..Augmented Fluid Intelligence..

from Open the Future Augmented Fluid Intelligence Can we survive the multitasking era? Okay, multitasking is hardly up there with global warming, pandemic disease and asteroid strikes as a civilization threat, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that multitasking reduces overall effectiveness and accuracy. Yet we’re forced to juggle more and more simultaneous activities in our […]

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Intelligence Augmentation

In my rant on The Imaginative Death of the Future I said I’d think about ideas I’d rather see being explored today. This is the first post in this series. The subject: BRAINS! Supplements like gingko and brahmi can help slow the degradation of the brain, but what technologies are available to actually provide human […]

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Intel’s vision of the future ad

(via) Not too bad I guess. It’s certainly a shiny future-present they’re painting. I still don’t understand why we don’t have more text->speech conversions going on. Must look into that further. Be great to have a customizable/skinnable voice to the computer – that could read out blog posts while you’re washing the dishes or something. […]

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..Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips. A grim vision of the future..

from Guardian Unlimited Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips. A grim vision of the future Information chips implanted in the brain. Electromagnetic pulse weapons. The middle classes becoming revolutionary, taking on the role of Marx’s proletariat. The population of countries in the Middle East increasing by 132%, while Europe’s drops as fertility falls. “Flashmobs” – groups […]

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why Industrial solutions won’t fix the problems of Industrialization

from Bruce Sterling’s blog we learn: Technology Review: Billionaire Offers $25 Million to Save Earth! Billionaire Richard Branson is on a tear these days. Last year at Bill Clinton’s Global Initiative meeting in New York, Branson announced that he would spend $3 billion of his Virgin profits to research and develop renewable-energy technologies. Now he […]

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