Business Insights

"If you can plug it in, you can control it with your brain."

Is the message from leading edge technology company, Interaxon.

Their website describes a three stage process (Think - Tranlate - Activate) to control machines with your thoughts. And it's not theory but actual real technology.

Just imagine controlling your computer - not by typing or even talking to it - but by thinking.

Of course when machines can hear your inside voice some of us will need to control our thoughts a lot more.

Considering the science that must be involved I was impressed with the simplicity of the language on their website. They demonstrate a good sense of humour and realness. Pretty cool for high tech.

Here is the Interaxon website and blog.

http://www.interaxon.ca/

http://www.interaxon.ca/blog

PS: Be very careful what you think when you get there.


George Torok

Host of Business in Motion

Interview with Mike Pley, COO of COM DEV International.

Space – the final frontier!

COM DEV produces electronics for satellites. A Canadian company and world leader in satellite technology, based in Cambridge, Ontario and employing over 1,000 people.
Mike Pley is an Engineering graduate of McMaster University.
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Insights & exceprts from this interview with Mike Pley.

We have to build something that will be super dependable for 15 years.

You can’t make repair calls in space.

Our equipment is on 80% of the over 650 satellites up there.

We don’t go after the low cost world where price is king.

We want to encourage the next generation to become astronauts and engineers.

The next big project we are working on is the James Webb Telescope which is scheduled to launch in 2014. It will see far more than the Hubble. The James Webb Telescope is seeking to see first light – the beginning of galaxies.

Listen to the radio interview with Mike Pley

George Torok
Host of Business in Motion
Business Speaker

Quotes from Dr Tomorrow, Frank Ogden


Stay alert, the future is going to be interesting.

In times of chaos, panic or rapid change, the bizarre rapidly becomes acceptable.

If you are not aboard the steamroller of change you stand a good change of becoming part of the road.

A sentence that has shock value carries more information than one that does not.

Only by changing as rapidly as a competitor can anyone survive.

If schools were factories, we would have closed them ten years ago because they're not producing a saleable product.

Jobs are going the way of child labour, slavery and indentured service.

I realized then that most people didn't believe in any concept until they saw, felt and tested the finished product. That is often too late.

The leading skill of the "Information Age" is to successfully sift "information" from "misinformation." Once you can do that you have knowledge.

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The above quotes are from the miniature book, "OGDENISMS" - The Frank Ogden Quote Book, compiled by John Robert Colombo and published in 1994.


Frank Ogden is a futurist who was a guest of the radio show, Business in Motion.


George Torok is the host of Business in Motion

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