January 2012
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Technology Trends in 2014 (from 2012)
(While these trends are United States-centric, most of them also apply to other developed countries, and will soon apply to developing countries as well.) Internet A significant fraction of households now have 100-200 mbps broadband connections, with pockets of 400 mpbs connections spreading to some cities, and more, but still rare, 1 gbps connections. The arrival of 4K video online and the...
Jan 10th
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Technology Trends in 2012 (From 2012)
(While these trends are United States-centric, most of them also apply to other developed countries, and will soon apply to developing countries as well.) In 2012, nearly everyone will benefit from faster internet speeds, 1080p video will be everywhere, vast and flexible LCD displays will cover more marketing space, hardware will arrive to support the next step up in resolution and graphics (4K),...
Jan 10th
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December 2011
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Fundraising for Emerging Technologies...
[Reposting from Frontier Channel.] The following emerging technology organizations are raising money for 2012. Over the past few years the amount of money being donated to these types of causes has grown exponentially, but that was starting from about zero. Now that ideas like healthy life extension, accelerating technology, Friendly AGI and the Technological Singularity have gone mainstream,...
Dec 28th
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(via Kickstarter - Playa Time-Lapse 2.0) Go gigabig or go home.
Dec 4th
November 2011
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Nov 20th
"Robotics" YouTube Playlist →
Nov 20th
"Visions of the Future" YouTube Playlist →
Nov 20th
Digital Media is Just a Battle That Will Soon Be...
Google took Google Music, previously a cloud storage solution for music files, out of beta today and added Google+ integration and music purchases from three of the four major labels as well as many independent labels. The result? An iTunes competitor and most of the pieces for a digital media platform to rival the platforms developed by Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft. Almost all of these platforms...
Nov 17th
October 2011
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Kickstarter - Hypothes.is - Taking peer review to... →
Oct 29th
Google+ Zero
When Google Wave was announced, I immediately took to a platform that seemed to combine all of the productivity tools I used. It was an exciting time and my brain was full of ideas about how Wave would fit into work and the other projects I was interested in starting. When Wave was cancelled, I was disappointed, but I had not been using it much. The reason? No one else was using it either. In the...
Oct 25th
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The Rise of Human-to-Machine Communication
From the perspective of you and me, Web 2.0 has been all about human-to-human communication. Sure, this communication is mediated by increasingly sophisticated machine-to-machine interactions, but from blogs to social networks to new media, best practices to graphic design to standards, we consider human-to-human communication to be central to the web as we know it today. This will not be the...
Oct 25th
June 2011
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Creativity is “Everything”.
Jun 2nd
March 2011
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Kurzweil AI News: "Discovery may lead to cure for... →
The debate over whether or not it is possible to cure addiction, adultery, obesity, mental illness, and even criminal behavior is over. While the interactions between genetics and environment are complex, the tools to manipulate ourselves at the molecular level are emerging, nature versus nurture be damned. This could not be more personal.
Mar 26th
February 2011
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I am dying to see this documentary made and they are so close to being fulling funded! Just five more days to donate on Kickstarter.
Feb 27th
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Awesome! Stop motion? Christopher Lee? A tribute to Tim Burton? Yes, please. Donate on Kickstarter to make this a reality!
Feb 27th
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One of the documentaries I would like to see made. Donate on Kickstarter. Yeah, I’m a sometimes football fan. If there is a next season and if Apple TV ever offered NFL Sunday Ticket, that is how I would spend my Sundays.
Feb 27th
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Important Progress in Equal Rights for LGBT
Today brings great news regarding the slow but steady march toward equal rights for all LGBT citizens. In expected but still wonderful news, Hawaii has become the seventh state to authorize civil unions (three states that previously enacted civil union laws now allow gay marriages). There are now 13 states and one district that allow same-sex marriages or offer partnerships with comparable rights...
Feb 24th
Feb 18th
Apple's Subscription Gamble
Apple announced their digital media subscription service for the iOS App Store today and reaction has been all over the place, though for certain classes of people it has been overwhelmingly negative. Developers and publishers especially are not happy with the service requirements. For digital media like streaming video from Netflix, Hulu Plus; streaming music from Pandora; and ebooks from...
Feb 16th
"Back to the Future" Photography →
Very cool idea from a photographer with amazing (and sometimes a little NSFW and surprising) results.
Feb 16th
Feb 15th
"A Fight to Win the Future: Computers vs. Humans"... →
“Virtually any job that now involves answering questions and conducting commercial transactions by telephone will soon be at risk.”
Feb 14th
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h+ Mafia? No.
What did Sarah Lacy of TechCrunch find when she took a look “Inside the DNA of the Facebook Mafia”? There is the same kind of “in the family” interactions between the various companies started by ex-Facebook employees as there are for the other technology mafia since the 1990s, but in addition there seems to be a shared world view and technology perspective. The Facebook...
Feb 14th
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After reading about the “Facebook Mafia” on Techcrunch, I decided to finish watching this introduction to the upcoming task management platform (and so much more), Asana. I was surprised to see Halcyon Molecular mentioned and I began to wonder if a h+ Mafia exists? Next post.
Feb 14th
Valentine's Day
Valentine’s Day is coming up and it is a holiday I detest. It is on my list of most horrible annual events, next to April Fool’s Day. Every Valentine’s Day I pretend very hard to not notice that it is occurring. However, in the spirit of openness and truthfulness - especially to myself - I admit this reaction is because I am terribly jealous. You see, the most perfect thing in...
Feb 6th
January 2011
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Ain't It Cool: "So The ALIEN Prequel... Isn't?!... →
So happy that this is not an “Alien” prequel (or sequel), but an original concept that may incidentally be set in the same universe. Also exciting that Damon Lindelof is involved.
Jan 20th
Ain't It Cool: "The Awesome Syd Mead Working With... →
Neill Blomkamp. Syd Mead. Jodie Foster. Matt Damon. Wow.
Jan 20th
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Donate to Emerging Technology-Related... →
The link above is a bundle of several links to fundraisers for emerging technology-related organizations. Donations have risen significantly in the past two years as transhumanism, emerging technologies, and the Technological Singularity concept have reached mainstream audiences. The list below is just a sample of the money raised in 2010 through donations for various emerging-technology related...
Jan 20th
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Prediction: 1080p Digital Media in 2011
Although a few companies already claim to stream 1080p video, Apple will announce 1080p television and movie downloads and streaming for purchase or rental through iTunes and Apple TV in the United States, sparking a rash of similar announcements from other digital media vendors like Amazon and Netflix. The H.264 video will play back at a bit rate between 8 and 12 mbps (Blu-ray video plays back at...
Jan 15th
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“Things don’t get better or worse. They just get different.”
Jan 15th
Jan 15th
The River Why →
A movie I’m looking forward to, based on a book I enjoyed.
Jan 15th