Futurist Thomas Frey: A recent TEDx talk about solving traffic jams started by asking the simple question, “Who is in charge of the daily bread supply for the city of London?”
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Tuberculosis most commonly affects the lungs, is transmitted via the air and caused by strains of mycobacteria.
Worldwide, more than 2 billion people are struck down with tuberculosis (TB). Scientists in the U.S. have made a medical breakthrough that could save hundreds of thousands of lives.
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Watsi.org co-founders.
Is there a difference between building a successful for-profit and nonprofit startup? Not much, according to Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, there isn’t much of a difference. Y Combinator is an elite accelerator program in Mountain View, Calif., that accepted a nonprofit for the first time this month, Watsi.org. “You could never tell there was a nonprofit mixed in,” he said in a phone interview recently.
Continue reading… “Y Combinator – Nonprofit startups are just like their counterparts”
Thomas Frey, Senior Futurist and Keynote Speaker
Thomas Frey is a futurist and keynote speaker who presents his ideas about the future to companies, government officials and others around the globe seeking guidance and insight in a rapidly changing world.
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Bitcoins are completely digital, so you can’t spend actual ones like these (non-digital ones) at a digital casino.
As various tech companies report their fourth-quarter 2012 earnings numbers this week, so are two gray-market, Bitcoin-based casinos—and one is turning profits in the hundreds of thousands of dollars after only six months of being in business
Recently, both SatoshiDice and bitZino released their financials. If these self-reported earnings are to be trusted (and the companies say they are, given that a Bitcoin block chain can be read by anyone), then running a Bitcoin-based casino yields a tidy profit.
“These tiny startups are hitting some major online casino pain points, they’re crushing it on those fronts and as an entrepreneur, I think that’s rad—they are leveraging a disruptive technology to try and kick a large-scale industry in the balls,” said Peter Vessenes, the CEO of CoinLab, a Bitcoin-based business, which got $500,000 of venture capital last year.
Continue reading… “Bitcoin-based casino rakes in more than $500,000 profit in six months”
David Heinemeier Hansson – Creator of Ruby on Rails
David Heinemeier Hansson: I’d be happy if 37signals is the last place I work. In an industry so focused on the booms and busts, I find myself a kindred spirit with the firms of old. Places where people happily reported to work for 40 years, picking up a snazzy gold watch at the end as a token of life-long loyalty.
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Google CEO Larry Page
This past fall, when Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP Group, the giant advertising agency, visited Google, CEO Larry Page sent a car to pick him up at the Rosewood Hotel about 20 miles away. The car Page sent was no ordinary car. Thanks to a slew of high-tech tools, including radars, sensors, and a laser scanner that takes more than 1.5 million measurements every second, the Lexus SUV drove itself. For about 20 minutes, while navigating I-280 and the area’s busy State Route 85, the car cruised on autopilot, making quick course corrections, slowing down here when traffic loomed ahead, speeding up there to get out of the blind spot of a neighboring vehicle. “It was pretty incredible,” says Sorrell.
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There are currently over 1.5 billion people in the World who have no reliable access to mains electricity. These people rely, instead, on biomass fuels (mostly kerosene) for lighting once the sun goes down. GravityLight is a sustainable lighting solution powered by gravity. (Pics)
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The National Museum of Math
A new museum has opened in the U.S. that will quench your thirst for patterns, fractals and puzzles galore. The National Museum of Math opened in New York City last week; and it’s a good thing too because we cannot wait any longer. (Pics)
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Futurist Thomas Frey: When is the last time you heard a statement that caused you to stop dead in your tracks?
It doesn’t happen very often, but for each of us, there are a few unusual sound bites that will permeate our senses and sway our thinking.
Continue reading… “Eight Shocking Quotes from 2012 that will Redefine Our Future”
Do you have last minute Holiday Cards to send out? Well, here’s an ingenious new option – Foldagram.
Foldagram is a self-mailing, self-standing picture with a personal message. Just go online to Foldagram, create your card, and they will send it to your address list instantly.
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Turning the education model inside out.
The concept of the ‘flipped classroom’ in schools is when pupils complete course material ahead of lessons to free up time with their teachers and apply the knowledge they have just learned. Now a related philosophy is developing in higher education. Can we also flip academics – or even academia itself?
Continue reading… “The ‘flipped academic’ in higher education – inform first and publish later”
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