Social Networking and Ethics. First published Fri Aug 3, 2012 In the first decade of the 21st century, new media technologies for social networking such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube began to transform the social, political and informational practices of individuals and institutions across the globe, inviting a philosophical response from the community of applied ethicists and philosophers of technology. While this scholarly response continues to be challenged by the rapidly evolving nature of social networking technologies, the urgent need for attention to this phenomenon is underscored by the fact that it is reshaping how human beings initiate and/or maintain virtually every type of ethically significant social bond or role: friend-to-friend, parent-to-child, co-worker-to co-worker, employer-to-employee, teacher-to-student, neighbor-to-neighbor, seller-to-buyer, and doctor-to-patient, to offer just a partial list.
Nor are the ethical implications of these technologies strictly interpersonal. 1. 2. 3. Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe: George Dyson: 9780375422775: Amazon.com. TEDxSF - Jaron Lanier - You Are Not a Gadget. Inception helmet creates alternative reality | Mo Costandi | Science. Christopher Nolan's 2010 blockbuster Inception is set in a distant future where military technology enables one to infiltrate and surreptitiously alter other people's dreams.
Leonardo Di Caprio plays Dom Cobb, an industrial spy tasked with planting an idea into the mind of a powerful businessman. The film has a complex, layered structure: Cobb and the other characters create dreams within dreams within dreams, but they cannot distinguish between reality and the dream states they fabricate. Most of us distinguish between real and imagined events using unconscious processes to monitor the accuracy of our experiences.
But these processes can break down in some psychiatric conditions. "In a dream, we naturally accept what is happening and hardly doubt its reality, however unrealistic it may seem on reflection. " says Keisuke Suzuki, the lead author of a recent paper describing the SR system. To test the system, Suzuki and his colleagues designed a simple, yet ingenious, experiment. Book written in DNA code | Science. Scientists have for the first time used DNA to encode the contents of a book. At 53,000 words, and including 11 images and a computer program, it is the largest amount of data yet stored artificially using the genetic material. The researchers claim that the cost of DNA coding is dropping so quickly that within five to 10 years it could be cheaper to store information using this method than in conventional digital devices.
Deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA – the chemical that stores genetic instructions in almost all known organisms – has an impressive data capacity. One gram can store up to 455bn gigabytes: the contents of more than 100bn DVDs, making it the ultimate in compact storage media. A three-strong team led by Professor George Church of Harvard Medical School has now demonstrated that the technology to store data in DNA, while still slow, is becoming more practical. Writing the data to DNA took several days.
DNA has numerous advantages over traditional digital storage media. Matt Mills: Image recognition that triggers augmented reality. Recent Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame. Self-Tracking Apps To Help You 'Quantify' Yourself : All Tech Considered. Hide captionNoah Zandan shows off his Zeo sleep-tracking headband. His other self-tracking devices are on his wrists. Noah and his father, Peter, are both part of the growing "Quantified Self" movement. Elise Hu/NPR Noah Zandan shows off his Zeo sleep-tracking headband.
His other self-tracking devices are on his wrists. Noah and his father, Peter, are both part of the growing "Quantified Self" movement. Technology has made it easier than ever to track your activity levels, your sleep cycles, how you spend your time, and more. Interested in giving self-tracking a try? If you're just getting started, the most "mainstream" self-tracking devices are the Fitbit, Jawbone UP, and Nike Fuelband.
For heart rate monitoring devices, Garmin and Polar both make options that self-trackers like. Food monitoring apps include MyFitnessPal and MyPlate. If you want to dig a little deeper, these self-tracking devices, apps and systems might teach you something that you don't know about yourself.