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More Singularity madness

Image via Wikipedia Ray Kurzweil has officially lost it. I have never been a fan of the Singularity, but reading what he had to say in a recent post by Nick Carr just makes me shake my head. In the post, Carr references a Rolling Stone arcticle (not online, which is ironic) that talks [...]
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Man Machine

Kevin Kelly has a new post on the Two strands of connectionism. Essentially he writes about connections between people, the social networks we are all part of, enabled by machines, but primarily driven by people and the data we generate. The second is the connection between machines, what I would call ubiquitous computing. [...]
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All about aging (or not)

Image by mndoci via FlickrI have often wondered about our obsession with aging, from the need to use skin products to develop drugs and vitamins that prevent aging. I am actually quite fine with research targeted at understanding the process of aging, since it’s one of those natural processes that we would like to [...]
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Computing Everywhere

Tim O’Reilly’s keynote at Web 2.0 Expo touched upon this. I have written about this before as well, and Nova Spivack adds his voice to a trend that you can call uqbiquitous computing, ambient computing and many other words. I just call it computing everywhere. It’s easy to make all this sound very scifi. [...]
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Interfacial phenomena

Zooming interfaces are cool. This week I have had a chance to see Zoomii in action, a Microsoft Surface, and of course, I use the multitouch zooming of the iphone quite regularly. In an interview with Jon Udell, Kristin Tolle, who works on biomedical computing at Microsoft Research had this to say Yeah, and we have [...]
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