From the year 2000 to 2010 the number of manufacturing jobs in America fell by about a third. The rise of outsourcing and offshoring and the growth of sophisticated supply chains has enabled companies the world over to use China, India and other lower-wage countries as workshops. Now, the global financial crisis has people thinking it is time their countries returned to making stuff in order to create jobs and prevent more manufacturing skills from being lost. These factors, and technologies like robotics, 3D printing and artificial intelligence could help bring about a Third Industrial Revolution. Via Szabolcs Kósa, Sakis Koukouvis ![NASA: How much water is on Planet Earth? Visualization: All water bunched up to a single ball [photo] | Singularity Scoops | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/8nmxanc8RrXwGvIhyYuj1Tl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
How much of planet Earth is made of water? Very little, actually. Although oceans of water cover about 70 percent of Earth's surface, these oceans are shallow compared to the Earth's radius. The above illustration shows what would happen if all of the water on or near the surface of the Earth were bunched up into a ball. The radius of this ball would be only about 700 kilometers, less than half the radius of the Earth's Moon, but slightly larger than Saturn's moon Rhea which, like many moons in our outer Solar System, is mostly water ice. How even this much water came to be on the Earth and whether any significant amount is trapped far beneath Earth's surface remain topics of research.
Via Dr. Stefan Gruenwald The vascular system of a leaf provides its structure and delivers its nutrients. When you light up that vascular structure with some fluorescent dye and view it using time lapse photography, details begin to emerge that reveal nature's mathematical formula for survival. MATHEMATICS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=mathematics Via Sakis Koukouvis 
This is a great free tool for creating sophisticated looking infographics. The tool uses well designed templates which you can edit and add your own information to. Via Nik Peachey 
Radical human modification is coming, like it or not, by the end of this century -- if not earlier. How much are you willing to alter yourself? Via Szabolcs Kósa 
Want to find out why Dr. Michael Shermer is skeptical about the technological singularity? Check out his interview for SingularityWeblog.com to find out. A video produced by TranshumanistForums with audio excerpt from Ray Kurzweil's book The Singularity Is Near, describing the six epochs of technology (RT @leejkeller: The Singularity Is Near | The Six Epochs [Video} 
Former inventor Ray Kurzweil, who believes computers will soon think like humans and ultimately merge with us, a notion he has dubbed the singularity, discusses his predictions and his status as a polarizing figure. Micheael Shermer is interviewed about his views on the future of AI, the Technological Singularity, Transhumanism, and skepticism. This is not something that... 
And we are helping it along. The Singularity will come when intelligent robots are all around us. There will be a change in the human world like nothing ever seen before. For more on the Singularity, read Victor Vinge. 
#INFOGRAPHIC - : The Internet Moves Out of the Box: Introducing the Internet of Things http://t.co/LabkL3Sx... Via Spaceweaver 
The World Is Getting Better, Argues New Book, 'Abundance'Daily BeastPeter H. Diamandis is the founder and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation and Co-founder and Chairman of Singularity University. 
The movie kind of sounds to me like a group of Singularity Hub posts acted out on the big screen. So it's a good thing there's star appeal, otherwise I think a lot of people might think it's a boring robot movie. |
After Derek Amato sustained brain damage by hitting his head on the bottom of a swimming pool, he began playing classical piano compositions without a single lesson. Via Sakis Koukouvis 
Robin Good: Present.Me is a web app which allows you to easily combine your presentation with your own talking head video, in perfect sync.
First you upload your image slides or presentation file (PowerPoint, PDF, Excel, Word, OpenOffice or Google Docs) and then you can record your video from your webcam while playing back the slides at your own preferred pace. You can also pause and restart any time.
Present.me now features a "trim" function allowing you to cut out mistakes and errors you have made and allows to create also presentations with your audio only (no video).
The final presentation can be shared online on all major social networks or embedded in any site or blog.
There is both a free plan, allowing for up to 3 presentations of 15 mins, as well as paid plans costing $9 (30 presentations of 60 mins and no ads) and $39/month (unlimited).
Review by TheNextWeb: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/05/05/present-me-is-slideshare-meets-youtube-for-creating-on-demand-online-presentations/ ;
Demo: http://present.me/tour ;
Pricing: http://present.me/plans ;
More info: http://present.me/ ;
First covered here: http://presentationtools.masternewmedia.org/p/651958223/record-your-own-video-in-sync-with-your-presentation-present-me on Nov.11 - 2011 (Thanks to Giuseppe Mauriello for bringing it again to my attention) Via Robin Good 
For an industry firmly entrenched in working with nails and screws, the prospects of replacing saws and hammers with giant printing machines seems frightening. But getting beyond this hesitancy lies the biggest construction boom in all history. Via Szabolcs Kósa Robin Good: You have probably already seen a few of the outstading doodle animated videos done by Jorn Nielsen, the king of this art, in some notable clips from RSA called RSA Animates.
These videos are really fantastic, as the unfolding illustrations and characters keep you engaged and focused throughout the clip.
I would certainly recommend this type of video presentation to anyone who has a difficult concept to illustrate or the need to promote a concept, an idea or a product in a way that sticks out from the rest.
And while I would blindly recommend Jorn's work, not every publisher or marketing department can easily afford that level of quality and artistry.
As an alternative to those who may have a tighter budget Seallamations.com may present itself as an promising alternative.
I don't know yet what their pricing is on these doodle videos, but it is certainly good, for all parties involved there is more than one option to look into.
Doodles by Jorn Nielsen: http://vimeo.com/creativesupport ; Doodles by Sellamations: http://sellamations.com/videos/ ;
More info: http://creativesupport.dk/ ; Via Robin Good 
Early Warning.Nicely reasoned but singularity argument misses incompleteness (Godel), machines will never get it http://t.co/SyUJQthM... 
Singularity University’s Concentric Circle Educational Delivery Model - http://t.co/GI82bKaf... 
We're fast approaching the moment when humans and machines merge. 
The economy has changed, probably forever. School hasn't. School was invented to create a constant stream of compliant factory workers to the growing businesses of the 1900s. Seth Godin is providing his 30,000 word manifesto for free on many mediums. Via Ken Morrison 
In Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs he mentions how Jobs worked in a reality distortion field. Isaacson writes that at a base level the reality distortion field is tantamount... [[ This is a content summary only. Scientists have taken an early step toward surpassing the limits of a technological principle called Moore’s Law by creating a working transistor using a single phosphorus atom. 
ForbesGoogle's Cyborg Glasses RevealedForbesIn addition to developing driver-less cars, Google's co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are involved in Singularity University, an executive education program held at NASA's Research Park in... |
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