Welcome back! After taking another summer break followed by a Monday off for the Emmy Awards Colbert and Stewart are back! It is good thing they took last night off because Colbert won his second straight Emmy for Best Variety Series!
Tonight's guests are David Rose on The Daily Show and Jeff Bridges and Lois Lowry on The Colbert Report.
a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Rose">David Rose "is an American business executive and a scientist and lecturer at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on computer-human interfaces, and he has invented and patented online photo sharing." He is on tonight to discuss his book Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things
In the tradition of Who Owns the Future? and The Second Machine Age, an MIT Media Lab scientist imagines how everyday objects can intuit our needs and improve our lives.
We are now standing at the precipice of the next transformative development: the Internet of Things. Soon, connected technology will be embedded in hundreds of everyday objects we already use: our cars, wallets, watches, umbrellas, even our trash cans. These objects will respond to our needs, come to know us, and learn to think on our behalf. David Rose calls these devices—which are just beginning to creep into the marketplace—Enchanted Objects.
Some believe the future will look like more of the same—more smartphones, tablets, screens embedded in every conceivable surface. Rose has a different vision: technology that atomizes, combining itself with the objects that make up the very fabric of daily living. Such technology will be woven into the background of our environment, enhancing human relationships and channeling desires for omniscience, long life, and creative expression. The enchanted objects of fairy tales and science fiction will enter real life.
Groundbreaking, timely, and provocative, Enchanted Objects is a blueprint for a better future, where efficient solutions come hand in hand with technology that delights our senses. It is essential reading for designers, technologists, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and anyone who wishes to understand the future and stay relevant in the Internet of Things.
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This sounds like it could be a good segment, hopefully even an extended one.
Jeff Bridges is an actor best known (for me at least :D) as The Dude from The Big Lebowski. Lois Lowry "an American writer credited with more than thirty children's books and an autobiography." She and Jeff are on to discuss her book which has become a movie that Bridges stars in, The Giver
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
It sounds like it could be a good movie although if I do see it I will probably be watching it when it comes out on DVD.
Jimmy Fallon Hijacks Stephen Colbert’s Emmy Acceptance
Nicely done guys!
This Week's Guests
THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART
We 8/27: Hassan Abbas
Th 8/28: Todd Glass
THE COLBERT REPORT
We 8/27: Michael Sheen
Th 8/28: JR
There will be new shows next week but they are taking Monday off!