Technological Evolution – Speech at SUP46

Last week I gave a speech at Hannes Sjöblad’s “Singularity Evenings” at SUP46 (Startup People Stockholm). I recorded it and put it online. Unfortunately the videocamera ran out of battery after 15 minutes, but on popular demand I have stitched up the audio and the slides. Part 1: Introduction to Exponentials and how they correlate to disruption in business. I also talk […]

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Singularity University: The future as it happens…

In 2008 Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis invited 100 of the most influential persons in Silicon Valley to the founding conference for Singularity University. During this conference Google’s CEO Larry Page stood up and said: “If you’re bringing leading thinkers from across all these technologies, then focus on the biggest problems. We don’t have smart, thoughtful people addressing the […]

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Internet in Space

Cats on Mars… Have you ever asked yourself “Can I stream cat videos if I move to Mars”? Well, maybe not, but with initiatives like Mars One, and visionaries like Elon Musk, who claims that he’s going to put people on planet Mars in 2026, the question about how the internet is going to look […]

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Clean Disruption of Energy

Today’s lecture by Tony Seba – author of the book “Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation” painted a fact-based and optimistic view of the future disruption within energy. In short, Tony argues that by 2030 fossile fuels will be abandoned in the same way as the salt-mines of Salzburg has been abandoned due to new […]

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First day at Singularity University

After 5 years silence, I’ve re-purposed my old “general purpose” travel blog to use for writing about what I experience here at SU.It’s sunday and we’ve had a first round of introduction,  and it’s amazing how many intelligent people is gathered here at NASA’s research facility in Silicon Valley. We also did Peter Skillman’s “Marshmallo […]

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Active eeg electrodes

So, finally I’ve got going on soldering the electrodes! Thanks to Christian for the boards, Stuge for helping out with the components, and Pedro for the design of the boards.For connection with the head I’m using goldplated pins from the male serial-connector. They seem to work very good with the holes which are 1mm.

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Open EEG

The last days has been a relevation. For the first time I have seen my own brainactivity with my eyes, and also seen it change as I meditate. On the picture above I’m hooked up with an EEG-device based on the OpenEEG-project, that a friend of me built. We met at Chaos Computer Club, and […]

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Hang Drum

This is how music will sound in the future: Hang Drum Solo So, how old do you think this instrument is? Well, it’s still in a “beta”!!! The first prototype version was produced in Switzerland 2001, and by now, there is only around 5000 instruments available. The Hang drum is so difficult to get hold […]

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