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Google Glass: Confessions of a New Cyborg
Google Glass, Cyborgs, and the Singularity Does Google Glass turn you into an awesome Terminator-like Cyborg with a web browser inside of your brain? Or does it just frighten the horses? Will you become a so-called “Glasshole”? Is the software still limited and flawed? Or is the built-in Chrome browser all the Cyborg software you need? In this article, we take a look at some of the pluses and minuses of Glass. #Glass turns you into an awesome Cyborg with an in-brain browser? #throughglass Click To Tweet Frequent readers of this blog will note our fascination with theory of the Singularity, as exemplified in Ray Kurzweil’s series of books. (We’ll note that the forthcoming science-fiction movie Transcendence is one way the Singularity might play out. That is, if it actually happens in the first place.) At least two decades ago, Kurzweil and others predicted Google Glass (“special glasses” as Kurzweil called them) would hit the market right about now.… Read the restJet-lag: fix with LED lighting and Internet of Things home automation?
Cut your electric bill and cure jet-lag at the same time? In addition to reducing your light electric bill by 80% over incandescent lights and seemingly lasting forever, LED lightning of the future may offer a cure for jet lag as well as potentially enhance moods. But home automation systems will probably need an upgrade first, which is why the Internet of Things (IoT) is so exciting. We’ve talked frequently about how the IoT will let you better control your indoor air quality, but that lighting is another important aspect that IoT should help address. Researchers have recently begun to regard light as both part of the environment and a “drug” that can have significant impacts on both your mood and daily biological clock (“circadian rhythm”). New Jet-lag app UMichigan and Yale researchers have released an iPhone app that mathematically models jet lag. You tell it where you are, where you are going, and it provides you with a four day schedule to completely retrain (or entrain) your internal circadian clock in a time period (four days) that is much more aggressive than previously thought possible.… Read the restMH370 Hunt: IoT Sharks with Laser Beams?
MH370 and Crowdsourced Sharks with Laser Beams? The disappearance of MH Flight 370 has revealed a major gap in the Internet of Things: most of the world is water and lacks decent broadband coverage due to the ocean’s relative inability to transmit radio waves. Austin Powers fans will recall Dr. Evil’s obsession for “Sharks with Laser Beams” and we’ll see what MH370 has to do with them in a bit. Crowdsourcing rapid technological innovation in emergencies During the hunt for the plane, innovative technological solutions were crowdsourced that later were used in the investigation (perhaps through independent discovery by very qualified experts or perhaps as result of the crowdsourced suggestions). Proposals such as using the doppler shift to fine-tune the Inmarsat data, combine Inmarsat data with radar data, and use military antisubmarine sonar buoys were all proposed in online forums, days or even weeks before they were official announced by investigators as novel techniques used in the investigation.… Read the restWhy the Singularity Might Not Happen: Predictive Apocalypse Analytics
Singularity or Apocalypse? We’ve mentioned the concept of the Singularity a few times in these pages, but it’s not a foregone conclusion that this is the destiny of humanity. The NYPost did a sensationally-titled review last week on Eric H. Cline’s book about the fall of ancient Egypt. (We can’t quite resist including this work of art of an article plug line: “Ancient civilizations fell almost simultaneously & it could happen again.”) The Singularity is not a foregone conclusion, here’s why. Click To Tweet Although Cline’s book (and the NY Post review of it) are interesting and thought-provoking, there are better ways, more analytical ways to think about the repeated suddenly collapse of past civilizations. Required reading for mathematical archaeologists … and predictive modelers We have two recommendations. The first off is physicist Geoffrey West’s classic Ted Talk, “The surprising math of cities and corporations.” Although Prof. West explains his observations on scale in a simple and straightforward way in a short ten-minute talk, his insights have profound importance on everything from: neuron speed in elephants vs.… Read the restRecent Posts
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