A preview of Michael Lawrence’s Bach Project was screened at EG2007 to much regard.
In another EG2007 story of kismet, John Abele, who spoke about his family’s submarine search, has decided to provide substantial funding to the film so it can finish production.
Read all about it in the Baltimore Sun.
I wonder what connections will be made [...]
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Bach Project on Track
December 15, 2007 – 1:58 pm
Kara Swisher Coverage
December 10, 2007 – 10:52 am
Last week Kara Swisher had a short conversation with Michael Hawley about what the plans were for EG2007.
Now she’s compiled a 5 minute video showing “the brass band that opened the conference; shell art; a speech by Wurman; some piano playing by Hawley; former Microsoftie Nathan Myhrvold making VP Dick Cheney “cute” (no easy task!); [...]
Politico Coverage
December 6, 2007 – 10:31 am
Politico has picked up on Rob Glaser’s presentation in this story, ‘Liberal’ lingo’s Tinseltown translation.
Second Adam Savage Interview
December 4, 2007 – 4:42 pm
Adam was gracious enough to answer a second set of questions I had, sent in by a good friend’s three children, who are huge fans of his show.
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Nathan Myhrvold Interview
December 4, 2007 – 3:14 pm
Chatting with Nathan about the Dvorak keyboard layout.
John Markoff
December 4, 2007 – 3:13 pm
(These are loose, John went fairly deep into the three stories.)
Want to tell three stories that were under appreciated by my editors. I think I’m the longest surviving technology reporter in Silicon Valley. Peter Kerry is at the Merc and one of my heroes, but he’s mostly an investigative reporter. Went to school with William [...]
Adam Savage Interview
December 4, 2007 – 1:52 pm
Adam Savage talks about what he wants to do after Mythbusters:
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Kevin Kelly
December 4, 2007 – 1:31 pm
The web thing that we’re all talking about, is less than 5,000 days old. If 10 years ago I told you everything was coming, and that it all was coming for free, you wouldn’t have believed. We thought the internet was going to be TV but better. Wikipedia is impossible in theory, but possible in [...]
Andrew Lippman - Architectures for the Future
December 4, 2007 – 12:22 pm
The message that I have is simple: We’re not in charge anymore. It’s over. I’m a geek, I’m a technologist, just didn’t qualify for the geek session so I got thrown into this session. We invent, control, debug, our hope is we’re having some effect, and we’re not! Society has taken over, it’s not about [...]
Amy Tan
December 4, 2007 – 10:52 am
There is no way to nail down what imagination is, but for me it’s metaphor. Those with imagination seem to see associates here and there, more free with some than others. When creative people take tests sometimes they test closely to psychosis. A traumatic childhood, her father and brother died within one year of brain [...]
John Abele
December 4, 2007 – 10:25 am
For six decades he and his brother have been looking for a submarine lost in WWII, wose skipper was their father. They found it off the cost of Alaska, after a Japenese historian found some more information about its last battle. The U.S.S. Grunion was surfacing, trying to finish a cargo ship it had tordpedod, [...]
Jared Diamond
December 4, 2007 – 9:58 am
Today I’d like to talk to about the number thirty-two. It’s two raised to the fifth power. To an economist it’s interest because it measures the difference in consumption rates between first and third world, we use about 32x oil and power. Today the world has about 6.5 billion people, will rise to about [...]
Richard Saul Wurman
December 4, 2007 – 9:11 am
We don’t have to be here, we could get things off the web, out of a book. There’s something so enormoursly special about conversation. They haven’t invented a computer that nods. Think about that. When you talk to another human being they nod, sometimes a lot, sometimes imperceptably. Sometimes a noise comes out of their [...]
Bob Metcalfe
December 4, 2007 – 7:12 am
At lunch I caught up with Bob Metcalfe and asked him what he thought about the acceleration of technology. He believes in it, but with one important twist.
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Tim Kring - Heroes
December 4, 2007 – 1:20 am
Creator of Heroes. How it got started, the internet fanbase, and where it’s going.
Global consciousness, and how I as someone with a hit TV show can hopefully raise that consciousness. When I was young I was a total geek, but anyone can stumble into greatness. This is a hugely powerful message for people, it’s [...]
Nicholas Negroponte - One Laptop per Child
December 4, 2007 – 1:10 am
He told his father he wanted to be a sculptor Paris. His father told him that for every year he went to MIT he would pay for a matching year in Paris when he finished. It was very clever. He was planning to study architecture, because it was art and mathematics put together. His [...]
Timothy Childs - TCHO
December 4, 2007 – 1:04 am
He’s talking about the process of making a chocolate company. Used to be a space geek, then a confectioner. Chocolate is one of the most complex things he’s seen. How do you choose a chocolate? How do you choose by percentage and origin is clunky. They wanted to create a simplified model of the chocolate [...]
Pablos Holman - Bump Key Demo
December 4, 2007 – 12:39 am
During his presentation Pablos demonstrated a bump key, which is a trick to bump a specially crafted key in most locks and it will open it. One of my trading cards was actually getting one from him, and when I tracked him down he gave me a short demo for the camera:
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Ken Knowlton - Mosaics
December 3, 2007 – 7:34 pm
He was initially fascinated with technology as a result of the 1939 World’s Fair in New York. He started in a one-room school, then a 80 person-class high school, cornell, then MIT where he was introduced to computers. He authored the first computer programming language for raster movies. “Seen as the founder of computer film [...]
Brewster Kahle on How to Help
December 3, 2007 – 7:09 pm
I asked Brewster Kahle how people could help out the fine work he spoke about earlier.
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Angelin Chang
December 3, 2007 – 6:03 pm
A classical pianist and music professor. LA is a special place to my family, because my older brother, Angelo, was born here. Next in line, Angelin, Angelina, and Angel. Anybody know what a “hoosier” is? It originated when there was a knock on the door and people in Indiana would say “who’s there? (hoos-ierrrr?)” She’s [...]
Chef Ann Cooper
December 3, 2007 – 4:51 pm
She wants to change the type of food in school. Teach them the relationship between healthy planet, healthy food, nad healthy kids. We got here because of big agribusiness. Monsanto and DupPont control 90% of the commercially produced seeds. Average food travels 1,500 miles before we eat it. No food with frequent flyer miles. [...]
Marvin Minsky
December 3, 2007 – 4:42 pm
Going to talk about the dark side of cuteness. When I was a kid, the story of the three bears, Goldilocks. When I heard that story, I didn’t see anything wrong with bears that talked or made porridge, but I didn’t see any thermodynamic way which it could fit. Marvin has a book called The [...]
Keith Schwab
December 3, 2007 – 4:25 pm
Why do physicists “believe” these strange theories? Physics is based on experimental reality. “The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.” Richard Feynman.
Phisics is based on experiment.
The nature of Reality is absurd.
We don’t know what QM means, but that it is highly testable without discrepancy.
(Sorry I missed [...]
Interview with John Q. Walker
December 3, 2007 – 1:27 pm
I caught up with John Q. Walker a bit on the break to ask him about where the Disklavier technology is going. John did the demo with the recreated performances that blew everyone in the conference away.
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Vignettes: Paul Horowitz
December 3, 2007 – 1:24 pm
Lets’s compress the time between the sun forming and today into one “day.” Life formed around 05:20. The last hour, dinosaurs became exect at 11:39. In the last minute, neaderthals didn’t come until 11:59:58.1. Here’s the picture of the graph.
Paul said that when he tells people that there are more stars than grains of sand [...]
Brian Greene
December 3, 2007 – 1:13 pm
In the decades that ended in the mid 1920s, Scientists did work that resulted in a fundamental understanding of the world like we never could have before.
The contributions of quantum mechanics stand on their own. People don’t understand the basics of quantum mechanics. He showed some examples of “quantum” being misused. He’s going to try [...]
John Q. Walker
December 3, 2007 – 10:35 am
The dream of listeners everywhere is to be there for a live performance, it’s the ultimate experience . Zenph Studios wants to separate performance and recording. He’s about to play the 1955 version live. They digitize 70+ factors of every note. The Yamaha Disklavier piano just performed Gordon Gould performing two of the Goldberg [...]
Don Katz
December 3, 2007 – 10:34 am
Was a writer for 20 years, and a business guy for 12. CEO of Audible.com. We rarely find time to talk about what the new technology nad media culture actually means. Media is the sum of discruptive inventions that have changed the status quo. Audible continues the oral tradition that predated books. The paperback book [...]
Brewster Kahle
December 3, 2007 – 9:55 am
“If you’re going to give an upbeat technological talk, don’t come after Andrew Keen.”
We need to put the best we have to offer within reach of our children. If we don’t do that we’re going to get the generation we deserve. I grew up in a television generation, the closest I could get to [...]
Andrew Keen
December 3, 2007 – 9:29 am
For me, media is about the distribution of high quality information and entertainment. It’s about the exchange of money for that entertainment. That’s the media economy. He thinks the media economy is in “deep sh**.” Recently Radiohead tried to figure out a new business model for online, they should allow people to set their own [...]
Jim Citrin
December 3, 2007 – 9:11 am
Jim is a executive headhunter. Last night at dinner someone stopped him to talk about enhanced metadata and standards, she thought he did a different kind of “search.” He’s asking a series of questions:
Where are you in your career? first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, fourh courter, retired
How do you assess yourself in your [...]
Rob Glaser
December 3, 2007 – 8:48 am
He’s going to talk about something outside of work, Real Networks. A joint effort of the Glaser Progress Foundation and the Center for American Progress.
They want to treat “progressive” like a brand that is nutured and managed, just like any other brand. They want to educate Americans about what it means to be a [...]
