Business
Why can’t we “grow” new energy?
Juan Enriquez offers a glimpse of some ground-breaking research to explore the potential of bioenergy. Our current energy sources — coal, oil, gas — are ultimately derived from ancient plants — they’re “concentrated sunlight.” He asks, Can we learn from that process and accelerate it? Can we get to the point where we grow our [...]
“Self Aware” Robots
Hod Lipson demonstrates a few of his cool little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate. At the root of this uncanny demo is a deep inquiry into the nature of how humans and living beings learn and evolve, and how we might harness these processes to make things that [...]
Future Mobile Technology
Younghee Jung leads a multidisciplinary research team at Nokia called “Insight and Innovation” (download PowerPoint slides from Nokia Connection 2007 conference). Jung talks about what to expect next from your mobile phone, the newest ideas in the pipeline, and the questions that Nokia is asking women. She spends the first half of the video describing [...]
