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Using robotics, laser range-finders, GPS and smart feedback tools, Dennis Hong is building a car for drivers who are blind. It’s not a ‘self-driving’ car, he’s careful to note, but a car in which a non-sighted driver can determine speed, proximity and route and drive independently.
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Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His super-sized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day.
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Michelle Holliday challenges us to see what the pattern of living systems reveals about the future of humanity. She discovered that there’s a simple pattern that all living systems follow. Living systems like rainforests, coral reefs, us, organisations, economies and even all of humanity. All of these follow the same simple pattern.
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Don’t mind the momentary change in direction, we’re taking a little detour from my last post. We will go back there but I want to talk about the reality of the practice of seclusion in 2011. “Seclusion is the placing of a person at any time and for any duration, alone in an area where […]
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Social media marketing specialist, Mitch Joel examines the counter-intuitive possibility of an increasingly anti-social Web. Mitch is President of Twist Image, an award-winning Digital Marketing and Communications agency, although he prefers the title, Media Hacker.
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