![Maybe it’s just selective hearing, but over the last few weeks it seems that I’ve come across a lot of dire rhetoric in friendly conversation and in the media.
Yes, I know sometimes things look bad; how humans treat each other, energy, and the environment can be a bummer.
But don’t sweat it, the zombie apocalypse hasn’t started. We didn’t nuke the world in the Cold War. We’re still here. The icecaps are in rough shape, but they haven’t melted yet.
Let me assure you, I see hope every day at MIT; people here are working solutions for energy, hacking healthcare’s broken systems, and empowering change in developing economies… Even eradicating that sense of anxiety we all feel when we are given a fresh bottle of ketchup.
Here’s the part that gives me hope: I read that CDC article on my Android (more powerful than the computer I had two years ago) and I’m writing this from a coffee shop on a tiny laptop - that’s powerful, very rapid, and very recent technological change with mass accessibility here in the US. It’s moving quickly across the globe, and while the prospect of the energy issues when the whole world comes online is daunting, the upside is that humanity’s collective intelligence increases radically. Collective intelligence that, provided access to information and interconnectedness, will shape the future.
Be responsible, be aware, but be hopeful. I have faith in tomorrow, you might as well too.
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Maybe it’s just selective hearing, but over the last few weeks it seems that I’ve come across a lot of dire rhetoric in friendly conversation and in the media.
Yes, I know sometimes things look bad; how humans treat each other, energy, and the environment can be a bummer.
But don’t sweat it, the zombie apocalypse hasn’t started. We didn’t nuke the world in the Cold War. We’re still here. The icecaps are in rough shape, but they haven’t melted yet.
Let me assure you, I see hope every day at MIT; people here are working solutions for energy, hacking healthcare’s broken systems, and empowering change in developing economies… Even eradicating that sense of anxiety we all feel when we are given a fresh bottle of ketchup.
Here’s the part that gives me hope: I read that CDC article on my Android (more powerful than the computer I had two years ago) and I’m writing this from a coffee shop on a tiny laptop - that’s powerful, very rapid, and very recent technological change with mass accessibility here in the US. It’s moving quickly across the globe, and while the prospect of the energy issues when the whole world comes online is daunting, the upside is that humanity’s collective intelligence increases radically. Collective intelligence that, provided access to information and interconnectedness, will shape the future.
Be responsible, be aware, but be hopeful. I have faith in tomorrow, you might as well too.
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iOS5 looks sweet, but here’s why I’m holding of until there’s a stable untethered jailbreak out.
1. BluSelect - I use Bluetooth for everything; headphones, speakers, etc. With Bluselect, I just hold the home button from anywhere and this prompt pops up for turning it on/off or selecting the device. Without it, I have to go Settings > General > Bluetooth.
2 & 3: SBSettings panel and dock - My iOS device is used daily for the remote to iTunes on my HTPC, and if it goes to sleep it loses the connection, so I”m constantly turning auto-lock on and off, and also I turn wi-fi on and off a lot to save batteries. Again, those things are nested way in the Settings without this widget, when I now get to by swiping horizontally in the status bar. Swipe, click, done. There’s also this customizable mini dock that I use for settings, activator, and the App Stores (Apple and Cydia), nice and simple. This widget has basically made it so I never have to deal with the OEM settings anymore.
4: Lockinfo - Love this widget, and apparently so does Apple since they integrated it into iOS. Still waiting to upgrade to iOS 5 until a stable tethered jailbreak, but from what I’ve played with so for, I’m not sure if you can customize Apple’s version - with this I choose which calendars show up, how often the weather refreshes, and I leave email, twitter, and other notifications off of it.
Word on the intertubes is that the jailbreak community is close, but until it is, I don’t want to get stuck without these conveniences that I use almost every time I pick up my iOS device.
