Domen Lombergar - Slovenialaisen taiteilijan eroottisia androidimaalauksia. Video Posthuman-näyttelystä.
Wired: Let Robots Sweat the Boring Stuff
Personally, I wouldn't mind living in a world in which all my routine interactions were with robots, and I kept my quality time for human beings. Sartre and his partner Simone de Beauvoir lived in hotels most of their lives and ate in restaurants, using room staff and waiters as servants. They did this so they could concentrate on what was really important to them -- writing, thinking, debating the ideas of their time.
Don't Arrest Andrea!
Making entering erroneous information illegal when setting up an relation with an online system is also problematic from an enforcement perspective. We make mistakes when writing our names. People systematically distort their age. Some information while true simply has the wrong format to be entered, forcing the user to lie. If it is not illegal to make mistakes, then a lot of privacy conscious people will make mistakes. -- Anonymity is often undesirable for setting up trustworthy social structures. One reason the Internet is as it is is the strong anonymity it provides. Hence many online forums are plagued by trolls, spammers and con men. But it also enables amazing new forms of expression, freedom from many constraints imposed by local culture and views, and a way for many disadvantaged groups to network. An internet based on total anonymity is just as undesirable as one with no anonymity or conditional anonymity.
Pari adressia
Indefinite Life Extension Petition
Adressi nettipokerin kieltämistä vastaan
In My Language - Amanda Baggsin video autistien kielellä ja käännettynä neurotyypillisten kielelle.
Thirty or 40 years ago, life would have been different and much harder for Amanda, says Morton Ann Gernsbacher, a cognitive psychologist who specializes in autism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "The Internet is providing for individuals with autism, what sign language did for the deaf," she says. "It allows them to interact with the world and other like-minded individuals on their own terms."
Inside Alcor - Paljon videopätkiä Alcorin toiminnasta.
Guerrilla Taggers - Video taggereista.
The Machinators - Vaalivideo johdattaa siirtokunnat uuteen maailmaan.
Only human -- the biggest risk factor in long-term space missions - Toinen muistutus siitä miksi ihmistä täytyy kosmoformata.
Here are some of the health hazards facing any future team of astronauts sent to Mars:
- PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS: Loneliness, depression, anxiety, claustrophobia, boredom, personality conflicts within the crew.
- EMERGENCIES: Anything from motion sickness and impaired coordination to toothache and appendicitis.
- RADIATION: High-speed particles in space can slice human DNA, boosting the risk of cancer.
- MUSCULAR ATROPHY: Need for a strict exercise regime to overcome loss of muscle tone due to zero gravity.
- BONE DEMINERALISATION: Bones become more porous, thus weaker, in long-duration space missions.
Toyger - Kissoja, jotka on jalostettu näyttämään minitiikereiltä.
In an era when a few cosmetic tweaks can elevate a handbag into a high-priced fetish, it’s no surprise that demand for designer cats—especially those that bring a whiff of wilderness to the suburbs—is booming. Current popular felines include the Savannah (part house cat, part African serval) and the Chausie (a house cat bred with a jungle cat). But until now, no professional breeder has tried to capture the mystique or allure of a tiger in a sofa-friendly form.
Strange Paths: Interstellar Ark - Tähtienvälisestä matkustuksesta. Tässäkin suunnitelmassa tosin lähdetään siitä, että matkustajat ovat fyysisesti ja psyykkisesti nykyihmisiä. Satojen vuosien mittaisia avaruusmatkoja tekevistä posthumaaneista olennoista nykyihmisen elinikä näyttää yhtä naurettavan lyhyeltä kuin hedelmäkärpäsen kahden viikon elinikä. Ja samalla tavoin kuin hedelmäkärpänen voisi ehkä kuvitella kuukausia kestävän maailmanympärimatkan liian pitkäksi ja yksitoikkoiseksi, nykyihminen voi kuvitella vuosisatoja kestävän avaruusmatkan yksitoikkoiseksi.
Time 2/4 - Michio Kakun dokumenttisarjan jakso kuolemattomuudesta. Lisäksi The Future of Civilization Discovery Channelin sarjasta 2057.
L.A.S.E.R. Tag - Laserilla ja videoprojektorilla kuvioita kerrostaloon.
Danger Room: Darpa Chief Speaks - 60% verenhukasta selviää pienellä annoksella rikkivetyä. Sekä RTX-jäähdytyshanska.
We develop technologies and try to transition it to people who don't know that they really want it. They just haven't really thought about what they could do with this new capability. And so we have to be clever -- I don't mean that in a bad way -- to be able to communicate in their language.
Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap since Rock and Roll
So it may be time to consider the possibility that young people who behave as if privacy doesn’t exist are actually the sane people, not the insane ones. For someone like me, who grew up sealing my diary with a literal lock, this may be tough to accept. But under current circumstances, a defiant belief in holding things close to your chest might not be high-minded. It might be an artifact—quaint and naïve, like a determined faith that virginity keeps ladies pure. Or at least that might be true for someone who has grown up “putting themselves out there” and found that the benefits of being transparent make the risks worth it.
There is nothing like it on the face of this earth. I could talk for hours, days about how amazing it is to work at Google, and I wouldn't be done. And they're not done either. Every week it seems like there's a new perk, a new benefit, a new improvement, a new survey asking us all if there's any possible way in which life at Google could be better.
Twenty years from now, the idea that someone looking for love without looking for it online will be silly, akin to skipping the card catalog to instead wander the stacks because 'the right books are found only by accident'.
Why do people build stairs and delicate escalators, if they can fly? -- Why do they spend money (real or virtual) buying chairs if they cannot get tired? -- Why do they replicate their rather low quality RL architectural, physical environment _exactly_ in SL when they have the tools to create _anything_ they want? -- Why does everyone look like in SL as if they were from the front page of People magazine? Are there any ugly (normal, handicapped, not-so-cute, and/or with disabilities) people there at all?
The most inspiring thing I've ever read was a snippet of fiction, and I can't even remember it wholly.
"And the older ones began to tell the children about the Afterglow, a brief moment after the birth of the universe when matter was still gathered so close that it pressed with it's own weight, and burned with the heat of nuclear fire." Imagine a time so far from now that the stars are legends. Imagine a single being living so long that it could tell children of a time so close to the birth of the universe that the shock of it still reverberated in the sky as microwaves. That's immortality. That's what we are meant to be. Poetry that outlives the stars.
Things to Come (1936) - Wings Over the World!
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - Klaatu barada nikto!
The Last Man On Earth (1964) - Freaks! All of you! Mutations! You're freaks -- I'm a man -- the last man!
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) - If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
TED Talks: Bjørn Lomborg - Miten saadaan aikaan eniten hyvää 50 miljardilla 4 vuoden sisällä? Kun on kyse ratkaisuista ongelmiin eikä pelkistä ongelmista, Copenhagen Consensus Center nostaa ykköseksi AIDSin estämisen ja laittaa ilmastonmuutoksen pysäyttämisen vasta listan häntäpäähän. Neljän vuoden aikaraja rajoittaa niihin ongelmiin, joille voi tehdä jotain heti ja tehokkaasti.
Pidemmällä tähtäimellä ja laajemmalla skaalalla katsottuna pienikin rahamäärä voi tehdä paljon hyvää esim. ikääntymisen pysäyttämisen ja yleistekoälyn rakentamisen edistämiseksi.
Maapallon taustahumina johtuu merenpohjaa rummuttavista aalloista. Maapallosta lähtee hyvät soundit.
Science finding ways to regrow fingers - Ja sitten kai ryhdytään vauhkoontumaan eläin-ihmishybrideistä, jos sormenpää on tehty eläimen soluista.
If Spievack, now 68, had been a toddler, things might have been different. Up to about age 2, people can consistently regrow fingertips, says Dr. Stephen Badylak, a regeneration expert at the University of Pittsburgh. But that's rare in adults, he said. -- Spievack, however, did have a major advantage - a brother, Alan, a former Harvard surgeon who'd founded a company called ACell Inc., that makes an extract of pig bladder for promoting healing and tissue regeneration.
Robotic Action Painter - Automaattista abstraktia ekspressionismia.
Argus II - Silmäimplantin asentamiseen koepotilaille saatiin lupa USA:ssa.
"Power skin" spacesuit
Because the power skins are made from biological components, Silver says it might be possible one day for them to grow and heal themselves in space. "First, we want to prove the mechanism works," he told New Scientist. "But the ultimate goal is to design architectures that harness the ability of biological mechanisms to self-assemble."
Brain Diseases I Wish I Had - 8 erikoista tautia, jotka olisivat käteviä, jos ne vain voisi kääntää päälle ja pois aina halutessaan.
UN urged to adopt asteroid impact treaty
He added that there would need to be an understanding from governments that surveying the sky for threats needs to be thought of separately from the rest of astronomy: "What we're talking about here is not a science - what we're talking about is public safety."
Lifeboat Foundationin AsteroidShieldistä ja B612 Foundationin painovoimahinaajasta on asteroidintorjunta hyvä aloittaa.
Open Source Terraforming - Jamais Cascio kertoo miksi Maapallo täytyy terraformata. Ei riitä, että palautamme Maapallon ilmaston sellaiseksi kuin se oli, siitä täytyy tehdä parempi kuin se on koskaan ollut.
But none of these solutions — ultra-efficient buildings and vehicles, top-to-bottom urban redesigns, local foods, renewable energy systems, and the like — will do anything to reduce the anthropogenic greenhouse gases that have already been emitted. The best result we get is stabilizing at an already high greenhouse gas level. And because of ocean thermal inertia and other big, slow climate effects, the Earth will continue to warm for a couple of decades after we stop all greenhouse gas emissions. -- The Virgin Earth Challenge isn’t simply looking for better ways to reduce or eliminate new greenhouse gas emissions, it’s looking for ways to remove existing CO2 and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere — that’s what “net removal” means. It’s looking for ways to make an active, substantial change to the Earth’s atmosphere. Richard Branson is looking to underwrite re-terraforming, and given that the consensus new mainstream environmentalist position is to be solidly anti-geoengineering, the lack of reaction to what is essentially the “Terraforming Challenge” is a bit surprising.
Nanokuitugeeli pysäyttää verenvuodon 15 sekunnissa.
The Elements of Taste - Grant Achatz kertoo futuristisista aterioista.
Myths about the developing world - Hans Rosling Karoliinisesta instituutista kertoo Gapminderista.
Positive Exposure - Valokuvia erilaisista ihmisistä, kuten albiinomalli Connie Chiusta.
Silicon Valley Meets ‘American Idol’ With Prizes to Inspire Inventors - Lisää teknologiapalkintoja.
Atlas Rope Ascender - Batman-tyylinen kiipeilyköysilaite.
Horseshoes and Hand Grenades
Stop buying this crap. Just stop it. You don't need it. Wait a year until the reviews come out and the other suckers too addicted to having the very latest and greatest buy it, put up a review, and have moved on to something else. Stop buying broken products and then shrugging your shoulders when it doesn't do what it is supposed to. Stop buying products that serve any other master than you. Use older stuff that works. Make it yourself. Only buy new stuff from companies that have proven themselves good servants of their customers in the past. Complaining online about this stuff helps, but really, just stop buying it.
Sananvapaus huonossa huudossa - Organisoidun keskustelun Rauhala oikeuteen - Tekijänoikeuslaki pistetään taas koetukselle. Mielenosoitus eduskuntatalon edessä 22.2 klo 13 alkaen, merkkaa kalenteriin.
Ohessa myös animaatio All your culture are belong to us
Ruotsissa osoitetaan myös mieltä orwelliaanista valvontaa vastaan.
Vanity Fair: Pirates of the Multiplex
Speaking to The New York Times in 2002 about the future of the music industry, David Bowie said, "Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity."
Results From the LysoSENS Soil Donor Contest - Viisi parasta maanäytettä. Vapaaehtoiset tekivät luolasukelluksia, patikoivat suolla ja kiipesivät leijonan häkkiin.
Dishmaker - Kone tekee astioita akryylistä. Ei tämäkään vielä ihan Star Trekin replikaattori ole.
Quiet Supersonic Transport - Yliäänikone, joka rikkoo äänivallin äänettömästi.
Japanissa suurennetaan rintoja kantasoluilla
Haptic glove to touch on virtual fabrics - Tunne virtuaalikangas omissa sormissasi.
True Mutations - R.U. Siriuksen kokoama haastattelukirja.
BBC Radio 4: Extra Senses - Sarja tasapainoaistista ym.
Biology Goes Open Source
"It will take the entire world to interpret these data," says Novartis research head Mark Fishman. "We figure we will benefit more by having a lot of companies look at these data than by holding it secret."
The brain scan that can read people's intentions
"You can imagine how tedious it is if you want to write a letter by using a cursor to pick out letters on a screen," said Prof Haynes. "It would be much better if you thought, 'I want to reply to this email', or, 'I'm thinking this word', and the computer can read that and understand what you want to do."
Oscartorrents - Katso ja äänestä Oscar-ehdokkaita.
Reason: On Human Dignity - Leon Kass elää edelleen omassa nurinkurisessa maailmassaan, jossa sairaus on terveyttä ja onnellisuus onnettomuutta.
Kass offered a catalogue of the enhancement technologies that trouble him. They include growth hormone to make children taller; pre-implantation genetic screening of embryos; stimulants to boost performance on exams and at work; anti-depressants to improve moods; and medicines such as Viagra and anabolic steroids that restore some of the powers of youth. Just over the horizon, he foresees drugs to erase painful or shameful memories or to simulate falling in love; gene therapy to increase the size and strength of muscles; treatments to slow aging and increase the maximum human lifespan. "Thanks to these and other innovations, venerable human desires-for better children, superior performance, ageless bodies, and happy souls-may increasingly be satisfied with the aid of biotechnology," warned Kass.
Vaalit 2007: avoinelama.fi viralliset äänestyssuositukset - Parhaat äänestyssuositukset eduskuntavaaleihin. Pistä sana kiertämään.
Engines of Creation 2.0 - K. Eric Drexlerin 20 vuotta täyttävän klassikkokirjan tuore, päivitetty e-versio sisältää mm. Feynmanin nanoteknologialuennon, Drexlerin ja Smalleyn väittelyn ja neuvoja aloitteleville nanoteknologisteille. Valitettavasti uuden version lataaminen Wowiosta on rajoitettu tällä hetkellä vain USA:ssa asuville, mutta luulisi sen pian löytyvän jostakin vertaisverkosta.
Branson offers millions to save the planet
Sir Richard Branson, whose Virgin planes pump out millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, is offering a £12.8million ($25m) to the scientist who can extract that same gas from the atmosphere.
Does Richard Dawkins exist? - Parodiavideo, jonka varsinainen hauskuus piilee siinä, että sen ovat tehneet Dawkinsin vastustajat. Uskovaiset ampuvat itseään jalkaan ja luulevat osuneensa maaliin.
Yhdeksän minuuttia lainauksia koraanista. Aika itseään toistava kirja.
Space: A Moral Vacuum?
Just when will all our problems be solved? How can this be measured, and who declares this accomplished? How many nations, governments, companies, organizations or people do you know that have solved all of their problems? Humanity isn't going to solve all its problems, ever. We are too dynamic, always overcoming predicaments yet creating more at the same time, and forever continuing this cycle as we endlessly evolve. We go into space for the same reasons that humans have always explored: to find resources and freedom, to create better lives. If humans didn't leave home until all was well, all six billion of us would still be in Mesopotamia, crowded and miserable.
Future Shock -kysely - Transhumanistinen opiskelijaverkosto TSN tekee kyselytutkimusta siitä, kuinka tuttuja ihmiset ovat futurististen käsitteiden kanssa ja miten niihin suhtaudutaan.
Survival Of The Cutest
Stokes says that we tend to favor animals with particular characteristics, especially adult animals that retain baby-like features (neoteny), such as large eyes or a big head, rather than the; "millions of insects and countless slimy invertebrates that occupy the oceans." To a certain degree this must be true, or why would conservation campaigns play the cuteness card when trying to attract donations?
Robotic exoskeleton replaces muscle work
"The (artificial) muscles are pneumatic. When the computer gets the electrical signal from the (wearer's) muscle, it increases the air pressure into the artificial muscle on the brace," Ferris said. "Essentially the artificial muscle contracts with the person's muscle."
Flow of tiny bubbles mimics computer circuitry
"Bubble logic merges chemistry with computation, allowing a digital bit to carry a chemical payload. Until now, there was a clear distinction between the materials in a reaction and the mechanisms to control them," said co-author Neil Gershenfeld, director of the Center for Bits and Atoms.
High Security for $100 Laptop
Under BitFrost, every program runs in its own virtual machine with a limited set of permissions. Thus a picture viewer can't access the web, so even if a hacker comes up with an exploit that lets him control the program, he couldn't use it to grab all the photos on the laptop and upload them to the internet.
Inchworm - Kengät kasvavat jalan mukana.
Body Modification Mark II -konferenssi järjestetään huhtikuussa Sydneyssä.
TransVision 2007 -konferenssi järjestetään heinäkuussa Chigagossa.
Kolmas SENS-konferenssi järjestetään Cambridgessa syyskuussa.
Atoms function as light-trappers and transporters
"The first time I read this paper, I didn't believe it," says Michael Fleischhauer, a theoretical physicist at the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany. "Even though theory tells us it should be possible, actually doing it is something else."
Last Wear - Tyylikkäitä vaatteita.
Urban Tool - Tyylikkäitä kantamusvarusteita.
Thinking clearly sometimes requires unbraiding our language. The word “copyright” may eventually seem as dubious in its embedded purposes as “family values,” “globalization,” and, sure, “intellectual property.” Copyright is a “right” in no absolute sense; it is a government-granted monopoly on the use of creative results. So let's try calling it that — not a right but a monopoly on use, a “usemonopoly” — and then consider how the rapacious expansion of monopoly rights has always been counter to the public interest, no matter if it is Andrew Carnegie controlling the price of steel or Walt Disney managing the fate of his mouse. Whether the monopolizing beneficiary is a living artist or some artist's heirs or some corporation's shareholders, the loser is the community, including living artists who might make splendid use of a healthy public domain.
- Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence
Nova Sensors VAST - Kamera seuraa lentäviä luoteja. Tulevaisuudessa ei riitä, että ampuu yhden luodin, vaan pitää ampua niin monta, ettei automaattinen suojajärjestelmä ehdi ampua luoteja alas.
Räiskintäpelien pelaaminen voi parantaa näköä 20%
Sonic Jacket - Takki nauhoittaa ääniä ja soittaa niitä summassa kosketettaessa.
181 Things To Do On The Moon - Kuussa ei käy aika pitkäksi.
YouTube: Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
Free Keith Henson - Keith Henson pidätettiin toissayönä Prescottissa, Arizonassa. Pidätyksen taustalla on se, että skientologit eivät tykkää kriitikoista. Lisää Hensonin tilanteesta: Daily Kos, RU Sirius
Haitarisohva Kiinasta (video)
Pykriitti - Operaatio Habbabkuk
One day during a meeting, a client showed Godsall an image of an underwater forest at the bottom of a reservoir. “I had become so obsessed with retrieving lost logs that the picture of a whole forest of trees under-water seemed at once surreal, obscene, and too good to be true. I was convinced it was trick photography.” But the photo was genuine, and a few weeks later Godsall approached his bosses with a question: “Why are we hunting for sunken logs when there are entire forests waiting to be reclaimed?” Godsall suggested they build technology to go after all the standing underwater timber in the world. Everyone just laughed. Godsall resigned two days later, and in May 2000 he launched Triton.
- Wired: Reservoir Logs
"What we want to do is prepare the beachhead for people other than NASA. Basically, the intent is to lay down the foundation for a permanent presence on the moon by whoever wants to be there."
- Wanted: Home-builders for the moon
If someone touches the patch of skin on her chest it feel as if they are touching her hand.
- Woman with bionic arm regains sense of touch
"It is a machine mechanism that is going to take molecular machines a step forward to the realisation of the future world of nanotechnology. Things that seem like a Harry Potter film now are going to be a reality."
- Scientists build nanomachine
The FreeNation Foundation - Pirate Bayn porukka ei saanut ostettua Sealandia, joten suunnitelmissa on toisen saaren osto. Tällä hetkellä vahvin ehdokas on Ile de Caille, joka on myynnissä 18 miljoonalla dollarilla Karibianmerellä.
I won't be happy until I lose my legs - Apotemnofiliasta kärsivän naisen tarina. Täytyy taas kysyä kumpi olisi parempi: poistaa jalat vai poistaa pakkomielle poistaa jalat? Jos minulla olisi apotemnofilia, poistaisin mieluummin pakkomielteen.
X-Hawk - Rafi Yoelin lentoautomalli.
Intellidrug - Elektroninen hammasproteesi, joka annostelee lääkkeesi.
Lopuksi huumoria: UK:ssa jotkut keräävät adressia sen puolesta, ettei ihmisten elinikää saisi pidentää yli 70 vuoden. Kaikki vain karuselliin.
