Archive for the ‘Future’ Category
Transcendent Man
transcendentman.com AFIFest Screening, Nov 5
Ray v. Jeff
Long my favorite among living scientist/inventors, Ray gives one of his longer interviews… I crossed paths with Ray many years ago. One of my scanner patents references one of his. So, Jeff Bertholdi — Mr Bentvision – put your money where your youtube is and take me up on this bet. I’ll fly out there [...]
Come. Into the Future with Me.
Dont forget to kill the ad (click the x). This…brought tears of angst and joy to my eyes. I wonder if you might understand why?
Consumers aren’t so dumb.
This is a scary graph (the thin line). In January, the outgoing administration released its annual Economic Report of the President as reported in the NYT Economix blog. The chart below–from that report–shows how real consumer spending fluctuates with real wealth. As you would expect, there is some damping. It looks like historically this damping reduces the amplitude [...]
In: Future, Only in the USA
Zune as foolscap
My Zune has become, in no small way, my pre-Singularity foolscap. Through it, I am enjoying a personal renaissance in my thirst for diverse learning. Many (esp. my sons) would think it strange that I rarely use my Zune for music. I’m sure I would if I had more music listening time in my day. What [...]
In: Books, Future, Religion, Technology, Tools · Tagged with: Zune
A working brain model
A new working brain model is revealed today inTechnology Review. This is absolutely amazing and exciting. More hard evidence for accelerating change, the day is quickly coming when human neuroscience will be modelled on a PC.
Artistic and Creative Symposiums and Adventures
For some time I have been thinking of building and maintaining a list of artistic and creative adventures around the world. A sort of personal “places and things to see and do before you die” (except that I’m Not)… I‘m using a new on-line mind map tool which seems quite capable. Click the thumbnail for [...]
In: Art, Future, Life, Travel
Blog Action Day
There’s a big hullabaloo today in the global blogosphere. “Blog Action Day”. While it’s an interesting experiment in internet-assisted awareness generation, tomorrow and next week it will mostly be forgotten. Let’s watch. Sure, I care about the environment. But one recycled newspaper at a time isn’t going to get us there. If the projections of [...]
In: Future, Science, Technology
What is your Real Age?
“Look younger, live longer” — this is the byline for and innovative new science-based health and age-related website, RealAge.com. Take their ‘RealAge Test’ and find out what your effective age is. More importantly, check out the Top 12 Ways to Make Your RealAge Younger. I’ve got 11 of them down and my RealAge is 11.5 [...]
In: Future, Health & Fitness, Life
Why fear the future?
Growing up in the 60s and 70s in rural America, one had little reason not to be optimistic about the future (though, of course, some of us had the Book of Revelation keeping us in a cold sweat). The baby boomer’s had every reason to believe they would match and exceed the abundance of their [...]
In: Future, Religion, Technology