February 2012
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“Contrary to the alarmist critique directed towards this current of ideas,...”
– Eurozine - We are not alone in the universe - Jonathan Metzger
“There is nothing better than imagining other worlds … to forget the painful one...”
– Umberto Eco, Baudolino (via stoweboyd)
“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the...”
– Samuel Lover; Rory O’More (via wordpainting)
“Metaphors and other figurative language are deeply woven into the fabric of...”
– Neuroscience News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - io9
'Explorers,' who embrace the uncertainty of...
Via Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future Life shrouds most choices in mystery. Some people inch toward a comfortable enough spot and stick close to that rewarding status quo. Out to dinner, they order the usual. Others consider their options systematically or randomly. Via medicalxpress.com
On Smart Phones and Anti-Social Networking
Via Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future The phone was invented as a way for geographically distanced people to communicate. Social networking exploded in its popularity over the last several years as a way to connect with people you knew, as well as many others you didn’t. Via skepticgeek.com
The science fiction effect | Bulletin of the...
Via Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future From Frankenstein to Jurassic Park, authors have been writing about “mad scientists” messing around with life. Via thebulletin.org
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“The Regime of Computation, then, provides a narrative that accounts for the...”
– Hayles, N. Katherine. My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. (via carvalhais)
Biological computer encrypts and deciphers images...
Via Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute in California and the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology — have developed a “biological computer” made entirely from biomolecules that is capable of deciphering images encrypted on DNA chips. This is the first experimental demonstration of a molecular cryptosystem for images based on DNA...
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Prepare for the Eidetic Deluge – (A Sci-Fi...
The ultrasonic plane landed smoothly in this deserted island, I have no idea what it’s called and truth to tell I care not for its name, its somewhere in the pacific of that I am fairly certain. The fact that there were only four of us in the plane was of no concern to me, I am not the social type and apparently none of the others were as well, not even a word was exchanged between us since we...
Neuroscientists to Top Brass: Mess With Minds…...
Via Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future A working group led by the Royal Society has warned the scientific community and the Government to tread carefully when entering the ethical… Via wired.com
“Cognitive linguistics, with its following in cognitive poetics, ignores the...”
– a semiotics professor in Israel, in Poetics Today Vol. 32, No. 3
pretend the whole thing is one sentence separated by a semicolon in place of the period
(via theory-to-praxis)
“The brain is also easily persuaded by small amounts of information. If one could...”
– The Irrationality Of Irrationality | Why We Reason
“BIOLOGY is in the midst of a revolution that is changing what we know and can...”
– CultureLab: Are we merely the sum of our neurons?
“I am optimistic that we may be able to explicitly design nature-harnessing...”
– Humans, Version 3.0 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
“Consider the possibility that cognitive enhancements may go hand in hand with...”
– Why Cognitive Enhancement Is in Your Future (and Your Past) - Ross Andersen - Technology - The Atlantic (via myserendipities)
“What psychological twisting will occur to individuals as they adapt to more...”
– Would You Still Love Me If I Was A Robot?
“What if a drug could improve learning and cognition and had no untoward medical...”
– Ethical Questions Surround ‘Electrical Thinking Cap’ that Improves Mental Functions | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network
A New Net -A startup called Nicira is launching a...
Via Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future The Matrix-like control that Nicira offers should also make the Internet more reliable. After the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear disaster in Japan last March, electricity rationing and scarce supplies of diesel for generators trapped some Web services offline in powerless data centers. Last August NTT showed that Nicira’s technology could have...
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Embodiment, Computation And the Nature of...
Via Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future The notion of intelligence makes no sense without a broader view of computation, argues one of the world’s leading AI researchers… One of the buzzwords in artificial intelligence research these days is ‘embodiment’, the idea that intelligence requires a body. But in the last few years, a growing body researchers have begun...
Digital Divide: If You're Reading This, You're One... →
Even in the richest countries on the planet such as the U.S., not everyone has easy access to this cornucopia of connectivity, the Internet. The Internet is a tremendous growth engine, responsible for 21% of economic growth in the more advanced countries in the world, according to a McKinsey s…
“Intelligence (I) is nature’s AI. Thus, if AI were impossible, I would be...”
– highly recommended read
Robopocalypse Now
“In the case of computing technology, we are utilizing tools that allow us to...”
– Technological Symbiosis
“The existence of hyperlinks is enough to convince even the most stubborn...”
– The Difference Between Online Knowledge and Truly Open Knowledge - C.W. Anderson - Technology - The Atlantic (via myserendipities)
“I claim that morality does not exist. But what is morality? It is not possible...”
– An Amoral Manifesto (Part II) | Philosophy Now
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Snippets: "Lean" towards complexity →
johntropea:
A selection of slides from Jurgen Appelo’s brilliant presentation Complexity versus Lean
- see another post from the same presentation Complexity is different than systems thinking
This one is timely as I just snipped a post about social meets lean meets agile, and read the Dave …
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“Liminality, marginality, and structural inferiority are conditions in which are...”
– Liminality according to Victor Turner
The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet...
Via Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future Do you enjoy having time to yourself, but always feel a little guilty about it? Then Susan Cain’s “Quiet : The Power of Introverts” is for you. It’s part book, part manifesto. We live in a nation that values its extroverts – the outgoing, the lovers of crowds – but not the quiet types who change the world. She recently answered questions...
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The complex relationship between memory and...
Via Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future People who suffer a traumatic experience often don’t talk about it, and many forget it over time. But not talking about something doesn’t always mean you’ll forget it; if you try to force yourself not to think about white bears, soon you’ll be imagining polar bears doing the polka. A group of psychological scientists...
Will Artificial Intelligence be America’s Next Big...
Via Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future In the next decade, the United States will use increasingly capable artificial intelligence (AI) to greatly reduce the cost of health care, accelerate research and development into new medicines, improve cars and roads to reduce gridlock, and even regain much of the manufacturing base we lost to countries like China, say researchers in computer...
“What does the world really look like? Turns out it’s not the nightmare most...”
– Why The Future Will Be Much Better Than You Think - Forbes
“The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a...”
– J.M. Coetzee, Diary of a Bad Year (via hateshiploveship)
Wildcat Sci-Fi: "Elegant Intimacy" a Preliminary... →
New Sci-fi entry
‘Elegant Intimacy’, a Preliminary report on the success of vision endeavor 17dash23 (Sci-Fi)
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“All our technology has come through biomimicry-from spinning like silkworms and...”
– Towards a Biomimicry Culture of Cooperation
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“Today, internet technology and renewable energies are about to merge to create a...”
– Jeremy Rifkin: Energy-sharing is the new internet
“The point is that any human activity can be seemingly atomized. But to be...”
– – Michael Gazzaniga -as quoted in:
Are human brains unique? | Notes from Aboveground
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“If Nietzsche was terrible, was he also beneficial? In a 1985 book “Nietzsche:...”
– What Friedrich Nietzsche Did to America
“The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is...”
– The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg - NYTimes.com
Human Brains Wire Up Slowly but Surely -...
Via Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future As the father-to-son exchange in the old Cat Stevens song advised, “take your time, think a lot, … think of everything you’ve got.” Turns out the mellow ’70s folkie had stumbled upon what may explain a key feature of our brains that sets us apart from our closest relatives: We unhurriedly make synaptic connections through much of...
“The result of having access to all this data is a new science that is able to...”
– To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data - David Weinberger - Technology - The Atlantic
“How will we ever make sense of scientific topics that are too big to know? The...”
– To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data - David Weinberger - Technology - The Atlantic
Too Big to Know: David Weinberger explains how...
Via Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future David Weinberger is one of the Internet’s clearest and cleverest thinkers, an understated and deceptively calm philosopher who builds his arguments like a bricklayer builds a wall, one fact at a time. Via boingboing.net
“We’re all cyborgs now,” the anthropologist Amber Case said in a TED talk in...”
– The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg - NYTimes.com
“Various people have said that ambiguity is a problem for communication. But once...”
– Senior author of the study Ted Gibson, an MIT professor of cognitive science
ezDI - Healthcare Data Intelligence: MIT Research: The Advantage Of Ambiguity In Language