Juan Enriquez: How mind-boggling science will outlast the crisis
By: Greg Swann,
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Category: Egoism in Action, Flourishing, Group Therapy, Technology
From TED Talks:
Very inspiring, yes? And think of all the emerging branches of science Professor Enriquez leaves out: Simulation, massive data sets, crowd-sourcing, nanotechnology, bio-computing, etc. It’s raining soup but we’re all so busy bawling that we’re starving that no one has time to eat…
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Superb! Thanks for sharing.
Seconds before reading your post, I posted this to Twitter: “For geeks looking for inspiration” and then linked to a post by Greg Linden describing some amazing things Google is doing. This non-market devaluation of Google and other companies changing the world will not last.
[...] I posted the link on Twitter saying: “For geeks looking for inspiration.” I also then commented one of Greg Swann’s posts about TED with the same thought. The sentence from Greg Linden’s post that inspires the [...]
> a post by Greg Linden describing some amazing things Google is doing
Excellent. Thanks. Google is of course one of the main sources of massive data-sets, also.
Great but disturbing video. The bit about the economy was scary enough but the second part reminded me very much of the re-imaged battlestar galactica series, with our own creations turning on us.
I’m with James, I don’t know about all this cloning stuff. I’d love to see a cure for cancer and other diseases first.