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Entries in Technology (64)
How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries | Adam Savage from Mythbusters - Video on TED.com
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 04:04PM Adam Savage walks through two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative methods anyone could have followed -- Eratosthenes' calculation of the Earth's circumference around 200 BC and Hippolyte Fizeau's measurement of the speed of light in 1849.
Shilo Shiv Suleman: Using technology to enable dreaming | Video on TED.com
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 02:24PM Has our technology -- our cell phones and iPods and cameras -- stopped us from dreaming? Young artist Shilo Shiv Suleman says no, as she demos "Khoya," her new storybook for iPad, which floats us through a magical world in 7 minutes of pure creativity.
Shilo Shiv Suleman is an illustrator, storyteller and iPad book creator.
Is There a Tweaker Driving Innovation On Your Team? - MIT Sloan Management
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 10:35PM Innovators aren’t just the geniuses who come up with completely original ideas. More often than not, they’re the people who tweak the ideas already around them, making new things that are more useable or beautiful. In a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research last spring, economists Ralf Meisenzahl, of the Federal Reserve, and Joel Mokyr, of Northwestern University highlighted the historic value of “tweakers.” They argued that the Industrial Revolution took hold in Britain because of “the supply of highly skilled, mechanically able craftsmen who were able to adapt, implement, improve, and tweak new technologies and who provided the micro inventions necessary to make macro inventions highly productive and remunerative.”
To Inspire Innovation, Get a Muse - Michael Schrage - Harvard Business Review
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 07:19PM Yves Saint Laurent and Pablo Picasso — brilliant entrepreneurs as well as celebrated artistes — claimed inspiration from muses.So, apparently, did Steve Jobs. Perhaps the newly-knighted Sir Jonathan Ive has one, too. Creative dynamos have always sought the frisson of the divine revelatory spark. So they look to a muse for energy inspiration. Does your business — should your innovators — have a muse?