Entries from May 2009

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Saturn: Evolution of Technology

An interesting take on the evolution of technology over time. The commercial was made for Saturn Electronics, a retail chain in Germany which I hadn’t heard of. Still, I was pretty blown away by the imagination of the ad as well as its poignancy in its observations about modern culture. As technology [...]

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Google: Reading Employees Minds

I read an article about how Google, with the recent loss of some of it’s brightest minds to companies such as Twitter and Hulu, is planning on creating an algorithm to, in essence, read employees minds. The algorithm would help Google to synthesize employee surveys, promotions and pay to estimate which employees are most [...]