The last job on Earth: imagining a fully automated world
Video animation by The Guardian
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(Source: youtube.com)
6th April 2016
Notes: 5
Mademoiselle Magazine, 1965.
Space suit and futuristic fashion from the space age of the 1960s…
Reblogged From glamology
History and Future Timeline [Animation]
“Time makes sense in small pieces. But when you look at huge stretches of time, it’s almost impossible to wrap your head around things…”
Great educational video animation to get an idea of very different time spans and its relations with each other: starting with minutes, hours, days, going on with the 5,000 years time span of recorded human history and ending with the billion years time span of our universe from bigbang to the death of the sun in the far future…
Paul Allen (ex-Microsoft): The Singularity Isn’t Near – Why Ray Kurzweil’s theory is an unrealistic future vision [OPINION] http://j.mp/qjwv7b
“Futurists like Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil have argued that the world is rapidly approaching a tipping point, where the accelerating pace of smarter and smarter machines will soon outrun all human capabilities. They call this tipping point the singularity, because they believe it is impossible to predict how the human future might unfold after this point…”
The World’s First Vertical Forest Under Construction in Italy: Bosco Verticale [Image Gallery] http://t.co/vqhXJWeI
Fonotopia - Audio & Multimedia Mag:
How Kinect Hacks Are Changing the Future
When MS Kinect for Xbox 360 was released in November 2010….
… most of the world focused on the controller-free video gaming interface, but roboticists saw something else entirely: an affordable, lightweight camera that could capture 3D images in real time!
Excellent longread on Kinect & robotics on Wired.com
Kinect Hacks enable creative mind-blowing real-time visualizations
Kinect & music: playing air guitar etc.
How Kinect Hacking & Augmented Reality Is Changing Marketing
Kinect teleconferencing / telepresence systems with real-time 3D capture & 3D display [video]
curated by Dr Martin Strickman
The Future of Revenue [Animation]
This video looks at the future of revenue: Revenue Performance Management, or RPM. The “School House Rock”-inspired animation puts RPM in context of some of the most significant milestones in the history of business (scientific management, total quality management and supply chain management) and explores how early adopters of RPM can become the Fords, Toyotas and Wal-Marts of tomorrow – that is, fast movers who turned change into competitive advantage