reflections on the technium

This will be the last one for 2011.

For this installment of Brown Bag at the Movies we will be viewing (abstract below):

• Ancient wonders captured in 3D 12:20
• Open-source cancer research 12:48
• Trust, morality — and oxytocin 16:35
• The real reason for brains 20:00

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Greetings!

For this installment of Brown Bag at the Movies we will be viewing (abstract below):

• A Cartography of the Anthropocene 0:39
• Freeing energy from the grid 12:45
• The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee 5:52
• Using nature to grow batteries 10:26
• How Robots Think 16:51
• How to spot a liar 18:51

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Greetings!

For this installment of Brown Bag at the Movies we will be viewing (abstract below):

• NASA Satellite Falls to Earth 1:53
• Computing a theory of everything 19:59
• Smart Grid or Smart Hype? 26:36
• Your health depends on where you live 9:26

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Greetings!

For this installment of Brown Bag at the Movies we will be viewing (abstract below):

• High Voltage Power Lines 46:11
• Steve Jobs: How to live before you die 15:04

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Greetings!

For this installment of Brown Bag at the Movies we will be viewing (abstract below):

• Amazing Timelapse Video from the Space Station 1:02
• The 6 killer apps of prosperity 20:20
• Welcome to the genomic revolution 11:03
• Making matter come alive 15:11
• Misha Glenny: Hire the hackers! 18:40

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Greetings!

For this installment of Brown Bag at the Movies we will be viewing (abstract below):

• Jump Associates CEO Dev Patnaik: Hybrid Thinking 1:12:26

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Greetings!

For this installment of Brown Bag at the Movies we will be viewing (abstract below):

• Col. Casey Haskins: 6 Myths That Block Creative Thinking 1:10:57

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Greetings!

For this installment of Brown Bag at the Movies we will be viewing (abstract below):

• Marketing for engineers: Boot or Bust  1:00 + 2:30
• Engineers Fly World’s First ‘Printed’ Aircraft 2:26
• Wireless data from every light bulb 12:52
• The surprising math of cities and corporations 17:34
• Contagion in [Social] Networks 16:14
• 5 ways to listen better 7:50
• The rise of personal robots 14:04
• Financial Crisis for Engineers: E-Trade Baby Loses Everything  1:05

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Greetings!

For this installment of Brown Bag at the Movies we will be viewing (abstract below):

• Marketing for engineers: <http://dangerousprototypes.com/2010/12/06/this-is-how-you-sell-microchips/> 2:16
• How algorithms shape our world 15:23
• Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon 10:41
• Fighting viruses, defending the net 17:35
• Upside of Irrationality, The Not-Invented-Here Bias: Why “My” Ideas Are Better than “Yours” 4:56
• A robot that flies like a bird 6:20
• Marketing for engineers 2: <http://dangerousprototypes.com/2011/07/12/lattice-ecp3-fpga-jamz-video/> 3:41

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Greetings!

For this installment of Brown Bag at the Movies we will be viewing (abstract below):

• Engineering of the 10,000 Year Clock 32:50
• The Future of Fabrication 30:53
• Lamps 001/1 3:02

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