I just watched Meng Wong do an abbreviated version of this talk at OSCON[1]. This is the full-length talk that he gave at Google a little over a week ago.

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Google TechTalks July 19, 2006

Meng Weng Wong & Julian Haight

Meng Weng Wong is an email geek. He started pobox.com in 1995 and ... all » karmasphere.com in 2005. He is responsible for SPF, the email authentication standard which was embraced and extended by Microsoft to form Sender ID. He recently moved from Philadelphia to Silicon Valley to work on Karmasphere, the open reputation network for the Internet.

Julian Haight founded SpamCop.net, the impossible spam-reporting service. He is currently working on a book dealing with network security. Before SpamCop, he worked as a private consultant developing small interactive web-sites. He has always been concerned with privacy and security.

ABSTRACT A decade ago, DJB proposed IM2000: what if mail storage were the sender's responsibility? Since then, spam *= bignum, blogs were invented, and RSS is now sex on a stick. Let's say an RSS blog is just like a one-to-many public mailing list, but over HTTP pull. Now imagine what one-to-one private asynchronous messaging might look like, over HTTP pull. A few months ago Meng Weng Wong (spf.pobox.com), Julian Haight (spamcop.net), and others got together to build an opensource prototype of the system. Meng will discuss the philosophy, architecture, and implementation of the prototype.

[1] http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2006/grid/

Another longish vid, and some folks will find this booorrrrinnnnggg, but I like sh*t like this. This is Kevin Kelley giving a lecture on the history of science. Description from page is below. So far he hasn't even mentioned Thomas Kuhn. If you're at all interested in this topic, the history of science, you must read his "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions

Kevin Kelley has a cool site I like to check on from time to time. Kevin Kelley's Cool Tools http://www.kk.org/cooltools/
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The Next Fifty Years of Science

Google TechTalks May 9, 2006
47 min 53 sec - May 9, 2006
Kevin Kelly

ABSTRACT The scientific method which provides us with so many ... all » technological goodies does not resemble the science of 1600. Ever since Bacon, science has undergone a slow evolution.

Landmarks in the history of the scientific method are the invention of libraries, indexes, citations, controlled experiments, peer review, placebos, double blind experiments, randomization, and search among others. At the core of the scientific method is the structuring of information.

In the next 50 years, as the technologies of information and knowledge accelerate, the nature of the scientific process will change even more than it has in the last 400 years. We can't predict what specific inventions will arise in the next 50 years, but based on long-term trends in epistemic tools, I believe we can speculate on how the scientific method itself -- that is, how we know -- will change in the next five decades.