Showing posts with label digital world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital world. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
2011 Frontiers of Engineering: The Shape of Things to Come: Frontiers of Additive Manufacturing
National Academy of Engineering
2011 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
September 19-21, 2011
Google, Inc.
Mountain View, California
The Shape of Things to Come: Frontiers of Additive Manufacturing
September 19, 2011
Presented by Dr. Hod Lipson.
ABSTRACT: Google hosted 100 attendees of the 2011 Nat'l Academy of Engineering's U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium (FOE) at our Mountain View office and Dinah's Garden Hotel in Palo Alto. The symposium is an annual three-day meeting that brings together 100 of the nation's outstanding young engineers (ages 30-45) from industry, academia, and government to discuss pioneering technical and leading-edge research in various engineering fields and industry sectors.
About the speaker: Dr. Hod Lipson is an Associate Professor of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University in New York.
New Technologies like additive manufacturing (3D printing) will change everything, from the way we produce things to the way we interact with them...
Monday, October 31, 2011
C3 Technologies: 3D map of Oslo, Norway
MORE INFO http://bit.ly/C3maps
3D map of Oslo, the capital of Norway, based on incredible mapping
tech from Swedish startup C3 Technologies. Based on declassified missile
targeting technology from Swedish aerospace giant Saab, C3 maps can be
rotated around because each individual pixel has depth information
attached to it. 3D data is calculated directly from high-resolution
aerial photography, based on the positions and angles of the cameras to
give each pixel its geographical position with very high accuracy. C3
maps also sport interior panoramas of points of interest based on HDR
imagery, with room navigation, 3D menus and banners, overview maps and
other interactive features. There's also street-level imagery captured
using an advanced multiple camera system with overlapping viewing angles
to capture the entire surroundings in stereo.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Embracing Post-Privacy !
Optimism towards a future where there is "Nothing to hide"
The breaking away of privacy in the digital world is often understood as something dangerous, and for good reasons. But could there be opportunities in it, too? Do the current cultural and technological trends only dissolve the protected area of privacy, or could they dissolve as well the pressures that privacy is supposed to liberate us from? What if we witness a transformation of civilization so profound that terms like "private" and "public" lose their meaning altogether? Maybe we won't need "privacy" at all in the future because we will value other, new liberties more strongly?
In the digital world, more and more data is accumulated about us. More and more methods of datamining are invented to extract information from these data. The youth grows up enjoying informational exhibitionism to a degree many find irresponsible. Ever greater parts of life are integrated into the global public information stream. Will privacy end? If so, what about liberty? We have to look closely at the value of privacy. What does it do for values like freedom, individualism or intimacy? Why is this protected area of privacy necessary?
The conditions of privacy are rapidly changing. We have to evaluate these changes with a perspective that does justice to new modes of identity, sociality and culture: Why hide your personal weirdnesses if 21st century society thrives on difference and originality instead of conformism and predictability? What identity is there to keep private if "identity" is more and more what you externalize from yourself into the internet? Is privacy worth missing out on participation in the global "hive mind" and the "ambient intimacy" of every mind connected with every other mind?
Such questions may sound utopian and/or crazy. They may sound irresponsible, considering anti-privacy trends that may seem much more real and dangerous -- like the surveillance state. But even if you disagree with their validity, they may provoke deeper thinking about the state and value of privacy in a world that is changing more and more rapidly -- and that could hardly be a bad thing.
More information about the 25th Chaos Communication Congress can be found via the Chaos Communication Congress website:http://bit.ly/25c3_program
Source: http://bit.ly/25c3_videos
Speaker: Christian Heller / plomlompom
The breaking away of privacy in the digital world is often understood as something dangerous, and for good reasons. But could there be opportunities in it, too? Do the current cultural and technological trends only dissolve the protected area of privacy, or could they dissolve as well the pressures that privacy is supposed to liberate us from? What if we witness a transformation of civilization so profound that terms like "private" and "public" lose their meaning altogether? Maybe we won't need "privacy" at all in the future because we will value other, new liberties more strongly?
In the digital world, more and more data is accumulated about us. More and more methods of datamining are invented to extract information from these data. The youth grows up enjoying informational exhibitionism to a degree many find irresponsible. Ever greater parts of life are integrated into the global public information stream. Will privacy end? If so, what about liberty? We have to look closely at the value of privacy. What does it do for values like freedom, individualism or intimacy? Why is this protected area of privacy necessary?
The conditions of privacy are rapidly changing. We have to evaluate these changes with a perspective that does justice to new modes of identity, sociality and culture: Why hide your personal weirdnesses if 21st century society thrives on difference and originality instead of conformism and predictability? What identity is there to keep private if "identity" is more and more what you externalize from yourself into the internet? Is privacy worth missing out on participation in the global "hive mind" and the "ambient intimacy" of every mind connected with every other mind?
Such questions may sound utopian and/or crazy. They may sound irresponsible, considering anti-privacy trends that may seem much more real and dangerous -- like the surveillance state. But even if you disagree with their validity, they may provoke deeper thinking about the state and value of privacy in a world that is changing more and more rapidly -- and that could hardly be a bad thing.
More information about the 25th Chaos Communication Congress can be found via the Chaos Communication Congress website:http://bit.ly/25c3_program
Source: http://bit.ly/25c3_videos
Speaker: Christian Heller / plomlompom
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