Singularity University. Mac daddy predicts all-knowing, all-seeing UI. Security intelligence for a faster world Macworld In the future, you'll use a speech-based interface to access all the world's knowledge – including your own personal memories – stored in the cloud, according to a legendary engineer who was a member of the team that designed Apple's original Macintosh user interface. "More and more people have smartphones in their pockets ... and the best way to interact with them is going to be a conversational user interface – as long as we can get natural language understanding to work," said Bill Atkinson, a member of the original Macintosh team, the principal designer of the Mac's pioneering user interface, and the author of QuickDraw, MacPaint, and HyperCard. "Without that, forget it," Atkinson told his audience at Wednesday's Macworld Expo Industry Forum. A conversational interface is needed, Atkinson said, because the standard keyboard-and mouse, point-and-click – or even point-and-tap – metaphor is unsuited to mobile computing.
Bootnote. Expect Global Chaos | Ideafeed | January 25, 2011. A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (9781594481710): Daniel H. Pink. Can We Download Our Brains? | Dr. Kaku's Universe. With rendition switcher Question: Will it be possible to transfer one’s memory into a synthetic medium in our lifetime? (Submitted by Tomas Aftalion) Michio Kaku: Tomas, you ask a very controversial question.
The question is, can you download our consciousness into a chip and have that chip being stored into a computer and basically have our personalities last forever; we would be immortal. Well, first of all, you ask for a timeline. The Digital Age in an Analog World | Dr. Kaku's Universe. With rendition switcher Question: Don’t we lose information when digital signals try to replicate an analog wave pattern? (Submitted by David Russell) Michio Kaku: David, you ask a very interesting question because we live in the so-called digital age.
Everything is digital, digital TV, digital information. Everything is digital. It’s the sexy word of the day. If I have a wave like this and I ask you to make a copy of it, well it’s quite difficult. Now think about it. ScienceOnline: The Future Book | The Loom. At ScienceOnline today, I moderated a spirited session on the future of books. I kicked things off by talking about where we stand at the moment. Ebooks may still constitute a small fraction of book sales, but that fraction is swelling fast. While many ebooks are simply digitized text-dumps of the books you can find in physical bookstores, new kinds of ebooks are emerging. With new services like Smashwords and Createspace at Amazon, the real possibility has emerged of blogifying books–that is, writers publishing books for themselves without a spot of ink touching a single piece of paper. But other ebooks point to other possibilities.
Twirling is exactly what feels right about The Solar System. Tom Levenson, author of Newton and the Counterfeiter and director of MIT’s science writing program, took over from me. David Dobbs discussed his own experiences coming to grips with these new books. The final panelist to speak with John Dupuis, an academic librarian at York University in Canada. Using Kinect, MIT Media Lab pulls off gesture-based web browsing, with more on the horizon. Whoa-ho! Depth JS, an open-source project run by a quartet of MIT Media Lab guys, has successfully connected Microsoft's Kinect motion-sensing technology with Javascript. What does this mean to you and I? It means actual gesture-based web browsing (and eventually, more): DepthJS from Fluid Interfaces on Vimeo. Nuts, no? As the aforementioned quartet (Aaron Zinman, Doug Fritz, Greg Elliott, and Roy Shilkrot) explain, this is just an early first step and there's plenty more to come: Navigating the web is only one application of the framework we built - that is, we envision all sorts of applications that run in the browser, from games to specific utilities for specific sites.
Futurist Reading for 2011. 6 Web Pioneers on What the Internet of the Future Will Look Like. Throughout 2010, I made a habit of wrapping up interviews with what I am sure was perceived as a cruelly broad question: "What do you think the future Internet will look like? " The responses I received varied a great deal, but usually began with something along the lines of "Wow. That's a big question. " And it is — one with an answer that is surely beyond the capacity of a single person's imagination. But at some point in the past, when these six people were faced with the same question, they got at least part of it right.
Barry Glick digitized location when he launched MapQuest. Jeremy Stoppelman bet on local tips and reviews with Yelp. And Steve Case literally brought America online. Here's what the people who shaped today's Internet have to say about its potential for tomorrow. Steve Case, Co-Founder of AOL I think that it will continue to evolve. …Someday it would be great if instead of being e-mail, it would just be called mail.
We’re not quite there yet. Jeremy Stoppleman, CEO of Yelp. We can feed 9 billion people in 2050 - environment - 11 January 2011. Editorial: "How to engineer a better future" The 9 billion people projected to inhabit the Earth by 2050 need not starve in order to preserve the environment, says a major report on sustainability out this week. Agrimonde describes the findings of a huge five-year modelling exercise by the French national agricultural and development research agencies, INRA and CIRAD. It is the second report on sustainability launched this week to provide a healthy dose of good news. The French team began with a goal – 3000 calories per day for everyone, including 500 from animal sources – then ran a global food model repeatedly, with and without environmental limits on farming.
The aim was to see how the calorie goal could be achieved. "We found three main conditions," says Hervé Guyomard of INRA. Waste not In addition, says Guyomard, "the rich must stop consuming so much". These are the main challenges for research, says Guyomard. New Scientist Not just a website! More From New Scientist More from the web. Welcome to Future City. Contactless ID technology to invade homes soon: NXP. Within the next 10 to 20 years, advances in biometric and RFID technology, especially contactless ID technology, may grow to the point that even regular homes will have such technologies, NXP Semiconductors India said. The company believes there is a significant potential for the identification business in mid and long-term, as customers in the identification market have complex and rapidly changing needs across a broad spectrum of technology.
In addition, with ever increasing congestion in traffic movement, organisations and governments are forever on the lookout for more effective and secure methods to process individuals. Therefore, the future of ID technology is rapidly expanding and said to be growing at a startling rate. According to Chandak, life of smart cards and readers that rely on contact technology would be 2-3 years typically, compared with 8-10 years for contactless technology-based cards. Inventing the Future: Shanghai's World Expo 2010 - Nicholas Jackson - Technology. The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has a large collection of automobiles -- 73 -- in its collection. But with the mission of collecting and preserving the entire heritage of the United States inside of one building on the National Mall, the museum's curators don't have the room required to display all of these machines.
A new project allows you to vote for the two items you want to see rolled out of storage and showcased. Even if you don't vote or live near the museum, this unique week-long series of eight iconic artifacts will provide you with a quick history of the American automobile. This post was originally published on the National Museum of American History's "O Say Can You See? " blog. It is republished here with permission. See more posts about the Smithsonian. This is Futurama! In my last blog post, I took you on a brief tour of the Eco-City scene in China, in the northern area around Beijing. Images: 1. More from the "Oh Say Can You See? " Can You Live Forever? Maybe Not--But You Can Have Fun Trying. Editor's Note: Carl Zimmer, author of this month's article, "100 Trillion Connections," has just brought out a much-acclaimed e-book, Brain Cuttings: 15 Journeys Through the Mind (Scott & Nix), that compiles a series of his writings on neuroscience.
In this chapter, adapted from an article that was first published in Playboy, Zimmer takes the reader on a tour of the 2009 Singularity Summit in New York City. His ability to contrast the fantastical predictions of speakers at the conference with the sometimes more skeptical assessments from other scientists makes his account a fascinating read. Let's say you transfer your mind into a computer—not all at once but gradually, having electrodes inserted into your brain and then wirelessly outsourcing your faculties. Someone reroutes your vision through cameras. Someone stores your memories on a net of microprocessors. Step by step your metamorphosis continues until at last the transfer is complete. He was not, in fact, insane. Can You Live Forever? Maybe Not--But You Can Have Fun Trying. Editor’s Note: Carl Zimmer, author of this month’s article, “100 Trillion Connections,” has just brought out a much-acclaimed e-book, Brain Cuttings: 15 Journeys Through the Mind (Scott & Nix), that compiles a series of his writings on neuroscience.
In this chapter, adapted from an article that was first published in Playboy, Zimmer takes the reader on a tour of the 2009 Singularity Summit in New York City. His ability to contrast the fantastical predictions of speakers at the conference with the sometimes more skeptical assessments from other scientists makes his account a fascinating read. Let’s say you transfer your mind into a computer—not all at once but gradually, having electrodes inserted into your brain and then wirelessly outsourcing your faculties. Someone reroutes your vision through cameras. Someone stores your memories on a net of microprocessors. He was not, in fact, insane. The man was David Chalmers, one of the world’s leading philosophers of the mind.
Evan Williams: The Challenges of a Web of Infinite Info: Tech News « Evan Williams and I have known each other for a long time. From a struggling entrepreneur who started Blogger, to a successful founder who got liberal funding for his podcasting start-up Odeo, to the accidental launch of Twitter — to me, he has been pretty much the same person. He prefers to stay out of the limelight, leaving (most if not all the media duties) to his co-founder Biz Stone. And even in crowds he is quiet. But occasionally he speaks freely. A few weeks ago, he and I discussed the future of the Internet, Twitter and the curse of too much information. It was a long conversation, sometimes rambling, but quite enjoyable. Om Malik: Ev, when you look at the web of today, say compared to the days of Blogger, what do you see? Evan Williams: I totally agree. Om: A scaling problem? Ev: It was true with browsing web and (that is when) Google came in. Evan Williams with co-founder, Biz Stone (Photo: Om Malik) We can let people follow as many accounts as possible.
The Future of the Crowdsourced City. Yesterday, a group of urbanists, technologists, designers and urban planners gathered at the offices of the Rockefeller Foundation to discuss the future of the crowdsourced city. Four presentations focused on forecasting the benefits, tensions and pitfalls of mining the data that humans generate as they go about their daily lives at a variety of scales — global, national and urban. First was a summary of a report, “ ,” authored by the social sector office of the global management consultancy McKinsey & Company , that offers a survey and taxonomy of how cities around the world are making progress in urban informatics. The second explained a “map” produced by the Institute for the Future , entitled “A Planet of Civic Laboratories,” that illuminates the “ .”
The third delved into a couple of case study projects of the Spatial Information Design Lab that use various kinds of data to . The first question the report asks is, who benefits? OK, so everybody wins? Rachel Botsman: The case for collaborative consumption. How America will collapse (by 2025) - U.S. Economy. A soft landing for America 40 years from now? Don’t bet on it. The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines. If Washington is dreaming of 2040 or 2050 as the end of the American Century, a more realistic assessment of domestic and global trends suggests that in 2025, just 15 years from now, it could all be over except for the shouting. Despite the aura of omnipotence most empires project, a look at their history should remind us that they are fragile organisms.
So delicate is their ecology of power that, when things start to go truly bad, empires regularly unravel with unholy speed: just a year for Portugal, two years for the Soviet Union, eight years for France, 11 years for the Ottomans, 17 years for Great Britain, and, in all likelihood, 22 years for the United States, counting from the crucial year 2003. Significantly, in 2008, the U.S. No such luck. Economic Decline: Present Situation Economic Decline: Scenario 2020. Michael Klare, The Great Superpower Meltdown. Think of us as just having passed through the failed era of "must" in Washington. For almost eight years, George W. Bush made speeches and appearances in which he hectored this or that country, or enemy, or people about what they "must" do. Never, I suspect, has an American president lectured more people out there on their responsibilities to us.
Looking back, what's surprising is how few paid much attention. The Iraqis didn't listen, nor did the Afghans, nor the Iranians, nor, it seems, the Pakistanis, nor the Russians, nor the Chinese... and so on. In Washington, recently, those "musts" have been on the wane, which is hardly surprising. Okay, now for the serious version of the above: In November 2008, the National Intelligence Council (NIC), an affiliate of the Central Intelligence Agency, issued the latest in a series of futuristic publications intended to guide the incoming Obama administration. Connecting All The Dots | Hybrid Reality. Future. Open Gov and Gov 2.0 are Just Part of a Bigger Movement. Roy Christopher | Music, Media, Technology, Culture, Hip-hop. FOI Topics and Links of the Week. Carnival of Space 178 - traversing wormholes and super magnetic fields.
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Technology is major lifeline for world’s poor, finds UN report. EDGE. "Emergence" Wages Peace, Not War, After Droid Revolt. Internet 'Kill Switch' Approved By Senate Homeland Security Committee. 6th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications:CROWNCOM | Asia Science and Technology Portal. The Race to Buy Up the World's Water. Solar Millennium Gets The Greenlight To Build The World’s Largest Solar Project In California.
Proposed Biodiversity Pact Bars 'Climate-Related Geoengineering' Shirky: The Shock of Inclusion and New Roles for News in the Fabric of Society. Orbiting 3-D Printers Could Print Out New Space Stations. Robert Lanza, M.D.: Why Are You Here? A New Theory May Hold the Missing Piece. Microthreads Help Grow New Muscles. 'Space-time cloak' to conceal events revealed in new study. Next-Gen Platforms — VSS Day Two. Neural stem cells injected into the brain of a stroke patient in world first | Science. TR10. Climate Lessons From a Master Mediator. Explore IFTF's Robot Renaissance Map: The Future of Human-Machine Interaction. As Glaciers Melt, Science Seeks Data on Rising Seas. Neuromarketing - Ads That Whisper to the Brain. F.B.I. Seeks Wider Wiretap Law for Web. The Magic 8 Ball of News: The Future-Jobs-O-Matic.
FCC Chief Sees Clouds Darkening Broadband Skies: Tech News « The new school | The Ideas Economy. Artificial Retina More Capable of Restoring Normal Vision. In 2014, You’ll Have Up to 10 Screens for Online Video: Tech News « Antimatter atom trapped for first time, say scientists. The Emergence of a Global “She-conomy” | World Future Society. "Building blocks" containing gels turn cells into different types of tissue.
What Will Threaten Us in 2040? The Newsonomics of news anywhere. John Hardy: My green school dream. The Future Will Be Personalized. Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto. Asia Pacific Will Have 120 Million LTE Connections in 2015: Tech News « The personal blog of Futurist Thomas Frey » Blog Archive » City of the Future – Part 2. Kiss your install goodbye: The paradigm shift of applications is here. Blog Archive » The Internet of Things, meet crowdsourcing. MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors. What Our Future Holds for Us According to Leading Experts.