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- Todd Hoff: How Will Memristors Change Everything?
- Today there is rough price parity between (1) one database access, (2) ten bytes of network traffic, (3) 100,000 instructions, (4) 10 bytes of disk storage, and (5) a megabyte of disk bandwidth. This has implications for how one structures Internet-scale
- 2010-07-06 to bestof, breakthrough, future, innovation, memristor, technology by soobrosa
- Kevin Kelly: Evidence of a Global SuperOrganism
- This megasupercomputer is the Cloud of all clouds, the largest possible inclusion of communicating chips.
- 2009-01-01 to bestof, biology, evolution, future, technology, theory by soobrosa
- Crashless Cars: Making Driving Safer
- Next-generation automotive safety technology could give us vehicles that are difficult to crash—and eventually may not need drivers at all
- 2008-11-21 to bestof, cars, future, safety, technology by bagoly
- Freeman Dyson: Our Biotech Future
- The three components of the vision are all essential: the sun to provide energy where it is needed, the genome to provide plants that can convert sunlight into chemical fuels cheaply and efficiently, the Internet to end the intellectual and economic isola
- 2008-04-02 to bestof, biology, biotech, future, genes, technology by soobrosa
- Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?
- Chris McKinstry created a database called Mindpixel. Push Singh created a database called Open Mind Common Sense. Both believed the programs could be used to develop machine intelligence.
- 2008-01-25 to bestof, future, story, technology by bagoly
- THE FUTURE OF COITUS - Life-Long Loving with a Sexbot
- Sexbots have been around forever, but they are getting smarter all the time. David Levy, an artificial intelligence expert, sees a future when people will prefer robots to humans. They will offer, he says, better sex and better relationships.
- 2008-01-23 to bestof, future, sex, technology by bagoly
- Disharmony in the spheres - The militarisation of space
- Modern American warfare relies on satellites. They make America powerful but also vulnerable, particularly in light of China's new celestial assertiveness
- 2008-01-23 to bestof, china, future, space, technology, usa, war by bagoly
- Secret Websites, Coded Messages: The New World of Immersive Games
- Developed by Jordan Weisman, then a Microsoft exec, it was the first of what came to be called alternate reality games — ARGs for short. After leaving Redmond, Weisman founded a company called 42 Entertainment, which made ARGs for products ranging from Wi
- 2008-01-04 to arg, bestof, future, games, story, technology by bagoly
- A chat with Apple’s iPod and iPhone marketing czar
- Greg Joswiak has what you might call a busy job — he’s charged with marketing two of Apple’s biggest hit products, the iPod and the iPhone.
- 2007-11-30 to business, future, technology by bagoly
- Open-Source Warfare
- Warfare is being transformed from a closed, state-sponsored affair to one where the means and the know-how to do battle are readily found on the Internet and at your local RadioShack.
- 2007-11-26 to future, internet, iraq, open-source, technology, war by lipi
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