For tens of thousands of years our ancestors understood the world through myths, and the pace of change was glacial. The rise of scientific understanding transformed the world within a few centuries. Why? Physicist David Deutsch proposes a subtle answer.. Here is the video from TED.
Occasional Musings
by Murali Jayapala
How Kevin Bacon Cured Cancer: A story about networks, 6 degrees of seperation
Interesting videos about complex networks and degrees of seperation.
More about this here: [The Link]
Why -> how -> what. talk by Simon Sinek
Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers — and as a counterpoint Tivo, which (until a recent court victory that tripled its stock price) appeared to be struggling..
Below is the talk from ted.com.
Also worth checking his website: http://www.startwithwhy.com/
Beyond Computation
“We have all become computation-centric over the last few years. We’ve tended to think that computation explains everything. When I was a kid, I had a book which described the brain as a telephone-switching network. Earlier books described it as a hydrodynamic system or a steam engine. Then in the ’60s it became a digital computer. In the ’80s it became a massively parallel digital computer. I bet there’s now a kid’s book out there somewhere which says that the brain is just like the World Wide Web because of all of its associations. We’re always taking the best technology that we have and using that as the metaphor for the most complex things—the brain and living systems. And we’ve done that with computation.” — Rodney Brooks (link from edge.org)
