Endless Knots

"Make bureaucracy sexy"

Give yourself the gift of 12 minutes listening to Jennifer Pahlka's TED talk, "Coding a Better Government." She knows. Jen founded and is executive director of Code for America. Simple description: "Helps governments work better for everyone with the people and the power of the web."

 

I met Jen about five years ago when she called asking me to participate in what became Enterprise 2.0, then called Collaborate 2.0 ... I think. Liked her instantly. Plus she gave her daughter one of the all-time very cool names: Clementine.

We'll be posting more on this shortly but in the meantime listen to what she has to say. This great quote is at about 9 minutes.

 

 

Do robots need us?

Thanks to John Hagel, I happened upon this TED2012 talk by UPenn's Vijay Kumar. Not my 20th-century view of robots at all. Something quite different. I don't understand the equations that generate the effects shown but the implications for society are pretty darn clear -- a different kind of "machine" altogether, one that can work with others like itself with at least a modicum of intelligence. Prof Kumar, please send me a few of these. Thanks in advance. (PS: Hit full-screen it for best effect)