![]() "One or two is not enough to change the world," Hauter said. And while that increasing awareness has brought those innovators together with wealthy benefactors, particularly in environments like the TED conferences, there remains a substantial gap between many of the people researching ways to impact our biggest problems and the funding that can help them manifest their visions.In general, said Ariel Hauter, one of the three co-founders of Armchair Revolutionary, independent researchers are often unable to make their world-changing ideas a reality because of weaknesses in the systems for financing, commercializing, and deploying and marketing such work.Yet, in order for these types of projects to attack enough problems to make a difference, Hauter continued, it's necessary to find the financial support to get behind many dozens of projects a year. That can only be good."A substantial gapThese days, it has become widely recognized that the people who are doing the work that could best solve the biggest problems in problem areas like health care, the environment, education, water, hunger and the like are scientists and engineers. So this is an example of a group of young people coming together, using Hollywood and Silicon Valley as a launching point to engage people, and I think it's exciting. "And a couple generations ago, it was Lew Wasserman here in Hollywood, and Arianna Huffington is one of the leaders of that now, and it goes on. By contrast, by building a substantial competitive game element into Armchair Revolutionary, limiting gifts to 99 cents and providing plenty of participatory opportunities and rewards, the platform's founders believe they have found a way to support the "super geeks" who are developing the science and the technology that could help humanity dig out from some of our biggest problems."Every generation or so, new groups of people come around who find a way to make a difference," said Lawrence Bender, the producer of films like "Pulp Fiction" and "Inglourious Basterds" and an Armchair Revolutionary adviser. Want to change the world but only have 99 cents? Armchair Revolutionary is here to help.Set to launch into beta on Tuesday, Armchair Revolutionary is a Web-based social activism platform designed to harness large-scale crowdsourcing and the boom in social gaming in a bid to support a wide variety of science and technology ventures that could benefit the world at large.Started by the founders of The Hollywood Hill, said to be the largest social change membership organization in the entertainment-industry, Armchair Revolutionary is meant to bring people's interest in helping support worthwhile causes and the iTunes-era simplicity of spending 99 cents on something intriguing together with innovators who need funding to get potentially world-changing projects off the ground.Built around a series of eight social activism tasks-gifting, VoIP phone calling, e-mailing, uploading, downloading, voting, forms, and quizzes-Armchair Revolutionary is seen by its creators as a one-stop shop for today's Web savvy and altruistic communities to make a big difference, one small step at a time.The value proposition? That today's existing Web-based social activism efforts suffer from a combination of being boring of wasting too much money on transaction fees and asking for too much to get mass participation of not rewarding that participation and much more. ![]() for easy feedback effects, linking to UI objects and control objects, etc, is great, and solves a lot of these issues if you divide the logic out in to places where written code vs patcher code make sense.Crowdsourcing start-up aims to change the world Re feelgood/gcc: to get too off topic, but this is what I *love* about Max/MSP 4.5 and Jitter 1.5.ġ) Encapsulate portions of your main patch to a sub patcher to easily make macros even if portions of the patch are already coded/linked to others (and do so w/o having to re-code/break anything).Ģ) Implementation of Procedural/OO Languages within the Max runtime.īeing able to implement portions of your code in Java/Javascript is a fucking lifesaver for doing certain types of codes, and being able to make custom objects (be they UI objects via openGL context (jsui), video parsing objects (ability to handle jit.matrices), or jit.gl.* openGL routines) with procedural type code and then embed them within a patcher env. ![]() They are addictive, you get results quickly and can really run with your imagination. I suggest to the Op to dive in to some of these tools. ![]() We spoke breifly about PD, graphics and some other topics. I had the opportunity to meet Miller Puckette last month at NYUs Interactive Performance Series at the Frederick Loewe Theatre (he performed with Phillipe Manoury En Echo and Jupiter.
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