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Why 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 restDr. Beak From Rome and the Black Plague, or why having a surgical mask might be handy
This 1656 woodcut (see photo) depicts the plague doctor “Dr. Beak from Rome” (“Doktor Schnabel von Rom”). His bird mask was stuffed with straw, which served as a crude air filter. Medieval artists alternated lampooned him (as here) and later celebrated him as scientific and practical methods of plague control slowly proved themselves over the more superstitious practices of that era. When we got into this we were thinking about how smart homes (and smarter air purification) could reduce dust buildup in our more dusty urban areas (like urban California, Europe, and Asia). While it was obvious there was a lot of dust buildup on furniture, we didn’t realize just how badly air quality fluctuated from day-to-day here. Bird Flu or just poor air quality Earlier this week one of our staff members saw someone walking the streets of Los Angeles with a surgical mask on. He appeared to be from a part of Asia that had experience with bird flu, and wearing surgical masks on the street is more culturally accept there than here.… Read the restBrainwave and Virtual Touchscreen Controllers for Smartwatches
This article was originally published by Acculation on another site. Need for new interfaces With Moore’s law shrinking your desktop down to the size of your smartwatch or a future Google Glass knockoff, a lot of ingenuity is going to go into human interfaces that will allow wearables like smartwatches smartwatch and VR and augmented reality glasses (Google Glass) to run your favorite killer apps. We’ve already seen some of this with smartphones touch screens, multi-touch gestures, and, to a lesser extent, speech recognition largely replacing mice and traditional keyboards. If we want to make the form factor even smaller, touch screens become more limiting. Google Glass (and some of its knockoffs) have a touch sensitive panel on one side for more complex inputs, but Glass is intended to be primarily controlled through gaze and voice recognition. A smartwatch doesn’t have the option of gaze recognition (unless it’s linked to Glass, which may turn out to be a commonplace arrangement), so, at least with current technologies, we’re back to (tiny) touchscreens and voice recognition.… Read the restRecent Posts
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