Complexity: July 2009 Archives

Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels. We are a modern "museum" that helps making the world understandable, using the Internet.

Nice words, but they do not tell how stunning the visual  and moving graphics are that they have created from the statistics. A real treat.

Check it out over here. And enjoy the video about the hype on the mexican flu.




Augmented

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We associate data-goggles with 3D-movies, entertainment. But BMW shows us how to think differently, how IT can help us with intuitive support, augmenting reality. As with the "Sixt Sense", a great indicator of how our future might very well become.

(Hat tip Dirk)


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