AquaMinds Weblog

The intersection of the Internet and video has enabled users and organizations to capture and archive presentations, interviews and profiles of important thinkers, leaders and visionaries from different and diverse fields.  The notion of recording the "living" biographies of people is now possible especially among society's most thought provoking individuals.  Whether you're scanning iTunes U for new ideas, watching an Edge.org interview or browsing the TED event collection, there are as many opinions as there are people to be discovered on these video sites.  They are fantastically entertaining and equally as informative.  So, where do you begin?

There are any number of fun thought experiments you can do to begin your video journey but in this case, I chose to think about the most influential technology thinkers, scientists and inventors of the past 25 years that had impressed me or had influenced me in some way.  I deliberately limited my choice to five and that's probably a good number to ignite a passionate argument about the role of science and technology vs the role of politics and religion in shaping the direction of human progress on our planet.  Although he's not on the list, Carl Sagan would probably and rightly so, deserve a special honor for his work in educating and inspiring the public about the vast grandeur of our cosmos that surrounds us.  And so I've called this web notebook, The Known Universe.

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