Thoughts on travelling

•September 12, 2011 • 2 Comments

I always liked travelling, born in a small island Just a few hundred square kilometers, any excuse is great for some change.I have been to London for a workshop a while ago. While I have been to London before, i was never alone, but this time it was different and besides the great work mates I met I was alone in a big city.. feels a bit like those old-ish 80s movies.

There is a beauty in the amazing diversity and richness of different cultures coming together and meeting in a plex like London but then again there is a lot of contrast and I think the edges blur slowly.
At some point during travelling when everything is so different, things start passing by with a general sense of indistiction. This feeling sometimes is like a drug, a hallucinogenic.
Tracks moving forward

Travelling is more than just going from A to B ...

People, faces, buildings, trains, stations, planes airports they are all moving their ways as fast as they can whizzing by, this turns me into a very introspective mood. I get to feel belittled and awestruck at the sheer sizes of these places and I get somehow more close to the world and it’s a bit like more in perspective of where I truly AM.

First steps to a better life

•July 27, 2011 • 2 Comments

We all have parts of our lives we are not happy with. When there are aspects we want or at least feel we should change some third party guidelines might help. When you need help the first you need to ask is yourself..

First help yourself

Helping your self suceed

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Robot that flies like a bird!

•July 23, 2011 • 4 Comments

Man long dreamt of flying “Like a bird”. While many said over the millennia that either God forbade man from flight, or it’s impossible the bird’s wings are too intricate or complex to reproduce. Leonard designed long ago an avian inspired wing.

Man's hubris made him want to fly

This has now changed thanks to Markus Fischer and his team from Festo a company specialized in industrial pneumatic actuators, sensors and controls ….

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An exercise in empathy

•June 5, 2011 • 2 Comments

This video left me speechless..

It will take you through an exercise in understanding other people’s point of view.

This world needs more teachers of this kind in schools.

The feelings of machines

•March 30, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Have you ever heard of human rights or animal rights ?

Obviously yes ..

Have you ever considered the moral implications of formatting a hard disk or throwing a dvd away. The first knee jerk reaction is “nonsense” . This might change in the near future.

New trends in robotics can convey complex behavior and expressions. The following is in Japanese but you will get the gist.

girl facing a robot looking like her

Machines will have feelings one day not to far

Once the mental image imitates to a degree the human one and it is reflected on the face of a machine we will have a moral reflection , empathy will kick in and we shall start thinking twice before hitting the reset button.

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