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I think that’s the most grandiose title I’ve ever used. Have you watched Carl Sagan’s Cosmos? I highly recommend it for anyone. It’s a little dated, though the version I watched via Netflix had updates at the end of each episode. For a good overview of the universe as it is understood, and how science [...]

What Does Technology Want? – Radiolab: A couple thoughts while listening to this:
If you pick something like ‘telephone’ or ‘spoon’ as your endpoint, you ignore the fact that each of those is also the step to another piece of technology. It’s…

Link: Frankenstein’s Monster, Technological Artifact: Is it the device that’s important or the things that allowed the device to exist that are important? What you think of as “technology” is probably wrong.
It’s not the smart phone that is the…

Video : first cyborg of the world: The future is now! A robot controlled by living neurons!
This is kind of incredible, and it bypasses the whole AI problem by just putting a real brain into the machine. I will say I kind of feel bad for the rat donors…

Baby Lojack: To quote my wife, “that’s some crazy futuristic shit right.”
”This system allows staff and family to move freely within the protected zone, but no one can remove an infant from the unit without the staff being alerted. A detec…

Wife: the thought of a pc that could actuall read 24gb of memory brings tears to my eyes
Me: it’s so beautiful
Wife: it is
Wife: it is indeed
Me: one day our child will have a terrabyte of ram
Me: one day
Wife: on that day, I will weep tears of joy

http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/09/17/face.transplant.ap/index.html First off, it’s pretty cool that the futuristic world as portrayed by Nicolas Cage and John Travolta in Face/Off is finally coming to pass. Second, this new technology provides for a wonderful plethora of double entendres and plays on words; something which pleases me greatly. This medical advance is a complete about face. All [...]