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After listening to this cued up exchange, go back to the beginning and watch the whole presentation. #MustWatchETV

Um, wait. Ultimate irony, hypocrisy, or just some technical dumb-assery on my part? Very strange that the embed doesn’t appear to be working; even though the YouTube tools to create embed work as normal. I guess go watch it from the beginning or watch the cued Q & A that I intended to appear here.

WTF? Cannot Display Embed Above?

Here’s another try with “Use old embed code:”

Steve: “I want to be someone powerful. A towering historic figure.”

Lucifer: “Here’s the deal, Steve, you get to create the world’s most valuable company, but upon attainment your soul is mine.”

Steve: “Tell you what, I’ll make our logo the bite of the forbidden fruit, just to seal the deal.”

“Decrease suffering. Reduce misery. Increase well-being. Build flourishing.” – Martin Seligman

“For testing special clothing.” Right. Got it.

“PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot developed by Boston Dynamics for testing special clothing used by US military personnel. PETMAN balances itself as it walks, squats and does calisthenics. PETMAN simulates human physiology by controlling temperature, humidity and sweating inside the clothing to provide realistic test conditions. PETMAN development is lead by Boston Dynamics, working in partnership with Measurement Technologies Northwest, Oak Ridge National Lab and MRIGlobal. The work is being done for the DoD CBDP. For more information about PETMAN visit www.BostonDynamics.com.”

From the video, in 2011:

Whopping increase in app creation and downloads:
– ONE BILLION apps downloaded worldwide each month
– $3 BILLION paid by Apple alone to independent apps developers

Surge in use of social media mobile platforms:
– 166 PERCENT increase in Facebook Mobile users in the first half of 2011 alone
– 103 MILLION wireless tweets were posted each day
– ONE BILLION Foursquare check-ins
– 26 PHOTOS were made “hipstery” on Instagram every second

Ongoing explosion in data traffic:
– EIGHT TRILLION texts were sent – up 1.1 trillion from last year
– 1800 PERCENT increase in traffic on U.S. networks predicted in just four years

Unprecedented competition and choice:
– MORE SMARTPHONES purchased than PCs in the United States
– MORE WIRELESS SUBSCRIPTIONS than people
– TWO BILLION networked mobile devices by 2015
– 4G SERVICES being rolled out by at least six carriers in 2011 alone

Massive potential for job creation and economic growth:
– 2.4 MILLION American jobs supported by wireless
– $27.5 BILLION investment in U.S. mobile networks by wireless carriers
– 500,000 JOBS & $400 BILLION to U.S. GDP with additional 500 MHz of additional spectrum

“These things will make possible a world in which we can be in instant contact with each other, wherever we may be. Where we can contact our friends, anywhere on earth, even if we don’t know their actual physical location. It will be possible in that age, perhaps only 50 years from now, for a man to conduct his business from Tahiti or Bali, just as well as he could from London. In fact, if it prove worthwhile, almost any executive skill, any administrative skill, even any physical skill could be made independent of distance. I am perfectly serious when I suggest that one day, we may have brain surgeons in Edinborough operation on patients in New Zealand. When that time comes, the whole world will have shrunk to a point, and the traditional role of the city as a meeting place for man would have ceased to make any sense. In fact, men will no longer commute, they will communicate.”

Via @askpang by way of @wa8dzp.

“We’re behind the eight-ball as it were, if we think the world looks like how we see it. There’s much more information there and other animals see it much differently.” – Roger Hanlon

Original Sci-Fri embed code didn’t work here for some reason.