tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89168972024-10-24T15:34:56.225-06:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916897.post-14194177086541126052009-08-06T11:50:00.009-06:002012-08-02T10:03:30.326-06:00

Self-replicating desktop manufacturing systems are on the near future horizon. From this CrunchGear entry: 'The future of fabrication is here: Shapeways announces stainless steel printing' Much if not most of 3d printing uses modified inkjet printers. Ink is substituted with other mediums. The incredible accuracy of the printer heads deposit nano-scale droplets exactly where they need to be

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There are only a few links left between us and full immersive sensual cyberspace.William Gibson coined the term Cyberspace as a near-future digital world we would mentally navigate.Clearly, the mouse and keyboard are about to be assimilated by touch screens. Sky diving costs and increasing value dictate it. Monitors, the last membrane between us and cyberspace dissolve as we navigate digital

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916897.post-68020141041982840852008-09-10T17:54:00.008-06:002010-02-06T10:09:35.976-07:00

This article from eWeek raised the question in the title. At this writing, Google has passed her 10th birthday. From Google Web to Maps to a newly invented browser about to rule the Web, to a Google phone, to a completely new computer operating system ... Everything she produces seems like a paradigm shift. So, what will she make happen during her next 10 years? I think it's quite possible the

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916897.post-44907675674698761512008-07-21T08:20:00.006-06:002012-08-02T10:45:40.929-06:00

Visionary article by John Burch.Ted's paraphrased summary: The Internet (read "The OneMachine") exists because everybody wants it, and that will drive brain augmentation because it helps us get the Internet. The Internet will soon turn into one of our core senses. Audio has arrived through a bluetooth headset. Next the earphone disappears into the ear canal and cuddles up to the ear drum.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916897.post-40618069472185091282008-07-21T08:09:00.004-06:002012-08-02T10:02:22.446-06:00

By 2015, cheap bandwidth and computer processing power, combined with powerful video compression will end commercial television. From The Inflection Point by CringelyBy extension, the end of Mass Media T.V.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916897.post-68545171226333924172008-05-11T10:07:00.008-06:002012-08-02T10:45:40.934-06:00

Kevin Kelley, one of the foremost thinkers about the 'net and it's evolution gave a profoundly lucid presentation on where it's headed. I've summarized some of it below, and added a few notes of my own.[Summary]The Web was about 5000 days old early in 2008. In those 5000 days the Web has brought email, auctions, Youtube, Blogs, phone service, Google, real time stock prices, sports scores, weather

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916897.post-18994206635617782342008-03-17T17:54:00.003-06:002008-03-17T18:35:42.995-06:00

The latest "BigDog" 4-legged military robot "pack mule", moves with an astonishing animal fluidity. Creepy, spooky, amazing... what word best suits? It's real. But turn your sound way down. There is no commentary anyway, and BigDog sounds like a chainsaw.Follow story here.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916897.post-14469692738122113482007-11-27T06:44:00.001-07:002012-08-02T10:45:40.908-06:00

Thought-controlled Exoskeletons are on the way. The technology already exists.Rapidly evolving, sophisticated exoskeletons have arrived. My favorite is Sarcos exoskeleton. No need for a joystick or hand controls. You just wear it, and it mirrors your actions.You can pump a couple hundred pounds, run, box, dance and carry heavy loads up stairs. It doubles as an autonomous robot. If it can't do so

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916897.post-78160926438148548472007-11-17T07:43:00.002-07:002012-08-02T10:45:40.937-06:00

Since 1999, Eric Ramsay has been paralyzed and only able to move his eyes. Otherwise he's completely conscious. But a new computer/ brain interface reads his brain signals as he thinks about vocal sounds, translating them in real time. The goal is conversation, by making it possible for him to literally think out loud. This pioneering development has interesting implications for texting, search

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916897.post-78366658799983872392007-11-10T07:32:00.000-07:002007-12-12T05:58:00.139-07:00

The six legged RHex Robot, from the makers of BigDog is designed for extreme terrain. It can seemingly go anywhere. Stairs, over rocks, through mud, swim through water, run through fields... If it gets stuck it just goes crazy until it's moving again. Kinda cute too. At least until hoards of them begin marching from our desktop fabricators only to be turned into zombies by the latest botnet.See

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916897.post-27829157756840553022007-08-19T15:02:00.002-06:002012-08-02T10:45:40.920-06:00

Automated intelligence (also known as "computational intelligence"), doesn't need to be conscious in order to realize the promise, peril and potential of Artificial Intelligence. Meanwhile, computers run human cognitive skills such as decision making, analysis, testing, learning, creativity, invention, design, self-improvement... at hyper speed... and accelerating.Early computers leaped from the

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916897.post-23655159118443927402007-08-11T08:14:00.000-06:002012-08-02T10:45:40.916-06:00

Swarming behavior is an accelerating social force. Emerging from the global connectedness of cell phones, the Web, Email distribution lists etc., technological swarming is a novel development in Guerrilla warfare, protest, politics, journalism, and every social sphere. Experiment for yourself with some searches.This one snagged me though: From China to Colorado, consumers are connecting online in

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916897.post-7537844227371609542007-04-29T19:42:00.000-06:002014-10-28T15:43:43.639-06:00

These houses have a tiny "footprint" but are beautiful and use space very efficiently. Energy use and maintenance is correspondingly tiny. Some people put them in their back yard as a retreat. Some use them as guest houses. Others actually live in them full time. Cool idea. You could probably put a dome over them and create an artificial environment. It only takes 5 minutes to heat the whole

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916897.post-1142019916073559712006-03-10T10:48:00.001-07:002008-03-17T17:19:29.238-06:00

At first I thought it was just me. Watching a recent video of a new 'pack-mule' robot (nicknamed BigDog) being tested by the US military, I suddenly began feeling pity.I know it's just a machine. But during testing inside a small room, when a researcher kicked it to demonstrate how it recovers with an animal-like fluidity, I was secretly wishing it would kick back. But it also moves like 2

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916897.post-1134072456148140552005-12-08T13:05:00.000-07:002007-12-12T06:05:40.190-07:00

That's the equivalent of what Caltech recently accomplished.Bandwidth is a measure of how much data can be sent across a network in a set amount of time. It's what you experience online when waiting for a web page to load.But recently, Caltech reached a stunning milestone in how fast data can be sent, transferring 475 terabytes of data in 24 hours. That's fast enough to download the entire Web as

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916897.post-1134072138122580872005-12-08T12:56:00.021-07:002011-02-27T14:06:00.410-07:00

Did you know that 1 CD can hold the entire Human genome? That a Gigabyte of text printed out would fill the bed of a pickup truck with paper? That it takes 20,000 trees to print out 400 Gigabytes on paper? That 100 Terabytes is a high-side guess of Human brain storage space, slightly less than one days Web Page views from Google in 2009. I've been collecting these data bits for a couple of

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Our grandparents incredulously shook their heads at the moon landing, microwave ovens, nuclear bombs and computers. Theirs was the first generation to actually feel technology speed up. Today, crude replicators, new forms of Intelligence, immortality and the very reigns of evolution are within our grasp. Why IS everything speeding up?Innovation MEANS AccelerationIdeas trigger ideas. Step into any

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916897.post-1128528344157043682005-10-05T10:04:00.000-06:002012-08-02T10:45:40.903-06:00

The computer revolution, the information revolution. You hear talk within the media about some revolution that is supposed to change everything. Yes, there is a revolution so profound in it's implication, so sweeping in it's scope, and eventually so pervasive in it's effects, that it will change everything, but it is neither of these. The two big revolutions we have seen so far are the

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916897.post-1122555348689628322005-07-28T07:00:00.000-06:002014-10-26T11:23:59.677-06:00

Technology decentralizes power; military, political, economic, media, energy... all of it. Because once a medium becomes digitized, it must move with the laws of networked information. Distributed, connected, decentralized, democratized, Peer-to-peer ... Eventually grass roots. From the hands of the few to the masses.The Internet is possible because of the computerized digitization of text, audio

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916897.post-1121107792328057292005-07-11T10:43:00.000-06:002014-10-26T11:26:41.801-06:00

There is an ugly economy to violence. It's cheaper to destroy than build, and to take by force than negotiate. And within every segment of the political spectrum there are those who would employ violence to achieve their ends.Todays coordinated attacks from stateless groups around the globe cost orders of magnitude less than the burdens of rebuilding and forever heightened security. Present

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A clever twist on the Turing Test using a popular chatbot and some creativity. Roughly half of the test subjects never suspected they were actually talking to a computer.

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Michael Meiser has incredibly lucid insights into the new "Tech Bloom". The rise of tagging and open source editing such as Wikis, Flickr point to the democratization of media. I've summarized some of his ideas below. ~~~~~~~Social is the word. Welcome to the latest tech bloom, the next evolution, Web 2.0.x. We're soon to see what happens when democratization goes beyond Email and Blogs and Wikis

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916897.post-1119287332207555492005-06-20T11:02:00.000-06:002012-08-02T10:02:22.441-06:00

Marshall Brain is an ongoing source of great, well articulated ideas. I really like his "as simple as possible but no simpler" writing style. His way of removing the complexity and jargon while retaining the essence is why I always look forward to articles like this in which he points to a near future scenario in which our increasingly powerful computers become vastly simpler to use.It's also

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916897.post-1119050766652705662005-06-17T17:21:00.000-06:002012-08-02T10:02:22.437-06:00

As information technology evolves, new ways of spreading information spontaneously emerge. Inevitably, "mass media" becomes decentralized meaning our news about things we are interested in increasingly comes from the people we are connected to. Centralized media, in order to survive, will need to serve that end.Email, web, texting, messaging, phone, fax, autoresponders, phone cams ... Evolving

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8916897.post-1118870036671175042005-06-15T15:00:00.000-06:002009-03-29T12:07:43.446-06:00

We're accelerating towards a global computing grid which will tap unimaginable power from hundreds of thousands of computers, as powerful as a brain. The collective intelligence which emerges will rival our present fantasies of Artificial IntelligenceAs we modelled the eye to build cameras, the brain to build computers, the ear to build speakers, we're modeling our autonomic nervous system to

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