December 2010
36 posts
Technology 25 Years Hence - Room for Debate - Ray... →
Thirty years ago, I realized that timing was the key to success as an inventor. Most inventions fail because the timing is wrong — the innovation needs to make sense for the world that will exist when the project is finished. Consider how quickly the world changes; just a few years ago, most people didn’t use social networks, wikis or blogs. As an engineer, I gathered a lot of data to try to make...
Give Up Robot 2 - Best! →
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Watchhttp://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_angrynerd_geekculture/
“The coming decades—the 21st-century’s ’20s, ’30s, and ’40s—have the potential to be one long, unbroken, recut spoof in which everything in Avatar farts while Keyboard Cat plays eerily in the background.”
” When everyone has easy access to their favorite diversions and every diversion comes with a rabbit hole’s...
FuturePundit: Get Dirty To Avoid Depression? →
A theory holds that auto-immune diseases and some other disorders related to the immune system are caused by a lack of exposure to microorganisms that our immune systems are designed to handle. The absence of real enemies makes the immune system incorrectly attack friendlies and to otherwise malfunction. Are imbalanced immune systems due to clean environments making people depressed?
Short Sharp Science: Does an aspirin a day keep... →
An aspirin a day could protect against a host of cancers. Even low daily doses of the drug have been found to cut the rate of cancer deaths by a third. Given the other strings in the drug’s bow, aspirin might be fulfilling its “wonder drug” expectations.
All That Is Interesting: The Migration Patterns Of... →
all-thats-interesting:
Historical migration of human populations began with the movement of humans out of Africa across Eurasia approximately a million years ago. Homo sapiens appear to have occupied all of Africa about 150,000 years ago, moved out of Africa 70,000 years ago, and had spread across Australia, Asia…
Problems of Transhumanism: Introduction →
What are the current unresolved issues in transhumanist thought? Which of these issues are peculiar to transhumanist philosophy and the transhumanist movement, and which are more actually general problems of Enlightenment thought? Which of these are simply inevitable differences of opinion among the more or less like-minded, and which need decisive resolution to avoid tragic errors of the past?
Tor Project: Anonymity Online →
Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis
WatchEVASION URBAINE par Benedetto Bufalino et Benoît Deseille (by BEN)
