Author Archives: Jacqueline Ashby

“Working with my hands is the key to making new discoveries.” Designer Anton Alvarez

The thought of surfing in Iceland never crossed my mind; however, I can see some advantages including the spectacular coastline and the lack of competition over waves. During the past few decades, I’ve surfed in some frigid waters and when you wipe out it’s like running head first into a cement wall.  Cold water fails to forgive the inept human body.  More power to Dion Agius, Nate Tyler, and Brendon Gibbens for traveling out to the unknown and exploring a new terrain!

Brilliant! Absolutely. Hands Down. Brilliant.

And so are the rest of Santa’s reindeer crew! I knew he couldn’t have made it around the globe in one night led by males. They would have stopped for pizza, beer, and directions more than once. Happy Holidays!

Dr. Nicholas Negroponte prediction about the future of learning is interesting! Back in my day, we relied on cliff notes for the quick and dirty digestion of laborious material but his idea of learning through embedding nanobots in our bloodstream seems effortless. It’s like take out for your brain. I imagine someone pulling up to a McBrain, Brain King, or a BrainBucks and ordering War and Peace and Physics 201 to go. I wonder how their layaway plan would work?

Theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku explains the possibility in transferring our brain’s memory into a synthetic medium. This is part of Big Think’s 5-part playlist on Futurists on the Future.

A short documentary that examines the culture and context of architectural education (via A Daily Dose of Architecture).