With all the hype flying around Augmented Reality lately, it's easy to assume the nascent tech is just another flash-in-the-pan destined to burn out in a fury of marketing gimmickry & sensational posturing. Yet, it's informative to consider the drivers pushing this trend and to tease out the truly adaptive value percolating beneath the...
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...
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...
Kevin Kelly
'An ultimate simulation needs an ultimate computer, and the new science of digitalism says that the universe itself is the ultimate computer — actually the only computer. Further, it says, all the computation of the human world, especially our puny little PCs, merely piggybacks on cycles of the great computer. Weaving together the...
Nothing much, but we all care for our desktops...
"How Do Scientists Really Use Computers?
A Web-based survey offers clues"
by Greg Wilson
(I wonder how's Nvidia Tesla advancing?
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.
INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, Aug. 21, 2008 – Intel Corporation's chief technology officer took a fascinating look at how technology will bring man and machine much closer together by 2050.
Cutting the Last Cord, Wireless Power
Programmable Matter: Computers that Change Shape
Robots: From the Factory Floor to Your Kitchen
I have been out and about for awhile and am just getting back to Space Collective. It is great to see it has continued to grow.
I am currently helping develop a post-grad program at SCI-Arc named Mediascapes. We are looking to critically explore the nature of media, its evolution and how we can integrate critical research and philosophy into...
Attention - interest - sync - time passage, now there might be a measurement of the correlation by observing blinking.
"Worried you'll blink and miss a crucial piece of the action? Then you can relax. While watching a film, we subconsciously control the timing of blinks to make sure we don't miss anything important. And because we tend to...
New Concept:
The Sphaper (Sphidron-paper)
the 2D plane of the
New Sphidron Geometry.
I found some pictures of galaxies, and these made more important to describe some of my thoughts:
IT IS Quite similar to our Sphidron formations:
Interplanetary medium:
Explanations how the real material is moving around the center and how the...
I was barely awake while all this was running through my head so it may seem like I'm rambling or not making any sense, forgive me. I just felt out I had to get this out of my head though and figured I'd share it with the people here and maybe get some other opinions.
Life is subject and seen differently through the
eyes of each individual. A...
Imagine the person you love, someone you have known for decades, someone who has become the very meaning of your life, suddenly, and unexpectedly has a stroke. Their body is crippled to near uselessness, relinquishing them of their dignity. And, having lost the ability to communicate with them, you’re not even sure if their mind is as it was, if...
And water is the most fantastic molecule in this tiny Universe...
As a parable, water do represent the true potential of human beings as well as the tiny boundaries of our huge fragility...
There is absolutely nothing in ourselves that it is not present in the ocean.
In fact, our chemical composition is water with a tiny proportion of...