Monthly Archives: March 2009

Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness [...]

Described as a disruptor, innovator, and key to helping our customers compete, Autodesk is featured in the 13th annual ranking of the BusinessWeek 50 [...]

Billy Graham marvels at technology’s power to improve lives and change the world — but says the end of evil, suffering and death will come only after the world accepts Christ. Graham has preached the Gospel to more people in live audiences than anyone else in history — nearly 215 million people in more than 185 countries and territories. Hundreds of millions more have been reached through television, video, film and webcasts [...]

According to latest statistics, China received a total of 828,328 patent applications in 2008. Of which, 717,144 were domestic patent applications, accounting for 86.6 percent of the total number of applications. Of all received domestic patent applications, the number of invention patent applications reached 194,579, up 27.1 percent from the previous year. In 2008, China authorized a total of 411,982 patents. Of these, the number of China’s domestic patents stood at 352,406, accounting for 85.5 percent of the total and an increase of 16.8 percent compared with the previous year. By the end of 2008, China had cumulatively received 4,853,506 patent applications, of which, it authorized 2,501,268.

Specially commissioned by the City of Santa Monica, California, for Glow 08, Primal Source was an all-night performance/installation created by Haque, brought to life through the active participation of festival-goers (estimated at approx. 200,000 over the course of the night).

According to statistics released by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics (BMBS), residents’ average daily work-related travel time was 70 minutes in 2008, 16 minutes longer than 20 years ago. The survey’s statistics show that the average daily duration of work for urban and rural residents was 5 hours and 55 minutes in 2008, 43 minutes shorter than 20 years ago. At the same time, work-related travel time was 70 minutes, 16 minutes longer than 20 years ago.

Looks like some people are still profiting despite the real estate slump: Shanghai‘s Sheshan Shimao Country Club has allegedly sold two villas that set new records as the most expensive personal residences in China.

20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together [...]

Think the Chinese government only became interested in stopping spitting after SARS? Think again! They’ve been promoting an anti-spitting stance since before the Cultural Revolution. Unfortunately, if our frequent walks around the city are any indication, 50 years of no spitting propaganda has had very little effect on the behavior.