Must watch interview between Mark Zuckerberg @finkd & @harari_yuval https://t.co/tQCVfDsb2h
— Ruchit G Garg (@ruchitgarg) April 29, 2019
Monday, April 29, 2019
Mark Zuckerberg And Yuval Noah Harari In Conversation
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Is Elon Musk Just Getting Started?
Elon Musk: Any other car than a Tesla in 3 years will be like ‘owning a horse’
Elon Musk Was Right: Cheap Cameras Could Replace Lidar on Self-Driving Cars, Researchers Find
Crazy Aviators: The Eerie Similarities Between Billionaire Howard Hughes And Elon Musk
Elon Musk is taunting Jeff Bezos with cat emoji now
Bezos vs. Musk 2.0
Elon Musk says Tesla is “vastly ahead” on self-driving
Elon Musk says Tesla will have ‘robotaxis’ on the road by 2020
Tesla Robotaxi Plan: How It Would Work
Tesla is going to develop a quiet, electric leafblower
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 23, 2019
Gorgeous high resolution shot of Falcon Heavy thrusters! pic.twitter.com/XbhGl6KT8K
— World and Science (@WorldAndScience) April 15, 2019
I was always crazy on Twitter fyi
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 15, 2019
Buying a car in 2019 that can’t upgrade to full self-driving is like buying a horse instead of a car in 1919 https://t.co/oEjXdmyJiJ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 15, 2019
Winter is coming
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 14, 2019
At some point, @TheOnion and I should just a get a room …
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 14, 2019
Took ownership of M3 1yr ago
— Tesla Crossroads of America (@pmoconne) April 13, 2019
- 27k miles, not one issue
- Increased range by 10 miles
- Sentry/Dog mode
- Summon
- Arcade games
- Navigate on Autopilot
How do you top this?? This car went up in value, at least for me @elonmusk @Tesla
Lease a Tesla online in a few mins & have it delivered to your house (return within 7 days for full refund) https://t.co/46TXqRrsdr
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 13, 2019
This is how @Tesla's are made. pic.twitter.com/5O7MZCGBN6
— Digital Trends (@DigitalTrends) April 13, 2019
“Buying a car today is an investment into the future. I think the most profound thing is that if you buy a Tesla today, I believe you are buying an appreciating asset – not a depreciating asset (due to the self-driving AI)." @elonmusk
— John Robb (@johnrobb) April 13, 2019
Falcon Heavy’s side boosters land on Landing Zones 1 and 2 pic.twitter.com/nJCCaVHOeo
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 12, 2019
Liftoff of Falcon Heavy pic.twitter.com/3oALJPOMBa
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 12, 2019
SpaceX will attempt to land Falcon Heavy’s side boosters at Landing Zones 1 and 2 and Falcon Heavy’s center core on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship during the Arabsat-6A mission → https://t.co/gtC39uBC7z pic.twitter.com/0vHnyYt0nN
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 9, 2019
Tesla Model 3 Performance with Peak Power Increase shocks drag racing fans by outrunning a Ferrari 458https://t.co/pmaa443afy
— TESLARATI (@Teslarati) April 7, 2019
Tesla Model 3 = 60% Of US Electric Vehicle Market https://t.co/4xDU63YNyP pic.twitter.com/UJcPELZerE
— CleanTechnica (@cleantechnica) April 7, 2019
Booster mate inside SpaceX's hangar at LC-39A ahead of Falcon Heavy’s static fire yesterday pic.twitter.com/G7ZPhOBkyj
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 6, 2019
Stay positive 🧁 pic.twitter.com/UJFreuacNP
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 5, 2019
I recently drove a @Tesla for the first time (yes, late to the party), and it is truly an amazing car. So many details are *years* ahead of everyone else. Genuinely inspiring to see how much improvement can be conjured by a small group of dedicated outsiders.
— Patrick Collison (@patrickc) April 4, 2019
Obv just someone in a 🐿 suit. Also, very sus that a 🦊 is reporting on this.https://t.co/RZyhczaRCf
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 3, 2019
Dogecoin value may vary https://t.co/UWerAhPv63
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 2, 2019
Making The Onion articles real …https://t.co/O7855d9BWu
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 1, 2019
For the 5th year in a row, Tesla has been named a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality by @HRC https://t.co/cF9YnTDKfm
— Tesla (@Tesla) March 30, 2019
Duck emoji defeats Emo G Records. Crushing victory.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 30, 2019
This might be my finest work
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 30, 2019
Emo G Recordshttps://t.co/zsuB2NDl48 pic.twitter.com/anVkKeFMGr
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 30, 2019
I drove 4,500 miles in 10 days in my @Tesla #model3. I can’t tell you how relaxing and easy it is with autopilot and Tesla’s supercharging network. Is it ridiculous I just want to get back in the car and do it all again? 🙈 best car ever! @elonmusk song: “Go For Liftoff” pic.twitter.com/2miEPw3JR3
— Everyday Astronaut (@Erdayastronaut) March 29, 2019
We activated our first Superchargers 6 years ago. Today, we have more than 12,000 of them at 1,400 sites around the world. 📸 @MinimalDuckhttps://t.co/GpfqFa6SM4 pic.twitter.com/wOYRVz4Di6
— Tesla (@Tesla) March 28, 2019
That’s exactly it. You’re no longer mentally fatigued after a long drive. Makes a major difference to your happiness level commuting home from work after a long day. https://t.co/9us9br8BzE
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 26, 2019
Hard to appreciate how much Tesla Autopilot improves enjoyment of driving until you try it https://t.co/Giqb2WLVAb
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 26, 2019
Tesla’s Navigation Eliminates The Need To Plan Charging Stops On Road Trips https://t.co/tcFXhKGfO6 pic.twitter.com/DJQrWA10rF
— CleanTechnica (@cleantechnica) March 26, 2019
Please note prices on all Tesla inventory cars worldwide rise by ~3% on April 1
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 24, 2019
Finally got my @Tesla Model 3! Best car buying experience of my life; only took 5 minutes, much better than the usual 7 hour dealship hell. Thank you @elonmusk for the greatest car of all time! A masterpiece of engineering & design! #model3 #tesla #atx #electricorgtfo pic.twitter.com/76EmUfyj4W
— Steven (@schristakos) March 23, 2019
After owning 4-cylinder hatchbacks my entire life, I took the plunge and bought a @Tesla. This is the best car I've ever owned! 120-mile daily commute has never been more relaxing! Thank you @elonmusk @Tesla #Tesla #Model3 #Customized #VintageFuture pic.twitter.com/aXHtBdt8w0
— Loxiee Loxx (@LoxieeLoxx) March 19, 2019
This car saves dogs’ lives ❤️🐶 pic.twitter.com/8Okzrtef2c
— The Dodo (@dodo) March 20, 2019
Showing mom and grandma Autopark @lilduval pic.twitter.com/Zs0zyMD2ma
— Tesla (@Tesla) March 19, 2019
We have a special guest on the latest episode of Watch this Space! Join me behind the scenes of the recent @SpaceX Demo-1 launch with @elonmusk as we discuss what it’s like to be on the cusp of a new era of human spaceflight. Full Episode: https://t.co/mSBR3YhOtc pic.twitter.com/HAXCyzCTFi
— Jim Bridenstine (@JimBridenstine) March 18, 2019
Testing Starship heatshield hex tiles pic.twitter.com/PycE9VthxQ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 17, 2019
Designed to feel much bigger on inside than it looks on outside. An incredibly important principle. https://t.co/GU0lRGcDaI
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 16, 2019
London to Beijing Supercharger route https://t.co/HxnA8rCjGA
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 15, 2019
Looking forward to building a Boring Company tunnel in Vegas. Assuming to be operational by end of year! https://t.co/cSSO4SJ140
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 12, 2019
Atmospheric entry at 17,000 mph is like a meteor & will vaporize steel. Burn marks below are on cold side. Main heatshield on bottom. https://t.co/GRs7j751R4
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 8, 2019
Successful splashdown of the #CrewDragon right on time at 8:45 a.m. ET. pic.twitter.com/0qHhHzD4Js
— NASA Commercial Crew (@Commercial_Crew) March 8, 2019
Extremely important merch pic.twitter.com/3ZUin7kzYk
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 7, 2019
Russia has excellent rocket engineering & best engine currently flying. Reusable version of their new Angara rocket would be great. https://t.co/6RLvf5R4ni
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 7, 2019
Introducing V3 Supercharging
— Tesla (@Tesla) March 7, 2019
Step by step guide to parking a Tesla:
— Tesla (@Tesla) March 5, 2019
Step 1: Initiate Autopark
Yeah, I lift a little … pic.twitter.com/UAJdv8qSw1
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6, 2019
Docking sequence on Interstellar music. pic.twitter.com/M7V309FFcN
— Chandan Sinha (@OrangeDurito) March 3, 2019
Having toast & jam in kitchen while playing Jamming by Bob Marley
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 3, 2019
SpaceX team in Hawthorne control, Dragon docked to Station above pic.twitter.com/JUWkOrWjsH
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 3, 2019
Tesla Declares War on Waymo's Lidar Technology
Russia says it’s going to beat Elon Musk and SpaceX’s ‘old tech’ with a nuclear rocket
Tesla CEO and the SEC Settle Legal Battle. Musk's 'Twitter Sitter' Will Remain on Call
Is Elon Musk Just Getting Started? @elonmusk https://t.co/cH7j0atsVP
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 27, 2019
Friday, April 26, 2019
Kara Swisher: Journalista
What, he has become a journalista now? :)
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 26, 2019
What Should Facebook Do (2009)
Facebook's Ad Space Is Different (2009)
Discovering LinkedIn In 2019
In Defence Of Facebook (November 2018)
Don’t look back, Mark. Something might be gaining on you. pic.twitter.com/YyM0Cp7Ypy
— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) April 26, 2019
Friday, April 19, 2019
Elizabeth Holmes: Fraud? Failure? Non-Technical Visionary? First Attempt?
I never really read much about Elizabeth Holmes during the decade when she was ascendant, although I meant to. It was interesting a woman was doing it. Also, this was not some photo sharing app. She was marrying bio with infotech. I thought that was really something.
There's a picture of Holmes sharing stage with Bill Clinton and Jack Ma. If that is not social acceptance, what is? She put Henry Kissinger on her Board. She raised money from Larry Ellison, not my idea of a gullible guy. Tim Draper still defends her as a visionary who got wronged and got bullied by white men in black suits.
What happened? I don't know. I am not in a position to know.
But think about it. There is as much information in one drop of blood as in 100 drops of blood. And it should be possible to extract all information from that one drop of blood and to digitize it. And once you have digitized it, you should be able to scale it. Whether you look for cholesterol one time, or next time you look for another needle in that haystack, there is no difference. You can do it.
The basic premise feels doable to me. Somebody should be able to do it in less than 10 years from now. Too bad it was not Elizabeth Holmes.
Otherwise she attempted something Marissa Mayer did not, Sheryl Sandberg did not.
She was not the scientist who built what needed to be built. She started with a vision. She raised a lot of money. She hired the best of the best. She did all that an entrepreneur is expected to do.
If she is a fraud, she is a really good fraud. The movie on her should beat Catch Me If You Can at the ratings.
But then Steve Jobs, her hero, could not have put together the PC. It was the engineer Steve Wozniak who did that. On the other hand, there was no way Woz could have built a company. And very soon Apple did hire a ton of engineers such that when Woz left to teach elementary school, Apple did not exactly suffer.
So not being a scientist is not a fraud.
Bill Gates came up with something like an iPad in the late 90s. But the product did not take off. Was he a fraud? Was he ahead of the times?
This is not me defending Holmes. This is me asking some questions.
You could not have built YouTube in 1995. Maybe this Theranos experiment was a decade too early.
Being in stealth mode is not fraud either. The iPhone was built in super stealth mode. Theranos being in stealth mode for 10 years, is that too long though? I don't know. The iPhone unit stayed undercover for something like two years, maybe more.
The media did a remarkable job of building her up for over a decade. Then it spent a few years tearing apart her image. So the media reports are not reliable gauges.
Was this failure? Was this fraud? Was this an attempt too early? Like trying to build YouTube in 1995? 10 years too early?
Holmes did manage to articulate a valid vision. She did manage to raise money from people like Larry Ellison, who does not strike me as gullible. She did manage to put Henry Kissinger on her Board. That guy dealt with Chairman Mao. She did manage to hire the best of the best in the field.
Google has had hundreds of failures many of which you don't know about.
Granted a photo-sharing app is different from a blood testing tool.
Maybe a PhD is not such a bad idea after all.
Or, more likely, the scientists that would bring the valid vision to fruition simply have not existed. You can't find those PhDs that you need. They don't exist.
Let's set the record straight: https://t.co/as2yHBlK9W
— Elizabeth Holmes (@eholmes2003) October 15, 2015
There is no dream you can’t achieve. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. #ILookLikeAnEngineer pic.twitter.com/RxiAhXdP89
— Elizabeth Holmes (@eholmes2003) August 20, 2015
Congrats to the amazing @serenawilliams on SI Sportsperson of the Year. Keep shattering glass ceilings #ironsisters https://t.co/DSu2znq3eV
— Elizabeth Holmes (@eholmes2003) December 15, 2015
Health is a basic human right, for every single person. #HumanRightsDay pic.twitter.com/RNV8jqYwEf
— Elizabeth Holmes (@eholmes2003) December 11, 2015
History. #BreakingGlassCeilings https://t.co/Q2raKEXfpw
— Elizabeth Holmes (@eholmes2003) December 4, 2015
Our technicians shared their stories about why they got into the business of helping others: https://t.co/9vEXbUKaVp pic.twitter.com/mGOuhaAjhM
— Theranos (@theranos) December 2, 2015
On this day 60 years ago, a brave woman stood for what she believed in and changed the world. #RosaParks #ironsisters
— Elizabeth Holmes (@eholmes2003) December 2, 2015
So wonderful to see @melindagates recognized for her incredible work. When women help women, change happens @forbes https://t.co/X4S0FKlBkc
— Elizabeth Holmes (@eholmes2003) November 25, 2015
From a woman, physicist, and chemist who changed the world of science forever. #STEM #MondayMotivation #ironsisters pic.twitter.com/nxRMLDWgET
— Elizabeth Holmes (@eholmes2003) November 17, 2015
Elizabeth Holmes: Fraud? Failure? Non-Technical Visionary? First Attempt? https://t.co/5bMWJO6Lxf @TimDraper @eholmes2003
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 19, 2019
Elizabeth Holmes: Fraud? Failure? Non-Technical Visionary? First Attempt? https://t.co/5bMWJO6Lxf @nickbilton
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 19, 2019
Friday, April 12, 2019
Monday, April 08, 2019
Anywhere Competes With Silicon Valley, Bangalore, Beijing And London
This is an interesting development. The trend should only grow larger. The thing about casual clothes is if you wear them like a uniform, that defeats the purpose. Remote work and distributed teams have not made the office obsolete. I believe there is a tremendous value to face time. But distributed teams make sense at many levels. Cost is tops.
Office space costs money. Also, if you are not limited by geography, the team you will build will be more capable. There will be associated cost savings.
Commuting costs time. Instead of commuting for two hours (or more), why not work a few hours extra?
The downside is accountability might be compromised. But they will be compromised on site as well. If you do it right, productivity can go up instead.
If your team is active on various social media platforms, they can hope to get to know each other pretty well.
It is not either or. If I were to build a primarily distributed team, I would want them to meet in person often, at least once a year, preferably more than that.
Remote Workers And Nomads Represent The Next Tech Hub
Amid calls for a dozen different global cities to replace Silicon Valley — Austin, Beijing, London, New York — nobody has yet nominated “nowhere.” But it’s now a possibility. ...... startups that are fully, or almost fully, remote, with employees distributed around the world ..... Automattic, Buffer, GitLab, Invision, Toptal and Zapier all have from 100 to nearly 1,000 remote employees ..... nomadic founders with no fixed location
Google Spent 2 Years Researching What Makes a Great Remote Team. It Came Up With These 3 Things
Google ... has nearly 100,000 workers spread over 150 cities in more than 50 countries (on five continents). ..... "We were happy to find no difference in the effectiveness, performance ratings, or promotions for individuals and teams whose work requires collaboration with colleagues around the world versus Googlers who spend most of their day to day working with colleagues in the same office" ..... remote work has the potential to greatly lower costs for your business, while keeping workers happier. .... Get to know your people. .... Set clear boundaries. ..... Forge connections. ......... arrange opportunities to bring the full team together in one location as often as you can. Make these meetings special, celebrating the team and its hard work.
Five Ways To Create A Culture Of Trust And Productivity In Distributed Teams
workers demanding greater flexibility about when, where and how they work. ....... 70% of global professionals spend at least one day a week working remotely. With geography and time zones no longer a barrier, remote or distributed work is becoming what we simply call “work.” ...... Transitioning to a remote workforce, whether fully or partially distributed, gives you access to a larger pool of talent and has been linked to increased productivity and improved employee satisfaction ....... 1. Invest in onboarding. ...... 2. Set clear objectives. ....... Our team creates a transparent document each quarter to decide each department's objectives and key results (OKRs) aligning with the company’s overall OKRs, a process modeled off of GitLab’s transparent management style. ......... 3. Use the right tools. .... Slack .. Zoom .. Google Docs ... Trello .. Asana .... Meeting Owl ....... 4. Provide consistent feedback. .... Weekly one-on-one check-ins are one critical tool to develop trust through regular informal conversations with your direct reports. ..... 5. Include the element of fun. ..... Consider organizing a company retreat once or twice a year for employees to join together for team bonding activities. ..... Partially remote and fully distributed teams will soon become the norm as technology continues to merge our virtual and real worlds. ... the shift to remote working can mean teams are more diverse, productive and satisfied
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
AI And The Spiritual Angle
If the human being is just body and brain, like the limbs move, and the brain performs mental tasks, then AI that might perform faster mental tasks is a threat. But human limbs move, cars move faster. Cars do kill people, but we don't think of them as threats. It is drivers, not cars. Cars don't have their own will.
The body, mind, heart and soul hierarchy that the scriptures offer is the reality. That is how things are. You do have a soul. Your mind is a space suit you wear. To be on earth. Then AI is just like cars. Cars move. Fast. AI will perform mental tasks. But AI is not heart. There is no AI soul. The exercise of free will resides deeper than the brain.
Should you worry about AI? Well, shouldn't you worry about cars? You should. You should worry about cars, you should worry about guns, you should worry about nuclear weapons, you should worry about AI. Of course, you should.
Someone could program an AI machine to go kill people. But then drones already do.
Technology is not the solution to humanity's problems. Technology can go either way. Humanity is the solution to humanity's problems. The human will is set straight and strengthened spiritually.
The Devil is not fiction. The Devil is an actual being. Only that being is way smarter than any AI could ever be. Because AI is limited to the first four dimensions. The Devil, an angel, is a being from the beyond dimensions.
When Elon Musk wonders out loud if we are living in someone's virtual reality game, he might as well be talking scripture. Yes, this is creation. And there is a higher power. That higher power is not only higher, but it is also the highest possible power.
I was watching a Masa Son video on YouTube yesterday, and he had a slide where he showed an average human being was at 100 in terms of IQ, somebody like Einstein was 200, he said he was somewhere in between. And then he said AI in 20, 30 years might stand at 10,000.
Well, The Devil probably is at a billion.
And God is not at a trillion or a gazillion. God is at infinity.
God's intelligence is as bigger than human intelligence as it is bigger than The Devil's intelligence.
People who worry about some future AI do not actively worry about The Devil who is proactively messing things up. In the Koran The Devil is quoted as saying to the human being, I will talk you into destroying nature that is your home. Look around. Looks like he delivered.
Humanity is at the cusp of the Age of Abundance. The Jews rejected Jesus 2,000 years ago because they associated the Messiah with some kind of an Age of Abundance. But the most important aspect of the Age of Abundance is Universal Spiritual Centeredness (USC), that is every human being putting God at the smack center of their lives.
Yes, Elon, you are living in someone's simulation. God's.
God spoke the world into existence. How much power is that!
Yes, @elonmusk , you are living in someone's simulation. God's. (cc @BillGates) https://t.co/Ckn0uJMJ1Z— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) March 20, 2019
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Saturday, March 16, 2019
Smart Cities
Imagining the Smart Cities of 2050 https://t.co/foQ40FuZXW via @singularityhub— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) March 15, 2019
Imagining the Smart Cities of 2050
Riding an explosion of sensors, megacity AI ‘brains’, high-speed networks, new materials and breakthrough green solutions, cities are quickly becoming versatile organisms ........ Over the next decade, cities will revolutionize everything about the way we live, travel, eat, work, learn, stay healthy, and even hydrate. ...... the UAE has invested record sums in its Vision 2021 plan, while sub-initiatives like Smart Dubai 2021 charge ahead with AI-geared government services, driverless car networks, and desalination plants. ...... A trailblazer of smart governance, Estonia has leveraged blockchain, AI, and ultra-high connection speeds to build a new generation of technological statecraft. And city states like Singapore have used complex computational models to optimize everything from rainwater capture networks to urban planning, down to the routing of its ocean breeze. ......... today, your car remains an unused asset about 95 percent of the time. ....... Beyond sheer land, a 90 percent driverless car penetration rate could result in $447 billion of projected savings and productivity gains. ....... Cars-as-a-Service (CaaS) business model, urban sprawl will enable the flourishing of megacities on an unprecedented scale. ........ Using Narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) for low power consumption, Huawei has recently launched a smart parking network in Shanghai that finds nearby parking spots for users on the go, allowing passengers to book and pay via smartphone in record time. ...... 5G networks .... smart rivers that communicate details of environmental pollution, to IoT and AI-geared drones in agriculture. ....... smart city strategies across blockchain, biometrics, AI, and cloud computing. ........ Alibaba plans to embed seamless mobile payments (through AliPay) into the fabric of daily life, as Tencent takes charge of communications and Huawei works on hardware and 5G buildout (not to mention its signature smartphones). ......... One of the most advanced city states on the planet, Singapore joins Dubai in envisioning a future of flying vehicles and optimized airway traffic flow. ....... air rights to flying car structures built above motorways and skyscrapers. ....... your sky courts, your sky gardens, even your private terraces to your condo [become] landing platform[s] for your own personalized drone. ...... one of our greatest priorities becomes smart city governance. ....... In just over 10 years, the UN forecasts that around 43 cities will house over 10 million residents each. ....... Public sector infrastructure and services will soon be hosted on servers, detached from land and physical form. And municipal governments will face the scale of city states, propelled by an upward trend in sovereign urban hubs that run almost entirely on their own. ........ e-Estonia. ....... Hosting every digitizable government function on the cloud, Estonia could run its government almost entirely on a server. ....... Starting in the 1990s, Estonia’s government has covered the nation with ultra-high-speed data connectivity, laying down tremendous amounts of fiber-optic cable. By 2007, citizens could vote from their living rooms. ......... every stage of the legislative process is available to citizens online, including plans for civil engineering projects. ....... Citizens’ healthcare registry is run on the blockchain, allowing patients to own and access their own health data from anywhere in the world—X-rays, digital prescriptions, medical case notes—all the while tracking who has access. ....... i-Voting, civil courts, land registries, banking, taxes, and countless e-facilities allow citizens to access almost any government service with an electronic ID and personal PIN online. ........ perhaps Estonia’s most revolutionary breakthrough is its recently introduced e-citizenship. ....... we’ve seen thriving village startup ecosystems and e-commerce hotbeds take off throughout China’s countryside, resulting in the mass movement and meteoric rise of ‘Taobao Villages.’ ....... Within the next year, Dubai aims to become the first city powered entirely by the blockchain ....... With a similar mind to Dubai, multiple Chinese smart city pilots are quickly following suit........ One of the most resourceful, visionary megacities on the planet, Singapore has embedded advanced computational models and high-tech solutions in everything from urban planning to construction of its housing units. ......... Even in the realm of feeding its citizens, Singapore is fast becoming a champion of vertical farming. It opened the world’s first commercial vertical farm over six years ago, aiming to feed the entire island nation with a fraction of the land use.
Future of Cities Part 2 - Visions of the Future
Future of Smart Cities - Part 1
Each week alone, an estimated 1.3 million people move into cities ...... By 2040, about two-thirds of the world’s population will be concentrated in urban centers. Over the decades ahead, 90 percent of this urban population growth is predicted to flourish across Asia and Africa. ....... As data becomes the gold of the 21st century, centralized databases and hyper-connected infrastructures will enable everything from sentient cities that respond to data inputs in real time, to smart public services that revolutionize modern governance. ....... As 5G connection speeds, IoT-linked devices and sophisticated city AIs give birth to trillion-sensor economies, low latencies will soon allow vehicles to talk to each other and infrastructure systems to self-correct......... China’s Nanjing .... Hangzhou, home to e-commerce giant Alibaba, has now launched a “City Brain” project, aiming to build out one of the most data-responsive cities on the planet. ..... “the City Brain can detect accidents within a second” allowing police to “arrive at [any] site [within] 5 minutes” across an urban area of over 3,000 square miles. ....... Yet aside from self-monitoring cities and urban AI ‘brains,’ what if infrastructure could heal itself on-demand. Forget sensors, connectivity and AI — enter materials science. ....... The U.S. Department of Transportation estimates a $542.6 billion backlog needed for U.S. infrastructure repairs alone.....And as I’ve often said, the world’s most expensive problems are the world’s most profitable opportunities. ........ bio-concrete that can repair its own cracks. ...... Mixed in with calcium lactate, the key ingredients of this novel ‘bio-concrete’ are minute capsules of limestone-producing bacteria distributed throughout any concrete structure. Only when the concrete cracks, letting in air and moisture, does the bacteria awaken. ....... “What makes this limestone-producing bacteria so special is that they are able to survive in concrete for more than 200 years and come into play when the concrete is damaged. ........ The implications of self-healing materials are staggering, offering us resilient structures both on earth and in space........ Some have even posited graphene’s use in the construction of 30 km tall buildings. ........ nano- and micro-materials are ushering in a new era of smart, super-strong and self-charging buildings. ........ Revolutionizing structural flexibility, carbon nanotubes are already dramatically increasing the strength-to-weight ratio of skyscrapers. ...... the creation of commercializable solar power-generating windows. ...... silicon nanoparticles to capture everyday light flowing through our windows. Little solar cells at the edges of windows then harvest this energy for ready use. ..... Leading the pack of China’s 500 smart city pilots, Xiong’an New Area (near Beijing) aims to become a thriving economic zone powered by 100 percent clean electricity.
Thursday, March 07, 2019
A Superhuman Invite
Rapportive founder’s new startup Superhuman is what Gmail would be if built today
Beyond Gmail: The new race to reinvent your inbox
Email Productivity with Superhuman
The Superhuman Change To My Current Email Tools
Superhuman
Rahul Vohra
Gaurav Vohra
founders! here's a step by step guide to get to Product/Market Fit; please send it those who need it —https://t.co/GKrgHn2XnP
— Rahul Vohra (@rahulvohra) November 13, 2018
Props to @SuperhumanCo for no longer making me fear my inbox.
— Jeremie Harris (@jeremiecharris) March 4, 2019
.@SuperhumanCo is to email, what slices are to bread
— Sam Cholera (@sam_cholera) March 5, 2019
I just love read receipt tracking feature in @SuperhumanCo. It is so powerful!
— Mohit Agrawal (@mohitify) March 5, 2019