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1、Unit 1 Lecture 1 Im speaking to you about what I call the “mesh“ . Its essentially a fundamental shift in our relationship with stuff, with the things in our lives. And its starting to look at - not always and not for everything - but in certain moments of time, access to certain kinds of goods and
2、service will trump ownership of them. And so its the pursuit of better things, easily shared. And we come from a long tradition of sharing . Weve shared transportation. Weve shared wine and food and other sorts of fabulous experiences in coffee bars in Amsterdam. Weve also shared other sorts of ente
3、rtainment - sports arenas, public parks, concert halls, libraries, universities. All these things are share-platforms.Lecture 2 Since Im here - and I hope some people in the audience are in the car business - Im thinking that, coming from the technology side of things - we saw cable-ready TVs and Wi
4、Fi-ready Notebooks - it would be really great if, any minute now, you guys could start rolling share-ready cars off. Because it just creates more flexibility. It allows us as owners to have other options. And I think were going there anyway. The opportunity and the challenge with mesh businesses - a
5、nd those are businesses like Zipcar or Netflix that are full mesh businesses, or other ones where you have a lot of the car companies, car manufacturers. Unit 2 Lecture 1 And by digitally programming the object, we are liberating the object from constraints of time and space, which means that now, h
6、uman motions can be recorded and played back and left permanently in the physical world. So choreography can be taught physically over distance and Michael Jordans famous shooting can be replicated over and over as a physical reality. Students can use this as a tool to learn about the complex concep
7、ts such as planetary motion, physics, and unlike computer screens or textbooks, this is a real, tangible experience that you can touch and feel, and its very powerful.Lecture 2 Despite computers everywhere paper really hasnt disappeared, because it has a lot of, I think, valuable properties. And som
8、e of those we wanted to transfer to the icons in our system. So one of the things you can do to our icons, just like paper, is crease them and fold them, just like paper. Remember, you know, something for later. Or if you want to be destructive , you can just crumple it up and, you know, toss it to
9、the corner. Also just like paper, around our workspace well pin things up to the wall to remember them later, and I can do the same thing here, and you know, youll see post-it notes and things like that around peoples offices. And I can pull them off when I want to work with them.Unit 3 Lecture 1 Ot
10、her parts of the world have been hit by storms in even more devastating ways. In 2008, Cyclone Nargis and its aftermath killed 138,000 in Myanmar. Climate change is affecting our homes, our communities , our way of life. We should be preparing at every scale and at every opportunity.Lecture 2 New Yo
11、rk City is incredibly vulnerable to storms, as you can see from this clever sign, and to sea level rise, and to storm surge, as you can see from the subway flooding. But back above ground, these raised ventilation grates for the subway system show that solutions can be both functional and attractive
12、. In fact, in New York, San Francisco and London, designers have envisioned ways to better integrate the natural and built environments with climate change in mind.Unit 4 Lecture 1 What if, out there, others are asking and answering similar questions? What if they look up at the night sky, at the sa
13、me stars, but from the opposite side? Would the discovery of an older cultural civilization out there inspire us to find ways to survive our increasingly uncertain technological adolescence? Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home th
14、e message of the bond among all humans? Whether were born in San Francisco, or Sudan, or close to the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, we are the products of a billion-year lineage of wandering stardust. We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so lo
15、ng that it begins to ask where it came from. Fifty years ago, the journey to find answers took a different path and SETI, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, began.Lecture 2Loren Eiseley has said, “One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.“ One day that eye may be that of an intelligent alien, and the sooner we eschew our narrow view of evolution the sooner we can truly explore our ultimate origins and destinations. We are a small part of the story of cosmic evolution, and we are
