{"id":2596,"date":"2010-07-30T16:43:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T08:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2013-07-12T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T12:36:00","slug":"friday-math-movie-smarter-math-equations-for-a-smarter-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-smarter-math-equations-for-a-smarter-planet-2596","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie - Smarter Math: Equations for a smarter planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an IBM commercial. I'm not sure about \"math can do anything\", but it's encouraging to see a positive message about math for a change.<\/p>\n<p>[Unfortunately, this video no longer exists.]<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/smarterplanet\/us\/en\/index.html\">IBM's \"Smarter Planet\"<\/a>, the 3 ways they want to contribute to a smarter planet are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Instrument the world's systems<\/li>\n<li>Interconnect them<\/li>\n<li>Make them intelligent<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The following video explains how math can make our planet more intelligent. (I was worried he was going to push Internet fridges, but I was spared.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sfEbMV295Kk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>One has to wonder - is urbanization such a great idea...?<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-smarter-math-equations-for-a-smarter-planet-2596#comments\" id=\"comms\">4 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-smarter-math-equations-for-a-smarter-planet-2596\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/07\/internet-of-things.jpg\" alt=\"internet of things\" title=\"internet of things\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a>Here's a positive message about math from IBM. We also see their \"The Internet of Things\".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}