Author: m1k3y

My body is an electronic virgin. I incorporate no silicon chips, no retinal or cochlear implants, no pacemaker. I don’t even wear glasses (though I do wear clothes). But I am slowly becoming more and more a Cyborg. So are you. Pretty soon, and still without the need for wires, surgery or bodily alterations, we shall be kin to the Terminator, to Eve 8, to Cable…just fill in your favorite fictional Cyborg. Perhaps we already are. For we shall be Cyborgs not in the merely superficial sense of combining flesh and wires, but in the more profound sense of being human-technology symbionts: thinking and reasoning systems whose minds and selves are spread across biological brain and non-biological circuitry.

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/clark/clark_index.html (via wildcat2030)
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How an Internet of Drones will be Built: Think 2,400 baud

  • The drones will be noisy. 
  • The payloads are going to be tiny (ounces) and the containers they are held in will be clunky.
  • The  distance drones travel will be short (less than a mile).
  • There will be frequent failures (drones in trees and on rooftops).
  • Hassles will occur (problems with government regulators, police, and nutty neighbors).
  • It will seem like everything needs to be done by hand.

None of this matters.  It’s actually kind of fun to experience this and solve (t)he problems presented.

How an Internet of Drones will be Built: Think 2,400 baud

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“In the game of life and evolution there are three players at the table: human beings, nature, and machines. I am firmly on the side of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines.”

—George Dyson, Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence

Sci-Finance: The Great Cybernetic Experiment, Part 2 | Cris Sheridan | FINANCIAL SENSE (via wildcat2030)
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Meet Vladimir Franz, an opera composer and painter – tattooed from head to toe, his face a warrior-like mix of blue, green and red. He’s also running in a surprising third place ahead of this week’s Czech presidential elections. (via Vladimir Franz: tattooed composer polling strongly in the Czech elections | World news | guardian.co.uk)

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discoverynews:

SpaceX Aims for March 1 Dragon Launch

Like the company’s two previous flights, the rocket will carry a Dragon cargo capsule loaded with food, supplies and science experiments for the International Space Station, a permanently staffed research laboratory that flies about 250 miles above Earth. Read more…

SpaceX is getting stuff DONE!

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vietnamization:

Lenin at the Bottom of the World;

Scientists trekking towards the South Pole of Inaccessibility were rather surprised to find a bust of Soviet revolutionary Bolshevik Vladimir Lenin peering across the icy wastelands towards the former Soviet Empire.

The bust marks the place where an old Soviet base was established and occupied for a few weeks in 1958.  The cabin which made up the base now lies buried under the ice.  Before the Soviet team left, they fixed a bust of Lenin on the chimney which is now the only part of the structure visible over the ice.

The Inaccessibility Pole marks the point on Antarctica that is furthest from the ocean. At 3718 meters above sea-level it is in the Australian zone and seldom visited.  Supposedly, if you dig down through the ice and into the remains of the cabin, you’ll find a golden visitors book to sign.

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