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Kevin Slavin: How Algorithms Shape Our World

With stock markets crashing pretty hard these days, this is an interesting reminder in the form of a riveting TED talk. Today, 70 percent of the stock market are operated by algorithms in what’s apparently called black box trading. Huge amounts of money are invested or de-invested with no human action involved. The essence of Slavin’s talk is that we are now at a point where such complex algorithms are written that we can no longer read. And that we, in fact, have come to rely on them so heavily that we literally let them shape our world.

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From Weekly Filet #31, in August 2011.

3D Printer

If this video of 3D printing does not make your jaw drop, you better go see a doctor. And this is only the beginning. We can safely assume that 3D-printing technology will make leaps forward in the next years. Not too far in the future, those printers will be affordable to many. Now imagine that instead of buying things, all you buy is a printing file – you might even download it from a filesharing platform for free, for that matter. Think about it for a sec – this will change a lot.

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From Weekly Filet #28, in July 2011.

Le Tour de France

Not only for cyclists. The YouTube-channel of Le Tour de France offers stunning visualisations and dramatic bird’s eye impressions of sights along the stages.

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From Weekly Filet #27, in July 2011.

Conan O’Brien’s 2011 Dartmouth College Commencement Address

Expect to laugh often and hard. Here’s Conan O’Brien, one of America’s finest humorists, giving a commencement address to Ivy League graduates. But he’s not only out there to make you laugh. He has got some good insights to share, based on his own career that unexpectedly came to a halt last year when his show was pushed out of prime time. So rather than giving the worn out advice to “follow your dreams”, he tells the graduates to accept that their dreams will change: “It is our failure to become our perceived ideals that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.”

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From Weekly Filet #24, in June 2011.
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