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[25 Mai 2009 | No Comment | ]
Do You Want To Live Forever? | Aubrey de Grey

Very interesting documentation and also his book “Ending Aging”.
Very detailed about the medical aspects of aging from biological and technical point of view.
Channel 4 Documentary following the revolutionary life-extension and immortality ideas of this somewhat eccentric scientist, Dr. Aubrey de Grey.
This show is all about the radical ideas of a Cambridge biomedical gerontologist called Aubrey de Grey who believes that, within the next 20-30 years, we could extend life indefinitely by addressing seven major factors in the aging process. He describes his work as Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS).
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[22 Jan 2009 | No Comment | ]
Crowd-Sourcing the World | Leverage the unused work force

Crowd-Sourcing the World - Leverage the unused work force:
A startup hopes to tap into the expertise of developing nations via cell phones. An easy System like MechanicalTurk.com from Amazon to get unused work to everybody. 

In my opinion this is a ground breaking scalable businessmodel for

affilliatemarketing
marketing networks
telecommunication companies like Nokia,Sony,Samsung,Apple, Orange, Telecom Italia, O2, Vodafone, …..

Transaction-based working tasks for the crowd. Only Knowledge and action counts, and that perhaps the problem. Problem for the focus group from Nathan Eagle, and in general. But let´s try and improve the understanding …