Jeremy O’Brien spoke recently at Google on Quantum Technologies, a topic he has written on extensively [see his 2009 paper, with Furusawa and Vu ckovi c, Photonic Quantum Technologies]. This is interesting stuff – and likely to be the future of computing technology. Jeremy O’Brien: “Quantum Technologies” June 17, 2014 Jeremy O’Brien visited Google LA … Read more
This week’s podcast from All in the Mind (Australia) focused on how the internet and social media can be harnessed for everything from taking the emotional pulse of the nation to suicide prevention. The hard data of soft emotions Lynne Malcolm | Sunday 25 May 2014 Listen now Download audio show transcript Image: We … Read more
As my regular readers well know, I don’t think we will ever have human-like robots who can interact with us as though they are not machines. This article from Nautilus presents recent advances in what is known as subsymbolic approaches to AI, “Trying to get computers to behave intelligently without worrying about whether the code … Read more
Via UCTV and the University of California at Berkeley, this video talk by Michel Maharbiz (faculty webpage) takes a look at the future of cyborg technology, especially in insects. His work is in developing electronic interfaces to cells, to organisms, and to brains. Professor Maharbiz (personal webpage) is: Associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer … Read more
In this opinion piece for Wired, Kevin Kelly argues that we should embrace surveillance because it is a necessary piece of the new technological world we are creating. But there are two kinds of surveillance, and only one of them is workable. [O]ur central choice now is whether this surveillance is a secret, one-way panopticon … Read more
I think we need to drop the “might” from that headline and replace it with “will.” Still, George Dvorsky gets a big AMEN from me on this piece from io9 (even if it is a year old). For the record, however, I feel compelled to lodge my disagreement with point #5, that “mind-body dualism” is … Read more
From Bookforum‘s Omnivore blog, this collection of links is from the end of 2013. Among the topics here are technology, social constructs, social networks, digital democracy, and how Google and Amazon own the world (sort of). Hacking Society Dec 24 2013 9:00AM Timothy J. Demy, Demetri Economos, and Jeffrey M. Shaw (NWC): Historical and Social … Read more
Perkembangan teknologi kini mempermudah manusia untuk merangcang dan mendesain kendaraan untuk masa depan menjadi semakin mudah, baik kerugian dan kelebihan dapat dikalkulasikan dalam sebuah komputer yang canggih. Tak pelak jika perkembangan otomotifsemakin cepat jauh dari masa nenek moyang dahulu.Berikut adalah karya Marco Romero yang mendesain karyanya dengan menekankan pada desain masa depan
The art and science of formal classification owes its origin to the great philosopher Aristotle, who conceived of a conceptual tree whose trunk and branches denote different divisions of ontology, hierarchies of being, logical and natural relations, etc. This tree metaphor became ubiquitous until very recently. It’s been used to map historical and genealogical changes … Read more
Whenever new technologies arise, such as the ability to genetically engineer biological organisms, one of the classic luddite objections is that such novelty represents human hubris as we attempt to “play God” and do something “unnatural.” I’ve never quite understood such objections, since we run the risk of “creating life” whenever we have a few … Read more