When I look back on decades of technology evolution, I keep bumping on the concept called “playlist.”
This short video clip (taken from my laptop in the office, which explains why the low res ^^) shows you how music has moved from:
(a) compact discs (packaged products) to
(b) tracks (divided into components) to
(c) playlists (virtual, evolving products).
All the fads about service-oriented architecture and business process management and mobility can learn a lil’ something from playlists.
Posted in technology
Too much of the world lacks access to clean drinking water. Engineer Michael Pritchard did something about it — inventing the portable Lifesaver filter, which can make the most revolting water drinkable in seconds. An amazing demo from TEDGlobal 2009.
With cutting-edge nanotech, Michael Pritchard’s Lifesaver water-purification bottle could revolutionize water-delivery systems in disaster-stricken areas around the globe.
My 2 cents: Distributed rules! Think about it. Globalization, division of labor, parallel processing in computer chips, routing of data packets, and so forth. Let me call it a LifeSaver approch to delivering clean water, one bottle at a time. You can get clean, sterile drinking water when and where you want it. Way to go!
Posted in people, technology
Hans Rosling unveils new data visuals that untangle the complex risk factors of one of the world’s deadliest (and most misunderstood) diseases: HIV. He argues that preventing transmissions — not drug treatments — is the key to ending the epidemic.
As a doctor and researcher, Hans Rosling identified a new paralytic disease induced by hunger in rural Africa. Now the global health professor is looking at the bigger picture, increasing our understanding of social and economic development with the remarkable trend-revealing software he created.
Tagged creativity, fun, presentation, story-telling, TED
