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).

Crowded (2014) from Andrew Khosravani on Vimeo.

Brilliant new album by Damien Rice My Favourite Faded Fantasy.

“If you do what you know to be right, it’s extraordinarily powerful. Being nice to people matters.” ~ John Lloyd
Lloyd’s full presentation on General Ignorance here.

Author Pico Iyer on the art of stillness. If you enjoyed this, you might want to check out his TED talk Where is Home?

Thrilled to see that Peter Mel, Kelly Slater, Ross Clarke-Jones and Tom Carroll are on the invitee list for The Quiksilver In Memory of Eddie Aikau. Opening ceremony is next week!