People raised in the 1950s and ’60s tend to think of technology in monumental terms: buildings soaring ever-higher, superhighways, giant Saturn V rockets lifting off toward the moon, horrific yet fascinating nuclear explosions.
But today’s technological innovators are thinking small.
One example is in June 18 Newsweek: a story called Water for the World. It’s about […]
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LifeStraws, cells phones and small technologies in the 21st century
Published June 17th, 2007 in Innovation and Human World. 6 CommentsIf you want to know what blogging looks like, then you should look at this.
It’s a map: a graphical representation of the blogosphere, called “the most explosive social network you’ll never see” by discovermagazine.com, which is hosting the map on its website. It was created by Matthew Hurst, a scientist at Microsoft’s Live Labs. […]
Scientists find that large cities spawn more creativity
Published April 21st, 2007 in Innovation and Human World. 1 CommentA team of researchers from Arizona, New Mexico and Germany have studied the growth of cities in different parts of the world and have come up with a set of equations related to cities’ consumption of resources and contributions to society.
Their research shows that, as a city grows, its creative output also grows at a […]