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Listen to Mary Newsom’s “The information Superhighway: Urban Renewal or Neighborhood Destruction?” talk at IDEA 2009
As a long-time practitioner of daily newspaper journalism who sees the economic model of the newspaper industry sinking (and broadcast journalism isn’t in much better shape), Mary looks into what will happen to cities if/when the mass media splinter. With all of the “new media” journalism: the emerging trends of crowd-sourcing, blogging, YouTube, Twitter and the general explosion of information available to people, this makes virtually anyone, a potential journalist. What are the implications for information, and for the dependability of that information?
Living in China: Plenty of GPS potties, to keep Shanghai’s World Expo site clean
Next year's Shanghai World Expo will feature more than 200 of the world's most innovative pavilions filled with the most advanced technology and inspiring exhibits about modern urban life. But piles of rubbish, dirty surfaces and lack of potties would make a joke of the theme, "Better City, Better Life." [...]
Posted in China Also tagged architecture, environmental protection, geospatial technology, GPS, Huangpu River, Illinois, Infrastructure, Li Ye, oil, public services, public transport, Shanghai, Shanghai Daily, Shanghai World Expo, Toilet, tourism, United States, Urban Development Projects, urban infrastructure, Urbanization 1 Comment
Watch Steven Pinker’s “Language and Thought” talk at TED
In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize [...]
Posted in design, trends Also tagged behavior, cognitive research, Cognitive Science, education, Emotion, Harvard, Intelligence, M.I.T, psychology, Steven Pinker, TED conference Leave a comment
Watch Thom Mayne’s “Architecture as Connection” talk at TED
Architect Thom Mayne has never been one to take the easy option, and this whistle-stop tour of the buildings he's created makes you glad for it. These are big ideas cast in material form [...]
Watch Amy Smith’s “Simple designs that could save millions of childrens’ lives” talk at TED
Fumes from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in the developing world. M.I.T. engineer Amy Smith details an exciting but simple solution: a tool for turning farm waste into clean-burning charcoal.
Posted in design, economics, innovation Also tagged Amy Smith, Charcoal, design, developing coutries, Economic Development, electricity, energy, engineer, low-tech devices, M.I.T, Mechanical engineer Leave a comment
Core77 highlights Brazil’s innovation capabilities as a “natural knowledge-economy”
Mark Vanderbeeken writes for Core77 that the landscape for innovation in Brazil is changing fast: A new report by the UK think tank Demos argues that Brazil is a 'natural knowledge-economy' where the intertwining of knowledge, skills and innovation with environmental and other natural assets holds the key to competitive advantage [...]
Posted in design, economics, innovation, software, trends Also tagged biofuels, Brazil, BRIC, Creativity, design, economics, Europe, india, innovation, Knowledge worker, Mark Vanderbeeken, Scientists, software, United Kingdom 1 Comment
Intellectual Property: IPR threatens China’s new energy sector
Stimulated by governments' supporting policies, a large number of Chinese firms have turned to new energy and related industries. Over 10 large scale new energy bases have been established. However, experts say that China's emerging new energy sector may face a lack of core technology crisis [...]
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China, Technology & the Environment: Emissions cut target “may hurt developing countries’ development”
The emissions cut target proposed by developed countries is "unfair" to developing countries, a Chinese expert said recently: Pan Jiahua, executive director of the research centre for sustainable development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, made the statement in an interview with Xinhua at the Global Economic Symposium (GES 2009) held in Ploen Castle, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany [...]
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Architecture & Urban Planning in China: urbanization to create massive infrastructure investment
Some 300 million Chinese now living in rural areas -- the equivalent of the entire population of the United States -- will move into cities in the coming 15 to 20 years, said a senior Chinese official recently [...]
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Living in China: Chinglish to get the axe in Shanghai for World Expo