Negroponte Keynote: Electronics Are ‘Obese’
Negroponte Keynote: Electronics Are ‘Obese’:
“Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of both the MIT Media Lab and the non-profit One Laptop Per Child, delivered the last keynote speech of the American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences annual meeting tonight.
The talk focused on the groundbreaking work of the OLPC, which has managed to deliver thousands of $187 laptops to children in the developing world. Negroponte ran through a list of the organization’s accomplishments, noting that they had half a million machines in their pipeline and that production had reached 110,000 units per month. The big key to large-scale adoption remains price going forward,… “
(Via Wired News.)
He promises a price of $50 in 2011. I’m thinking evolved iPod Touch devices in 2011.
Knowledge Management
CIO insight had an article - 5 Big Companies That Got Knowledge Management Right
climate change and carbon exchange primer
Earth2Tech posts about the question “Can the world trade its way out of the climate change mess?”
Currently reading
Ecological bioinformatics surfaces
business/bytes/genes/molecules has a post - Ecoinformatics - Information for our planet - that cites:
The New Bioinformatics: Integrating Ecological Data from the Gene to the Biosphere
Bioinformatics, the application of computational tools to the management and analysis of biological data, has stimulated rapid research advances in genomics through the development of data archives such as GenBank, and similar progress is just beginning within ecology. One reason for the belated adoption of informatics approaches in ecology is the breadth of ecologically pertinent data (from genes to the biosphere) and its highly heterogeneous nature….
Ecoinformatics, I like the term!
And gives hope to the Cities in the Wilderness idea over on my other blog.
