- Tapping into the Cancer-Fighter Collective for Treatment - Uhhhh, you mean to tell me that they don't have this yet!??! WTF? I thought that they would have something like this for all medical issues TEN YEARS AGO! I am truly surprised! How hard is it to craft an SQL database and throw a web based interface on it? Amazon.com has been doing it since...ohh...the MID 90's?! SHEESH!
- What Are We Thinking When We (Try to) Solve Problems? - I wonder how an Aspy would do on these EEG tests? I tend to concentrate very long and hard, without breaks. But I don't consider that a 'wall' per say, just they way I think. I have hit walls, and it feels very much like I am hitting something physical with my mind, very strange to describe it that way though. When I do I have to reverse my thought direction and attempt to approach the problem from a different angle. Again, using spacial references to describe mental process seems to be the best way for me to describe my visual thinking style. Do other people think visually as well? If you do, pipe up and leave a comment :-)
- Morphine Dependency Blocked By Single Genetic Change - What we can do for Morphine addiction, we can do for Nicotine, Cocaine, Heroine, and a myriad of other addictions! WOW, great news and hope for millions of drug addicts. The dream of using drugs without becoming addicted to them are coming to to a pharmacist near you! WOOT! Come and get your Addiction Vaccine!
- Thinking About Tomorrow - Its interesting to see the lay person's view of the next ten years of possible technological progress, but they fail to consider the exponential growth rate that information technologies follow. in ten years computing devices will be over 1000 times more powerful and 1000 times smaller for the same $1000 that will buy today. This means cell phones in 10 years will have more computing power than a $10,000 computer, with all the bells and whistles, purchased today. What will that mean? I don't know, but 3-D projectors are conservative, IMHO. In my version of the next 10, I expect to see digital eye contact displays that are wirelessly connected to virtually project inherently 3-D images onto reality. This is called augmented reality and can be very powerful. Imagine no screen at all but a 6' x 8' "screen" projected into space wherever you look, even when your eyes are closed! Imagine having everyone's name (or nickname, tagline, whatever) floating above their heads. I would never forget someones name again. One could enter a virtual reality session and feel as if they are really there! It would track the position of your eyes and the display would change accordingly. With superior voice recognition we could turn it off with a word, and the mouse/keyboard combo would fade away. The cell phone would power the main computation component, the contacts be wireless and use solar power for energy, and small ear patches that attach behind the ears would provide sound. If you want to have a shared experience, just enable the link and your friends can experience it with you, even on another continent, at the same moment. When our clothes have circuitry embedded in them, they can track our motion and use that as an input device. On another topic, cars will be autonomous and drive by themselves. This will be MUCH safe for everyone and more convenient! Just tell the drive system to "Go to the restaurant." It will know which one from the reservations you have made on your Personal Computer and plot it accordingly. Whew! I get excited when I think of these things! I better stop here before my fingers get sore.
- Tool Use Is Just a Trick of the Mind - I recall a conversation with a friend of mine regarding what we are, and I mentioned that what makes us "us" is our pattern, not the material we are made of, although that has a significant impact, but the pattern of that material and energy. As we collect more information about our pattern we get closer to the truth of what makes us "us".
- New Method Exploits Ancient Mechanism To Switch Genes On And Off At Will - More fuel for the "Hackable DNA" fire!
- Shape-shifting magnetic bots take a page out of the Dharma playbook - Erik Drexler mentioned in one of his books that we may someday have "nanoswarms" that will self assemble to form anything we want, from houses, cars, to even bodies for our virtual minds to inhabit. May this be the first step in that direction? Nice short video here.
- Estimating the Exaflood, The Impact of Video and Rich Media on the Internet – A ‘zettabyte’ by 2015? - Fantastic article! Do I smell an excellent investment opportunity? Also, the below graph from the article appears suspiciously like an exponential growth plot...Hmmmm exponential growth? In IT? It couldn't be....
That concludes today...I will be back tomorrow :-)
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