May 2013
POLL: Would Sex With A Robot Be Cheating?
See on Scoop.it - Cyborg Lives A provocative new poll shows that Americans have little trouble imagining a future full of personal service robots — at least when it comes to robots tasked with cleaning our homes, driving our cars, and even helping fight our wars. But the HuffPost/YouGov poll shows that we’re a bit squeamish about bots in especially personal roles, such as caring for...
“The Internet, a plain whose grasses hide so many digital predators, can activate...”
– You Didn’t Have Any Lions to Run From, So You Clicked on This - Megan Garber - The Atlantic
“So, yeah. The next time you wonder whether you’re spending too much time...”
– You Didn’t Have Any Lions to Run From, So You Clicked on This - Megan Garber - The Atlantic
You Didn't Have Any Lions to Run From, So You...
See on Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future The evolutionary causes of the Internet’s inescapable charisma - So here you are, once again, on the Internet. (Hello, there. Welcome back, friend.) Here you are, another Norm within the Cheers that is the World Wide Web, hanging out in the place where everybody (or, more likely, nobody) knows your name. But why are you really here? I...
Eric Weinstein may have found the answer to...
See on Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future Marcus du Sautoy: A physicist has formulated a mathematical theory that purports to explain why the universe works the way it does – and it feels like ‘the answer’ - Two years ago, a mathematician and physicist whom I’ve known for more than 20 years arranged to meet me in a bar in New York. What he was about to show me, he...
The Data Made Me Do It - nice MIT piece →
futuristgerd:
There is so much more data out there that you can afford to tailor it to the individual,” says Patrick Wolfe, a statistician who studies social networks at University College, London. “Statistically, strength comes from pooling people together, but then the icing on the cake is when you individualize the findings.”
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Arcfinity: We're reading THE DEMOCRACY PROJECT by... →
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There’s a race on to see what ideology succeeds capitalism. Nan Craig wonders why anarchism is running so slowly
The Democracy Project David Graeber Allen Lane, PPB £14.99
The one SF trope embraced more than any other by the mainstream in recent years is the dystopia. From Wool to …
The role of curators in storytelling as tribal...
See on Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future Something really interesting happens in the curation process, because stories don’t have intrinsic value. An unshared story is basically like rubbish, lying around without any value. Stories gain their meaning and value by sharing, but it’s not as simple as that. The curator imparts her own value, status and trust, upon the story. Curators...
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“I’ve concluded that the goal of most college courses should not be knowledge but...”
– Why Do I Teach? - NYTimes.com
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when "extremely violent and sadistic imagery is...
See on Scoop.it - Cyborg Lives I In an age when “extremely violent and sadistic imagery is two clicks away” school sex education is struggling to keep pace, a study suggests. Pornography can distort children’s attitudes to sex said Deputy Children’s Commissioner Sue Berelowitz. Urgent action is needed to develop children’s resilience to extremely graphic types of...
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“Language, rather than being merely descriptive, is ultimately constitutive of...”
– Jay Watts – Freudian slips
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Orbital Trash a Problem With No Immediate...
See on Scoop.it - The Future of Water & Waste Our technology can get us to space, but once there, we still aren’t too flexible. Earth orbit is clogged with debris because we simply don’t have an easy way to clean it up. Wildcat2030’s insight: waste is a problem even in space.. See on singularityhub.com
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Where Do Thoughts Occur?
Sure, your brain is a... →
We think big. We think out loud. We think outside the box. We think on our feet. But what we don’t do is think entirely inside our heads. Thoughts aren’t confined to our brains — they course through a network that expands to our bodies, perhaps eliminating, at times, the need for complex thought.
The notion that we think with the body — the startling conclusion of a field called embodied...
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Doctors use 3-D printer to custom-design implant...
See on Scoop.it - The future of medicine and health Researchers at the University of Michigan have used a 3-D printer to create a custom-made, life-saving implant for baby boy, they report in a letter in The New England Journal of Medicine. See on usatoday.com
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“It may be argued that all great scientific discoveries and artistic...”
– Since I am re-writing this essay of mine, for publication, I share some of it here for your enjoyment.
Wildcat: Some will be Gangsters of Poetry Some will be PanSymbolists
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Complex Brain Function Depends On Flexibility →
Neurons that can multitask greatly enhance the brain’s computational power, study finds.
Over the past few decades, neuroscientists have made much progress in mapping the brain by deciphering the functions of individual neurons that perform very specific tasks, such as recognizing the location or color of an object.
However, there are many neurons, especially in brain regions that perform...
Jared Keller - A tweetable feast-We might deplore...
See on Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future As far as I can tell, the practice of photographing one’s food — whether in restaurants or at family gatherings — is generally deplored. The New York Times Style section, in its dual role as avatar and caricature of urban mores, reported in January that restaurants in Manhattan were banning it. (‘It’s a disaster in terms of momentum, settling...
“By this time the public is well aware that a new age of machines is upon us...”
– M.I.T. Scholar’s 1949 Essay on Machine Age Is Found - NYTimes.com
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“We are transient beings, in a world of constantly changing culture. At home in...”
– Toward an Epigenetic View of Our Musical Mind
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Thinking Through French Philosophy →
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By Leonard Lowlor, 2003. PDF, 223 pages.
'Aha!' Moments Key To Collective Future, Says...
See on Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future In 1962, former CIA Director John McCone used his own insight to take a second look at American U-2 spy plane images indicating the Soviet Union was installing surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles (SAMs) in Cuba. - “Aha!” moments hit us all. Although they can range from new ways to tie a shoelace to ideas for the latest smart phone, acting...
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“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn...”
– Buckminster Fuller I really needed to read this. —TO (via tobia)
Research Blog: Launching the Quantum Artificial...
See on Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future We believe quantum computing may help solve some of the most challenging computer science problems, particularly in machine learning. Machine learning is all about building better models of the world to make more accurate predictions. If we want to cure diseases, we need better models of how they develop. If we want to create effective...
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Startup hires 'cyborg' Mann for Google...
See on Scoop.it - Cyborg Lives Startup hires ‘cyborg’ Mann for Google Glass–killer project Register Watch out, Sergey!- Watch out, Sergey! A new startup is hard at work on a device that’s far more ambitious than Google Glass, and it has just signed on wearable-computing maven Steve Mann as its chief scientist. Meta, founded by Columbia University computer and neurological...
Researchers report first fully integrated...
See on Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future (Phys.org) —In the wake of the sobering news that atmospheric carbon dioxide is now at its highest level in at least three million years, an important advance in the race to develop carbon-neutral renewable energy sources has been achieved. See on phys.org
SheerWind claims its INVELOX wind turbine produces...
See on Scoop.it - Knowmads, Infocology of the future (Phys.org) —SheerWind Inc. of Chaska, Minnesota is claiming in a press release that its newly developed funnel-based wind turbine system is capable of producing 600 percent more power than conventional wind turbines. See on phys.org
