Topics on my particular interests.
Hm… could the world of Darrell Bain’s The Pet Plague be far behind? 😉 Or more seriously, the brain enhancements of Peter F. Hamilton’s Night’s Dawn trilogy, or any of a dozen similar science fiction works? Scary stuff, but ooh so exciting, too.
Beautiful. Simply beautiful. I’m going on the possibly-naive assumption that most rich people got that way honestly, and deserve everything they’ve earned (though not the ridiculous tax breaks they currently enjoy), and that it’s just a few crooked ones who are using their ill-gotten gains to manipulate the political system and screw the rest of …
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Sorry, conservative politicians. You can’t use cyberspace as an excuse to continue your campaign to involve the US in a major war every twenty years or so. But don’t be too disappointed, it wouldn’t kill enough young men to satisfy you, or be very lucrative for your weapon-manufacturing backers, anyway.
As mentioned previously here, autistic people tend to interpret things as black and white, all-true or all-false, no shades of gray allowed. That’s almost certainly why many of us are drawn to working with computers, because computers “think” the same way. Nice to see someone recognizing that as a strength and putting it to good …
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Wow, talk about Back to the Future. Though at that price, it’s more like back to the bank’s loan officer… I don’t think I’ll be indulging in this one. (They’ll either make a mint or lose their shirts, depending on how many people are rich enough — and interested enough — to buy one. But …
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A camera that allows you to snap the shot anytime and worry about focusing it later, and that automatically records true 3D-compatible images? It sounds like twenty-first century technology to me. 🙂 In fact, it sounds very much like the 3D imaging technology described in Asimov’s The Caves of Steel, that allowed detective Elijah Bailey …
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Some fascinating brain research on how the ready availability of Internet porn has changed things for younger generations — and more importantly, the medical reason why: […] Your brain didn’t evolve to handle today’s erotica-at-a-click. It doesn’t just see videos; it perceives endless fertilization opportunities, and it will use its dopamine “whip” to make sure …
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The Internet is good for a lot of things… not all of them good. (Via Schneier on Security)
I’ve often wondered why things were so different in my parents’ childhood books, which I often read as a child myself. Teenagers seemed far freer to do things in those days than what I experienced in my youth, as well as far more willing. While part of that might be poetic license and wishful thinking …
Food for thought: “Computers are making people easier to use everyday.”