Lisa Katayama is a tech journalist and an expert on Japanese culture. She combines the two in her Ignite talk, where she gives an insight into Japanese gadgets and Japanese society's fascination with them.
I read Nassim Taleb’s The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
He is a provocateur and a professor of Risk Engineering at N.Y.U..
Here are some of Taleb’s quotes from the the New Yorker: Next 100 Days Summit.
“Economics made astrology look excellent” as a science. He compares the discipline to nineteenth-century medicine. “Going to a doctor increased your chance of death.”
Taleb advises we need to get rid of the “experts” who didn’t see the crisis coming—even a cabdriver, he says, could see the problem.
He says that regulators are easy to dupe and asks “Do you know any intelligent people who became regulators?”
His last words were "People who crashed the plane, you don't give them a new plane."
I have to say I agree with a lot of his points.
Follow the The NY Times' Economix blog get an overview of what all the speakers are saying at the summit.
, weighs in against the 'fanciful ideas' of a neuroscientist and an academic on the dangers of social networking sites, such as Facebook.
