technology
in case you think there’s an alternative energy
John Michael Greer’s latest blog post has some information for you. Our energy problem and societal decline isn’t occurring only because we are losing net energy rapidly (energy returned on energy invested), global civilization is in rapid decline because all our alternatives to oil are much less energy dense. From the blog post,
my thoughts on the Bloom Box
Over the last few days, I’ve received emails from several friends requesting my thoughts on Bloom Energy. The Bloom Box looks interesting but the piece from 60 Minutes was incredibly misleading. The celebrities, the press releases and all the hype has looked like little more than just posturing for social capital in a competitive silicon [...]
Chris Anderson’s Free is Gee Whiz economics
Chris Anderson’s follow up to his revolutionary The Long Tail (2006, Hyperion) has me reminded of Thomas Friedman for geeks. Stuff that people younger than 25 get naturally but that CEOs and VCs can read and say, “wow, that internets is so amazing!”
Free (2009, Hyperion) sets out to cover new ground in describing [...]
Steorn has unlimited energy for keeping us from evaluating their technology
Just when you thought we’d forgotten about perpetual motion machines, the UK company Steorn is showing some balls with their latest Youtube video.
is technology the biggest ponzi scheme of all?
I’ve been prevented from sharing on the blog recently because of my regimen of finals at University of British Columbia but I had to pass on this talk from Archeologist Sander van Leeuw. Stewart Brand’s The Long Now Foundation is always posting great talks but this one was my favorite on the podcast feed thus far. (Michael [...]
quote of the day: on technology and learning with C.P. Snow
C.P. Snow’s lecture on the Two Cultures is a classic. Here is another great quotation from C.P. Snow,
musings on technology and an infinite universe courtesy of Alan Watts
I’m one to always enjoy the musings of a man that’s willing to consider the limitations of technology and the ability to even perceive the infinite,
Siva Vaidhyanathan on the “Googlization of Everything” at UBC
The best thing about being back in a university environment is the opportunity to explore talks from great thinkers outside my field of materials engineering. Thanks to the magic of a running twitter search for UBC I found out at 11:45 that University of Virginia cultural historian and media theorist Siva Vaidhyanathan was giving a [...]
