Sometimes, Words Just Complicate Things. What If Our Brains Could Communicate Directly With Each Other,

Playlist: Videos that will blow your mind

290 Seconds That Will Blow Your Mind

4 Information Ages

Changing Educational Paradigms

How Schools Kill Creativity

Juan Enriquez:  The Next Species of Human

The History and Future of Time

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Visual Notes

Boston Dynamic

 (Big dog, Pet man etc)

Changes in technology and in how information is shared both further and faster are transforming how organizations operate. Thomas Malone, of the MIT Sloan School of Management, shows how the changes in organizational structure mirror changes in how human society has organized and operated. His presentation illustrates that these changes can be primarily tied by a single factor, the cost of communication, and he presents present-day examples to show what the organization of the future may look like.

The Graphing Calculator Story

When His Project Was Canceled, an Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple to Finish the Job   via Mental Floss

The Graphing Calculator Story by Ron Avitzur

Why did Greg and I do something so ludicrous as sneaking into an eight-billion-dollar corporation to do volunteer work? Apple was having financial troubles then, so we joked that we were volunteering for a nonprofit organization. In reality, our motivation was complex. Partly, the PowerPC was an awesome machine, and we wanted to show off what could be done with it; in the Spinal Tap idiom, we said, "OK, this one goes to eleven." Partly, we were thinking of the storytelling value. Partly, it was a macho computer guy thing - we had never shipped a million copies of software before. Mostly, Greg and I felt that creating quality educational software was a public service. We were doing it to help kids learn math. Public schools are too poor to buy software, so the most effective way to deliver it is to install it at the factory.

#HigherEd

This is What Your Professors Really Think About You Leaving Academia

Wow...   also worth taking a look at the comment section...

 #purposeofeducation

Making Multimedia Content Accessible to All

Otis Was a Flame of Fire via foundersofamerica

The NSA Speech: Obama Accepts the Logic of Staying Terrorized

If the vision he laid out Friday prevails, mass surveillance on innocents will continue and we'll never enjoy pre-9/11 privacy again.

Peace or Violence?

Is World History Becoming More Peaceful or More Violent?

Updates:  

Ray Kurzweil: The world isn’t getting worse — our information is getting better

Why the World Is Better Than You Think in 10 Powerful Charts

Exercising the Franchise of Digital Citizenship