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Information Filtering: the adaptive capacity of the human mind
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The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet
Technology Review: Blogs: Mims's Bits: The Future of Interfaces is Mobile, Screen-less and Invisible
Legendary rock journalist, performer, novelist and countercultural gadfly since the 60s, Mick Farren discusses his newest book, Speed-Speed-Speedfreak (Feral House). Elvis Presley, The Hell’s Angels, Hunter S. Thompson, Truman Capote, the Beatles, Hank Williams, the Manson Family, Jack Keroauc, Johnny Cash, JFK, Adolph Hitler: all of the above were, at one time or another, to put it bluntly, speedfreaks.
Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring | Danger Room | Wired.com
At TEDGlobal 2010, author Matt Ridley shows how, throughout history, the engine of human progress has been the meeting and mating of ideas to make new ideas. It's not important how clever individuals are, he says; what really matters is how smart the collective brain is.
Just too hilarious for words, but tragic that such media seems to take it so seriously. It could be argued that music is the oldest man-created opiate of them all - hardly a new phenomonem!
What is Augmented Reality (AR)? The Meddling Geniuses at ImmersiveTech break it down and explain it in plain simple English. The concept of AR has been around since 1992 but its modern form has really started to mature in the last three years. AR is even starting to appear on the smartphones that practically everyone has these days.
Augmented reality is a term for live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment that has been augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery. It takes your ~current~ reality and ~enhances~ it with a virtual layer of artificial information. The phrase 'Augmented Reality' was first coined in 1992 by Thomas Caudell at Boeing in helping workers assemble cables into Boeing aircrafts and later demonstrated to enhance human performance by the US Air Force that same year. Before you know it, AR will become as part of our everyday lives as our watches and smartphones!
The Future of Tech According to Kids: Immersive, Intuitive and Surprisingly Down-to-Earth
Oxygen: Women Are Addicted To Facebook, But Unsure Where To Draw The Lines | paidContent
Without any fear for the future, boys have given up their ambition
Urban designer Mitchell Joachim presents his vision for sustainable, organic architecture: eco-friendly abodes grown from plants and -- wait for it -- meat.
Virtual Worlds News: Augmented Reality Used To Treat Phobia Patients
What is Virtual Reality (VR)? The Meddling Geniuses at ImmersiveTech break it down and explain it in plain simple English. There is more virutal reality around than you think. Granted we still have quite a way to go but every journey begins with a first step.
Virtual reality is a term that applies to computer-simulated environments that simulate places in the real world as well as imaginary ones. It takes your ~current~ reality and ~replaces~ it with a virtual one. The first widely accepted ~digital~ virtual reality was created by the US Air Force in 1966 as part of their flight simulation training, however traces of attempts to ~replace~ reality predating digital computing can be found as far back as the 1860's when 360 art through panoramic murals began to appear.
The world's first ever Immersive Technology Summit will be held at the Los Angeles Center Studios (LACS) on October 14th, 2010.
Tough Measures: Rape-aXe - Welcome to offical website of Sonette Ehlers
Virtual Worlds News: Total Immersion Uses Augmented Reality For Camera Demo
Intel Lab To Study Computer, Human Interaction -- Intel -- InformationWeek
CloudSigma Offers A Carbon Neutral Cloud - ReadWriteCloud
CloudSigma Offers A Carbon Neutral Cloud
Adobe Systems Founders Win 2010 Marconi Prize | VizWorld.com
Adobe Systems Founders Win 2010 Marconi Prize
Revolving door of crime and reoffending to stop says Clarke - Ministry of Justice
Revolving door of crime and reoffending to stop says Clarke
Cisco Launches Smart Grid Assault, Home Energy Gadget
Cisco Launches Smart Grid Assault, Home Energy Gadget
The need for real security in a virtual world
Minamo – Water-based Touchscreen (Time to get your hands wet!)
Facebook Snags the Guy Who Built Google's Chrome OS
Facebook Snags the Guy Who Built Google's Chrome OS
Thoughts on the Resolution of Nothing - Tim Howgego
Thoughts on the Resolution of Nothing
A Technology Innovator’s Move to Mobile - NYTimes.com
Technology Innovator’s Mobile Move
Clay Shirky teaches New Media as an associate teacher[3] at New York University’s graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program.
On June 3, 2010, the Computer History Museum hosted a 6-session conference on the PLATO learning system. Session 6 was entitled "An Early Online Community: People Plus Computing Grows Communities."
Session 6 Description:
The developers of PLATO didn't set out to build an online community. So how did it turn into one? In 1972 few suspected that a human community could grow and thrive within the electronic circuitry of a computer. But two years later the world's first online community was flourishing on PLATO, using technologies that didn't become widely available elsewhere for decades: discussion forums, email, chat rooms, instant messaging, presence awareness, screen sharing, and multiplayer games. Today's social computing is different -- but not all that different than what existed "back then" on PLATO. This panel will explore the similarities and differences, including the early elements in place at PLATO that led to its success. How did the community organize itself? Why was it so successful? What was missing? What can we learn from these experiences? What's next? Discussion panelists are: Lili Cheng, Kim Mast and Dave Woolley. Moderated by Charlene Li.
PLATO Overview:
PLATO was a centralized, mainframe-based system, with very sophisticated terminals connected to it. Its mission was to deliver education electronically at low cost. But it became much, much more than that. It quickly became home to a diverse online community that represented a microcosm of today's online world. Much of what we take for granted in today's hyper-active, always-on world of social media, blogs, and addictive computer games could be applied to what life was like on the PLATO system beginning in the mid-1970s.
PLATO, an acronym standing for "Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations," started as a project of the Coordinated Sciences Laboratory (CSL) at the University of Illinois in 1960. The original goal was to build on the mechanical "teaching machine" work of B.F. Skinner and instead see if it was possible to build a computer that could teach. In time they discovered not only was the answer yes, but computers could be extremely effective, and economically viable, at teaching large segments of the population.
In the 1970s, Control Data Corporation entered into a series of agreements with the University of Illinois to commercialize the PLATO system and bring it to the marketplace. The result was a great expansion of PLATO throughout the U.S. and the world, with systems installed in Canada, France, Belgium, Israel, Sweden, Australia, South Africa, United Kingdom, and elsewhere. Fifty years on, PLATO has left its imprint across a wide range of computing activities, from e-learning to social media, from online multiplayer games to major hardware and software innovations.
Singularity University Graduate Studies Program opening ceremony, featuring Larry Page, Larry Brilliant, Peter Diamandis, Ray Kurzweil and NASA Astronaut Dan Barry. Singularity University is an interdisciplinary university that aims to study and use technology growth to address the greatest challenges facing mankind.
For almost a century until the mid-1960s, tens of thousands of ordinary people attended the lynchings of over 4,700 African Americans that often included hours of torture, mutilation and photographs.
The documentary "Always in Season" examines the impact this form of racial violence still has on Americans today with intimate accounts from spectators, their relatives, and family members of lynching victims.
Developed at the Bay Area Video Coalition in San Francisco over the course of 10 days in early June, the proof-of-concept "Always in Season Island" in Second Life gives visitors a personal sense of the choices and circumstances that brought men, women, and children out to watch lynchings in every state across the U.S. but four.
As visitors learn about this intrinsic part of American history and share the experience in an interactive environment, students and educators can gain strategies for preventing targeting and group violence in their own communities today.
Stay tuned for more! Info at http://www.alwaysinseasonisland.com
Bye bye bifocals, hello electronic spectacles - Telegraph
Bye bye bifocals, hello electronic spectacles
The Trilogy of Webs for Machines: Mashing It All Together
The Trilogy of Webs for Machines: Mashing It All Together
Ray Kurzweil Vows to Right E-Reader Wrongs - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Ray Kurzweil Vows to Right E-Reader Wrongs
Digital Urban: Transparency and the City: Public Spaces or Forgotten Places?
Transparency and the City: Public Spaces or Forgotten Places?
Parliament of Things
Fly Around Your City With Yell's 3D Maps
Fly Around Your City With Yell's 3D Maps
They built Pandora: The ultimate guide to Avatar's designers
They built Pandora: The ultimate guide to Avatar's designers
Senators propose granting president emergency Internet power | Politics and Law - CNET News
US Senators propose granting president emergency Internet power
Costner on Govt Bureaucracy: “Like Playing a Video Game” | GamePolitics
Costner on Govt Bureaucracy: “Like Playing a Video Game”
China, Zynga and the Growing Clout of Digital Communication - Pixels and Policy
China, Zynga and the Growing Clout of Digital Communication
Second Life served as the setting for art podcast Bad at Sports’ recent interview with Rafman/Kool-Aid Man, where the artist’s rumbling autotuned voice muses on a series of fascinating existential subjects as we float through the technicolor backdrop of “the ultimate tourist destination… turbo-charged Las Vegas and Dubai combined. Where every possibility and combination of landscape and architecture can exist.”
Interview with Bruce Sterling, Part I: At the 9am of the Augmented Reality Industry, are2010
MOVIE | The Singularity is Near » Homepage
The Singularity is Near - The Movie Home
Lifehacker Pack for Mac: Our List of the Best Free Mac Downloads
Lifehacker Pack for Mac: Our List of the Best Free Mac Downloads
U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com
U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan
Military-Grade Augmented Reality Could Redefine Modern Warfare
Military-Grade Augmented Reality Could Redefine Modern Warfare
Ancient ocean may have covered third of Mars
Ancient Ocean May Have Covered Third of Mars
In the Singularity Movement, Humans Are So Yesterday - NYTimes.com
Merely Human? That’s So Yesterday
The Steampunk Tribune: Happy International Steampunk Day!
Happy International Steampunk Day!
Heres a movie of British designer Thomas Heatherwicks UK Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010.
As his career grew, David Byrne went from playing CBGB to Carnegie Hall. He asks: Does the venue make the music? From outdoor drumming to Wagnerian operas to arena rock, he explores how context has pushed musical innovation.
The S Word: UK science: first cut in a strategic area
UK science: first cut in a strategic area
Simple way to create nanocircuitry on graphene developed
Kevin Costner sells 32 oil spill machines to BP to recycle 6 million gallons of water a day (photos)
Kevin Costner sells 32 oil spill machines to BP to recycle 6 million gallons of water a day
The Imagination Age: Mything Links by Jean Houston
Mything Links by Jean Houston
How To Plan Ahead For Your Digital Demise : NPR
How To Plan Ahead For Your Digital Demise
How to Manage Your News Consumption in the Real-Time Web Era
How to Manage Your News Consumption in the Real-Time Web Era
Kiwi preservationists unearth "time capsule" of long-lost US silent films
A Teen’s Take On Tween Social Networks | Ypulse
A Teen's Take On Tween Social Networks
Serious Games, Science Communication, and One Utopian Vision « The Scholarly Kitchen
Serious Games, Science Communication, and One Utopian Vision
VisionMobile :: blog :: The past, present and future of Mobile Video Telephony
The past, present and future of Mobile Video Telephony
US drones: inside the tools of modern warfare - Channel 4 News
US drones: inside the tools of modern warfare
Immortal avatars: Back up your brain, never die - life - 07 June 2010 - New Scientist
Immortal avatars: Back up your brain, never die
Australia Latest Country to Investigate Google
Australia Latest Country to Investigate Google
Australian Police Deputize Facebook
Australian Police Deputize Facebook
A Geekgasm at 9am in the Augmented Reality Industry – are2010: Bruce Sterling’s Keynote & Will Wright
Neanderthals walked into frozen Britain 40,000 years earlier than first thought, evidence shows
Neanderthals Walked Into Frozen Britain 40,000 Years Earlier Than First Thought, Evidence Shows
MixedRealities :: So you think we are so cosmopolitan in our virtual communities?
So you think we are so cosmopolitan in our virtual communities?
How the military improved its language education - Boing Boing
How the military improved its language education
Titan: Nasa scientists discover evidence 'that alien life exists on Saturn's moon' - Telegraph
Titan: Nasa scientists discover evidence 'that alien life exists on Saturn's moon'
An animated interview of John Perkins, author of 'HoodWinked' and 'Confessions Of An Economic Hitman'
Copyright of the audio belongs to John Perkins.
Director Wim Wenders Hails 3D as an “… ideal tool” for Documentaries » Cyber Hermit
Director Wim Wenders Hails 3D as an “… ideal tool” for Documentaries
HTML5 Video Made Hackable By Handroll.tv
HTML5 Video Made Hackable By Handroll.tv
The New Face of Autism Therapy
Yoko Ono would like you all to know how beautiful Iceland is, and how much I love the country and its people.
"Thank you, Iceland and Icelanders for being what you are - a family of wisdom, showing the world how we can protect our Earth and its spirits."
Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak -- the real-life version of the film's eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow's computers will be controlled?
KAREN, VLENZ Update 171, June 01, 2010 « Virtual Life Education New Zealand
All NZ education to get real Broadband speeds
Content key for 3D uptake in the home | Broadband TV News
Content key for 3D uptake in the home
Who Needs Windows? Google Starts Putting Their Computers Where Their Mouth Is
Who Needs Windows? Google Starts Putting Their Computers Where Their Mouth Is
Warren Ellis » Re-Covering NEW WORLDS
Re-Covering NEW WORLDS