Washington, D.C. — Fanboy favorites from Star Trek star William Shatner and The X-Files creator Chris Carter to Syfy’s hit series 12 Monkeys and Deadpool director Tim Miller are squarely in the spotlight for Smithsonian magazine’s fourth annual The Future Is Here Festival™, a three-day event highlighting the most advanced thinking in science, technology, space, art and engineering from a dazzling array of experts, visionaries and noted science-lovers.
The Festival kicks off on Friday, April 22nd at the Shakespeare Theatre’s Sidney Harman Hall with an exclusive ticketed evening event featuring Shatner, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Star Trek; a conversation with Carter, fresh off the triumphant return of The X-Files to television; and an exclusive glimpse into the thrilling second season of Syfy’s hit series 12 Monkeys (premieres April 18) with special advance footage presented by stars Aaron Stanford and Amanda Schull and executive producer Terry Matalas.
The Festival kicks off on Friday, April 22nd at the Shakespeare Theatre’s Sidney Harman Hall with an exclusive ticketed evening event featuring Shatner, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Star Trek; a conversation with Carter, fresh off the triumphant return of The X-Files to television; and an exclusive glimpse into the thrilling second season of Syfy’s hit series 12 Monkeys (premieres April 18) with special advance footage presented by stars Aaron Stanford and Amanda Schull and executive producer Terry Matalas.
- 4/14/2016
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
A version of this story first appeared in the Sept. 12 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. John Sloss, entertainment lawyer/producer All the distinctions that exist in terms of windowing and designations to pay for content will collapse. There will be two designations: One will be viewing at home, and one will be viewing in public. I think that the length designations will also disappear. Stories will be the length that serves them. All the vestiges of the 20th century that limited the inherent flexibility of film will go away." Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder, MIT Media Laboratory Insofar as film equals
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- 9/2/2014
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Closing windows on our desktops so you can you open them on yours. Here we go…
Chernin Group Takes Majority Stake in Anime Website Crunchyroll | Variety Why the Web Won’t Be Nirvana according to 1995:
No online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-rom can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works… How about electronic publishing? Try reading a book on disc. At best, it’s an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can’t tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.
Uh, sure, indeed. I will just note that the Web is still here, while Nirvana ended in the 90s. Cards Against...
Chernin Group Takes Majority Stake in Anime Website Crunchyroll | Variety Why the Web Won’t Be Nirvana according to 1995:
No online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-rom can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works… How about electronic publishing? Try reading a book on disc. At best, it’s an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can’t tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.
Uh, sure, indeed. I will just note that the Web is still here, while Nirvana ended in the 90s. Cards Against...
- 12/14/2013
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
Getty Indian students use the newly launched ‘Aakash’ computer tablet in New Delhi on October 5, 2011.
The annual gadget bacchanalia known as CES kicks off next Tuesday in Vegas, but as has been the case for the past decade, the most important new product in consumer electronics won’t be there.
This year’s star no-show, however, wasn’t invented by a certain Cupertino fruit factory, but by the obscure Canadian startup Datawind. It’s called the Aakash Ubislate 7, and its...
The annual gadget bacchanalia known as CES kicks off next Tuesday in Vegas, but as has been the case for the past decade, the most important new product in consumer electronics won’t be there.
This year’s star no-show, however, wasn’t invented by a certain Cupertino fruit factory, but by the obscure Canadian startup Datawind. It’s called the Aakash Ubislate 7, and its...
- 1/8/2012
- by Jeff Yang
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Thanks to the social web, you can now share anything with anyone anywhere in the world. Is this the end of hyperconsumption? | Illustration by Craig Robinson
It's 8:30 a.m. in Silicon Valley, and Neal Gorenflo is already busy sharing. Inside his Mountain View town house, just a few short blocks from the Caltrain station where commuters pour out each morning on their way to Google, Gorenflo hands over his 15-month-old son, Jake, to a nanny he shares with his neighbor. At a local coffee shop, he logs on to a peer-to-peer banking site called Lending Club to make a series of small loans to someone planning a wedding, another starting a pet business, and a guy named Pat who wants to move. After biking down to the station, he drags his ancient Peugeot onto the train to San Francisco, where he hops into a Prius he's reserved for a few hours from City CarShare,...
It's 8:30 a.m. in Silicon Valley, and Neal Gorenflo is already busy sharing. Inside his Mountain View town house, just a few short blocks from the Caltrain station where commuters pour out each morning on their way to Google, Gorenflo hands over his 15-month-old son, Jake, to a nanny he shares with his neighbor. At a local coffee shop, he logs on to a peer-to-peer banking site called Lending Club to make a series of small loans to someone planning a wedding, another starting a pet business, and a guy named Pat who wants to move. After biking down to the station, he drags his ancient Peugeot onto the train to San Francisco, where he hops into a Prius he's reserved for a few hours from City CarShare,...
- 4/18/2011
- by Danielle Sacks
- Fast Company
Filed under: TV Replay
When Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop per Child Association, appeared on 'The Colbert Report' (weeknights, 11:30Pm Et on Com), he gave the host a gander at the non-profit's global Xo Laptop.
"This is a way to learn without building all the schools and the teachers, immediately," explained Negroponte. "When you have so little, this is the way to go."
Stephen Colbert replied: "I'm going to sound like a monster for saying this, but if kids in third-world countries are getting these computers -- and they are learning and improving themselves -- who's gonna make our cheap clothing and dig our blood diamonds?" Negroponte replied, "The answer's easy." Watch the clip for his one-word remedy.
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When Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop per Child Association, appeared on 'The Colbert Report' (weeknights, 11:30Pm Et on Com), he gave the host a gander at the non-profit's global Xo Laptop.
"This is a way to learn without building all the schools and the teachers, immediately," explained Negroponte. "When you have so little, this is the way to go."
Stephen Colbert replied: "I'm going to sound like a monster for saying this, but if kids in third-world countries are getting these computers -- and they are learning and improving themselves -- who's gonna make our cheap clothing and dig our blood diamonds?" Negroponte replied, "The answer's easy." Watch the clip for his one-word remedy.
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- 10/26/2010
- by Aimee Deeken
- Aol TV.
I've been writing about, and mocking, TV for a little over a year now and the tables may be turned tonight. I'm going to be a judge on the University of Miami's version of "American Idol" and I'm not exactly sure how it will go. I've never actually sat down and watched a full episode of "American Idol" so while I'm familiar with the concept, I don't know if I'll be able to live up to whatever expectations the audience will have. I've been led to believe that it will be available streaming next week after it's been edited and made to look less like something produced by college students. Let me know if you're interested in getting the link and I'll try to make that available next Monday. Here's all the television on tonight that doesn't feature me:
8:00pm: "90210" on The CW
"Chuck" on NBC
"Dancing With the Stars...
8:00pm: "90210" on The CW
"Chuck" on NBC
"Dancing With the Stars...
- 10/25/2010
- by Intern Rusty
Photograph Courtesy of Ted, by Marla Aufmuth, James Duncan Davidson, Andrew Heavens, Robert Leslie, Asa Mathat
Chris Anderson: The entrepreneur bought Ted in 2001. "It felt like something you could devote your life to," he says. | Photograph Courtesy of Ted
Inside the World's Most Exclusive (and Most Accessible) Club with Special Guests including
Elizabeth Gilbert • Richard Branson • Jamie Oliver • Malcolm Gladwell • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala • Barry Schwartz • Ken Robinson • Sarah Silverman • Bill Clinton • David Byrne • Bill Gates • Craig VenterJill • Bolte Taylor • Dave Eggers • Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy • Sunitha Krishnan • Tony Robbins • Julia Sweeney • Isabel Allende • E.O. Wilson • and the chief himself, Chris Anderson!
The other day, I got an email from a new friend. The subject line read "Are you a Ted talk person?" It linked to an 18-minute video of MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely talking about the bugs in our moral codes. Other friends have sent me videos of Eat, Pray, Love...
Chris Anderson: The entrepreneur bought Ted in 2001. "It felt like something you could devote your life to," he says. | Photograph Courtesy of Ted
Inside the World's Most Exclusive (and Most Accessible) Club with Special Guests including
Elizabeth Gilbert • Richard Branson • Jamie Oliver • Malcolm Gladwell • Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala • Barry Schwartz • Ken Robinson • Sarah Silverman • Bill Clinton • David Byrne • Bill Gates • Craig VenterJill • Bolte Taylor • Dave Eggers • Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy • Sunitha Krishnan • Tony Robbins • Julia Sweeney • Isabel Allende • E.O. Wilson • and the chief himself, Chris Anderson!
The other day, I got an email from a new friend. The subject line read "Are you a Ted talk person?" It linked to an 18-minute video of MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely talking about the bugs in our moral codes. Other friends have sent me videos of Eat, Pray, Love...
- 8/23/2010
- by Anya Kamenetz
- Fast Company
No more books. That’s it. Barnes & Noble is on the verge of being sold for scrap and everybody—great pontificating futurist Nicholas Negroponte among them—is pronouncing the end of paper, printing, and binding. So what about the books that already exist—I’ve got five or six thousand of them? And what about the form, I mean literature, what happens to it—the page-after-page-ness of it—when it morphs into digital plasticity and connectedness? One curious thing about books is how long the form has existed without—at least since moveable type—significant technological enhancement. Books are books. Other than the mass-market paperback—which, arguably did greatly impact the form—change has been slow. Even the Mac has hardly made much of an impression. There are few doodads and sculpted pages and, even, drop caps in literature. It’s all stayed pretty static. Continue Reading at Newser.com...
- 8/9/2010
- Vanity Fair
Virtusa adopts Olpc as a pet cause, tests and improves hardware and software.
One Laptop Per Child (Olpc) has had its fair share of critique and controversy, but if any of that is putting a damper on the project, someone forgot to tell its founder, MIT Media’ Lab’s Nicholas Negroponte--now he's partnered with It consulting group, Virtusa, which has decided to run user scenarios and tests to help improve the software and hardware behind Olpc.
Critics of the laptop plan have asked: Why put so much energy and money into developing a simple, inexpensive, durable laptop and education software, when the true need lies in creating a quality educational ecosystem that relies heavily on trained teachers and only to a limited extent, on tools such as the Olpc Xo laptop?
Virtusa, no doubt experienced in technology in developing countries, could help answer that as it continues to support Olpc--in war-torn Sri Lanka,...
One Laptop Per Child (Olpc) has had its fair share of critique and controversy, but if any of that is putting a damper on the project, someone forgot to tell its founder, MIT Media’ Lab’s Nicholas Negroponte--now he's partnered with It consulting group, Virtusa, which has decided to run user scenarios and tests to help improve the software and hardware behind Olpc.
Critics of the laptop plan have asked: Why put so much energy and money into developing a simple, inexpensive, durable laptop and education software, when the true need lies in creating a quality educational ecosystem that relies heavily on trained teachers and only to a limited extent, on tools such as the Olpc Xo laptop?
Virtusa, no doubt experienced in technology in developing countries, could help answer that as it continues to support Olpc--in war-torn Sri Lanka,...
- 8/2/2010
- by Jenara Nerenberg
- Fast Company
By Erika Kinetz (AP)
7/23/10
Mumbai, India -- It looks like an iPad, only it's 1/14th the cost: India has unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet aimed at students, which it hopes to bring into production by 2011.
If the government can find a manufacturer, the Linux operating system-based computer would be the latest in a string of "world's cheapest" innovations to hit the market out of India, which is home to the 100,000 rupee ($2,127) compact Nano car, the 749 rupees ($16) water purifier and the $2,000 open-heart surgery.
The tablet can be used for functions like word processing, web browsing and video-conferencing. It has a solar power option too -- important for India's energy-starved hinterlands -- though that add-on costs extra.
"This is our answer to MIT's $100 computer," human resource development minister Kapil Sibal told the Economic Times when he unveiled the device Thursday.
In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte -- cofounder of the Massachusetts Institute...
7/23/10
Mumbai, India -- It looks like an iPad, only it's 1/14th the cost: India has unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet aimed at students, which it hopes to bring into production by 2011.
If the government can find a manufacturer, the Linux operating system-based computer would be the latest in a string of "world's cheapest" innovations to hit the market out of India, which is home to the 100,000 rupee ($2,127) compact Nano car, the 749 rupees ($16) water purifier and the $2,000 open-heart surgery.
The tablet can be used for functions like word processing, web browsing and video-conferencing. It has a solar power option too -- important for India's energy-starved hinterlands -- though that add-on costs extra.
"This is our answer to MIT's $100 computer," human resource development minister Kapil Sibal told the Economic Times when he unveiled the device Thursday.
In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte -- cofounder of the Massachusetts Institute...
- 7/23/2010
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
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