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October 9th, 2009
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Tesla coils. Electricity to magnetism then back into electricity.
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October 8th, 2009
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“We can design the future through investment.”
Computers: Moore’s Law to continue until 2020, and that a $1,000 computer today will cost only $10 in 2020. Talks about software not keeping up with hardware, which means there is and will only be more demand for good software.
Nanotubes: explains details about all their amazing properties.
Risk of pandemic: demand for antiviral cocktails.
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October 7th, 2009
October 1st, 2009
To make the math easier without decimals…
If you had a choice between taking $10,000,000 a day for this entire month or accepting $1 today and having the dollar double every day for the remainder of the month, which would you select?
Well, 10,000,000 * 30 days = $300,000,000
11 doublings = 1024
21 doublings = 1,048,576
26 doublings = 33,554,432
30 doublings = 536,870,912
Hard to believe?
Now imagine 40 days
2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 which is 1 Trillion.
Now consider information processing power. In 1965, Gordon Moore of Intel predicted it would double every year, then revised that estimate to every two years (Moore’s Law). It has been doubling every 18 months or so for the last 44 years. Computer processing power has had 26 doublings, which means we are right at that point when we start to realize how fast we are about to go. We are at the part of the curve where its about to go straight vertical. It took us 44 years to get to this point, but in just another 18 months we’ll add as much as we did in the last 44 years combined!
Who cares about computers, what does this all mean?
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September 26th, 2009
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This means our internet penetration is only 25% of the total population of the countries shown! The internet will thus quadruple in size, and this discounts any population growth. The implications for domain values as well as the collective world intelligence are enormous.
Size of untapped market by country:
USA – 75m
BRA – 140m
UK – 16m
FRA – 20m
GER – 27m
RUS – 102m
IN – 1157m
CHI – 1354m
JAP – 31m
KOR – 12m
AUS – 4m
Which is roughly 3 Billion future internet users, compared to the 1 Billion current users, just in those countries.
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September 26th, 2009
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September 24th, 2009
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Increasingly, it seems that our world is warming up the view that there may not be a “God” but there probably is a “higher power.” Many feel a mystery or sixth sense that there is a meaning or a purpose, but have a hard time buying into the old fairy tale of a man with a long white beard sitting somewhere in the clouds. Forces exist that we cannot see or understand, so why not believe that there could be some binding commonality to all matter and life in the universe? If the big bang is true, then there most certainly is. Scientists say that evolution is a fact, but then the religious discount their proof. In the years to come I think it’s going to get harder and harder to discredit the scientific proof of evolution. However, the truth of evolution doesn’t negate the existence of a higher power, whether that force is a man in a long white beard or not. When you consider that we live in exponential times, and we have only just entered the universe, what will this world look like in just 2 generations? What will this world look like for our grandchildren?
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September 22nd, 2009
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The movie’s creator holds the thesis that the world inevitably changes, and it is better off as a result.
New generations continue to evolve and resisting their new ideas and attitudes is useless.
In a way we’ve lost our innocence, but with it we’ve gained… variety, and freedom to explore that variety. When we do, the experience makes us deeper, more unique and complex individuals. This leads to a world filled with more interesting people – people who are not afraid to be their true unique selves – because society expects that uniqueness rather than the black and white, in-the-box, stereotyped, inauthentic version.
I see this dynamic playing out in three phases. First, everyone is “black and white.” The community is homogeneous and cohesive.
Second, some change while others remain the same. The community is heterogeneous and incohesive. Think of water mixed with oil and very shaken up. In the years to come this change will be painful as individuals will change into and reveal that authentic version of themselves at different rates, as they did in the film. Some will inevitably resist the new outlooks – whatever they may be – but in the end, everyone will change or at least accept the fact that a large portion of society has changed and they are now a minority.
Third, diversity will remain, but cohesiveness will be restored as well. Like attracts like. The natural human drive to find others like ourselves and connect with them will cause migration and the formation of new communities. The advent of the internet and websites such as myspace will foster and speed this transgression. At first, these communities will be only digital (on the web), but as more and more people are empowered by websites such as ebay, a second wave of cottage industries will emerge. With these new small business and the mobility that the web-based model provides, an increasing number of individuals will attain the ability to physically join their digital communities. The water and oil will migrate and bond, and small pockets of highly unique communities will pop up all over.
The one-world, blending uniformity that Alexander the Great imagined will look more like swiss cheese, with the holes being the revolutionized, mini communities while the main body of the cheese will be marbleized like a colby jack although it will have thousands of different cheeses which have yet not found or coalesced with their mini community.
Even the minority of the “black and whites” will potentially gather to form their own community as well – imagine a Walt Disney throwback community where all the residents wish to live as their great grandparents did.
How would this happen? Imagine if a Bill Gates or one of the future founders of the next Twitter who has the wherewithal buys an entire town, or simply through recruiting only a certain type of employee to work at the headquarters ends up recruiting an entire town or even just a small neighborhood. Imagine if they had the vision and purpose to create it… anything is possible.
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