The Boy Who Sees with Sound - Teknologinen Daredevil.
Completely blind since the age of 3, after retinal cancer claimed both his eyes (he now wears two prostheses), Ben has learned to perceive and locate objects by making a steady stream of sounds with his tongue, then listening for the echoes as they bounce off the surfaces around him. -- While many blind people listen for echoes to some degree, Ben's ability to navigate in his sightless world is, say experts, extraordinary. "His skills are rare," says Dan Kish, a blind psychologist and leading teacher of echomobility among the blind. "Ben pushes the limits of human perception."
Artificial intelligence is 50 years old
"It's not a human civilization and a machine civilization competing with each other," Kurzweil said. "It's a human-machine civilization that's already merged, and that merger is going to get more intimate."
The Joy of Sucking - Häviäminen on hauskaa, surkeus on ihanaa, synkkyys on kaunista ja toivottomuus on kiehtova kokemus. Pelimaailmassa eletään autuuden aalloilla, eri onnellisuusskaalalla kuin reaalimaailmassa.
The Age of the Web Hermit
So in this world where fortunes are made and lost by trading in nothing more substantial than data; where you can choose your friends and acquaintances not just from the people you meet at work or down the pub, but from all over the world; where you can get almost any item from any where delivered to your door without having to leave your desk; we have to ask ourselves - is there anything that we really need good old fashioned Real Life for any more? Is a life of doing things and meeting people as our primitive ancestors in the late 20th Century knew it becoming redundant?
Grūpthink - Kekomielikokeilu.
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