Michael LaTorra & James Hughes lead a group discussion at Convergence 08. Digital (or data) serfdom currently exists — and is growing — among high-tech workers. In a future of mind-uploading, the situation could worsen into a dystopian horror. The bright alternative to this vision of servitude in dark digital mills is life as an enhanced, empowered, free individual, the Cyborg Buddha, who enjoys both technological abundance and the time to enjoy it in contemplative bliss.
A person’s entire life from birth to death could one day be recorded by a network of intelligent sensors, according to a senior scientist.
By 2057, Martin Sadler of PC firm Hewlett Packard, said there could be at least 1m devices for every UK resident.
Predicted advances in storage and cameras coupled with decreasing costs would allow this explosion, he said.
But, he warned, the amount of personal data that could be collected would lead to difficult ethical dilemmas.
“Maybe the first time you know you are pregnant is when a targeted piece of advertising comes through on your computer screen offering you some baby clothes because somehow the smart toilet, or some other aspect of your environment, leaked that information,” he said. more>>>
The mission of the X PRIZE Foundation is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. They do this by creating and managing prizes that drive innovators to solve some of the greatest challenges facing the world today.
The X PRIZE is viewed as a leading model to leverage the elements of public interest, entrepreneurial spirit and cross-disciplinary innovation to bring about breakthroughs that benefit us all.
They believe that a small group of people with passion for a cause can achieve that which has never been attained. This is why they stage competitions that challenge issues that matter the most.
Solipsism (Latin: solus, alone + ipse, self) is the philosophical idea that “My mind is the only thing that I know exists.” Solipsism is an epistemological or ontological position that knowledge of anything outside the mind is unjustified. The external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist. In the history of philosophy, solipsism has served as a skeptical hypothesis. more>>>
According to industry estimates, there are already some two million television sets in homes that are ready to show 3-D video. The only problem is that there aren’t a lot of 3-D broadcasts ready to roll. At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, however, electronics and 3-D production companies are showing off the potential of 3-D content with the hope that in-home 3-D television will be mainstream within a couple of years. more>>>
I knew there were significant trends impacting traditional print publications; however, I had no idea it had reached this point. Rapid accelerating change plus the current economic meltdown is obviously having a huge impact!
Click here for an article titled “Traditional Publishing – Rest In Peace”.
Click here for an article detailing major troubles at the New York Times. The article is titled “End Times”.
Also, a few days ago I received the current issue of PC Magazine – a magazine which has been published in print form for 27 years. It includes the following words – “It is the last printed edition” and “Next month, PC Magazine will become a 100-percent-digital publication”.
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The CBS article title reads: “How Technology May Soon “Read” Your Mind” but readers of Blogging the Singularity know very well it’s not that they may – THEY WILL!
How can a multi-billion dollar mainstream media outlet describe the advancing pace of “neuroscience research into…what we’re thinking” as only “stunning”?
We here at Blogging the Singularity as well as our readers tend to prefer the more technical term: EXPONENTIAL!
Great story but as usual the media conglomerate ignores the big picture. They want you stunned, we want you informed.
Subscribe to the feed and keep reading….the pace is picking up!
My favorite quote from the video:
“…there is no Science Fiction anymore. All the Science Fiction I read in high school we’re doing.” more>>>
“Screwdriver isn’t one place in the brain. It’s many places in the brain. When you think of a screwdriver, you think about how you hold it, how you twist it, what it looks like, what you use it for,” Just explained. more>>>
SAN FRANCISCO – The Apple computer was invented in a garage. Same with the Google search engine. Now, tinkerers are working at home with the basic building blocks of life itself.
Using homemade lab equipment and the wealth of scientific knowledge available online, these hobbyists are trying to create new life forms through genetic engineering — a field long dominated by Ph.D.s toiling in university and corporate laboratories.
In her San Francisco dining room lab, for example, 31-year-old computer programmer Meredith L. Patterson is trying to develop genetically altered yogurt bacteria that will glow green to signal the presence of melamine, the chemical that turned Chinese-made baby formula and pet food deadly.
“People can really work on projects for the good of humanity while learning about something they want to learn about in the process,” she said.
So far, no major gene-splicing discoveries have come out anybody’s kitchen or garage. more>>>
One of the most fundamental theoretical problems in physics today could be explained in other ways without using string theories. The black holes, the weird objects that triggered this scientific debate, could actually contain a fully developed infinite universe, into a finite space, thus eliminating the illusive and problematic singularity.
Terrorists would find it “relatively easy” to launch a devastating attack using swarms of insects to spread a deadly disease, an academic has warned.
Jeffrey Lockwood, professor of entomology at Wyoming University and author of Six-legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War, said such Rift Valley Fever or other diseases could be transported into a country by a terrorist with a suitcase.
He told BBC Radio 4′s Today programme: “I think a small terrorist cell could very easily develop an insect-based weapon.”
He said it would “probably be much easier” than developing a nuclear or chemical weapon, arguing: “The raw material is in the back yard.” more>>>
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Chris Williamson: Filmmaker, science enthusiast, and futurist concerned with the accelerating nature of technological growth and where it's headed. He is currently studying for his MFA in Film Production.
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