If A Robot Offers You A Cookie…

I heard this on Science Friday last week, based on a new book, Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith.  Read an excerpt on Amazon.

Here is a link to the podcast of the interview (or link to Soundcloud).

There is also a Soonish AR app.

This app is intended as a simple way to show you how AR works without you having to spend any money. Just open the app, point your camera at an image of the Soonish cover, and enjoy a custom space elevator Kyle Horseman designed for us (not to scale). 

Please note: You *do not* need to buy the book to use the app. We'd like if you did, but all you need to make it work is the free app and an image of the cover, like the one provided below.

Take a look... or listen.

Blockchain

At the talk during the IT Summit, of which many of you participated, I thought I would share with you other events and videos.  A video and articles helps to get your head around this process.

First, here is a brief 2-minute intro to Blockchain.

 

The speaker mentioned the MIT Media Lab.  Of course, there are many labs around the world working on this.  With that said, here is a link to an event on "The Business of Blockchain" at the MIT Media Lab and published (with videos) in the MIT Technology Review.  We can continue the discussion in class, but feel free to comment here, or ask questions.