is probably obvious, but how we get there from here may not be. We will follow digital media trends over the past decade into the next, briefly explore intersecting trends of interest, imagine the consequences of a consumer electronics Great Vanishing, and finally dismiss revulsion as a friction to widespread consumer acceptance of the Metaverse.
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You're walking through an African urban center and you're trying to find stories that showcase African ingenuity. What do you see? Look closer.
It all looks like junk, it's dirty. Look closer.
You start talking to a few people and you realize that what you thought was junk isn't... In fact, it's an ingenious solution to something you never would have thought of in your Western-context run mind.
Welcome to AfriGadget and the art of finding cool stuff in Africa.
This is one of my favorite talks to give, because the audience takes part and makes it a truly participatory time.
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The Institute for Biomedical Gerontology in Tempe, Arizona is a volunteer operated rag-tag effort to cure human aging. In line with the methods of our parent organization, the Methuselah Foundation, we try to sustainably repair the damage that aging does to our bodies.
We will introduce proof-of-concept stage research results from our portfolio, in areas such as macular degeneration, atherosclerosis, diabetes and immune system aging. In all these areas, university professors in their bureaucratic wisdom had been failing for decades to develop direct damage-repair approaches. When our volunteers got to work on the same problems, their out-of-the-box thinking lead to success on a shoestring budget, using ancient technology, in no time at all. However, our journey has only just begun. Our next challenges are to rally and professionalize our portfolio, and become a streamlined translational research facility. We need carry on developing our unconventional approach to the point where we can attract interest from deep-pocketed partners to make these therapies available to the aging patients of earth.
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Water and energy are the two most fundamental ingredients of modern civilization. Without water, people die. Without energy, we cannot grow food, run computers, or power homes, schools or offices. Water and energy are connected, their use and misuse greatly affecting the other. We consume massive quantities of water to generate energy, and we consume massive quantities of energy to deliver clean water. I want to help people understand how precious water really is and how changes in our everyday actions can help secure a more sustainable environment.
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Todd and Tony and I would like to chat about coworking and outworking as solutions for the need to outsource innovation. That is, as large firms downsize and shed staff, legions of creative technologists are positioning to help redefine 'BigCo as a network of distributed talent that comes together on a project by project basis to solve wicken problems.' This is a corporate world where the company picnic has 4 atendees,and they are all losers. The value-adding contributors are on tour with the Grateful Dead!
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As producer and host of the SIGGRAPH Cyberfashion Show from 2002 through 2005, I had the opportunity to try almost every major commercial wearable computer system that's ever been on the market. Some worked well, others were highly problematic, but all failed to create any noticeable consumer base. Yet even before I watched these products fail, I had an inkling that their general approach-- shrinking a laptop down to wearable scale-- was less effective than the possibilities for expanding up from mobile phones. The accelerating evolution of the mobile platform over the last few years supports this thesis, however few products have yet capitalized on the potential to transform the current race of high end smart phones into fully integrated and truly mobile information and communication systems. My talk will start with a brief overview of wearable computer history, covering both commercial systems and peripherals as well as some famous homemade rigs. From there I'll move on to some currently available accessories and DIY approaches that might help transform you and your phone into a Neal Stephenson style gargoyle. I'll finish up with imaginings for the future: What hardware and software will need to be developed for the most effective functionality? What role will style have in developing a strong consumer base for this new breed of gargoyle systems? What can we do to bring this nascent geek fantasy to life?
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I've given a number of talks on software design and documentation methodology in the past. It has recently occurred to me that there is a lot of overlap between elements of those systems and learning/teaching dance and martial art. In software engineering and mathematics, one of the primary paradigms is the concept of modularity -- that is, breaking complex tasks and systems down into more easily manageable units that can be independently completed and verified. In teaching dance and martial art, the general approach is to teach individual steps or techniques, and then as the student becomes more proficient, the modular elements become integrated into the whole.
Further, the iterative nature of the above tasks, and increasingly complex development lend themselves to new methods of self-organization and new approaches to personal metrics and planning. Hence the growing popularity of systems like Getting Things Done (GTD). In a lot of ways, GTD and the like are ways to implement software design methods and apply them to real world tasks. Although the concept of metrics is usually applied to software or to hard engineering disciplines, they can be very useful in any complex endeavor, and the same approaches apply.
Today, there are a multitude of tools available for implementing such approaches. This talk will be split between discussion of the philosophical principles linking complex systems and tools that make the process of working with them more manageable.
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By 2050, the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) are projected to make up more than half the world's GDP. (Goldman Sachs) Already, China is the world’s fourth largest economy, but with a GDP per capita 10 times less than the US.
As Parag Khanna of the New York Times would say, the “second world” is taking over.
So, what’s going on in each of these four countries? I’ll be traveling to all four in 2009 and would love to talk with you about your experiences in each place and your prognostications for a globalized world. Check out my blog at www.brictour.blogspot.com.
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When 1776 Patriots were fighting naked in the snow for American Freedom, the didn't do it for our right to consume. They did it for a higher purpose.
"Freedom isn't Free" is a talk about a new American Responsiblity Movement. With all our rights, what are our responsibilities?
Tom Schaff, Chairman of the Board for the Statue of Responsibility Foundation (SORfoundation.org), will share controversial thoughts on what responsibility really is, invite all of you to care deeply, and show you how you can get involved in a movement to once again make responsibility a core value in the world. Along the way, he'll share a vision of a proposed Statue of Responsibility off of west coast, which will balance the Statue of Liberty off the west coast.
If we all don't get more responsible and change our world, who will?
Won't you join us for a conversation, debate, oral brawl on a topic certain to make many crazy?
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Undecided on ultimate topic, may be on:
- freedom of choice in education after the world restricts you
- social-emotional curriculum/development programs or non-violent communication
- building a 'smart' culture/community
Encouraged by Desiree to come, who helped make this list. :)
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The age normalized cancer death rate in America has only dropped 5 percent over the last 55 years despite the dramatic advances in cancer screening. Most of the small reduction can be accounted for the large drop in smoking over this time period. Science, under its current paradigm, has largely failed to adequately address cancer, and many other leading diseases. The costs of clinical studies are very expensive so we cannot afford to test the numerous potential pre-clinical treatments clinically; therefore there is a need for selection of the best potential treatment for clinical testing. However, under the current science paradigm the selection of treatments for clinically testing is biased and flawed, and therefore leads to many failed clinical results and little improvement in cancer death rates.
Part of the current science problem is that there is a selective bias of publishing positive results, and when researchers fail to replicate a finding it is often not published, and/or ignored. Basic science research is largely politically (mainly at the scientist subfield level), and/or profit driven, as in every other aspect of society. It tends to be the large, well funded, labs or pharmaceuticals that can push a treatment to clinical testing, rather than the actual best treatment. Only when the built in biases in our science are eliminated will the optimal pre-clinical treatment be identified and significant improvements in cancer death rates affected.
What is required is a transparent, open-source, high throughput, blinded comparisons of numerous pre-clinical treatments. This paradigm would allow objective testing of treatments and eliminate the bias of; politics, monetary, scientists’ egos, funding pressure, false positives; selective reporting of results, fraud, etc, that dominates current health science research.
The proposal calls for a fully transparent (everything posted on the net from lab books to final results), open-source, testing done in a blinded, high-throughput, low-cost fashion. With grants from health foundations a small dedicated team of 5-8 PhD trained personal would set up a lab in a developing country (e.g. India) and train a large group of local technicians (first multiplication) to handle the high throughput standardized techniques. Much of the scoring of many tests (e.g. counting of dead or living cells from digital pictures) could be accomplished by online world-wide volunteers (user participation - second multiplication), performed in triplicate and compared, further lowering the cost and making the research user-driven. With the active end-user participation and with the users having a vested interest in the cure/treatment this could possibly lead to even greater donation to the project. Low cost cloud computing would be used to store and analyze the large data set of information (all open access), which can be done by anybody with net access.
This paradigm is not meant to replace basic research as for this new research paradigm to be possible the basic research has to first identify potential treatments. The implementation of this new science paradigm would allow for the first time in health science research an objective comparison, free of bias built in to the current system, and optimal selection of pre-clinical treatments for clinical studies. This idea has the potential to lead to less people suffering and dying from numerous diseases, including cancer, by unparalleled advances in health science. This is a call for a revolution in health science research.
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I run a blog (X Prize Cars) about the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize, a $10,000,000 prize for a race of 100 MPG vehicles. I created the blog in order to collect technical information and stories about the teams and their vehicles.
I'll present details of the prize, as well as the dozen most prominent teams/vehicles, and then open up the discussion for questions and concerns about the future of transport.
http://xprizecars.com/
http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/
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We are entering a period of unprecedented change.
Your Energy Identity is a description of the total amount of the world's resources you consume.
This is increasingly being converted into numbers (e.g. your carbon footprint), and these numbers are increasing in accuracy as more of the world is measured.
These numbers have a substantial value. They help you understand your impact, they enable different types of competition, they stimulate change and they are tradable on financial markets.
All of this applies to you, to every business, every government and country in the world.
With Obama instigating Federal Cap&Trade this year, I'd like to bring some ideas to discuss what this might mean in the USA, and what impact that might have on the rest of the world.
I'd also like to be present via a virtual link-up, rather than flying to the USA, in line with my own desire to actively reduce my footprint.
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At The Church of Internetology, we help you get to know the ONE so you can be prepared for the coming apocalypse. Please join me and Kelly Cree for a brief, invigorating mass that will both inspire you and challenge your perceptions and uses of the internet. We focus on a design methodology that anyone can apply to their own lives, using niche audiences and a lack of privacy to our advantage.
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Over 100 artists from Los Angeles and around the US are collaborating on a new artistic endeavor designed to meld physics and metaphysics, heaven and earth through lightning experiences, a sort of Cirque meets Tesla. As we wrap preproduction and install the Lightning Temple this spring our magi are rewriting the rules of collaboration across diverse networks. Help us crowdsource the next evolution of energetic research as we explore opportunities for direct experiences with power, light and energy on tour this year.
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This is a practical talk that tells you how to do enjoyable things that will take you around the world, while making the world a better place. How to finance your projects and events and make a living without a formal employer is also included.
Specific actions to take include:
1. How to write a book without ever looking at a blank page.
2. How to get governments and companies to pay for your trips and introduce you to their smartest people.
3. How to learn other languages quickly.
4. How to get articles published and use them as the basis for getting a book published.
5. How to organize conferences, and then build a community around using newsletters.
6. How to raise sponsorships
7. How to write a business plan and use it to raise money (six out of six of my last business plans were funded).
8. How to get interviewed over 1,000 times, including 700 times on television.
9. How to get the US government to mandate a vital technology.
10. How to make a company together with your loved one.
11. How to make $100 million on paper.
12. How to lose $100 million on paper and millions, and still retain the will to live, love, and then do yet another cool thing.
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Imagine a vastly accelerated research and development cycle using an entire Open Innovation process from start to finish. In both commercial and academic labs, scientists would log results using Open Protocols such as Open Wetware. In the next stage, scientists submit to Open Access journals—but the process of peer review would be ongoing as “real time publication” allowed researchers to transform results into a publication along a continuum that ranged from initial reports to rough drafts to final submissions. A paper would never be “finished” as critique and response would be ongoing long after publication. New, sophisticated reputation "feedback" algorithms (like those powering Ebay or Amazon but designed for science), supplant the old static journal model. Young post-docs, instead of laboring under a stultifying grant system that rewards conservatism and incrementalism, pitting researchers against each other for an artificially limited number of spots, could simultaneously compete and collaborate with others around the globe, using platforms such as that being developed by India’s Open Source Drug Discovery Foundation. Work done on open source projects would allow young researchers to build prestige, without regard to traditional hierarchy. New funding mechanisms such as microfinance for science and Open Innovation prizes, would spur progress and provide further incentives.
Next, research tools would be widely shared and disseminated, not hidden behind industrial secrecy or priced out of reach via an exclusive license. Platform “enabling technologies” in some of the most important emerging biomedical fields (gene therapy/stem cells) would be maintained as a “protected commons.” Such “Open Standards” in biotech would clearly benefit all interested parties, especially patients desperately awaiting cures. The widespread penetration of these “upstream” technologies would utterly transform the landscape of the biotechnology industry, disrupting concentrations of power that have accumulated over the past few decades and allowing entire ecologies of enterprise to spring up, colonizing “niches” that multi-nationals neglect in the pursuit of only the highest margin returns.
In this revitalized context, as technologies approached commercialization stage, a
huge variety of business models would be available using non-exclusive licensing and Open Source inspired agreements where appropriate, or allowing royalty free use for "neglected" diseases, crops, etc. Whatever model a particular company pursued would depend on its particular sector of the life sciences (diagnostics, vaccines, drug discovery, plant breeding, etc)… the point is that there are a huge range of alternative organizational models that have remained unexplored. Tragically, the world’s citizens have silently stood by while stagnant multi-nationals pursued a typical merger/acquisition power grab that has consolidated critical technologies in the hands of a few who are not motivated to use them except when they can extract maximum monopoly rents.
Finally, regulatory reform would create transparency in clinical trials, preventing conflicts of interest and making sure the data was publicly available for all to see. Profits would not come at the expense of patients.
Now look at reality. I am many things, but naïve is not one of them. Without massive coordinated effort we shall surely fail to achieve a Free and Open Science and Technology Paradigm. The vision I sketch needs to come about within the next decade if humanity is to make any progress against our interrelated great challenges—Energy, Climate, Health, Food Security, and Poverty. By 2019 there must be a distributed, global network of institutions participating in the governance of Science and Technology. I hope you share my excitement for this unique instant in history when it is finally possible for mankind, a species distinguished and defined by its capacity to use tools, to unleash the unlimited problem solving powers of the tool of tools, science.
Join me so we can figure this out!
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Meta-Civilization: how to think about civilizations as if you'll outlive them all.
Understand, steer, optimize, engineer...
http://www.metaciv.com/
http://wiki.metaciv.com/
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What is this happiness thing and how do I get more of it? Many people seek happiness but how many take this search seriously? Have you spent as much time researching happiness as you spent researching the last car you bought?
I'll talk about some of the science related to happiness along with some personal anecdotes and ideas I can't find research to back up.
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Re: Silicon Valley Conference Aims to Raise Planetary IQ http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/silicon-valley.html
Technology Luminary and Pioneering Visionary Doug Engelbart and the Dawn of Interactive Computing: SRI's Revolutionary 1968 Demo — A 40th Anniversary Celebration of "The Mother of All Demos" - 150 years ahead of its time.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/11/engelbart_celebration/
http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html
The Doug Engelbart Institute http://www.DougEngelbart.org was conceived by Doug Engelbart to further his lifelong career goal of boosting our ability to better address complex, urgent problems. As he sees it, both the rate and the scale of change are increasing very rapidly worldwide, and we as a people must get that much faster and smarter at anticipating, assessing, and responding to important challenges collectively if we are to stay ahead of the curve, and thrive as a planet. In other words, we must get faster and smarter at boosting our Collective IQ.
Watch Christina Engelbart's Driving Vision (35:33 min. streaming video) http://www.sri.com/engvideos/c_engelbart.html along with "The Girl Effect" - catalyzing positive change inspired by her father: http://www.girleffect.org
KQED's Forum program had an interesting piece that same morning. It was very fascinating http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R812090900
Also,
* Alan Kay (President, Viewpoints Research Institute) Significance of the Vision and 1968 "Mother of All Demos"(28:26 min. streaming video) http://www.sri.com/engvideos/kay.html
* Dec. 28, 2008 - WIRED Blog Network Post on Program for the Future http://nextnowcollab.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/wired-blog-network-post-on-program-for-the-future/
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EDAR (Everyone Deserves A Roof) is a 501(c)(3) charity that provides unique mobile shelters to those living on the streets all around us. Each EDAR is a four-wheeled mobile unit which carries belongings and facilitates recycling during the day and which unfolds into a special, framed tent-like sleeping enclosure with a bed at night.
While respecting permanent and temporary housing for the homeless in group settings which use buildings to provide shelter, EDAR addresses the unrepresented hundreds of thousands of homeless people amongst us for whom no beds are available or who are unable or unwilling to participate in those solutions.
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I'd like to have a discussion of the magazines, blogs, research journals, etc that you read to get your science and technology news.
Heavy on the sciences please (less on the social tech side).
E.G. Seed, Science News, Scienceblogs, PhysOrg, Scientific American, etc.
Bring copies!
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Here's an opportunity to check "Run a program on a supercomputer" off your things to do before you die list.
I'll walk through the steps required to create, edit, and submit jobs on the ASU supercomputer, Saguaro. We'll cover basic Unix commands, run some shell scripts, and do "Hello World" over thousands of processors. When its over, you'll have printable proof to show your friends.
This session is intended for beginners, but people interested or involved in high performance computing or scientific computing are welcomed to join and discuss their work.
This will be a technical talk and is more suited to small groups or one-on-one experiences, so look for it in one of the smaller side rooms.
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Come and see how we can tell what the climate is like on extrasolar planets and where new planets may be forming. The Spitzer Space Telescope is the last of the Great Observatories and after five and a half years of probing the universe in the infrared we have gained great new insight about a wide range of topics from planets orbiting around other stars, to the birthplace of new stars, to black holes in the distant universe.
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Now is no worse than any other time to start a business. And many of us will have to do that. I'll help. I've started three and helped hundreds more, and self-sufficiency through entrepreneurship is my mantra and passion,
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Travel tips and techniques, including:
- How to give a successful bribe
- How to jump from a moving train
- The most likely way you will die
- What to do if you have no money
- Why you should take up smoking
- Why it's great to be an American
- Negotiating with criminals
Bio: Mike has spent time in approximately 25% of the world's countries. He has been held up at gunpoint three times, interrogated for drug smuggling, rented a tank, worked on an opium poppy plantation, hung out with war criminals, and been offered enlistment in one rebel army.
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The Fertility Awareness Method crash course is designed to empower women to know more about their bodies and natural rhythms.
Using simple biofeedback tools such as daily body temperature, women can track their cycles. Having this information enables women to know when they ovulate, start a new cycle, chart patterns, and have an overall understanding of one's body.
Danielle has been using FAM for 3 years and has taught adolescent girls and moms. She looks forward to educating the clever ladies of BIL (and any men who may be interested)!
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Change is difficult -- especially within organizations that are resistant to it. This talk outlines ways in which people within organizations can facilitate change without getting destroyed in the process... It is also a plea for help -- as I am interested in modeling some of the theoretical propositions outlined in the talk.
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Water in the West is scarce, but much of this scarcity is man-made. We have encouraged demand by setting water prices too low. We have strained our supplies by moving water over long distances.
Even without this supply-demand imbalance things would be hard, but climate change is making things worse by increasing demand (hotter climate) and reducing supplies (less snow and rain, shifting northwards).
In this talk, I will outline an "integrated" solution to water mismanagement that works at the wholesale (environment vs urban vs agriculture) and retail (some water for free; pay for more) segments of water management.
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The talk will explore how scripts, experiments, checklists, and
quality control can educate and save lives. Explore the history of
the cure for scurvy and the role checklists have come to play in
modern surgery. Learn about Project Follow Through, the largest
educational experiment ever performed. See the data on Direct
Instruction (DI), the method that demonstrated it could bridge the
educational gap between low social economic status and middle class
kids. Developed by Zig Engelmann, DI is a curriculum engineered to
teach all children. DI goes against the grain of modern education by
grouping kids based on skill and rate of learning, teaching to mastery
not the test, and building feedback and accountability into all levels
of the system. DI was empirically proven to work at teaching
children, but yet it failed politically. Why?
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OpenStreetMap has been called the Wiki-map of everything. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive or unexpected ways. OpenStreetMap was born from a very simple idea; Let members of every community map all the important places in their lives and we will soon have a map of everything.
Steve Coast, Co-Founder of CloudMade and Founder of OpenStreetMap, will introduce you to the background, tools and methods of this community-sourced free world map. He will demonstrate why maps are more important than you may realize; highlighting some of the amazing innovations and collaborations you can foster when the underlying map data itself can be freely shared, allowing you to build different maps for your own (or anyone else's) special need. So what are you waiting for? Get out and get mapping so that next time, you can tell us about the way you are using the map that we couldn't possibly have imagined.
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The man-machine convergence has been deepening and quickening at an exponential rate. Is complete integration with our technology inevitable? This process is underway, and is happening so seamlessly you probably can't even remember what life was like before the Internet or your smartphone. Can you imagine life without those enhancements?
What advances can we expect in the next 5-10 years? When will these advances become available on the mass market? Will they be accepted? Does this process of convergence have a conclusion? And what's been taking so damn long?
This panel will be more reality check than flight of fancy, featuring discussion and Q&A with scientists, engineers, and artists presently exploring the coevolution of man and machine.
Moderated by: Alex Kawas
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Any new ideas to cut the gordian knots in the Middle East? I have one that I'll present & would love to hear others.
I'll also present what I see as relevant background to the situation and, again, would love to hear what others see as relevant background. Our perspective on the Middle East is influenced by our own heritage, how far back in time we look, our notions of fairness, and our understanding of "realpolitik".
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Investors have been sold snake-oil solutions to the ailments of old age to such an extent that the industry has been damaged. Aging is incredibly complex, yet many biologists have attacked its health problems by looking for therapeutics affecting the proliferation of cells in culture and other reductive phenotypes. The complex multiple pathologies of aging and their interdependencies with each other, and with functional health, are beyond them. Smart investors know there is no magic bullet. There are biotech start ups promoting 21st century science that they say is part of the path leading to the elusive fountain of youth, and these will be surveyed. But the important question is how can an investor differentiate the charlatans and no-hopers from real prospects? A very substantial part of the answer can be found in the raw computing power of the most ancient of all of life's processes … evolution itself. For the past thirty years, evolutionary biologists have been using laboratory selection to turn short-lived animals into long-lived animals. By combining the raw computing power of evolution with leading-edge genomic tools, the systemic complexity of aging that has baffled biologists for so long can be overcome. Finally, we have the tools needed to manage the complexity of this risky aging business.
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As we all know, millions of people around the world were laid off in 2008 and the unemployment rate is predicted to continue its steep incline into 2009. Billions of tax dollars are being poured into financial bail outs, with little to no money contributing to actual job creation (only 12% of the "Jobs Bill" is actually going to create jobs… if that much). Entrepreneurs, however, are responsible for 50% of all job creation and 50% of total GDP! In the words of Tim Draper, now more than ever the world needs entrepreneurial heroes. Plainly put, the world needs entrepreneurs NOW!
The first-ever "World Entrepreneurship Day" aspires to rejuvenate the world during today's economic turmoil by involving universities and countries across the world to organize a wide array of events, activities, discussion forums, and networking opportunities to encourage and foster innovative, entrepreneurial leadership.
This session will provide updates on "World Entrepreneurship Day," which is in the process of applying for UN recognition. Specifically it will outline:
1) Why WED is necessary and why now.
2) How and why young people will endorse and participate in WED.
3) How you can get involved / how we could use your help.
Come contribute to an insightful vision for tomorrow's entrepreneurial leaders!
Presenter Info: Lauren owns and operates her own speaker agency. In addition, her "Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization" chapter at Bryant University won #1 Chapter in the Nation out of 200+ chapters, becoming the first ever to win back-to-back championships. Additionally, Lauren was honored to receive "Best Student Leader", chosen out of over 1,600 students. Last fall she brought the TED 2008 favorite Benjamin Zander to speak to a large cheering crowd of college students. It was during this talk that Zander established the Lauren Amarante Factor, which has become the center of her blog www.findyourfactor.com.
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PODCAST!
You a podcaster? Wanna be a podcaster? Wanna know what podcasting is? Wanna be in a podcast? Just wondering what the heck I'm talking about?
Check out the BIL 2009 Podcast studio. We will host your show, and broadcast you on the interwebs! Slots are available during BIL - let me know what you want to do, and when you want to do it!
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Hacker spaces have been around for years. But something is afoot! In the past several months new hacker spaces have been popping up all over our planet -- and established hacker spaces have become way more popular. There is even an international organization called Hackerspaces.org that exists to promote the continuation and formation of hacker spaces everywhere. Coinciding with this unprecedented movement is a growing popularity of hacker conferences, Maker Faires, Dorkbots, crafting groups, other geeky groups. What is going on here? And how can you benefit?
Mitch (co-founder of Noisebridge, a hacker space in San Francisco) and other members of Hackerspaces.org will talk about their experiences and outlooks, including how to start your own hacker space where you live.
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Are you having difficulties finding the right man or woman to date?
Do you find yourself nervous when trying to approach new people?
Do you want to improve your social and dating lifestyle?
Many men and women are completely clueless about what attraction really is.
They make it so hard on themselves to find someone good to date when attraction really starts with yourself.
Are you open and in tune with who you are?
Do you really listen to your own desires?
Do you express yourself confidently and powerfully?
Do you live an attractive lifestyle?
David Wygant, the most trusted dating expert in the nation comes to explain to you what attraction really is all about and how attracting the opposite sex is a lot simpler than you think.
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We are on the cusp of a dramatic shift in computing: most of the next two billion internet users will use a mobile phone to browse the web. Forget the $100 laptop - a cheaper computer is probably sitting in your pocket right now. I'll be leading a discussion about the rise of the mobile internet, specifically:
- Data and trends: mobile internet usage in the US, India, China, and Japan
- The new platform wars: Apple's iPhone vs. Google's Android
- Mobile content: the rise of the App Store, the shrinking role of carriers, and changing cost economics
- Location: applications from advertising to social networking
- Mobile payments: the future of money and banking
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You have heard of hydrogen and bio fueled, electric and plug-in hybrid electric cars. Have you wondered about their cost, energy efficiency and environmental impact? Do you think about issues related to cars upon which the energy source has little bearing?
This talk is about zars, a proposed kind of car that can physically hitch with others having compatible coupling devices. Zars are so named because they would use about one-third as much road space as conventional cars and ought to be granted privileges – like hybrid access to HOV lanes - that someday allow them to “rule the road”.
It should be possible to join such auto-trains while moving even at highway speeds. A typical trip will involve coupling with several trains and also conventional operation as a single car. The zar trains would be equipped with electronics that help to prevent collisions and driven in an orderly manner. They would usher in the era of automated driving because the drivers in the follower vehicles would be off duty.
Physical coupling will facilitate aerodynamic streamlining and, because the followers may expect lead vehicles to have engines, encourage the use of all-electric cars using relatively small, light batteries. As the number of electric vehicles grows, it will likely become economic to power the highways using relatively high efficiency grid electricity coming from sources other than oil. The electrification of heavily traveled roads will probably be more cost effective than putting a large capacity battery in each vehicle, and also provide unlimited all-electric range. In areas that are not yet electrified, or which are rural and will never have enough traffic to justify the cost, there would continue to be combustion powered vehicles but with zar towing capacity.
In this interactive talk, we will delve into the comparative advantages in detail, discuss the psychology of driving and next steps such as the design of a steering/hitching mechanism that keeps the trains controllable in the event of failure of any electronic sub-system.
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You've probably heard about the concept of "Aging In Place," adapting homes to support people being able to stay there as they age. We think that's great, but not nearly enough. "Aging In Community" is a broad term for alternative models making a difference in the lives of our friends and neighbors, adding new choices
Aging in Community is a ragtag movement of ordinary people banding together and stepping forward to fill in gaps of the patchwork of care with overlapping efforts, regional and national, different models dedicated to:
* Building “village model” support structures that can help us stay in our homes, connecting to neighbors rather than isolating ourselves as we age.
* Creating new cohousing neighborhoods and EcoVillages specifically designed to provide homes that we can live out the rest of our lives in, transforming our collective impacts on the earth for the benefit of generations yet to come.
* Forming Elders’ Guilds and studying Sage-ing where we together re-imagine old age and embody the wisdom to help heal the future.
* Becoming Earth Elders dedicated to creating a just, sacred, and sustainable future.
* Embarking upon our Second Journeys together, creating new visions of conscious aging and community for the second half of life.
* Supporting developers creating ElderFire communities, ElderShire neighborhoods, and "GreenHouse" nursing homes
* Sharing strategies to make our cities and towns into Aging-Friendly Communities that will meet our aging populations’ needs.
* Supporting each other with Senior Networks that keep people connected and engaged through computer communications.
Come share your ideas and fears, concerns and questions, inspirations and opportunities about the one universal future for all of us: aging.
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Fallen Fruit is a collaboration between artists David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young. Using fruit as our lens, Fallen Fruit investigates urban space, ideas of neighborhood and new forms of located citizenship and community. From protests to proposals for new urban green spaces, we aim to reconfigure the relation between those who have resources and those who do not, to examine the nature of & in the city, and to investigate new, shared forms of land use and property. Fallen Fruit is an art collaboration that began with creating maps of public fruit: the fruit trees growing on or over public property in Los Angeles.
Over time our projects have expanded from mapping public fruit to include Public Fruit Jams in which we invite the citizens to bring homegrown or public fruit and join in communal jam making; Nocturnal Fruit Forages, nighttime neighborhood fruit tours; Community Fruit Tree Plantings on the margins of private property and in community gardens; Public Fruit Park proposals in Hollywood, Los Feliz and downtown LA; and Neighborhood Infusions, taking the fruit found on one street and infusing it in alcohol to capture the spirit of the place.
From these projects we produce images, videos, and installations for a variety of public spaces. Fallen Fruit is focussed on producing art objects and on creating new rituals, events and formats to connect strangers in kinetic and nomadic ways.
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Traditionally open source development has been conducted under the direction of a "benevolent dictator" who guides the community of developers along a path they have crafted. Whilst this works for many projects in the early stages, it is easy for this "benevolent dictator" to become blind sided and loose real focus, fail to listen to the needs and demands of the community, or simply loose interest, which can leave the project to fail. Democratic Source Development changes this paradigm by ensuring that projects are carried out in a democratic fashion with no individual with ultimate control. Democratic Source is an idea inspired by the One Click Organisations project, in which it was first used. By ensuring that all team members have equal footing in a projects future, and a creating flat, dynamic contributor structure, you can ensure your projects are written by the community, for the community, with the ideas of the community.
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In the face of a continually evolving global threat environment comprised of both natural and manmade threats, we must use 'Smart Power' to protect our nation and its interests. With 'Smart Power,' diplomacy and partnership are the vanguards of foreign policy. ‘Smart Power’ is the full range of tools at our nation’s disposal from ‘Soft Power’, or humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, to ‘Hard Power,’ or traditional warfare. The future of ‘Smart Power’ will be discussed with an emphasis on soft power research, experimentation, and collaboration.
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Lucid Living™: Consciously Harvest the Power of Dreams to Boost Success & Life Mastery (45 min.)
Discover how to tap and integrate powerful wisdom of the dreaming mind so
that it can become the inner compass, supportive life tool, and unparalleled source of creative inspiration and insight that it is meant to
be. Learn the science and history along with practical applications and proven techniques for inducing, recognizing and applying dreams, lucid dreams, and hunches to enhance success, fun and fulfillment in this waking world adventure that we call life. Understand how recurring themes in both our dreams and in our waking lives not only offer us direct feedback about where we are in
relation to our most fulfilled life blueprint, but also continually guide us towards it, both in our professional and personal lives. Find out about powerful consciousness techniques and tools to renovate your
psychophysiological operating system on all levels in order to make profound
physical, emotional and mental breakthroughs. Be prepared to have
your mind stretched, your heart opened, and your funny bone tickled.
About the Presenter
Craig Sim Webb is Executive Director of The non-profit DREAMS Foundation (www.dreams.ca), as well as a professional speaker/trainer/author, dream analyst/researcher, and performing/recording musician. He has participated in pioneering dream and consciousness research at Stanford University and Montreal's Sacre-Coeur Hospital, and has spent 15 years, practicing, studying, writing, and teaching about dreams, dream interpretation, lucid dreaming, conscious communication and biofeedback with a refreshing, style that blends soul, science, heart and humor.
As an author/columnist and hired/invited expert for feature motion pictures, international TV shows, magazines, and others, he's broadcast/published numerous cutting edge practical psychology concepts as well as interviews with leading visionaries. He and his work have made hundreds of international public/media/corporate appearances in such places as Fortune 500 companies, The Discovery Channel, ABC, BBC, CBS, TLC, AOL, MSN, The London Times, The New York Times, internationally syndicated articles/radio shows, and many others. He has also designed biofeedback technologies with worldwide distribution, and helped found/produce Making Contact, a progressive international radio show airing weekly on ~200 stations for nearly 15 years.
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If you can't make the presentation, Craig ia also available for private consultations/training (www.craigwebb.ca), plus an online training program will be starting in a few weeks, visit: www.dreams.ca/teleclass.pdf
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The time and tools have come to enable anyone to empower themselves and socially inspire everyone to empower the world. The Empowerment Project is prototyping a social empowerment platform that will provide an API through which all kinds of apps, games and entertainment media can plug into a lifelong learning and getting-things-done system. The Empowerment connects debating ideas, learning skills and obtaining tools with an Open Missions system through which people can not just get things done, but also socially inspire their peers to follow in their footsteps or join forces to achieve common goals and organize empowered groups. And since the number one source of apathy is feeling too busy and indulging in entertainment to recharge, the best way to beat Warcraft/Bejeweled addiction is to make a new kind of game. Empowerment games are already emerging like America's Army and Rock Band which teach you skills like shooting, first-aid, singing and drumming. These games can go beyond teaching skills by actually offering missions like "Join the army", "Start a rock band", and by using the Empowerment API they'll be able to connect with your real lifelong learning profile. We now have the means to empower ourselves and inspire everyone to find out what empowerment means for themselves. It's time to finish the platform and set developers free to shape the future.
Learn more about The Empowerment project at http://www.empowerthyself.com
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Mastering the art of the pitch is paramount to successfully engaging interested parties in whatever goal, vision, or dream you are trying to accomplish. Research suggests that over 80% of those delivering pitches fail to engage the audience. Don’t be one of the 80%. This Bil Session will teach you the core fundamentals for mastering the pitch along with key strategies and tactics that will significantly impact your next pitch. You will walk out of this session knowing how to create the Hollywood Pitch and the 3 minute Elevator Pitch. Time permitting, Troy will also cover key elements of the 15 minute Board Room Pitch.
Presenter’s Background: In 2001, Troy Byrd founded the Bryant University Global Entrepreneurship Program, which he led to national rankings by Entrepreneur magazine. Over the course of 7 years, Troy has witnessed a couple thousand pitches in various formats, environments, and settings. Furthermore, he has created, organized or served as a judge for more than 30 business plan or elevator pitch competitions including the largest college entrepreneurship pitch competition and the Global CEO Elevator Pitch Competition. He has served a guest lecturer on Mastering the Pitch at the Harvard Business School, Princeton, Arizona State University and more.
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A whirlwind walkabout through the fractal forest of networked naked pixels and their doppelganger oversexed dots and the myriad artists from caves in Southern France to new media hipsters everywhere who have harnessed all that energy to accrete amazing visual images.
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What if there was a simple and basic human skill that was overlooked, or perhaps forgotten? What if it were possible for ordinary people using only breathing and body awareness to consistently cause dramatic spontaneous structural realignment with only a light touch? What if first day students had ability to powerfully accelerate the body’s ability to heal itself and reduce pain as well as inflammation…?
To introduce myself, I’m considered one of the modern pioneers of energy healing. My first book, “Your Healing Hands” (a best-seller) came out 30 years ago and is still in print (now in 12 languages). My most recent book is in 14 languages and my business has a presence in over 50 countries.
While I’m not a physician or scientist, I do have a simple method which routinely astounds physicians, chiropractors, physical therapists, scientists, and virtually all who have closely encountered this work, Quantum-Touch.
Alternative Medicine Magazine called Quantum-Touch, “A Significant Breakthrough” and “An essential skill for every lay person and professional practitioner.” Dr. C. Norman Shealy, MD, Ph.D. tested QT on a group of his most difficult chronic pain patients and called it, “The first technique that may truly allow us all to become healers.”
Many will presume that our results are merely due a psychological mechanisms, however this works equally well with infants, animals, plants, and people under general anesthesia. In my opinion, the implications of this knowledge will eventually impact our understanding of physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, psychology, and botany.
Come experience demonstration sessions.
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Why it actually does matter where you choose to shop. A review of resources, discussion of ideas, and call to action for people concerned with a healthy community and a strong local economy.
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The Playpower Foundation (playpower.org) seeks to produce radically affordable, effective and fun Computer-Aided Learning (CAL) Games on ultra-low cost computers.
A $12 computer is bound to be met with some skepticism. But $12 computers are already for sale in India and China. They come with a full keyboard, mouse, game controllers, and two game cartridges. They connect to a TV as a display-- eliminating the cost of a screen. Importantly, these computers are based upon hardware that is now in the public domain, due to expired patents.
These computers can teach BASIC programming and typing--these two skills alone can make a $12 computer an economically transformative product.
Playpower is developing a wide range of other 8-bit learning games to help improve educational access around the world. That's right, 8-bit. Remember the Apple II? NES? The 6502 is coming right back at ya.
This talk will describe the history and future of the Playpower Foundation and the "radically affordable" $12 computer.
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Search is important today and will become increasingly important in the future. What will stay the same, and what will change? I will discuss a set of themes for the future at a broad level and look more deeply at trends including increasing importance of semantic, linguistic, voice, and gestural technologies for search.
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The Innovation Engine of our nation, our university system, is famous around the world for producing new technology concepts and ideas. These concepts sometimes become products that improve our lives and a few of them even disrupt existing industries. Yet for all the fame that the university innovation process gets, the truth is that it is difficult and unpredictable. Out of all the money going into university research there is only about a 1% return or less that results from commercialization. Bringing these technologies to market can represent a golden opportunity for entrepreneurs. However, they still run into obstacles. Successes out of our universities often happen by chance or luck. We will go over why it is currently so difficult to commercialize university technologies and try to come up with solutions to better harvest some of our brightest minds.
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Far too many Americans have a soda habit. Whether regular or diet, soda is unhealthy in itself and also encourages bad dietary habits in general. However, it's hard for most people to switch to boring drinks like water.
I had a soda habit starting when I went to college. I also had an obesity problem after I graduated. I found quitting my soda habit to be the key to solving my obesity problem once and for all.
I didn't switch to water. Instead, I tried, and learned to appreciate unsweet drinks. In my talk I will share insight into how I made the switch.
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Lulan Artisans is a locally driven social venture that forms an alliance of textile designers and gifted artisans in Southeast Asia to produce luxurious hand-woven fabrics. By providing economic opportunity, we help preserve artisan skills while creating environmentally sensitive fabrics and sustainable livelihoods for our artisan partners, their families and communities.
Come hear about Lulan Artisans, how we established our innovative business model, personal stories about the people and the countries in which we work, how we are ready to expand our reach but will need to navigate that during the global economic downturn.
To learn more about Lulan Artisans, visit www.lulan.com
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Advertising touches a huge part of our lives. Consider the 2009 Presidential Election and the different vehicles of advertising used.
What is the state of advertising today, and what will it morph into in the future?
This will be a critical look at advertising, featuring insights from advertising industry experts.
We will cover: traditional media (print, newspapers, magazines), television, radio, and online advertising, as well as provide a crystal ball glimpse into the future of advertising.
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In the less than three years' time, TOMS Shoes has sold and given more than 115,000 pairs of shoes to children in need all around the world. Join TOMS Founder and Chief Shoe Giver, Blake Mycoskie, as he shares the secret to TOMS success and explains why giving is the best business of all!
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With recent concerns over cloud computing and information portability and security, new data models need to emerge that better meet user needs.
This talk will discuss the real-world value of your information and suggest possible data models to insure and protect it so that it does not devalue.
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How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? When does life begin? What do we know? Are there some things we never will have answers for?
In our race for science, faith and reason, the hubris of man is the detrimental obstacle to greater understanding and wisdom.
Gordy Grundy will read his piece that was first performed at 'Inauguration Subversion' at Stories in Echo Park. He will then open the topic for discussion.
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(and why we keep repeating our mistakes)
A look at the sidelines of history, to many of the research projects and products that promised to change how we use technology, but ultimately failed to make a big change in our everyday lives. Nostalgy for the lost opportunities, reminiscing about the promised futures,
and an insistent hope that one day some of these things will come true, in one form or another. Hopefully these old new ideas will spur new innovation in you.
The topics covered will mostly be in the realm of computers and electronic gadgets, as that is what I've fiddled with.
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The explanatory title may say it all, but as I'm an art worker visiting a conference largely dominated by scientists I though some conversation was in order on the important differences between the two fields of human endeavor and perhaps even make a bold attempt to try to bridge the divide. Most scientists could care less about art, and most artists feel that science rarely if ever offers them any new points of view. The few times the two coincide, they often fail in Franksteinian monsters that satisfy none of the goals of either practice. This will be an open discussion on the differences between art and science and as the title tells all, points of interesting concordance.
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Love hurts.
Broken hearts heal.
Institutions do not love, people do.
No one else will love for me.
I cannot break my own heart. Only after I allow someone into my heart can it be broken.
I will love my neighbor.
I will love my enemies.
I must feel loved myself to sustainably love others.
I cannot love everyone;
We can love everyone.
We can plan and share virtually and globally, but we must love physically and locally.
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Chair Massage and demonstration of massage techniques.
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Do you feel that the terms gay, straight, or bi don't fully describe you? That the simplistic notion of gay vs. straight as a single axis doesn't cut it? Come to this workshop and discover that each of us is characterized by (at least) seven axes of sexual orientation along which we move continuously throughout life. You will have an opportunity to position yourself along each of the seven axes, trace your sexual orientation history, and project your trajectory into the future. Participants will be able to identify and commune with other men and women who have followed and are following similar or different trajectories. This workshop is based on the pioneering work of the late Fritz Klein, MD, author of The Bisexual Option, who originated the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid (KSOG).
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IS clean WATER the new GOLD?
IS high speed COMMUNICATION a NECESSITY?
Are WE ready to DRIVE ELECTRIC?
Can WE live NET POSITIVE?
An introduction to the design of The Triad Infinity Utility Station. Are we ready to change the way we live? Energy, Water, Communication, Transportation, and Waste Water Treatment for 100 homes, sustainbly generated optimizing renewable resources, solar, wind, biofuels, aerobic. What is a VWT, what is AWG, what is Solar Stirling, and what is Aerobic WWT?
How Obama's plan will sell us short. How Pickens's plan is a false solution with peak natural gas around the corner.
How can we deploy The Triad Infinity Utility Station on mass scale. Where can we find Angel funding, and why this is an easier solution.
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Proposed By: John Re 4 month(s) ago
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1) How GNU free software can benefit you & the world, &
2) HowTo join the global online meeting from anywhere using VOIP.
On Feb 7 Sat join with the friendly, educational, productive,
BerkeleyTIP people at the Global BerkeleyTIP online monthly meeting,
& get or learn about GNU(Linux) or BSD Free Software.
BerkeleyTIP is a monthly global meeting about
GNU(Linux), BSD, & All Free Software, Hardware & Culture.
Join from anywhere via VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol)
- Use a headset on your computer with Ekiga VOIP software.
http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/
http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal
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BerkeleyTIP: TIP = Talks, Installfest, Potluck, ProgrammingParty
Talks: HowTo use or develop GNU Free SW - Videos & live
Installfest: Assistance installing & using software & hardware
ProgrammingParty: Work on you own ideas, or the group project.
** Great talks at the Feb 7 Saturday Global Meeting **
Ekiga3, Asterisk, GPGPU, GStreamer, Debian Edu,
HowTo Present KDE at meetings
Join from anywhere via VOIP conference,
Join the #berkeleytip freenode.net IRC channel for help getting your
VOIP working.
http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal/web/irc-voip
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***** FEB 7 SCHEDULE (California PacificST = -8h GMT) *****
Time Activity & Talks
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10 A Setup. Installfest begin. IRC & VOIP online
11 Ekiga 3 VOIP HowTo - Live
12 N Asterisk Free Software Telephone System
1 P "
2 GPGPU - General Purpose computing w/ Graphics Processing Units
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4 Debian Edu - 100% in main
5 GStreamer Multimedia Framework
6 HowTo Rock the Show with KDE -HowTo Present at Meetings
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===== JOIN THE BERKELEY-TIP MAILING LIST
Join the mailing list, say "Hi", & introduce yourself, or just follow
the discussions.
Click "Join this group" on the right side of the page.
http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal
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Talking about how to get involved in your community in emergency and disaster preparedness. Tips on training, free online modules, organizations and upcoming conferences. http://communitysafetyprograms.com
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These days everyone is throwing darts in every direction hoping something will stick. Stop, slow down and breathe. Before you jump to hire more "experts" to show you the golden pathway to riches, why not just think about how you can create a company that is useful and fills a need. Be passionate about what you are building and then explore (before you start building) the monetization model the most simply fits with the utility. Remember, a business is two thing. One, a solution to a problem. And two, built to make money.
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1) How GNU free software can benefit you & the world, &
2) HowTo join the global online meeting from anywhere using VOIP.
On Feb 7 Sat join with the friendly, educational, productive,
BerkeleyTIP people at the Global BerkeleyTIP online monthly meeting,
& get or learn about GNU(Linux) or BSD Free Software.
BerkeleyTIP is a monthly global meeting about
GNU(Linux), BSD, & All Free Software, Hardware & Culture.
Join from anywhere via VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol)
- Use a headset on your computer with Ekiga VOIP software.
http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/
http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal
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BerkeleyTIP: TIP = Talks, Installfest, Potluck, ProgrammingParty
Talks: HowTo use or develop GNU Free SW - Videos & live
Installfest: Assistance installing & using software & hardware
ProgrammingParty: Work on you own ideas, or the group project.
** Great talks at the Feb 7 Saturday Global Meeting **
Ekiga3, Asterisk, GPGPU, GStreamer, Debian Edu,
HowTo Present KDE at meetings
Join from anywhere via VOIP conference,
Join the #berkeleytip freenode.net IRC channel for help getting your
VOIP working.
http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal/web/irc-voip
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***** FEB 7 SCHEDULE (California PacificST = -8h GMT) *****
Time Activity & Talks
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10 A Setup. Installfest begin. IRC & VOIP online
11 Ekiga 3 VOIP HowTo - Live
12 N Asterisk Free Software Telephone System
1 P "
2 GPGPU - General Purpose computing w/ Graphics Processing Units
3 "
4 Debian Edu - 100% in main
5 GStreamer Multimedia Framework
6 HowTo Rock the Show with KDE -HowTo Present at Meetings
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===== JOIN THE BERKELEY-TIP MAILING LIST
Join the mailing list, say "Hi", & introduce yourself, or just follow
the discussions.
Click "Join this group" on the right side of the page.
http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal
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