For today’s podcast, we are talking with Kentaro Toyama, a renowned computer scientist that Humanosphere has long known as the…
By Kentaro Toyama, Humanosphere board member and Geek Heretic. Imagine if with just one word, you could help make the…
Toyama is not against technology. He just think its promise to cure the world’s ills is being grossly exaggerated and advocates are neglecting the downside of these new tools. As he’s said many times, “technology just amplifies human intention,” which can be good or bad.
Kentaro Toyama is a geek heretic, or at least, that’s what Tom Paulson dubbed him last year. Now it’s the…
The Lessons of Kony 2012 by Kentaro Toyama ——————————————————————————————————————————– For a couple of weeks, Kony 2012 stole the spotlight in…
Kentaro Toyama is a Seattle man on a mission. A computer and information scientist who co-founded and ran Microsoft Research…
Kentaro Toyama is clearly a heretic. A geek heretic. And, based on his career path, I would guess brilliant. A…