Pretty slick experience allowing you to build up a tree of cause and effect and brainstorm as a group around problems, ideas, solutions, vision.
I especially like how you can add a node at any point in the tree, and "focus in" on any particular node.
Disclaimer: this project was instigated and came out of Geeklist #hack4good which I coordinate globally. I am really impressed with what this team has built!
They are already doing that, the fertility rate is approaching 1 in many countries, especially developed ones.
Problem isn't kids, it is all the people already born becoming richer and starting to live a western middle class lifestyle.
We just need to make the desirable western middle class lifestyle a low carbon one.
For this it means changing how we produce energy, our agricultural and food system (huge carbon impact) and reducing our overconsuming behaviour. We need to make it desirable to have things that last.
Read "How bad are bananas" for perspective on the relative impacts and most important problems to solve.
We can also incentivise energy and business moving in the right direction by setting a price on carbon (emissions), ideally globally agreed though we can start setting examples nationslly.
Huge reforestation will also go a long way.
We have the solutions we just need to implement them.
If you want to join the Geeklist Corps of Developers in making this low carbon future a reality join #hack4good in September, we'll be hacking against climate change in 30+ cities around the world in the run up to the UN Climate Summit in September.
As I read on and on, my mind was increasingly blown. The possibilities that Wolfram Language enables are staggering.
There are so many levels to this:
1. An elegant and flexible way of combining, aggregating, manipulating, visualising and doing statistical analysis on data from a huge range of domains. That's already pretty cool.
2. Built-in connection to the real world through the vast knowledge base of Wolfram Alpha
3. Interpretation of natural language input to create entities representing things in the real-world (like people, places, events, etc.) on the fly
4. Built-in algorithms like classifiers that just work on whatever input you give them!
5. Built-in connections to APIs for things like social media services and I'm sure a lot more coming
6. The ability to create a UI, publish, deploy on the fly using the same kind of symbolic manipulation as everything else in the language
7. And most stunning of all, that it's all wrapped up in a single elegant framework so that all these different things can be manipulated in similar ways and connected to each other.
And this is just the starting point. Imagine what will happen when a community can contribute to it and we can build on each other's work.
Has anyone found an Easter Eggs?
I know Windows Me was bad, but did its gradient progress bar really go backwards?