JUST THINK

“No more crappy animations. Star wars, GTA 4 and Indiana Jones will use this technology…”

Information Design

An extract from Christopher¹s website: ³Email became an integral part of my life in 1998. Like many people, I have archived all of my email with the hope of someday revisiting my past. I am interested in revealing the innumerable relationships between me, my schoolmates, work-mates, friends and family. This could not readily be accomplished by reading each of my 60,000 emails one-by-one. Instead, I created My Map, a relational map and alternative self portrait. My Map is a piece of custom designed software capable of rendering the relationships between myself and individuals in my address book by examining the TO:, FROM:, and CC: fields of every email in my email archive. The intensity of the relationship is determined by the intensity of the line. My Map allows me to explore different relational groupings and periods of time, revealing the temporal ebbs and flows in various relationships. In this way, My Map is a veritable self-portrait, a reflection of my associations and a way to locate myself.²

Richard Feynman with incredible acuity; blessed with the power of grace and truth gives us some astute observations about the “names” of things and knowledge.

Image of carbon nanotube on gold filaments from Singapore Nanotech Institute.
Again another post in a sense related to the MEMS article below. I’m now utterly fascinated to see this stuff actually arriving into our world and of course within our very bodies. With thanks to the internet I am alerted to the amazing possibilities [...]

It took just one Gandhi to set off a wave of enlightenment across the planet; and one maverick scientist by the name of Nikola Tesla to invent the electric age, prompting us to screw in a never ending supply of lightbulbs. On the other hand, the will of just one zealous despot, Adolf Hitler, almost succeeded in throwing us back into the dark ages.

“Imagine a machine so small that it is imperceptible to the human eye. Imagine working machines no bigger than a grain of pollen. Imagine thousands of these machines batch fabricated on a single piece of silicon, for just a few pennies each.

iPhone meets Starbucks with very pretty results

A true genius speaks

Black-Belt thinking beyond control. I found that the hidden power behind great thinking, decision-making or great innovation was the fact that it was borne out of unstructured creativity. Yet somehow my own breakthrough thinking lay in the creativity of the constraints of a control framework. Structure through a control frameworks enabled us to push at the edges and go beyond that frame ­ way beyond anything imagined in the first place.