I’ve been travelling for work a lot over the last four weeks which has limited my time to blog, but I’ve had plenty of time to read magazines. Wired is a great travel companion, with a good balance between fun, entertainment and something to think about.
One article I loved recently and well worth the time to read is this one about Louis Von Ahn, the inventor of Captcha’s (according to Wired) and his quest to put your spare time to work. His “reCapthca’s” are helping the Internet Archives digitising project, by using you and I to decipher phrases computers can’t understand.
This is innovation at it’s leading edge — re-purposing tools to provide greater and greater benefit. How many cycles of unused time do we generate that could be turned to useful purpose?
