by David Sasaki | Oct 19, 2009 | English
This week I’m trying to put some ending punctuation on all the fragments of projects I’ve left scattered over the past couple months before setting my sights toward new projects for November and December. I received a lot of kind and charitable feedback...
by David Sasaki | Sep 8, 2009 | English
A video of my talk is available here. My slides are on SlideShare. What follows is a hyperlinked text of the notes in my slides. Darkness is our natural state. During the 200,000 years of human existence our species has only known electric light for .06% of that time....
by David Sasaki | Aug 31, 2009 | English
This coming Saturday September 5th I will be joined by an illustrious group of speakers (and friends) here in Linz to map a new framework to think about collective intelligence in the era of cloud computing. A schedule of the day’s events is available on the Ars...
by David Sasaki | Aug 22, 2009 | English
George Dyson asks us this most reasonable question: if biologic life derived organically from the basic elements, then is it such a stretch to believe that biologic life will also one day derive from mechanical elements? After all, as Paul Romer asks, what is...
by David Sasaki | Jul 13, 2009 | English
When we think about electricity the first name to come to mind is famed American inventor Thomas Edison, who filed the first of his more than 1,000 patents at the age of 21. In 1879, at the age of 32, Edison invented what today we call the light bulb. It was a...
by David Sasaki | Jun 12, 2009 | English
Seven Billion Brains on Planet Earth Every morning we – all seven billion of us – wake up with a certain amount of cognitive energy, our mental fuel tank for the day to come. We use up this cognitive energy every time our brain must process information and...
by David Sasaki | May 19, 2009 | English
OK, I think I’m finally ready to announce the big news that, along with Chinese über-blogger Isaac Mao, I will be co-curating this year’s Ars Electronica Symposium on September 5th in Linz, Austria. I’m honored to be in the company of past...