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10 Misconceptions Rundown. Police contacted over Bath road rage viral video. Road rage in Bath goes viral - video. Driving On Salvia Extended Version. Internet Comment Etiquette. STUDY SAYS TECHNOLOGY COULD TRANSFORM SOCIETY. WASHINGTON, June 13— A report commissioned by the National Science Foundation and made public today speculates that by the end of this century electronic information technology will have transformed American home, business, manufacturing, school, family and political life.

STUDY SAYS TECHNOLOGY COULD TRANSFORM SOCIETY

The report suggests that one-way and two-way home information systems, called teletext and videotex, will penetrate deeply into daily life, with an effect on society as profound as those of the automobile and commercial television earlier in this century. It conjured a vision, at once appealing and threatening, of a style of life defined and controlled by videotex terminals throughout the house.

As a consequence, the report envisioned this kind of American home by the year 1998: ''Family life is not limited to meals, weekend outings, and oncea-year vacations. Privacy Issues Seen Posed The study was made by the Institute for the Future, a Menlo Park, Calif., agency under contract to the National Science Foundation. Sedentary lifestyle. Health effects[edit] A sedentary person, or a "couch potato" A lack of physical activity is one of the leading causes of preventable death worldwide.[5] Sitting still may cause premature death.

Sedentary lifestyle

The risk is higher among those that sit still more than 5 hours per day. It is shown to be a risk factor on its own independent of hard exercise and BMI. A sedentary lifestyle and lack of physical activity can contribute to or be a risk factor for: For Reals! ChzUb.jpg (500×282) Q0HCU.gif (320×221) What President Obama’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Means for You. Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory. Shaolin monks sparring (rare) Shaolin Monk Master Super Speed. Superfluid helium. World building 301: some projections. Real-Life Legolas Shoots the Bow Like a Boss. Quantum Levitation. Www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Omega/dyson.txt. The Future of Humankind. What's in store for humanity?

The Future of Humankind

It is becoming clear that we will use our growing technological powers to transform not only the world around us but ourselves, too. Many forms of human enhancement are already routine--sports medicine, psychotropic mood drugs, wakefulness and alertness enhancers, cosmetic surgery, drugs for sexual performance. Much more will become possible in coming decades. Joel Garreau's Radical Evolution joins several recent titles that attempt to make sense of the radical future possibilities for our species. The potential prospects include superintelligent machines, nonaging bodies, direct connections between human brains or between brain and computer, fully realistic virtual reality, and the reanimation of patients in cryonic suspension.

Cosmetic neurology? The future of smart drugs. Psychohistory (fictional) That the population whose behaviour was modeled should be sufficiently largethat the population should remain in ignorance of the results of the application of psychohistorical analyses.

Psychohistory (fictional)

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think. In the forthcoming book Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, Peter H.

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

Diamandis (chairman and CEO of the X-Prize Foundation and cofounder and chairman of Singularity University) and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler give us an extensive tour of the latest in exponentially growing technologies and explore how four emerging forces — exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the Technophilanthropist, and the Rising Billion — are conspiring to solve humanity’s biggest problems. “This brilliant must-read book provides the key to the coming era of abundance, replacing eons of scarcity,” says Ray Kurzweil, inventor and author of The Singularity is Near. Stanley Kubrick on Life Playboy: If life is so. Neil deGrasse Tyson's Greatest Fear for Earth. HkWEf.jpg (3850×1925)

Www.sciencessociales.uottawa.ca/ccll/fra/documents/15Episodicfuturethinking_000.pdf. Memory for the future. Prospective memory is a form of memory that involves remembering to perform a planned action or recall a planned intention at some future point in time.[1] Prospective memory tasks are common in daily life and range from the relatively simple to extreme life-or-death situations.[2] Examples of simple tasks include remembering to put the toothpaste cap back on, remembering to reply to an email, or remembering to return a rented movie.

Memory for the future

Examples of highly important situations include a patient remembering to take medication or a pilot remembering to perform specific safety procedures during a flight. In contrast to prospective memory, retrospective memory involves remembering people, events, or words that have been encountered in the past.[3] Whereas retrospective memory requires only the recall of past events, prospective memory requires the exercise of retrospective memory at a time that has not yet occurred. Types[edit] Event-based vs. time-based[edit] Reflexive-associative theory[edit] Russian scientist claims evidence of life on Planet Venus.

Moscow - The Indo-Asian News Service has reported that a Russian scientist Leonid Ksanfomaliti, published a paper in which he claimed evidence of life on planet Venus.

Russian scientist claims evidence of life on Planet Venus

Ksanfomaliti's basis for the conclusion may cause many of his colleagues consternation. Ksanfomaliti, according to Daily Caller, is an astronomer at the Space Research Institute of Russia's Academy of Sciences. Ultimate fate of the universe. The ultimate fate of the universe is a topic in physical cosmology.

Ultimate fate of the universe

Many possible fates are predicted by rival scientific theories, including futures of both finite and infinite duration. Once the notion that the universe started with a rapid inflation nicknamed the Big Bang became accepted by the majority of scientists,[1] the ultimate fate of the universe became a valid cosmological question, one depending upon the physical properties of the mass/energy in the universe, its average density, and the rate of expansion. There is a growing consensus among cosmologists that the universe is flat and will continue to expand forever.[2][3] The ultimate fate of the universe is dependent on the shape of the universe and what role dark energy will play as the universe ages.

Emerging scientific basis[edit] Theory[edit] The theoretical scientific exploration of the ultimate fate of the universe became possible with Albert Einstein's 1916 theory of general relativity. Observation[edit] Futuristic Spaceship Illustrations by Adrian Mann. 5aebeb. The Neuroscience of Time. Technological Requirements for Terraforming Mars. Technological Requirements for Terraforming Mars Robert M.

Technological Requirements for Terraforming Mars

Specious present. The specious present is the time duration wherein one's perceptions are considered to be in the present.[1] Time perception studies the sense of time, which differs from other senses since time cannot be directly perceived but must be reconstructed by the brain.

Specious present

Description[edit] The term was coined by E. Robert Kelly,[2] better known under the pseudonym "E. R. Clay".[3] The concept was further developed by philosopher William James.[3] James defined the specious present to be "the prototype of all conceived times... the short duration of which we are immediately and incessantly sensible". Arguments[edit]

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(Updated) More than half a century ago, author Aldous Huxley titled his book on his experience with hallucinogens The Doors of Perception, borrowing a phrase from a 1790 William Blake poem (which, yes, also lent Jim Morrison’s band its moniker). Blake wrote: If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales: MPAA chairman Christopher Dodd should be fired. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had fighting words for Motion Picture Association of America chairman Christopher Dodd, calling the former Senator and current lobbyist out on his recent threats and pronouncing that the MPAA should fire its chief.

“Candidly, those who count on quote ‘Hollywood’ for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who’s going to stand up for them when their job is at stake,” Dodd said to Fox News recently. “Don’t ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don’t pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.” Wales argued that these transparent statements make the MPAA out to be a corrupt, Congress-buying organization. He also challenged Dodd’s assertion that Wikipedia’s decision to blackout its site in protest of SOPA, an effort Wales said was a “massive success,” constituted an abuse of power. 10 million people contacted Congress, Wales said.

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