Self-Assembly is the Future

When I was blabbering about "organic architecture" and "organic programming" concepts a short while ago, this is one example.  These are macro objects.  In decades from now, they will have this shrunken down much smaller.  Imagine where this could lead us.

The Love/Hate of Technology

Mondays.

Meetings.  Project Status Updates.  Estimates.  More status updates.  More meetings.  Phone calls.  E-mails.  Portals.  Catching up.  In the end, very little productive work is done, at least not until late in the day and into the next morning.  Printers die.  Applications lock up.  Services stop.  Processes spin-out and eat the CPU.  Users get frustrated.  It can push anyone to frustration.

Then I tune into TED.  And I see this, and I forget the irritations of technology and remember the wonder of it all.  The hope that it brings through hard work and imagination.  Ultimately for the purpose of helping each other.

Updated: The TED video link appears to be hosed.  Here's the direct URL...

http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidney.html

Welcome to 2011. Cheers!

Here's a great lecture by CERN's Brian Cox at TED 2010.  Enjoy!

Not New, But Still Incredible

Note: If you haven't seen this yet, bear with the monologue and talking and be patient.  The payoff is worth the wait.  Enjoy!