and Blink
In this talk, which is quite relevant to this course, he explains what every
business can learn from spaghetti sauce. INSANELY GREAT
If you just want to browse for amazing people, you could look at
introduction: http://www.paulloeb.org/newimp/impintro.htm
http://www.paulloeb.org/newimp/impindex.htm#contents
McHenry Library HN65 .I46 2004
another source: MyHeroes a website where people post theirs
A great place to broswe for inspiration is TEDtalk videos
examples:
MIT engineer Amy Smith designs ingenious low-cost devices to tackle tough problems in developing countries.
Hans Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's world-renowned Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a non-profit that brings vital global data to life.
Jeff Han is a research scientist for NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and the inventor of an "interface-free" touch-driven computer screen.
Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is author of The Age of Spiritual Machines , and The Singularity is Near: When humans transcend biology .
Malcolm
Gladwell is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and best-selling author of
The
Tipping Point
and Blink
In this talk, which is quite relevant to this course, he explains what every
business can learn from spaghetti sauce.
Jimmy Wales is founder of Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, ever-expanding, and thoroughly addictive encyclopedia of the future
Other examples:
TheTech Museum of Innovation awards (some videos)
Three ten year old kids in Miss. almost kill themselves for ten years to make a remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Their heroic epic is itself being made into a film.
Jaron Lanier virtual reality pioneer (advisor to K-Web)
Doug Engelbart's insanely great mission is to create technology that will make us smart enough to take on complex problems like hunger and the environment. As a byproduct he invented the mouse, and many other key aspects of the computer (advisor to K-Web). Explored in John Markoff's What the Doormouse Said (60's counter-culture's effect on computer revolution) . Listen to a talk by Markoff about the book. Interview. Here's a sort of technical article by Engelbart in which he explains his breakthrough ideas. Pieces of a video documentary here
Buckminster Fuller best known for the geodesic dome; he like Engelbart choose to think about and live an intentional life with maximum impact to improve life for everyone.
Macintosh this is a video of a reunion of the people who created it.
McCready: Human powered plane crosses English Channel
Jody Williams Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to ban land mines
Frida Kahlo artist
Mya Lin (designed the Vietnam Vet Memorial)
Stewart Brand is building a 10K year clock
Dean Kamen invented the i-bot (a wheelchair that can climb stairs and elevate the driver in order to restore dignity) which led to to the Segway personal transporter. He has also created small boxes that produce power and clean water anywhere, as well as a robot arm. Overview.
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