[Mitworld] New: Media in Transition: Collective Intelligence, Forrest on Solar Energy

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[COLLABORATION AND COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE]

Now that it's possible to work, politick or party with partners round
the world, round the clock, what have we got to show for it? In part 2
of the Media in Transition series, this panel offers some intriguing
examples of the potential of internet-driven collectives, as well as
some cautionary notes.

MODERATOR:
Thomas W. Malone
Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of
Management
Director, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

PANELISTS:
Trebor Scholz
Assistant Professor of Media Study, State University of New York at
Buffalo

Cory Ondrejka
Chief Technology Officer, Linden Lab

Mizuko (Mimi) Ito
Research Scientist, USC Annenberg Center for Communication


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/467/>

[QUOTE]
"Rich media content is becoming the vocabulary through which we traffic
and communicate and share, the way we tell other people who we are, our
interests, and how we affiliate. I call this process hypersociality:
it's social life, sharing, communication, augmented by a dense set of
media signifiers."
--Mimi Ito


EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum <http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/>

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[ELECTRONICS ON PLASTIC:
 A SOLUTION TO THE ENERGY CHALLENGE, OR A PIPE DREAM?]

As urgency to address climate change mounts, there's ever greater
interest in harnessing the unlimited potential of the sun to replace
fossil fuels.

SPEAKER:
Stephen R. Forrest
Vice President for Research, University of Michigan


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/468/>

[QUOTE]
"On the world market today, if you put a gallon of gas in your car,
you're paying 10 times less money than if the same energy were supplied
through solar, due to the materials, production, packaging, installation
and storage cost."
--Stephen Forrest


EVENT HOST: Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT
<http://rleweb.mit.edu/>

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