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2013-05-23 09:59:39 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Hi everyone, I can recommend this highly. It is a very short read, but has become in a very short timespan one of my favourite sci-fi books/shorts. An interesting synopsis, of the concepts being explored here.

For those that've read it, what are your thoughts?

What strike me most was the age of this text and it's non-violent extrapolation of the future.

http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html

2013-05-07 14:10:59 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

A friend's short film in tribute to the 1982 film Blade Runner.

It's still in production (effects and sound being completed by July). Still found it interesting.

Tears In The Rain - WIP

2013-05-07 04:11:06 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/06/academia-edu-raw-data/

2013-05-06 19:22:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/514581/government-lab-reveals-quantum-internet-operated-continuously-for-over-two-years/

2013-05-06 11:46:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

James Joyce's only known composition.

James Joyce's Only Known Composition: "Bid Adieu To Girlish Days," Sung By Tenor Kevin McDermott

via http://www.openculture.com/2013/05/james_joyce_plays_the_guitar_in_1915.html

2013-05-04 12:31:27 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Found this short read quite interesting: Don't stop thinking about tomorrow - Nesta (Independent UK ideation charity).

Maxims for thinking about the future

1.New forms of data–driven forecasting tell us  valuable things about the near future. There is scope for experimenting with these techniques
in order to find out what works.


2. Thinking about plausible future scenarios can help guard against fragility. Governments and businesses need foresight capabilities in order to
address systemic challenges.


3. Innovation starts with a story about the future. Imagining and sharing desires and fears about the futures is a way for all of us to shape it.

http://www.nesta.org.uk/home1/assets/documents/dont_stop_thinking_about_tomorrow

2013-05-04 10:20:27 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/googles-ray-kurzweil-computers-will-live-our-brains

2013-05-03 09:16:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Probably needs to be posted somewhere outside to get more people in, rather then here, I guess you ppl can help get the word out.

https://www.khanacademy.org/science/core-finance/money-and-banking/bitcoin/v/bitcoin-overview

2013-05-01 17:14:24 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

http://io9.com/this-2-year-old-is-the-youngest-recipient-of-a-bioengin-485768829

2013-04-30 10:05:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Open Book on "Low-cost 3D Printing for Science, Education and Sustainable Development"

http://sdu.ictp.it/3D/book.html

2013-04-28 19:19:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Losing your Skype account?

http://community.skype.com/t5/Security-Privacy-Trust-and/URGENT-Skype-Support-Account-Security-Issue-CAN-AFFECT-ALL-USERS/td-p/1552372

2013-04-11 12:38:55 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Glad to see Venkatesh Rao touching on some of these themes.

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/04/10/a-beginners-guide-to-immortality/

2013-03-08 06:50:25 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/511856/micro-3-d-printer-creates-tiny-structures-in-seconds/

2013-03-01 06:51:04 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

2013-02-01 08:22:11 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Bendable screens, oh yes.

Samsung Flexible Display at CES 2013: 'YOUM'

2013-01-28 10:17:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

http://euobserver.com/justice/118857

2013-01-28 04:34:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

http://vimeo.com/user821379/dreamlapse

2013-01-27 23:23:41 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I just need Google to do Drive for Linux right... right now.

Insync, just doubled up all my folders and files on a first sync, doesn't handle some characters correctly, and generally created a load of micromanagement work for me now. Great. </rant>

2013-01-24 15:12:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

This is great. I hope Microsoft at least responds.

http://www.skypeopenletter.com/

2013-01-08 07:18:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Thanks for the invite. Does  anyone here have any experience with using spaced repetition software in their courses?

2012-12-20 07:32:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Kaapsche Hoop to Florence Hill hiking trail 17 December, 2012.

2012-11-29 06:37:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

" The telco industry charges more, kilobyte by kilobyte, for sending a text message from your phone to next door than what it costs to send the same message from Mars to Earth. This is the apex in this series of the dysfunctional telecom market, giving a background to why the telecom industry wants control of the Internet so badly, and is using every conceivable resource to stall, prevent, and delay its resulting economic development. "

And people wonder why they want to go after the Internet now?

http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/28/free-market-failure-telcos-charge-more-for-sending-a-text-next-door-than-cost-of-sending-data-from-mars/

2012-11-27 23:05:04 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

Open letter to Department of Communications, South Africa about the ITU:

As a teacher, user and advocate of open source concepts and languages, and digital native I find a meeting behind closed doors about the future of the Internet very disturbing. SOPA and ACTA has already been torn asunder, but it seems that the powers that be, come with bigger plans of control every time.

As a security and privacy concerned citizen I feel very strongly that the Internet should not be segmented, censored or have its use overly monitored. Secure end-to-end communications isn't only the birthright of citizens worldwide but also by and large a way for people to freely express, creatively explore and anonymously voice concerns about corrupt officials.

Corporations trying to cling to their old models of commerce (I'm talking specifically about those trying to enforce copyright above... more »

2012-11-22 17:50:19 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Elon Musk - The future of energy and transport.

I've seen countless of his talks and interviews recently. Truly inspiring.

http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/view/211

2012-11-22 15:33:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

At least some nations have some sense.

http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/22/european-parliament-unanimously-passed-resolution-against-itu-asserting-control-over-internet/

2012-11-22 07:09:35 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

I have an idea.

IBM should modify Watson to give it the ability to interpret laws and contracts. Given a set of facts or fact probabilities about a case it should be able to output a probable verdict along with a list of laws or legal tests that were broken. This computer would be programmed by inputting written laws and contract which it would compile into legal tests and logic models that can be used to generate the verdict.

Even it it was just used as support to help courts untangle cases or for law student as an educational tool, it could be a useful machine.

Here is the kicker: All laws and contracts are software code for this machine. 

The existence of this type of computer means all legal documents should now be subject to software patents and copyright.

I say let the lawyers sweat in fear of intellectual property infringement every time they... more »

2012-11-21 11:04:33 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

This. #space  

2012-11-20 16:50:03 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Great to have companies like Google behind this. Make sure SOPA similar bills don't pass, stay informed, and please share.

https://www.google.com/takeaction/

2012-11-12 20:44:44 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Please read, distribute and discuss with your friends. This is very important.

http://falkvinge.net/2012/11/12/how-the-copyright-industry-drives-a-big-brother-dystopia/

2012-08-30 15:48:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Finally.

Glad to see this coming from South Africa. Single dose oral cure, I hope this isn't obscured by patent pricing.

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/08/29/university-of-cape-town-researchers-believe-they-have-found-a-single-dose-cure-for-malaria/

2012-08-30 08:26:43 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Here we go again, after SOPA, PIPA, and ACTA, we now have TPP.

2012-08-19 21:47:39 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 0 +1s)

Scientists start preparing for human brain transplants.

Avatar-A: Scientists prepare for human brain transplant

And a very interesting conference video.

http://youtu.be/01hbkh4hXEk

2012-08-17 21:19:51 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Simply amazing.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134672-harvard-cracks-dna-storage-crams-700-terabytes-of-data-into-a-single-gram

2012-08-16 21:02:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Planetary Resources Employees Comment on the Landing of Curiosity on Mars

2012-08-15 19:59:53 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Sustainability by Coursera

Spread the word :)

https://www.coursera.org/course/sustain

2012-08-14 10:59:30 (3 comments, 5 reshares, 4 +1s)

Steven Wozniak talks about the coming web crackdown and failing freedoms.

Please share.

Wozniak: Web crackdown coming, freedom failing

2012-08-13 03:09:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-08-07 18:01:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Aubrey de Grey | Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence

A very good primer on SENS

Please share and help educate people on the possibilities of body repair.

Aubrey de Grey | Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence: A SENS Primer

2012-08-05 17:59:16 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

'Scrap banks or they'll bring chaos' - Nobel Economist

"Nobel Economics Laureate Edward Prescott explains what he thinks has gone so wrong in the region, and what needs to be done to put it right."

'Scrap banks or they'll bring chaos' - Nobel Economist

2012-08-05 10:07:02 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Apple will experience a severe backlash for this:

https://twitter.com/mat/status/231958263149764609

2012-08-04 11:44:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

etsie for electronics

https://tindie.com/

2012-08-02 18:43:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

ZA vs US bandwidth.

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/broadband/55943-uncapped-broadband-google-versus-telkom.html

2012-08-02 18:34:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

http://share.banoosh.com/2012/08/02/something-is-happening-in-anaheim-why-the-media-blackout-2/

2012-06-25 10:12:39 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I will pay to make Google stop haunting me with Abs and pseudo health ads.

2012-06-22 18:41:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Alan Turing centenary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

What a legend.

2012-06-13 10:11:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Pushing back against the 'panopticon of surveillance'

Phil Zimmermann, creator of PGP, starts a complete end-to-end mobile privacy solution company for iPhone and Android.

If you take your privacy seriously, have a gander.

http://bit.ly/silentcircle

2012-06-13 07:41:32 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

“Once a threshold-induced planetary state shift occurs, there’s no going back. So, if a system switches to a new state because you’ve added lots of energy, even if you take out the new energy, it won’t revert back to the old system. The planet doesn’t have any memory of the old state.”

2012-06-13 05:58:05 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

New York to London by train in 1 hour. TSA assumes control - trip ads 2 hours of security checks?

2012-06-12 14:39:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Synthetic biology explained in a short YouTube video

http://bit.ly/KPa0HR

2012-06-08 16:14:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

This needs to be heard louder than most messages.

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/06/06/scientists-uncover-evidence-of-impending-tipping-point-for-earth/