ideas on the back of a napkin.

photographed. posted. and left at coffee shops around johannesburg, South Africa.

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- Caisey Neistadt Watch his video Do More here: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwYy4scOJi8

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Joi Ito, 3 time college drop out and director of MIT Media Lab

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I’m really excited to find that one Guy Hoffman’s brilliant advances in human-robots symbiosis started on the back of a napkin in a bar in Atlanta ! Guy is an expert in embodied cognition and artificial intelligence in robotics and this sketch of his lead him to build a robot that can not only ‘jam’ in real time with another musician by playing a xylophone, but interact with the other musician through embodied cognition, ie. body langauge.

Guy’s insights lead on from a concept in cognitive psychology called ‘embodied cognition’, that is, the idea that the mind is not only connected to the body but that the body influences the mind.

Watch Guy’s TEDxJaffa Talk entitled ‘Robots with “soul"’ here: http://bit.ly/1zSMO5h

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- Dr Carla Enslin on Brand Leadership

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- Jack Horner, TEDxVancouver - Where Are The Baby Dinosaurs?

From the turn of the 19th century through till the 1980’s scientists kept finding and naming more and more species of dinosaurs, big and small, without often asking ‘Where are the baby dinosaurs?’ The answer, as Jack Horner found and discusses in his 2011 TEDxVancouver talk is that, quite obviously, the small dinosaurs are the baby dinosaurs and not separate species.

Watch on TED.com: http://bit.ly/1zNfH0t

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- Walter Isaacson, The Innovators (2014)

Available: http://www.amazon.com/The-Innovators-Hackers-Geniuses-Revolution-ebook/dp/B00JGAS65Q

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"Perhaps the most striking, if possibly coincidental, memorial to Alan Touring, the man who invented the first computer, is that anytime someone looks at an iPhone, iPad, or MacBook they find the image of an apple on the back. It is missing a single bite."   Alan Touring committed suicide by poisoned apple.

 - Glen Beck, Dreamers and Decievers (2014)

Available on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1JruqjH

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- Leonardo da Vinci

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The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two is one of the most highly cited papers in psychology. It was published in 1956 by the cognitive psychologist George A. Miller and is interpreted to argue that the number of objects an average human can hold in working memory is 7 ± 2. This is frequently referred to as Miller's Law. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_or_Minus_Two

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- Albert Einstein

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When too much information prevents the successful transmission of ideas. - Carmine Gallo, Talk Like Ted (2014)

Available on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1bypoGz

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- Richard Wilkinson

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- Brene Brown, TEDxHouston 2010