The Last Farewell - Hiroshi Ishii at TEDxTokyo
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The talk
TED http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxTokyo-Hiroshi-Ishii-The-Las
Amara http://www.amara.org/en/videos/Zx6oiNQ5h3Vc/
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSMSjaZy5hY
About the speaker
Media Lab http://web.media.mit.edu/~ishii/
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Ishii_(computer_scientist)
Google+ http://plus.google.com/+HiroshiISHII/posts
- http://twitter.com/ishii_mit
- http://twitter.com/hiroshi_ishii (Japanese)
- http://twitter.com/ishii_mit_BOT (bot)
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCitUR57k2NyAXM7gBHxVE-Q
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ishii.mit
Related resources
Slides of this presentation http://web.media.mit.edu/~ishii/2011-05-21_TEDxTokyo_Hiroshi_ISHII.pdf
His essay on Kenji Miyazawa's manuscripts http://ishii-mit.tumblr.com/post/1720430939/lastfarewell
Terms and expressions
Title of the talk "The Last Farewell" is taken from Kenji Miyazawa's poem.
TED 4 KOBE: TED1993 was held in Kobe, Japan. (article of a Japanese paper)
Nicholas Negroponte (founder of Media Lab) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Negroponte
Nikochan Daio (ニコチャン大王, anime character) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dr._Slump_characters#King_Nikochan
3.11 (earthquake) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami
Kondo-san (James Kondo, "san" is Japanese Mr.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elkvlQAdR88
crisis map http://www.google.org/crisismap/
geotagging http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagging
crowdsourcing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing
collective intelligence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence
Doug Engelbart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart
Ushahidi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushahidi
Haiti earthquake http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Haiti_earthquake
sinsai.info (shinsai=earthquake) http://www.sinsai.info/
Google Crisis Response http://www.google.org/crisisresponse/
Google Person Finder http://google.org/personfinder/global/home.html
EUC (Japanese character code) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Unix_Code#EUC-JP
Shift-JIS (Japanese character code) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_JIS
Fukushima Prefecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Prefecture
Pachube (now it is called Cosm)
- http://cosm.com/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosm_(Internet_of_Things)
- http://japan.failedrobot.com/
Evernote http://evernote.com/
Flipboard http://flipboard.com/
Twittersphere: The total universe of Twitter users and their habits.(pcmag)
the bamboo talk of Garr Reynolds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g8T8MsFIp0
Kenji Miyazawa (poet) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Miyazawa
Iwate prefecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwate_Prefecture
bots (Twitterbot)
quotes of poems
- "あめゆじゆ とてちて けんじや" (fetch me the rainlike snow)
- "ありがたう わたくしの けなげな いもうとよ" (Thank you my brave little sister)
- Both lines are from "永訣の朝" (The Morning of Last Farewell) of Kenji Miyazawa.
- English translation: http://www.jsasportes.com/main/chore-kenji2.php
in Hanamaki, his museum (Hanamaki is the birthplace of Kenji Miyazawa)
- http://www.city.hanamaki.iwate.jp/sightseeing/kenjimm/ (Japanese)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanamaki,_Iwate
musicBottles
- http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/musicbottles/
- http://ascii.jp/elem/000/000/065/65745/ (Japanese)
Sapporo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapporo
Emacs (esoteric text editor) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs
Memento Mori http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori