So, I’ve finally succumbed to and joined Twitter. Mostly to play with it and see if its such a big deal. There’s been SO MUCH hype about it that I suspect in 6 months it’ll be dead. Did I mention it took me two days to join? The server kept dying mid-way thru the registration […]
Read more "my first Twitter…"Don’t you just love the internet? One minute I’m reading about Hollywood burning. Four clicks and three minutes later I’m reading about Mark Twain’s trip through Australia. And that there’s a whole book about his adventures. Leave it to FirstPerson to do a selected reading from it. Here’s a few of them: April 30 May […]
Read more "Mark Twain in ‘stralia…"from Charlie’s Diary Shaping the future … The big surprise in the 20th century remember that personal jet car? was the redefinition of progress that took place some time between 1950 and 1970. Before 1800, human beings didn’t travel faster than a horse could gallop. The experience of travel was that it was […]
Read more "..Shaping the future.."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 […]
Read more "..Augmented Fluid Intelligence.."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 […]
Read more "Intelligence Augmentation"Kermit covers the NIN song Hurt. (Note: this is a total perversion of everything the Muppets stood for, and it’s NotSafeForWork viewing as it features puppet2puppet simulated-sex)
Read more "Sad Kermit"from PhysOrg Researchers find ‘large is smart’ when it comes to cities Cities are considered by many to be a blessing and a curse. Large cities generate considerable wealth, they are home to many high paying jobs and are seen as engines of innovation. But cities also generate pollution, crime and poor social structures that […]
Read more "..Researchers find ‘large is smart’ when it comes to cities.."If anyone’s going save us from this imaginative death of the future, it’s the InternetJesus.. from Warren Ellis‘s livejournal You are never going into space. You will never own a jet pack. Your car will never fly. HIV will not be cured in your lifetime. Cancer will not be cured in your lifetime. The common […]
Read more "Doktor Sleepless is coming to save the future"from Telegraph Intelligence drugs could be ‘common as coffee’ It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: a new generation of drugs that make people more intelligent. But they are precisely the kind of mind-altering substances that students and businessman could be taking in the future to pass exams and boost work performance. Foresight, a […]
Read more "..Intelligence drugs could be ‘common as coffee’.."(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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