Archive for July, 2010

“Crowdfunding will never catch on” investment trainee age 46

Monday, July 12th, 2010I stole the headline from an old economist advert, but just tweaked a little for context!The crowd has the potential to be a larger funding source than anyone of us ever expectedArgues Paul Kedrosky in The Venture Capital Journal July ...

Art from code in a Keith Peters stylee

Sunday, July 4th, 2010I came across the work of Keith Peters in a Scientific American article. I was intrigued and went in search of the man and his work - which is jaw droppingly wonderful. He writes, I’m Keith Peters. I write code ...

The future of ui

Friday, July 2nd, 2010John Underkoffler speaking about the way in which ui will change how we interface in the world

Linda Stone and human attention

Friday, July 2nd, 2010[caption id="attachment_5470" align="aligncenter" width="260" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7577137@N04/2923238790"][/caption]The economist Herbert Simon, once wrote,What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention... The only factor becoming scarce in ...

Free exchange of ideas increases prosperity

Thursday, July 1st, 2010Michael Shermer writesIn his 1776 work An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Scottish moral philosopher Adam Smith identified the cause in a single variable: “the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for ...

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