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New capability for the Indian Navy. I have not seen details on whether the missile capability is that of a SSGN, but the reports so far tend to indicate that the submarine is not a ballistic missile submarine. Given India's relationship with Pakistan, I would guess that they are working on the ability to launch nuclear payload cruise missiles.

Of course it was your generation that created this aesthetic, you know that right ? Maybe the future now looks as you envisioned it, but it is not because you predicted well. It is because, for lack of better direction, we copied your ideas.

Recently I came across a very interesting article by Timothy Lenoir, bringing a fresh perspective on the concept Singularity and posthumanist future. In the introductory note Lenoir writes: Most researchers agree that there is no reason in principle why we will not eventually develop conscious machines that rival or surpass human...

The history of multicellular organisms - we really are just a bunch of cells working together. ...

http://www.core.form-ula.com/2009/08/16/ibm-uses-dna-to-make-next-gen-microchips/ Artificial DNA...

.transhumanism is older than it seems.

The Serious ARG (Alternate Reality Game) In a 2007 article, columnist Chris Dahlen (of Pitchfork Media) voiced a much-discussed ARG concept: if ARGs can spark players to solve very hard fictional problems, could the games be used to solve real-world problems?[37] Dahlen was writing about World Without Oil, the first ARG centered on a serious...

Maybe this explains why aliens abduct Earthlings for sexual experiments.

We’re tired of trees. We should stop believing in trees, roots, and radicles. They’ve...

by KEVIN BEWERDORF Here's some snippets from an interview with Kevin Bewerdorf. The full...

CreativeApplications.Net [CAN] was launched in October 2008 by architect, lecturer, and a new media...

Even though the brain contains about a trillion glia—10 times as many as there are neurons—the assumption was that those cells were nothing more than a passive support system. Glia, in fact, are busy multitaskers, guiding the brain’s development and sustaining it throughout our lives. Glia also listen carefully to their neighbors, and they...

Young brains can forget painful memories, but old ones tend not to… Now an enzyme can cut through imprisoned memories… "In the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Joel and Clementine's relationship ends so sourly that the couple elects to have their mutual memories swept away via a non-surgical procedure called "targeted...

I do not understand cargo shorts. Or plaid shorts, let alone consumerism and our infidelity to our higher faculties. I do not understand a lot of things--there is some Chinese saying about how it is an 'honor' to live in such 'interesting' times and that is really great, I suppose, but I'm a little resentful. On good days I am something more...

Whether you call her Pscipolnitsa, Poluudnica,...

this image from the ingenious cartoonist Angeli says it all... here in Brazil there's a lot of...

Hello reader of the future. I was born in 1971 in Cairns, Australia, and somehow over the last 38 years (it's 25 September 2009 right now, just after 21.46pm AEST) I have developed a strong sense of history. For this reason I am aware that the written word can cross the ages, enduring long after the writer has perished and turned to dust. Of...

The Mesmerized Mind - Study of Hypnosis “The motor cortex is connected to the idea that it cannot move the left hand, So even if you try to move, it will neglect to send signals to the motor execution areas.”

Here is the text and slide share of a lecture I gave at ECCO research group seminar at the free...

The Interlace, one of the largest and most ambitious residential developments in Singapore,...

Our physical environments are gaining intelligence as our geography transcends the analog. Before...

Last night we tested out some of the Goggles on the street. We visited all the drunk people to see...

via things: By committing our memory to Google or the 'cloud' we have inadvertently created a great hunger for the intangible and ephemeral, the scraps and minutae of everyday life that get sucked into the circuitry and instantly forgotten. Already we are lamenting the loss of the unknown landscape as a result of global satellite imagery, gps...

“A philosopher’s ontology is the set of entities he or she assumes to exist in reality, the types of entities he or she is committed to assert actually exist. Although in the history of philosophy there are a great variety of ontological commitments, we can very roughly classify these into three main groups. For some philosophers reality...

Designers are energised and fed by place. Where they choose to work, live and visit feeds the designer's mind, and their creative processes. My advice to designers seeking new places is to forget about the authentic. It's a sideshow, and a diversion. It's important, no doubt - but it is not everything. Consider, instead, what is actually going...

SCRIBD-DOCUMENT-Hronoya-Bible-Revelation-11-the-Two-Witnesses-Return-of-Christ The...

There's a lot going on lately, and I've been meaning to write something about the structural...

Announcing 5 trillion digits of Pi. New World Record for both Desktop and Supercomputer:

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. quote from Alan Watts via Dmitri

by Terrence McKenna This essay first appeared in the fall 1989 issue of Whole Earth...

Revolution entails perceiving the status quo for what it is, here and now, rather than through the...

Last week apears an incredible video related with the concepts i had explain on an old post...

A videomusical self-portrait. Berlin 2009

Image courtesy of www.gigaom.com The image above is pretty self-explanatory. The...

"Toward a Civilization of Collective Intelligence" identifies the most important changes...

So what can we do about the environment, the third world, and the economic crisis? By incorporating 3 attributes to our solutions, we can create powerful, lasting solutions to many of the world’s problems. These attributes are enemies to the money system and will help bring about its demise. Automation Efficiency Generic production...

what takes an idea from inception to actualization & execution, the visualization &...

I'm reading a copy of Douglas Rushkoff's 1994 book "Cyberia" on my computer (Click link...

"We are made of Star Stuff." Carl Sagan This is an old exploration. ...how God...

In July we celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the first lunar landings. This historic...

The futuristic display uses no back lighting, just environmental light. Yet, it is capable of producing colors by using mechanical pixels and interference. ...Speaking of iridescence, check out some of the bugs that shine based on the same principle of nature: Um, I predict people with iridescent skin going to clubs by 2012.

"Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent." - Pierre Levy + James Surowiecki + Mark Tovey I wrote a post a few days ago, Is Twitter a Complex Adaptive System?, that proposed the idea that Twitter may be evolving into an entity of...

My last contribution was about the futility of the American Dream, the endless circles of the...

Physicists from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) have demonstrated what they...