February 2012
33 posts
Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery →
“He leaves his cellphone and laptop at home and instead brings “loaner” devices, which he erases before he leaves the United States and wipes clean the minute he returns. In China, he disables Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, never lets his phone out of his sight and, in meetings, not only turns off his phone but also removes the battery, for fear his microphone could be turned on remotely. He...
Humans, Version 3.0 § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM →
The next giant leap in human evolution may not come from new fields like genetic engineering or artificial intelligence, but rather from appreciating our ancient brains.
There Is No Cyberspace →
“Cyberspace, not so long ago, was a specific elsewhere, one we visited periodically, peering into it from the familiar physical world. Now cyberspace has everted. Turned itself inside out. Colonized the physical. Making Google a central and evolving structural unit not only of the architecture of cyberspace, but of the world. This is the sort of thing that empires and nation-states did,...
[Video] Artist's Time-Lapse Map of the World's... →
For those of us that came of age during the 1980s and after, the threat of nuclear oblivion has never seemed to be a real threat. The dangers of AIDS, economic failure, terrorism have loomed large in the lives of Generation X, Y and the Millennials, but very few of us ever had to hide under our desks during a bomb drill or watch Dad obsess over the backyard underground bunker.
In 2003, Japanese...
Black Cat Hacks: This is meant to be a list of... →
blackcathacker:
Abine - A Firefox / Internet Explorer plugin that blocks third party advertising networks, manages HTTP, DOM, and Flash cookies, and securely manages site logins. Currently in private beta, but invites aren’t hard to get. Abine Privacy Suite
Ad Blockers for Browsers - Firefox: …
Smart Drugs & Nutrients In 1991 →
“In some of my interviews for the M2k History Project, I ask people if Virtual Reality and Smart Drugs let us down… or did we let them down. One interesting response came from Jim English, a Mondo 2000 friend involved — then and now — in the vitamin and nutrient business: “I think that the us part that failed were that we are a nation of fads. And smart drugs and smart drinks were a big...
First ‘Heartless’ Man: You Don’t Really Need A... →
“But after the operation, with the ‘machine’ as his heart’s replacement, Lewis’ blood continued to spin and move through his body.
However, when doctors put a stethoscope to his chest, no heartbeat or pulse can be heard (only a ‘humming’ sound)—which “by all criteria that we conventionally use to analyze patients”, Doctor Cohn said, he is dead. ”
natasha-vita-more-life-expansion-project-and-its-me... →
“Just got out of Santa Rita Jail last night the prisoners from the Oakland...”
– Occupy Oakland Protester (via anticapitalist)
Is the cyberwarfare arms race for real? Survey of... →
infoneer-pulse:
A global cyberwarfare arms race is in full swing, a majority of cybersecurity and policy experts surveyed worldwide agrees.
Such a finding may not be entirely surprising given that news reports of such an arms race have been popping up like mushrooms over the past year.
But the 2011-2012 survey – conducted by the Security & Defence Agenda (SDA) of Brussels, a specialist...
Self-steering bullet researched by US weapons... →
infoneer-pulse:
A self-guiding bullet that can steer itself towards its target is being developed for use by the US military.
The bullet uses tiny fins to correct the course of its flight allowing it to hit laser-illuminated targets.
It is designed to be capable of hitting objects at distances of about 2km (1.24 miles). Work on a prototype suggests that accuracy is best at longer ranges.
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January 2012
32 posts
Surrogate Self: What is Anthropomorphobia? →
surrogateself:
Anthropomorphobia is the fear of recognizing human characteristics in non-human objects. The term is a hybrid of two Greek-derived words: ‘anthropomorphic’ means ‘of human form’ and ‘phobia’ means ‘fear’.
Its symptoms are irrational panic attacks, disdain, revulsion, and confusion over things…
deconcrete: Neil Harbisson’s third eye →
“Neil Harbisson introduces himself as the first cyborg ever legally recognized by any Government (2004). He was born colour-blind; so he can only see in black and white (Achromatopsia disorder). An electronic device implanted in his neck allows him to translate colours into sounds. The camera that hangs from his forehead 24/7 was accepted as part of his British passport photo. By that very...
Researchers create car that can be steered by... →
Shimizu's Dream →
Proposals to Benefit Future Generations
Lunar Solar Power Generation -LUNA RING-
The Energy Paradigm Shift Opens the Door to a Sustainable Society
TRY2025 The Environmental Island -GREEN FLOAT-
The Botanical City Concept
TRY 2004 The “Pyramid City in the Air” Concept
Dreaming the Future
Inter Cell City
Creating a Sustainable, Environmentally Conscious...
New drone has no pilot anywhere, so who's... →
“The X-47B marks a paradigm shift in warfare, one that is likely to have far-reaching consequences. With the drone’s ability to be flown autonomously by onboard computers, it could usher in an era when death and destruction can be dealt by machines operating semi-independently.”
tanjents: IP LIST in the event of a DNS takedown →
tanjents:
tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201
# News bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131 aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252
# Social media reddit.com 72.247.244.88 imgur.com 173.231.140.219 google.com 74.125.157.99 youtube.com 74.125.65.91 yahoo.com 98.137.149.56 hotmail.com 65.55.72.135 bing.com…
Deathmatch on Mars: An Interview with Warren Ellis... →
“If we’re talking outside the space launch field, then, hell, America innovates every day, in a myriad of fields. The field of metamaterials, for instance — invisibility cloaks, and hiding events from time itself? That’s just today, as I talk to you, and that’s all American. I realize there’s a narrative that America is all done, and doesn’t make stuff any more, and it’s midnight for the...
"Personal Identity and Uploading", by Mark Walker →
