Category: Architecture

Future Predictions: Google CIO Ben Fried Talking About “Re-thinking IT”

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October 17, 2011

Web 2.0 Expo NY 2011, Ben Fried, Google,

“Re-thinking IT”

Discusses what businesses can do to position

themselves well for their technology future!

Authors@Google: Steven Levy in conversation with Ben Fried in NYC

Journalist Steven Levy visits Google’s New York, NY office to discuss his book

“In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives.”

This event took place on April 13, 2011, as part of the Authors@Google series.

Steven Levy is a senior writer at Wired, and was formerly senior editor and chief technology correspondent for Newsweek. He is the author of six previous books, including Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, which was voted the best sci-tech nonfiction book of the last twenty years by readers of PC magazine, and Insanely Great, the definitive account of the Macintosh computer. A native of Philadelphia, Levy lives in New York City with his wife, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Teresa Carpenter, and their son.

Tags: ben fried, cio, google, Steven Levy, web 2.0, wired.com

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Future Prediction: Green Float – a Floating City in the Sky

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April 26, 2011

GREEN FLOAT – a Floating City in the Sky

Shimizu Corporation

“Green Float
Looking for an oceanfront home but can’t find any affordable property? Japanese tech firm Shimizu (the visionaries behind Japan’s Mega-Pyramid) dreamed up this future model for aquatic living consisting of lush, kilometer-wide “cells” floating on pontoons in the Pacific Ocean near the Equator. Each cell (which could be linked with other cells) would house up to 50,000 people, both in the City in the Sky tower and in residential housing arranged around a cell’s perimeter. Forest and grasslands would enable farming and livestock cultivation, while power would be supplied by wind or solar energy—no shortage of that near the Equator.”
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Tags: city, floating city, green float, shimizu

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Future: Jaques Fresco Dreams of the Future With Technology For All and Money Has No Relevance & His Thoughts on the Future

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March 26, 2011

Jaques Fresco dreams of a future where technology is harnessed for all and money has no relevance. Is his head in the clouds?

War is the supreme failure of bridging the differences between nations, according to the creator of a social model called “the Venus Project” American futurist and inventor Jacque Fresco.

Defines the “Common Heritage of Mankind”
Resource Based Economy

Watch the extented interview:

Tags: common heritage of mankind, jaques fresco, resource based economy, venus project

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Future: What is Inside Bill Gates Pad? Could it One Day Be Like Your Home?

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March 22, 2011

Maybe Inside Bill Gates Mansion & Other Qualities

Library: Have you thought of a library size as big as 2,100 sq. ft. An ornate library, it has a domed reading room with light well, fireplace, two secret pivoting bookcases, one containing a bar. A fitting home for Leonardo Da Vinci’s 16th-century notebook, the Codex Leicster. Gates brought it home for $ 30.8 million.
Dining Room: Its’ size is 1,000 sq. Ft and at least 24 guests can dine together, enjoying the sweeping view from the third level. To add to this, kitchen is 39 feet by 23 feet.

Exclusively grand staircase: Its’ size is 92 feet long and 63 feet high with 84 steps from the entrance to the ground floor, can anyone imagine! Much of the residence is involved towards the hillside; the windows of the lakefront side provides the views of Seattle to the west.

WALLS OF HD VIDEO SCREENS?

Theater Provision: It is approximately 20 seats with size almost 1,500 ft. It is outfitted with cosy chairs, couches, and not to miss a popcorn machine with HDTV capable screen.

Exercise Room: includes sauna, steam room, separate men’s and women’s lockers with size of 2,500 sq. ft.

Swimming Pool: A size of 17 by 60 foot, it has a superb provision of underwater music system and floor painted in fossil motif. Lovely must say. Swimmers can dive under a glass wall and merge outdoors by a terrace.

Reception Hall: It seems Mr. Gates house is more of a hotel, having a reception hall with capacity more than 150 people at a time, and its size is 2,300 sq. ft.

This a a computer model/tour of the Gates house and some of the technology in it.