Archive for February, 2010

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EBay, Google, Walmart among customers for fuel cell system…

Click here for the complete article found on MSNBC.

Click here for more information on the subject of cleaner energy.

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The moment Jaron Lanier takes the stage at the solidly packed Actors’ Gang Theater, even those unfamiliar with his work sense that he’s the real deal — a Bay Area–based computer wizard/philosophical thinker/experimental musician with decades-long influence on cultural, political and economic movers and shakers…

Click here for the entire article LA Weekly website.

Also, I have just discovered that the book “You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto” by Jaron Lanier is one of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month for January 2010.

Click here for more information on both the book “You Are Not a Gadget” and Jaron Lanier.

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“Class Size Increased 200% to Accommodate Growing Interest to Address “Humanity’s Grand Challenges” Through Scientific, Technological Collaboration and Innovation; Interested Candidates Must Submit Applications On or Before March 15, 2010″

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Cambridge scientist calls for ethical debate on drugs bought on internet that boost alertness and attention…

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I just completed reading this interesting, insightful and thought provoking book. I highly recommend it.

As you read it, watch for and keep in mind the underlying innovations and technological advances that are driving forces pushing us towards increasing globalization and “The Post-American World” described by Fareed Zakaria. Fareed provides significant historical perspective as he guides us through what he sees.

There are many reviews of this book on Amazon.com plus an interesting conversation that takes place between Fareed Zakaria and Thomas Friedman, the author of “Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America”.

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according to results released on Friday…

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This article was prompted in part by an August 2008 cover story in the Atlantic Monthly by technology writer Nicholas Carr headlined: “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”

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Here’s a list of articles that have recently caught my attention on the subject of life extension. I have posted them on my Blogging Life Extension website.

Articles include -

Dreaded Diseases Dwindle with Gene Testing

Genetic Testing Heads to the Pharmacy

Genetic Code 2.0: Life Gets a New Operating System

To Age or Not To Age – Panel Discussion

Aging Well

and many more!

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There’s little debate that the United States lags behind…

Click here for the Network World article.

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Another sign of the growing importance of Social Media…

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Charlie Kam has written and recorded a humorous Singularitarian version of Gilbert & Sullivan’s “I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major General,” from the Gilbert & Sullivan opera, “The Pirates of Penzance.”

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The brains trust of the Pentagon says it is just months away from producing a jet fuel from algae for the same cost as its fossil-fuel equivalent.

The claim, which comes from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) that helped to develop…

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Autodesk joins Google and ePlanet Ventures as a key supporter…

Click here for the article found on the Market Watch website.

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Using People to Find People…

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Click here for an earlier post on this subject titled – “The Fourth Revolution”.

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for more on Pandora.

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