Presentation for the Alpbach Technology Forum of August 2014 on Art/Science and Silicon Valley. I keep updating my presentations on Silicon Valley at www.scaruffi.com/svhistory
Lectures on Silicon Valley at Beijing and other cities in China - September 2014 - excerpted from my book http://www.amazon.com/History-Silicon-Valley-Almost-3rd/dp/1500262226/ref=sr_1_3_bnp_1_pap?ie=UTF8&qid=1405191978&sr=8-3&keywords=scaruffi+silicon+valley
Artificial intelligence and the Singularity - History, Trends and Reality Checkpiero scaruffi
A lecture given at the second LAST festival (www.lastfestival.org) by Piero Scaruffi on Artificial intelligence and the Singularity - History, Trends and Reality Check. This is a very old presentation. See the updated one at www.scaruffi.com/singular
Demystifying Machine Intelligence: Why the Singularity is not Coming any Time Soon And Other Meditations on the Post-Human Condition and the Future of Intelligence. A more updated version can be found at www.scaruffi.com/singular
Intelligence is not Artificial - Stanford, June 2016piero scaruffi
A critical analysis of the state of A.I. and predictions about its realistic future. Based on the book of the same title, see http://www.scaruffi.com/singular/ where i keep updating these slides
A Brief History of Creativity from Cheops Pyramid to Silicon Valley: 5000 Yea...piero scaruffi
The two "cultures" (art and science) and the two "gaps". A case study: why did it happen in Silicon Valley of all places? Neuroscience of creativity. Demystifying machine intelligence: there is very little progress, machines are not getting much smarter, many humans are getting dumber.
Lectures on Silicon Valley at Beijing and other cities in China - September 2014 - excerpted from my book http://www.amazon.com/History-Silicon-Valley-Almost-3rd/dp/1500262226/ref=sr_1_3_bnp_1_pap?ie=UTF8&qid=1405191978&sr=8-3&keywords=scaruffi+silicon+valley
Artificial intelligence and the Singularity - History, Trends and Reality Checkpiero scaruffi
A lecture given at the second LAST festival (www.lastfestival.org) by Piero Scaruffi on Artificial intelligence and the Singularity - History, Trends and Reality Check. This is a very old presentation. See the updated one at www.scaruffi.com/singular
Demystifying Machine Intelligence: Why the Singularity is not Coming any Time Soon And Other Meditations on the Post-Human Condition and the Future of Intelligence. A more updated version can be found at www.scaruffi.com/singular
Intelligence is not Artificial - Stanford, June 2016piero scaruffi
A critical analysis of the state of A.I. and predictions about its realistic future. Based on the book of the same title, see http://www.scaruffi.com/singular/ where i keep updating these slides
A Brief History of Creativity from Cheops Pyramid to Silicon Valley: 5000 Yea...piero scaruffi
The two "cultures" (art and science) and the two "gaps". A case study: why did it happen in Silicon Valley of all places? Neuroscience of creativity. Demystifying machine intelligence: there is very little progress, machines are not getting much smarter, many humans are getting dumber.
Alan Turing and the Programmable Universe (lite version)piero scaruffi
Alan Turing, the cultural context of his world, and what would Turing say of today's high-tech world. See also www.scaruffi.com/singular for presentations on AI and the Singularity.
Piero Scaruffi's introduction to the Stanford Multidisciplinary Multimedia Meeting of Arts, Science and Humanities... SMMMASH! - Part 5: Body (Jan 17, 2013)
The singularity is coming by Takuya Matsuda - CODE BLUE 2015CODE BLUE
An Artificial Intelligence (AI) extremely surpassed the human intelligence is called "Superintelligence". In a short while, the Superintelligence will be developed for the first time in our history. The Superintelligence raises an exponential development of the scientific technology and affects the human society and civilization. The time is called "Singularity (Technological Singularity)". An American futurist Ray Kurzweil, who bruits the concept of Singularity, predicts that the time will come in the year 2045. And he also predicts that the capacity of the AI will gets up to that of a human in the year 2029. I would like to call the period prior to 2045 as "Pre-Singularity". An AI used for a specific purpose is called "Narrow AI", and an AI used for general purposes is called "Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)“. Today there is only Narrow AI, but it will greatly affect the human society such as Technological Unemployment in the coming future. If AGI comes into being, the influence increases dramatically. Researchers all over the world endeavors to develop the AGI. In recent years, researches of the Superintelligence are implemented in Japan. I will discuss what is the Superintelligence and political, economic, technological and military significances. I will especially introduce the roadmap for the development of the Super intelligence in Japan. I will also discuss about the possibility that Singularity will be occurred from Japan in 2020s much earlier than the year 2045.
Of Hobbits, Amish, Hackers and Technology (or, is technology for humans or vi...Kaido Kikkas
Musings on the role of technology, spiced up with lessons from some very different folks (based on Pekka Himanen, Howard Rheingold and J.R.R. Tolkien).
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence exhibited by machines. In computer science, the field of AI research defines itself as the study of "intelligent agents": any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goal
In the Spiceworks infographic, "The Evolution of Information Technology Through US Presidential Administrations," we take a trip down memory lane to reflect on milestones in the evolution of IT over 9 decades, analyze the role of tech in US history and popular culture, and cite computing quotes from US Presidents and popular figures.
Download the file to view the presentation properly, as many animations cannot be viewed here including those on the first slide itself. You might need AC3 filter to listen to the video in the second last slide.
The Turing Test - A sociotechnological analysis and prediction - Machine Inte...piero scaruffi
The 'singularity" may be near not because we are making smarter machines but because we are making dumber humans. See also www.scaruffi.com/singular for presentations on AI and the Singularity.
Chapter 10 of a university course in media history by Prof. Bill Kovarik, based on the book Revolutions in Communication: Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age (Bloomsbury, 2nd ed., 2015).
Alan Turing and the Programmable Universe (lite version)piero scaruffi
Alan Turing, the cultural context of his world, and what would Turing say of today's high-tech world. See also www.scaruffi.com/singular for presentations on AI and the Singularity.
Piero Scaruffi's introduction to the Stanford Multidisciplinary Multimedia Meeting of Arts, Science and Humanities... SMMMASH! - Part 5: Body (Jan 17, 2013)
The singularity is coming by Takuya Matsuda - CODE BLUE 2015CODE BLUE
An Artificial Intelligence (AI) extremely surpassed the human intelligence is called "Superintelligence". In a short while, the Superintelligence will be developed for the first time in our history. The Superintelligence raises an exponential development of the scientific technology and affects the human society and civilization. The time is called "Singularity (Technological Singularity)". An American futurist Ray Kurzweil, who bruits the concept of Singularity, predicts that the time will come in the year 2045. And he also predicts that the capacity of the AI will gets up to that of a human in the year 2029. I would like to call the period prior to 2045 as "Pre-Singularity". An AI used for a specific purpose is called "Narrow AI", and an AI used for general purposes is called "Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)“. Today there is only Narrow AI, but it will greatly affect the human society such as Technological Unemployment in the coming future. If AGI comes into being, the influence increases dramatically. Researchers all over the world endeavors to develop the AGI. In recent years, researches of the Superintelligence are implemented in Japan. I will discuss what is the Superintelligence and political, economic, technological and military significances. I will especially introduce the roadmap for the development of the Super intelligence in Japan. I will also discuss about the possibility that Singularity will be occurred from Japan in 2020s much earlier than the year 2045.
Of Hobbits, Amish, Hackers and Technology (or, is technology for humans or vi...Kaido Kikkas
Musings on the role of technology, spiced up with lessons from some very different folks (based on Pekka Himanen, Howard Rheingold and J.R.R. Tolkien).
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence exhibited by machines. In computer science, the field of AI research defines itself as the study of "intelligent agents": any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of success at some goal
In the Spiceworks infographic, "The Evolution of Information Technology Through US Presidential Administrations," we take a trip down memory lane to reflect on milestones in the evolution of IT over 9 decades, analyze the role of tech in US history and popular culture, and cite computing quotes from US Presidents and popular figures.
Download the file to view the presentation properly, as many animations cannot be viewed here including those on the first slide itself. You might need AC3 filter to listen to the video in the second last slide.
The Turing Test - A sociotechnological analysis and prediction - Machine Inte...piero scaruffi
The 'singularity" may be near not because we are making smarter machines but because we are making dumber humans. See also www.scaruffi.com/singular for presentations on AI and the Singularity.
Chapter 10 of a university course in media history by Prof. Bill Kovarik, based on the book Revolutions in Communication: Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age (Bloomsbury, 2nd ed., 2015).
Explaining the triggers for launching and even demanding Smart Cities. Smart Cities are NOT an option. It is the next plateau of excellence for all cities, giving birth to a new Renaissance.
Curation of Scientific, Technical and Societal contents on Street and Public Lighting.
presented on the occasion of IDL2022,
actualized from previous analysis of this Content Hub.
Roger Malina on A Historical Perspective on the Art-Sci-Tech fieldroger malina
Presentation given by Roger Malina on July 26 2014 at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge UK at
White Heat: art, science and
social responsibility in 1960s Britain
talk title is
The Leonardo Journal at 50_ networking the arts,sciences and technology now. The talk takes the person of Frank Malina, founder of Leonardo Journal as the springboard for a historical perspective
Dr. Whidden Fairfax VA | Famous Inventions that Changed the World.drwhiddenfairfaxva
Dr. Whidden Fairfax VA - Whenever any new invention is unveiled to the world, a stunning piece of new technology is made that instantly changes everything. There's certainly a lot of redesigning and experimenting when it comes to inventions, but it takes a lot longer time. Every invention has problems, and it might not be until some other inventor comes along that they get solved. Here are some inventions that changed the course of the world.
This is the final product of my project for the course "Internet Project" at Telecom ParisTech.
During the first part of my project, I read some books about startups and Silicon Valley (references on the last slide) as well as websites and blogs.
Then, I made this presentation which is mostly about Silicon Valley and how it became the heart of the world's innovation.
I hope you'll enjoy.
F.C.
How did all of the cool things we love to use (like cellphones, the Internet, video games) really come about? How did we get involved in this big technology explosion? Find out by reading this slide show.
"Thrilling Wonder Stories of Cyberculture", NEH 2010Bryan Alexander
Slides from a talk I gave to the NEH in September 2010,
http://www.neh.gov/ODH/ODHHome/tabid/36/EntryId/143/2010-Start-Up-Grant-Project-Directors-Meeting-Survey-the-Future-of-the-Digital-Humanities-in-46-Quick-Bursts.aspx
Thinking about Thought - Theories of Brain Mind Consciusness - Part 6. Consciousness, Self, Free Will I keep updating these slides at http://www.scaruffi.com/ucb.html
Thinking about Thought - Theories of Brain Mind Consciusness - Part 5. Machine Intelligence; Physics I keep updating these slides at http://www.scaruffi.com/ucb.html
Thinking about Thought - Theories of Brain Mind Consciusness - Part 3: Language, Dreams, Emotions. I keep updating these slides http://www.scaruffi.com/ucb.html
Thinking about Thought - Theories of Brain Mind Consciusness - Part 1: Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Psychology. I keep updating these slides at http://www.scaruffi.com/ucb.html
A brief history of the notion of the Singularity, why some think it is coming soon, why some disagree, and why some are afraid of it. This is a very old presentation. See the updated one at www.scaruffi.com/singular
From Cosmology to Neuroscience to Rock Music and backpiero scaruffi
The universe led to a brain that led to music that led to rock music that will lead to a different brain that will lead to a different planet that will lead to a different universe.
History of Thought - Part 6: The Modern Agepiero scaruffi
History of Thought - Part 6: The Modern Age. for UC Berkeley lectures (2014) - Excerpted from "A Brief History of Knowledge" http://www.scaruffi.com/know/history.html . I keep updating this presentation at http://www.scaruffi.com/univ/slideshot.html
History of Thought - Part 5: The Victorian Agepiero scaruffi
History of Thought - Part 5: The Victorian Age. for UC Berkeley lectures (2014) - Excerpted from "A Brief History of Knowledge" http://www.scaruffi.com/know/history.html I keep updating this presentation at http://www.scaruffi.com/univ/slideshot.html
History of Thought - Part 4 from the Renaissance to the Industrial REvolutionpiero scaruffi
History of Thought - Part 4 from the Renaissance to the Industrial REvolution for UC Berkeley lectures (2014) - Excerpted from "A Brief History of Knowledge" http://www.scaruffi.com/know/history.html I keep updating this presentation at http://www.scaruffi.com/univ/slideshot.html
History of Thought - Part 3 - From Rome to the Middle Agespiero scaruffi
"History of Thought - Part 3 - From Rome to the Middle Ages" for UC Berkeley lectures (2014) - Excerpted from "A Brief History of Knowledge" http://www.scaruffi.com/know/history.html I keep updating this presentation at http://www.scaruffi.com/univ/slideshot.html
History of Thought - Part 2 - The Ancient Eastern World piero scaruffi
History of Thought - Part 2 - The Ancient Eastern World for UC Berkeley lectures (2014) - Excerpted from "A Brief History of Knowledge" http://www.scaruffi.com/know/history.html I keep updating this presentation at http://www.scaruffi.com/univ/slideshot.html
History of Thought - Part 1 - The Ancient Western World piero scaruffi
History of Thought - Part 1 - The Ancient Western World for UC Berkeley lectures (2014) - Excerpted from "A Brief History of Knowledge" http://www.scaruffi.com/know/history.html I keep updating this presentation at http://www.scaruffi.com/univ/slideshot.html
The Brain - Part 6 of Piero Scaruffi's class "Thinking about Thought" at UC B...piero scaruffi
The Brain - Part 6 of Piero Scaruffi's class "Thinking about Thought" at UC Berkeley (2014). I keep updating this presentation at www.scaruffi.com/ucb.html
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
4. 4
Why did it happen here?
• The technology, the money and the brains were on
the East Coast and in Europe (the great electronic
research labs, the great mathematicians, Wall
Street, etc)
• The great universities were on the East Coast
(MIT, Harvard, Moore School, Princeton,
Columbia), and in Europe (Cambridge)
• Bell Labs, RCA Labs, IBM Labs
• Britain and Germany won most of the Nobels
• Transistor, computer, etc all invented elsewhere
7. 7
Why did it happen here?
• The official history of Silicon Valley
– Defense/DARPA
– Fred Terman at Stanford and Stanford Industrial Park
– William Shockley’s lab
– Fairchild/Intel/semiconductors
– Xerox PARC, SRI Intl/computer-human interface
– Apple, personal computing, videogames
– Unix, Internet, Relational databases
– The dotcoms
– Google, Facebook, …
8. 8
Why Silicon Valley?
• Until the 1950s the Bay Area was mainly
famous for
– Eccentric artists/writers
• Student protests of 1964
• Hippies
• Black Panther Party (1966)
• Monterey’s rock festival (1967)
• "Whole Earth Catalog“ (1968)
• The first “Earth Day” (1970)
• Gay Pride Parade (1970)
• Survival Research Labs (1978)
• New-age movement (1980s)
• Burning Man (1986)
9. 9
Why Silicon Valley?
The first major wave of
immigration of young educated
people from all over the world
took place during the hippy era
(“Summer of Love”)
The first major wave of technology
was driven by independents,
amateurs and hobbyists (From
ham radio to the Homebrew
Computer Club)
10. 10
Why Silicon Valley?
• Anti-corporate sentiment
• The start-ups implement principles
of the hippy commune
• SRI Intl and Xerox PARC:
computation for the masses,
augmented intelligence
Xerox PARC
The first mouse
11. 11
Why Silicon Valley?
• The Bay Area recasts both Unix and the
Internet as idealistic grass-roots
movements
• Young educated people wanted to
change the world
• They did
12. 12
Why Silicon Valley?
• Dysfunctional synergy between two opposite
poles
– The rational and the irrational
– Technologists and anti-technologists
– Hippies and engineers
– Amateurs and corporations
– Nerds and outlaws (the "traitors", Jobs,
Ellison, Zuckerberg, hackers)
13. 13
Why Silicon Valley?
• Innovation is a vague word: everything is an
"innovation". What kind of innovation does
Silicon Valley specialize in?
14. 14
Why Silicon Valley?
• What Silicon Valley does best
– Not invented here: computer, transistor,
integrated circuit, robots, Artificial
Intelligence, programming languages,
databases, videogames, Internet, personal
computers, World-wide web, search
engines, social media, smartphones,
wearable computing, space exploration,
electrical cars, driverless cars…
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Silicon Valley 2013
• World's #1 company in…
– Internet services: Google
– Social Media: Facebook
– Semiconductors: Intel
– Personal computers: Hewlett-Packard
– Business software: Oracle
Most valued company in the world: Apple
Location with the most venture capital:
3000 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park
18. 18
Why Silicon Valley?
• Culture of failure: it comes from the artists
(risk inherent in being an artist)
• Culture of success: it comes from the artists
(congrats if you make a lot of money out of
the crazy ideas you had)
• Meritocracy: it comes from the artists
(industrial power is usually inherited)
• Casual work environment - just like an
artist’s studio
• Silicon Valley is about the garage (like the
artists)
19. 19
Why Silicon Valley?
• Crowdfunding, peer-to-peer file
sharing, the gift economy and the
sharing economy are NOT natural
consequences of capitalistic society
• but they are a natural consequence of
the artists' way of life
20. 20
Why Silicon Valley?
• Immigration of young educated people from
all over the world (Note! USA gets brains,
Silicon Valley gets YOUNG brains)
• Young people are less specialistic (narrow
minded? parochial?) than older people
• Computer geeks and nerds are actually
more likely to absorb the influence of artists
(and even to become polymaths)
21. 21
Why Silicon Valley?
• Lots of art is not enough, otherwise Europe
(and the East Coast) would easily outclass
Silicon Valley
• It is “who” created the spirit of the society
that matters: was the spirit created by the
artists, by the industry, by the aristocracy,
…?
22. 22
Art/Science in the Bay Area
• Leonardo ISAST leonardo.info (Frank Malina, 1967)
• YLEM (Trudy Reagan & Howard Pearlmutter, 1981)
• UC Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium (Ken
Goldberg, 1997)
• Zero1 zero1.org (Andy Cunningham, 2000)
• LASERs lasertalks.com (Piero Scaruffi, 2008)
• UC Santa Cruz's OpenLab (Jenifer Parker and Enrico Rameriz-Ruiz,
2010)
• Codame codame.com (Bruno Fonzi, 2010)
• BAASICS baasics.com (Selene Foster and Christopher Reiger, 2011)
• UC Santa Cruz's Art/Sci Institute (John Weber, 2013)
• Life Art Science Technology (LAST) festival lastfestival.com (Piero
Scaruffi, 2014)
• Djerassi's Scientific Delirium Madness (Margot Knight, 2014)
25. 25
LAST Festival
Life Art Science Technology festival
June 2014: Silicon Valley - October 2014: San Francisco
www.lastfestival.com
26. 26
Replicating Silicon Valley
The rest of the world consistently failed to create
their own Silicon Valleys:
• Sophia Antipolis (France)
• Munich (Germany)
• Oulu (Finland)
• Skolkovo (Russia)
• Israel
• Hsinchu (Taiwan)
• Singapore
• Cyberjaya (Malaysia)
• Bangalore (India)
• Zhongguancun (China)
27. 27
Progress does not need SV
• The Silicon Valley dogma:
– Progress has never accelerated so fast
• Case study #2: “Western World 1880-1910”
28. 28
Progress does not need SV
• One century ago, within a relatively short period
of time, the world adopted:
– the car,
– the airplane,
– the telephone,
– the radio
– the record
– cinema
• while at the same time the visual arts went through
– Impressionism,
– Cubism
– Expressionism
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Progress does not need SV
• while at the same time science came up with
– Quantum Mechanics
– Relativity
• while at the same time the office was
revolutionized by
– cash registers,
– adding machines,
– typewriters
• while at the same time the home was
revolutionized by
– dishwasher,
– refrigerator,
– air conditioning
30. 30
Progress does not need SV
• while at the same time cities adopted high-rise
buildings
31. 31
Progress does not need SV
• There were only 5 radio stations in 1921 but
already 525 in 1923
• The USA produced 11,200 cars in 1903, but
already 1.5 million in 1916
• By 1917 a whopping 40% of households had a
telephone in the USA up from 5% in 1900.
• The Wright brothers flew the first plane in 1903:
during World War I (1915-18) more than 200,000
planes were built
32. 32
… but it may need the arts…
• Accelerating progress happened
simultaneously in the sciences and the arts
Monet Stravinsky Einstein Gaudi Edison
34. 34
Another case study: East Asia
• 1954: Sony's transistor radio
• 1970: Japan's Sharp and Canon introduce the first pocket calculators
• 1973: Japan's Canon introduces the first color photocopier
• 1979: Japan's Sony introduces the portable music player Walkman
• 1980: Japan's Yamaha releases the first digital synthesizer
• 1982: Japan's Sony introduces the compact disc
• 1983: Japan's Sony releases the first consumer camcorder
• 1984: Fujio Masuoka at Japan's Toshiba invents flash memory
• 1988: Japan's Fujitsu introduces the world's first digital camera
• 1992: Japan's Fujitsu introduces the world's first plasma display
• 1996: Japan's Toshiba introduces the first DVD player
• 1997: Japan's Toyota introduces the hybrid car Prius
• 1997: Japan's Panasonic introduces the first flat panel television set
• 1998: South Korea's SaeHan introduces the first mp3 player
• 2000: Japan's Sharp introduces the first mobile phone & camera
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Another case study: East Asia
• There are more than 2,000 startups in
Seoul's Teheran Valley, and 69% of them
are in IT
• Japan accounts for 21% of all patents
awarded worldwide
• Taiwan's companies produce 80% of all
personal digital assistants, 70% of all
notebooks and 60% of all flat-panel
monitors
41. 41
Europe vs SV
• Europe: no trust in a young person
starting a business
• SV: young people are the ones who
found new music genres and become
rock stars
• Europe: frightened by new technology
• SV: what kind of party can I throw with
this new technology?
TechCrunch Disrupt
September 2013
The first LAST festival
June 2014
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Europe vs SV
• Europe: fear of “Big Brother”
• SV: please take my privacy and make
me cool and famous (just like an artist)
Viviane Reding,
EU’s justice commissioner
Steve Jobs Sergey Brin
"It is better to be absolutely ridiculous than
absolutely boring“ (Marilyn Monroe)
45. 45
Creativity
• Creativity's peaks often correspond with periods
of great instability: classical Athens (at war 60%
of the time), 12th-13th century Venice (built on a
mosquito-infected lagoon by homeless refugees),
the Renaissance (Italy split in dozens of small
states and engulfed in endemic warfare), the 20th
century (two World Wars and a Cold War).
47. 47
What is unique about humans?
• Animals live the same life of their parents
• Humans are the only species whose life
style changes from generation to generation
48. 48
What is unique about humans?
• Children disobey, teenagers are rebels
49. 49
What is unique about humans?
• Animals only “innovate” when there is a
genetic mutation
• Humans innovate all the time
Beaver civilization over the millennia
Human civilization over the millennia
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What is unique about humans?
• Art is pervasive in nature (eg birds make nests and
sing, bees dance, spiderwebs, humpback whale
songs, etc)
• Each animal has the same aesthetic, generation
after generation
• Human aesthetic changes from generation to
generation
51. 51
What is unique about humans?
…….
Human aesthetic over the centuries
Spider aesthetic over the centuries
52. 52
What is unique about humans?
• Being creative is the natural state of the human
mind
• Creativity is what truly sets humans apart from
other living beings
• It is unnatural for the human race to be creative
only in one field
53. 53
Welcome to the 21st Century
• From Descartes to Relativity and Quantum
Mechanics: how can Religion and Science
coexist
• CP Snow (1959): how can the Humanities
and Science coexist
54. Matrix algebra revised
• Solving a large system of linear equations
with a large number (millions) of unknowns
Images by Margot Gerritsen, Tim Davis & Yifan Hu
http://www.cise.ufl.edu/research/sparse/matrices/
And it reveals the elegant structure of the graph that was previously hidden when the nodes were jumbled randomly on the page.
The goal is to compute the best solution to an optimization problem.
This matrix comes from the frequency-domain simulation of a complex semiconductor circuit. The green lines underneath the fuzz are the circuit, and the fuzz coming off that describes what happens to the circuit at different frequencies.
Here is another linear programming problem.
This elegant mesh represents the fluid flow in a shallow bay of water. It could be used to simulate where pollutants would flow.
This graph is from a student of mine who now works at Amazon.com. It's a social network, where each node is either a person or a web page, and an edge is drawn between a person and each web page they like. Not surprisingly, the graph is very irregular.