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Great conference by a person who has thought deeply about creativity, full of insights, from the speed at which people walk in cities to the importance of both relaxation and persistence. Very good & highly recommended!!
Paul Zack on "the Moral Molecule" (oxitocin than, when injected, makes you feel compassionate)
Chade-Meng Tan: "Search Inside Yourself", Authors at Google (getting meditation through normal day-to-day life)
Essential topic... huge attendance.
Another view at inequality, seen as a direct consequence of machines replacing humans.
Global impact. In fact perhaps more on developing countries with robotization allowing for reallocating industries again industrialized countries.
Dystiopian vs utopian views, that is, more inequality vs new Athens in which robots replace slaves. Vs middle term where we can have an impact in being aware of the problem and trying to create technology that brings people in instead of replacing them.
Van Jones, social activist, inspiring people to initiate the change they want to see (we can change updated)
A very interesting projecto, named Kiva, when anyone can borrow money to those indeed, in small quantities, like 25$.
Ron Kaufman talks about improving our service, a very inspiring video!!
Excellent, I wish I worked in a place like this!
This girl really tries to reduce her choices. Anyway, she says that we waste too much time on unimportant choices and that, as the number of choices go up, unless you're a specialist, the quality of the choosing goes down.
On the line of other things by Guillebeau
Here's David Brin, sci-fi writer and scientist, speaking about sousveillance, the evolution of mankind, Fermi's paradox and others. A bit superficially, it's a pity there was not a Q&A afterwards, as that seemed the whole point of doing a debate so vague. His blog has many interesting links.
Very interesting work done by someone who used to live in a tree house, but was from childhood connected with the development of digital computers. History of the Eniac, role played by Turing and von Newmann, very detailed perspective of what was going on at the IAS at the time. As sidenote, the role of women, travels through the country, quotas for jews in Princeton and other curiosities. Other videos with him having the same subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg5gJxXBh8s and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF9VsUxHM9U. About Google collecting Q&A and also working as a bank: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtijHwnAyqM
He his the son of Freeman Dyson. Orion project and a bit of an autobiography: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtijHwnAyqM
His dad has several things online: http://crowlspace.com/?p=548
How to improve your charisma or: learn how to be a (good) impostor without looking like one. Very interesting.
This is one of the greatest publicity stunts ever. It is presented as a kind of documentary and, in them, these guys present themselves as peace lovers, they want to eliminate all the nuclear weapons in the world (in only Russia would let them!!). And they don't even mention Iran. Only that a large number of dangerous material might be on the loose in that area, and so on. But then, of course, the question pops up from the audience: what about Iran? And then the answer: it is this country, "which is effectively at war with the US" !! and that tells "five times a day" that it wants to destroy Israel. So, you know, obvious conclusion, blah bla bla... Incredible how these manipulation thingys got so sophisticated. The last question, chosen randomly of course, was "how can we spread this idea that we are all at danger?" - well, then 5 more minutes of publicity and motivation. This is sooo well done!!... clap, clap, clap!!