Mr Matthew Plymale, student of Computer Engineering at Concordia University in Montreal, has sent in a most interesting submission:
Background: Engineering is evolving to acknowledge several…
Engineers can build it for you
Read more "Engineers can build it for you"Reader Leet Ninja Pirate writes “An interview with Jane McGonigal on the Colbert Report. Subjects include a wider gaming audience, Urgent Evoke, and the phrase “epic win.” McGonigal…
Jane McGonigal on the Colbert Report
Read more "Jane McGonigal on the Colbert Report"Wonderful gallery in Time Life, In Praise of Prosthetics (via @aeromenthe):
Meanwhile, on Engadget:
“the world’s first and only motor-powered prosthetic knee” was recently…
Prosthetics gallery in Time Life and PowerKnees more widely available
Read more "Prosthetics gallery in Time Life and PowerKnees more widely available"A prototype implantable eye pressure monitor for glaucoma patients is believed to contain…
This is like something right out of “The Manchurian Candidate”:
The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in “psychological operations” to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling Stone has learned – and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was railroaded by military investigators.
The orders came from the command of Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, a three-star general in charge of training Afghan troops – the linchpin of U.S. strategy in the war. Over a four-month period last year, a military cell devoted to what is known as “information operations” at Camp Eggers in Kabul was repeatedly pressured to target visiting senators and other VIPs who met with Caldwell. When the unit resisted the order, arguing that it violated U.S. laws prohibiting the use of propaganda against American citizens, it was subjected to a campaign of retaliation.
“My job in psy-ops is to play with people’s heads, to get the enemy to behave the way we want them to behave,” says Lt. Colonel Michael Holmes, the leader of the IO unit, who received an official reprimand after bucking orders. “I’m prohibited from doing that to our own people. When you ask me to try to use these skills on senators and congressman, you’re crossing a line.”
Read the full story at Rolling Stone
Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators
Read more "Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators"..is the provocative title of another interesting talk from 27c3. It does a great job breaking down a lot of the problems we’re facing and, while I don’t agree with all the conclusions and…
Your Infrastructure Will Kill You
Read more "Your Infrastructure Will Kill You"In a post-middle class world, you are either with the Global Elites, or you are against them.
exactly
Swerve Left: The disappearing middle class
Read more "Swerve Left: The disappearing middle class"The following video is Google’s soon to be ex-CEO, Eric Schmidt, presenting to IFA 2010 a vision to create an ‘age of Augmented Humanity’; it also features demos of then new GoogleTV and various new…
On Google’s vision of an ‘augmented humanity’
Read more "On Google’s vision of an ‘augmented humanity’"The LIFT 11 conference just concluded in Geneva, Switzerland. I’ve picked the two most interesting talks to post here, but there’s many others of course, and please feel free to post your…
LIFT 11: Radical transparency and opaque algorithms
Read more "LIFT 11: Radical transparency and opaque algorithms"From BioScholar:
University of Birmingham researchers have managed to make an entire paper clip invisible – an object thousands of times bigger than previous experiments.
They performed this…
University of Birmingham researchers succeed in cloaking a paperclip
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 