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LEONARDO DICAPRIO to star in a film about the founder of Atari. Two hours of Pong still better than The Beach...
...Cloud tells me that weight-lifting is her favorite sport. Any hobbies? I ask. "Weight-lifting," she answers. Anything Cloud likes besides weight-lifting? "Weight-lifting," she repeats. I try again. Cloud glances at the two men near her. Behind them is a poster of Chairman Mao Zedong, the founder of the People's Republic and architect of China's state sports system. "Once, I liked to run in the fields near my village," she begins softly. The propaganda official steps in. "But now, she prefers weight-lifting," he says. "Her goal is to become a star athlete and make...
...these services convenient until enough people start using them. One way Washington is trying to encourage widespread use of SmartBikes is by not requiring helmets, let alone providing them. "It's not a good idea to share helmets because you have sanitary issues and sweat issues," says Paul DeMaio, founder of MetroBike, a consulting firm that advises cities on implementing bike-sharing. "byoh, for sure...
...understand this new paradigm, I met with Steve Fambro, the founder of Aptera, the start-up that is building both a battery-powered and a plug-in hybrid lightweight commuter car. The moment of inspiration came in June 2004: the launch of SpaceShipOne. The SpaceShipOne team had access to high-tech tools that enabled the building and design of a rocket for only $25 million--cheap by NASA standards. Could the same tools be applied to the auto industry? "The way cars are designed, half the energy they need is just to push the air out of the way," Fambro...
...producing results elsewhere too--in increasingly complex software that yields increasingly intuitive user interfaces (think the iPhone); in algorithms that show how the movements of schooling fish mirror the behavior of investors, making stock-market predictions more reliable. Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel Prize--winning physicist and a co-founder of SFI, likes to cite the case of physicist Karl Jansky, who founded the science of radio astronomy in 1931 when he was studying the hiss of electromagnetic static that bathes the Earth--part of the same hiss you hear on a car radio. Jansky realized that the sound...