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Are You Past, Present of Future Focused?
RSA Animate – “The Secret Powers of Time” by The RSA on Monday, May 24th, 2010 (via comment.rsablogs.org.uk)
Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world. View the full video of Professor Philip Zimbardo’s talk at the RSA.
This video came my way through @cassondra in this Tweet:
RSA Animate –Zimbardo’s talk on The Secret Powers of Time this is the talk I mentioned @Kenekaplan. Enjoy!
I really like the past, present future perspective. I’m not sure we’re all one or the other. I’m a present and future person. My wife seems more a past and future person. The anecdote about Italy cutting itself in half — north and south — is very true, a living example of opposite perspectives/lifestyles create tension in close proximity — but can work together (hopefully)! And the fact that their is no future tense verb in Sicilian dialect is amazing — even the language focuses on past and present.
This got me thinking about other stories and themes of how technology is impacting human behavior for better or worse.
My team at Intel have been talking about the Hourglass Syndrome and how many of us want better performing computers because we hate to wait. A survey commissioned by our team revealed that many people lose 3 days a year “waiting” on their technology. Here are two tongue-in-cheek videos about Hourglass Syndrome:
Here are a few other related stories I’ve read recently that show that many people are more concerned about the impact of technology on our lives, and behaviors:
An Ugly Toll of Technology: Impatience and Forgetfulness in The New York Times (June 6, 2010)
Our Clutterned Minds, a New York Time Book Review on “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains” by Nicholas Carr (May 27, 2010)
Your Brain on Computers — Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price in The New York Times(June 6, 2010)
Computex 2010 Videos from Intel: Thin Laptops, Netbooks, Tablets, Handhelds
For two years now, I’ve helped my Intel communications team plan for and share what’s happening at Computex. And every year, my desire to BE THERE in Taipei grows. It looks like a blast — lots of gadget freaks going gaga over the latest devices and concept designs.
One of the concept designs Intel showed was a 14mm thin netbook with Intel Atom processor inside. I got to shoot some photos before the concept was shipped to Taipei — shared here.
As I’ve been reading stories and posts from people attending the show, I’ve been collected them on this Pearl Tree:
Here are a few videos, showing the latest technologies Intel was showing at the event, including some of the projects I got to work on over the past few months such as Intel Atom (codenames Moorestown and Canoe Lake) and the new ultra low volt Intel Core processors for super thin latpsops (on Twitter IntelThin).
Showing the very latest Intel-powered Tablets, handhelds and ultra thin laptops was how Intel celebrated the company’s 30th anniversary of participating at Computex in Taiwan. Intel Corporation is hosting a keynote and series of events to unveil and showcase its latest technology innovations, led by the Intel® Atom processor, and including PC client and smart, connected devices, ultra mobility and embedded, cloud computing, wireless broadband, as well as software and applications at Computex Taipei. Intels activities at Computex 2010 featured a keynote by David (Dadi) Perlmutter, executive vice president and general manager, Intel Architecture Group (IAG) at the 3F Plenary Hall of Taipei International Convention Center (TICC) on June 1. Intel will exhibit its all-encompassing product platforms at the Taipei World Trade Center (TWTC) Nangang Exhibition Hall from June 1 -5.
Intel’s Mooly Eden was just named in Fast Company’s Top 25 Most Creative People in Business. Here he shows the very latest Intel-powered tablets, handhelds and ultra thin laptops was how Intel celebrated the company’s 30th anniversary of participating at Computex in Taiwan.
6 Applications You Should Try | Rocketboom
via rocketboom.com
Not all useful for me, but I really like this style of sharing tool tips. Great series by Ellie!
PRESS KIT – Intel at CES 2010
via intel.com
This is one of the most robust online media kits we’ve built, culling livestream video, many photos and videos shot by employees, integrated Twitter and news/information prior to and during the event as technology announcements were released at the Consumer Electronics Show. I’m fired up to have such a great Pressroom architect behind the scenes @PatrickDarling who was able to pull in our Livestream video presentations (i.e. Intel CEO Keynote), and pull in videos I was shooting and uploading from the Intel booth and beyond. We even collaborated on the banner of the site, which features a photo I shot with my Canon G9 on the afternoon prior to the opening of CES. Excellent, inspiring teamwork.
New Power Management From Intel Labs Helps Future MIDs
My mentor, Larry Bozman used to always say: Simma-down now!
This is a a Powwa down now demo from Research@Intel day on June 17, 2009. I got a sneak peek during set up and just had to record one of the main guys from Intel Labs who is bringing research.
This video was originally shared on blip.tv by Channel.Intel with a No license (All rights reserved) license.
Pearls of Wisdom Come From Mind Crunching Reality
Lots of talk about Microsoft’s $44.6 Billion bid for Yahoo! Most of it focuses on search and online advertising. But I bet we’ll start hearing more about the social computing value of Yahoo! and how its people have been excerising their brains and buying plug and play social media assets for many years now. Flickr, Upcoming and del.icio.us are a few names in teh Yahoo! family of aquisitions. These tools help people interconnect their online activities form photo sharing to bookmarking articles to managing their calendar of fun community activities.
In a Forrester Research blog post by Jeremiah Owyang on this subject, I really liked this pearl of wisdom about the future of media companies:
A new definition of media. My colleague Charlene Li has written before about the transformation media companies are undertaking due to the rise of social computing. As syndication replaces aggregation, a media company becomes one which assembles an audience, not necessarily a firm which creates content (think Facebook v. CNN). In light of this acquisition, I’d add one more dimension to this observation. With Yahoo gone, the two remaining online media powerhouses: Google and Microsoft are both technology companies. These are firms who specialize in creating tools and innovations to facilitate the user experience of the Web and marketer access to customer data. I think this acquisition signals for both marketers and media firms that the trend of Left Brain Marketing – a data-driven approach to marketing – is irrevocably changing who we call a media firm. Tomorrow’s media companies are technology innovators who can connect audiences with marketing messages, not content creators.
Intel at CES 2008: Go Off and Do Something Wonderful
Cool video highlights of Intel inside and all around CES 2008. “Don’t be encumbered by history…go off and do something wonderful” is an Intel inspirational quote from co-founder and first CES Robert Noyce.
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