To Learn Twice

I have been following William Kamkwamba's blog for about a year now and I received his book " The Boy that Harnessed the Wind " on Monday (finished it Tuesday). It was a fabulous read and helped put into perspective 3 main things: I am so blessed to have been provided the resources that I have been given for my entire life - I have really had it pretty easy. The problems I face on a daily basis can be difficult, but I am blessed that those are my only challenges. Overall, I (and the people around me) are pretty wasteful with our resources and our abilities. For those of you that don't know William's story you can see him speak about it here at TED from July of 2009. He also appeared with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show last night. I have embedded it below and William talks about it himself here . My favorite part is the exchange between Stewart and William about him preparing to take his SAT's (at the 5:50 mark). The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thur...

Some Technologies Referenced by David Thornburg Cisco’s Telepresence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQnffi6tN0g Jeff Han’s Multi Touch Display www. ted .com/index.php/speakers/view/id/65 Johnny Lee – Wii Hack http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/ http://www.ted.com/speakers/view/id/204 http://www.makezine.com/01/stabilizer/ Some others that he didn’t show that are way cool: Photosynth: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129 Robots that are self aware: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/165 If you want to go back in the time machine – here is a similar presentation to David’s by Nicholas Negroponte done in 1984 about what technologies would be coming. Some people thought he was off base then – and a lot of this came true. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/230 With a lot of technology – it isn’t if – it is when… As Dr. Thornburg said – “It is creativity that is holding us back, not technology”

David Jakes del.icio.us account turned me on to this awesome website within TED (I can't believe I didn't stuble on it myself with my TED crush lately) - Top 100 websites you gotta see and will probably be using.