The twins from The Social Network were the same actor, just digitally duplicated. Otoy, the company behind that feat, is now offering celebrities a kind of fountain of youth: they’ve developed an image capture breakthrough that will allow actors to play their current age indefinitely.
Amazing. Will plastic surgeons in Hollywood soon be out of work?
Facebook’s design staff has gone from 20 to 90 people in the past year. We talked with its brightest stars about the sea change that this represents for Silicon Valley.
Who doesn’t want to peek behind the Facebook curtain?
“There was another element necessary to Mervin Kelly’s innovation strategy, an element as crucial, or more crucial even, than all the others. Mr. Kelly talked fast and walked fast; he ran up and down staircases. But he gave his researchers not only freedom but also time. Lots of time — years to pursue what they felt was essential.”
Excerpt from a spectacular piece in the New York Times: True Innovation by John Gertner