Honda’s ASIMO Conducts the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
July 2, 2008
On May 13th, 2008 Honda’s ASIMO conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as it performed “Impossible Dream” to open a special concert performance with renowned
cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Now that is something you don’t see everyday!
Honda hopes ASIMO’s appearance will draw attention to the DSO’s music education programs, and particularly the DSO’s effort to encourage and support involvement of children in Detroit. You can read the full press release about Honda’s The Power of Dreams Music Education Fund by clicking here.
While you can find many clips of this performance on the Internet (a YouTube clip is embedded at the bottom of this post) the best quality video is available from Honda’s site. It is a huge file, but the quality makes it work the wait.
Gates and Jobs Interview at the D5 Conference
June 28, 2008
On June 27th Bill Gates said good bye to his colleagues at Microsoft as he officially “retired”. He now plans to work full time with his foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has gone on record as saying he plans to give virtually all his fortune away. Hummm…. Start and run a company that produces a good product at a fair price, make a fortune and then give it away to try and make the world a better place. Now that is capitalism at its best!
If you are involved in computers you know tie significance of this man. He, and a hand full of other “geeks”, started the development of the modern day computer systems just a little over 30 years ago. Bill Gates and his counterpart at Apple, Steve Jobs, were the early pioneers and still have a lot of input into future digital technologies.
On May 30, 2007 these two men were interviewed by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg at the “All Things Digital Conference” also know as D5. I personally found it fascinating to listen to these two men talk about the future of the computer industry. I think it gives us an idea of what to expect in the way of upcoming digital systems. It is only logical that many of the technologies they talk about will make their way into the automotive industry.
For those true geeks (like me) I have a link below to the transcript of the Gates / Jobs Interview along with a highlights video. If you want to watch the entire interview, the seven links to them are posted at the bottom.
Steve ,Jobs and Bill Gates Session Transcript
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Prologue
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 1
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 2
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 3
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 4
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 5
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 6
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Part 7
PCs In Your Car… Its Coming Quickly
March 27, 2008
While this video is about an after market installation of a PC system in a car, I am certain that this will become OEM options soon. These conversions were done by In-CarPC.
