Tag Archives: Intellectual Ventures

Nathan Myhrvold on geo-engineering to combat global warming

Great interview on CNN — video. He also talks about “investing in inventions”.

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Intellectual Ventures wanna solve global warming via “stratoshield”.

“Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) assailed the authors of SuperFreakonomics for participating in the effort to deceive the American public on the science of global warming, in particular for their “absolute deception” in their portrayal of the views of climate scientist … Continue reading

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Environmentalists are more interested in social engineering than geo-engineering.

Very good comment on the Freakonomics blog. I am reading all the comments, right now. Many are well thought and interesting. Do read. ADDENDUM: Why is Intellectual Ventures researching geoengineering technologies? UPDATE: Climate Progress + AP UPDATE: Harvard Business Review

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Icons. Geniuses. Mavericks. – REDUX

Last time, I told you about TED 2007 and I noticed Nathan Myhrvold (former MicroSoft CTO –he founded MicroSoft Research) in the speaker list. That prompted me to visit his site, Intellectual Ventures, home of his “invention company”: Intellectual Ventures … Continue reading

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Icons. Geniuses. Mavericks. – TED 2007

TED 2007 Program – (Via Kottke) – If you see any speaker who has something to do with the wisdom of crowds or prediction markets, please, tip me —I haven’t spotted any. Nathan Myhrvold (former MicroSoft CTO –he created MicroSoft … Continue reading

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