Will We Merge With Machines? – Popular Science Popular Science has scoured the most promising research under way in bioengineering laboratories worldwide to take an informed look at how technology will enter and alter our bodies over the coming decades.
Read more "PopularScience overview of biotech.."A Black Box for People About the size of a computer mouse, a CPOD is worn around the waist. It’s comfortable enough to be worn while sleeping. It’s non-invasive. It takes only minutes to don. Importantly, it can track a person’s physiologic functioning as they go about their normal routine — they don’t have to […]
Read more "when monitoring the people ain’t a bad thing.."Turning the concept of search on its head – The Boston Globe – Boston.com – Personal Tech – Business Watson, software produced by Chicago-based Intellext, does the searching for you. It runs in the background as you work, analyzing your documents and looking for relevant information. The results (clickable links) are continuously delivered in a […]
Read more "“Watson” beta released, digital assistants are getting there?"from Wired News Taking Stock of Life Extension Chronic disease can make for healthy investments: Investors who don’t operate on a multi-decade time frame would be wiser to focus on technologies that extend the life spans of unhealthy people. The longer we live, the more time we have to fall victim to cancer, diabetes, senility […]
Read more "investing for your future?"from Wired 13.08: START The not-so-secret trick to succeeding at EverQuest, the popular multiplayer online game, is to hit the black market. In the thriving world of message boards and auction sites, players can buy and sell virtual in-game objects – weapons, currency, even whole characters – among themselves using real cash. But this summer, […]
Read more "rise and rise of the virtual economy"Wired News: Cell-Phone Rappers Spit Grime The success of a U.K. music genre known as grime, championed by the likes of Dizzee Rascal, has made rapping to mobile phones a popular pastime for a lot of British young people. On the street, cell phones enable impromptu rapping, or “spitting,” over music played through speaker phones. […]
Read more "Cell-Phone Rappers Spit Grime"from WorldChanging Getting Smarter About Getting Older The programs examined in the FT article are in their early stages, and a real culture shift around the role of older workers is still gathering momentum. But in the Finnish experience, we can see some signs of what the future could hold: a system that recognizes that […]
Read more "WorldChanging does overview on aging and employment in developed nations.."p2pnet.net – the original daily p2p and digital media news site p2pnet.net News Feature:- A good conspiracy story is always guaranteed to get people going and we’ve been getting emails for quite a few days, now, on the real or imagined connection between Jun Group’s The Scene online movie series, and Operation Site Down, the […]
Read more "The Scene continues to stir things up in The Scene"Guardian Unlimited | Online | Ben Hammersley: A moral imperative But it has run into a snag. Two, actually. The first is that the existing BBC archive is full of footage where the BBC does not own the right to reuse it in this way, or where no one knows to whom the rights belong. […]
Read more "sounds like BBC's Creative Archive project is dying in the ass.."PBS | I, Cringely . July 7, 2005 – Pod Person NerdTV is pretty much as I described it back in 2002: a downloadable video show that features long-form interviews with notable nerds. I was definitely ahead of the curve with that download feature. What has changed about the show is just the episode length, […]
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 