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. Most […]
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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. […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 Variations. […]
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 […]
The Entertainment Gathering 