TechTalk: Disruptive Technologies

November 17, 2008 9:24 pm · Filed under TechTalk

I was listening to C-SPAN radio (nerd alert) the other day and heard a reporter from Forbes magazine discussing the economy, in which he talked about the role of disruptive technologies. In essence, his argument was that because business media in particular has been undercut by the Internet, there is a lack of capable, competent business reporters and business news outlets. As a consequence, we have seen an “innumeration” of business news and therefore our current understanding of the financial system is out of whack. His analysis is that our economy, while under some stress, is not nearly as “depressed” as some have prognosticated.

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TechTalk: Machine Translation

November 2, 2008 8:29 pm · Filed under TechTalk

Personally, I’ve always felt limited in my ability to read by my knowledge of only one language. I think that in the future, we’ll probably be able to translate with better accuracy the materials written in languages unfamiliar to us.

Just for fun, here’s my post translated via  google translator:

像一些其他谁已经公布，我一定救我酒精有关的资料，我组的介绍星期三。但是我非常有兴趣听听的读/图书组将出席。

就个人而言，我一直认为在我有限的阅读能力由我的知识，只有一种语言。我认为，在未来，我们也许能够更好的翻译准确的书面材料不熟悉的语言给我们。

Here’s a humorous article from 2000 about machine translation’s past and future.

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TechTalk: Back to the Future

October 10, 2008 12:55 am · Filed under TechTalk

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TechTalk

October 6, 2008 12:18 pm · Filed under TechTalk

In the spirit of making this blog reflect my interests, I’m adding a new series: TechTalk…

Nanotechnology is of particular interest to me. I’m always telling my friends and family (and anyone else who will listen) about nanotechnology and the coming changes it may bring. Anticipating nanotechnology is crucial the basic building blocks of matter and life occur at the nanolevel. Chemistry, genetics, biological processes, and the current frontier of electronics all occur on the nanolevel. Understanding how these processes work and, more importantly, being able to reliably manipulate events at this level in order to get specific outcomes, opens up the possibility of significant new advances in a wide variety of fields, but of special interest to me: electronics and medicine.

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