How Can We Raise Future Innovators?

In "Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World," Harvard Innovation Lab Expert in Residence Tony Wagner describes parents’ educational policies and the roles fulfilled by universities. It is a good book. Wagner advocates the importance of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) education. He presents a policy of cultivating critical thinking ability, creativity, communication, and collaboration. The book scathingly judges US university innovative education quality as low. One ponders his consideration of...

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What is the Superhuman Sports Society?

Anyone can become a superhuman and enjoy sports. Through the unification of body and machine, anyone can overcome physical and spatial restrictions to enjoy new sports with a “single human-machine body.” the community for that purpose is the "Superhuman Sports Society." I am employed as a representative. 　http://superhuman-sports.org/ Enacting Superhuman Sports means many “enhancements.” “Physical enhancements.” This means developing technology and designs to enhance the body with smart augmentations: exoskeleton sports, super artificial...

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The MIT World-Changing $100 Laptop Project

　Walter Bender and others wrote, “Learning to Change the World: The Social Impact of One Laptop Per Child.” 　It is a good book packed with the sweat and tears a large project’s execution. Walter succeeded Professor Nicholas Negroponte as the second MIT media lab director. As I well know of the hardships he experienced, I read it in support.  　 　The $100 laptop plan focused on technology (T) and design (D). Undertaking to have the laptops manufactured...

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