After a quick break we're back for Ignite ETech.
If you had 5 minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds?
Brady is back and introducing Ignite. We've got nine speakers, and at least one t-shirt that's going to be fired from a cannon. Ignite talks are 20 slides for 15 seconds a slide for a five minute.
Jan McGonigal
The first speaker is Jane McGonigal who is speaking about Free Space, a new forecasting game to be played this week at ETech.
The year is 2019. Personal satellites are cheap and accessible at $100. What would you use yours for?
Tom Gomez
Next up is Tom Gomez, deputy editor of wired, who is talking about a writing his book, the Decision Tree. Medicine as an algorithm...
Molly Steenson
Next up is Molly Steenson, who is talking about the history of pneumatic tubes for sending messages and packages in the 19th century. Interesting, Ted Stevens was right, just 100 years late.
Niall Kennedy
The next speaker Niall Kennedy is talking about measuring cloud efficiency.
Rose White
A change of pace, Rose White talking about knitting, and knitting as graffiti...
It's not your grandmother's knitting!
Knitting was once proprietary, reserved for the nobility, and was reverse engineered and made available to everyone.
Tom Igoe
An Arduino interlude by Tom Igoe and what's going on with the Arduino today. Most of what has been going on has been incremental improvements. There are not enough pins, memory, or serial ports.
The new Arduino MEGA
He's announcing the release of the Arduino MEGA, with a lot more capability. It should be available sometime next week.
Tariq Korula
Our next speaker is Tariq Korula, talking about the Ybike - the solar powered, Flickr uploading, geo-tagging photo bike. That's 20 bikes, 11 cites, 5 continents, 63,718+ photos. Search for the ybike tag on Flickr. Ghosts in the machine, or a million monkeys?
Brad Templeton
Our penultimate speaker is Brad Templeton from the EFF, talking on evil. We started with time sharing, moved to personal computers, and now we're back to time sharing. Your data is our of your hands, again. Ease of use can be a bug, if you make it easy to do, people will do it more.
Bill Gurstelle
Our final speaker of the evening was Bill Gurstelle who talked about the art of living dangerously. It's not a good thing to blow up things, but you should live dangerously...
Bill Gurstelle and his t-shirt cannon
...and we're done!
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