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April 23, 2008
The Global Impact of Rising Food Prices
RealAudio / Windows Media... It's a crisis linking nations as disparate as Haiti, Uzbekistan and the U.S. Double-digit increases in prices for bread, milk and other basic commodities are leading to bulging grocery budgets across our region and violent protests in many parts of the developing world. Kojo Nnamdi looks at the global factors driving up prices, and whether any relief is in sight. [Kojo Nnamdi Show]
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March 30, 2008
Here Comes Everybody
An MP3 clip... Social networking has been empowered by technology. Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, about the power of organizing without organization. [Tech Nation]
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March 21, 2008
Curious Interactive Robots
An MP3 clip... Curiosity is usually seen as a quality in humans, a learning driver. When a one-month old puppy looks frightened and hesitant before a bright yellow tennis ball and finally jumps on it, shakes it in his jaw, throws it away and runs after it again, then curiosity becomes entertaining. Curious robots, however, are only starting to surprise us with their child-like open-ended learning abilities and lovability. Frederic Kaplan's curious AIBO is capable of learning how to interact with the toys on its play mat, first learning the simple behaviors before getting bored and moving on to more appealing ones. [Talking Robots]
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BioMicroRobotics
An MP3 clip... Building a complete sub-mm robotic system capable of sensing, actuation and computation in an autonomous manner creates challenges which are several orders of magnitude greater than the envisioned robot size. Not to mention energy issues when the smallest batteries in the world are around 10 times bigger than the desired robot. At the root of BioMicroRobotics, Brad Nelson has taken the leap from imagination to reality with his microrobot for retinal surgery. Pushing the principle of "embodiment" to the extreme, he is embedding the intelligence of his robot within their physical body. In the end, their shape, material and physical properties allow them to interact with the environment and subsequently harvest energy, perform sensing, and navigate through the human body. [Talking Robots]
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January 28, 2008
The Global Brain - An Interview with Mohanbir Sawhney
An MP3 clip... A convincing and highly pragmatic case for the pursuit of network-centric innovation. Network-centric innovation is an open and collaborative approach that supplants the closed, firm-centered strategies with which we are all more familiar. These more traditional methods no longer serve organizations well in a Web-enabled world when the raw materials of innovation, especially ideas and talent, are more mobile and widely distributed than ever.
[Principled Innovation]
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The Pirate's Dilemma - An Interview with Matt Mason
An MP3 clip... Matt Mason, a former pirate radio DJ in London, is now a successful first-time business book author. The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture is Reinventing Capitalism, which just hit bookstores, offers a unique glimpse into how punk, hip-hop, graffiti and other counterculture movements have undermined the status quo and sparked innovation over the last several decades. [Principled Innovation]
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January 20, 2008
The Globalization of Health Care
An MP3 clip... Dr. David Kibbe -- senior advisor to the American Academy of Family Physicians and Principal of the Kibbe Group -- speaks about the globalization of health care and the direct and indirect impacts it will have on US health care. [MedTripInfo]
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January 12, 2008
Tom Perkins of Kleiner Perkins
An MP3 clip... Educated at MIT and Harvard, Tom Perkins first made his mark by managing the initial growth of Hewlett-Packard’s computer business while simultaneously inventing the first cheap and reliable laser. The company he built around the laser, University Laboratories, made him independently wealthy and allowed for the creation of Kleiner Perkins, one of the most successful venture capital firms in existence. Kleiner Perkins (now Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) has funded a wide range of well known and wildly successful companies including Google, AOL, Genentech, Sun Microsystems, Compaq, and Tandem Computers. Listen in as he discusses his journey from New York to Boston to Silicon Valley, the creation of Kleiner Perkins, and his advice for the entrepreneurs of the future. [Venture Voice]
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