Just came across this fabulous article by Marcus Woo … Seeing Data. Big data, by definition, implies drinking in vast quantities of information that must necessarily be distilled down into a mixture which we humans can tractably consume and digest.…
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Telekinesis Now
By sensing a disturbance in the force, as it were, Network Age telekinesis at home is soon upon us. Through the analysis of ambient Wi-Fi signals a team at the University of Washington has developed code that senses very subtle…
Hackers Spawn Web Supercomputer
Wired article worth the read: Hackers Spawn Web Supercomputer on Way to Chess World Record There are several Network Age themes of note in this one article. Consider: – Education has fundamentally changed. Immersion is emerging as a best practice.…
Bio Hack
After the winter holidays in 2012 I played CMU’s Eterna for several weeks, often for hours at a stretch. My addiction lasted about 6 weeks or so, as I recall. Eterna isn’t a game, really, although the ranking system did…
When Will AI Be Created?
I found this article from the good folks at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute to be a good read. To save you the trouble, the bottom line is, nobody knows. Some folks say maybe by 2040. Others, sooner (Kurzweil), like…
Quantum Hack
NY Time Blog headline this morning: Google Buys a Quantum Computer Teaming with NASA, they’re forming the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (QAIL) to focus on machine learning. Better search will come, one supposes. I missed the announcement of the first…
Foundation and Empire
Is it possible to predict global conflict? For those sired on Asimov’s work, the title of this post will be familiar. You may recall psychohistory, Isaac’s early-50s term for the mathematical mashup of history, sociology, and statistics used to make…
Brain Jack
“I can imagine a cognitive prosthesis–some digital mnemonic device that extends my personal storage capacity in some way, but accessed directly via my own thoughts, as if it were an integral part of my own cognitive system.” — The Artisan…
Love and Money and in an Indeterminate Age
Peter Thiel’s Strategy Quadrant PayPal founder Peter Thiel is obviously a prescient individual with ample cognitive gifts. You should take the time to view his session at SXSW this year: You are Not a Lottery Ticket The future has always…
Microsoft Puts Free Portable WiFi In Forbes Magazine Print Issues
Perhaps one day we will wake up to find that over night a next-generation network access devices were dropped from above, like particles of fertilizer sprayed by crop dusters over corn fields. Who said print was dead? 🙂 I wonder…
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