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DeLorean DMC-12 Today on Far Future Horizons we take a trip back in time, back to the 1980s and will examine some of the most popular gadgets and fads that defined a decade. Join us as we take a retrospective look at Sony’s Walkman, the Rubik’s Cube, the DeLorean DMC-12, and of course the microchip … Read more
The Famous Video Game Pong Today on Far Future Horizons we take a retrospective look at the technology of the Nineteen Seventies. From pong to CB radios, to the instant camera to the Pontiac Firebird and everywhere in between it all has the mark of the technology of the seventies. The Best of Modern Marvels … Read more
Today on Far Future Horizons we take a voyage back to the 1960s and recall the technological happenings that helped shape the decade. A decade that saw humankind take its first steps on another world. Color TV, computers the size of Mac® trucks and Lava lamps we return to the heady days of the Space … Read more
The video included here is of “Baroness” Susan Greenfield speaking at The RSA about her new book, Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains (to be released in the U.S. in January, 2015). Her talk was mired in controversy before she ever opened her mouth (see the details in the … Read more
In this article, Lee Billings riffs on Stanislaw Lem’s relatively unknown book of philosophical essays, Summa Technologiae (Electronic Mediations), written in 1964 but not fully translated into English until 2013. Lem is known primarily for his science fiction writing, especially the 1961 novel Solaris, adapted into a meditative film by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972. In … Read more
A couple of weeks ago, on ABC’s Radio National (Australia), All in the Mind featured a discussion about new technologies in “building” a brain that is comparable to a human brain. Most of the research seems to be taking a bottom-up approach, building from neurons to networks to modules. I’m skeptical. Perhaps we build … Read more