September 2009
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Online Cyberpunk course →
Time to get upskilled!
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Underground, green cities in future, waterless US... →
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1.7 sextillion dollar suit filed against bank →
Not only a fun fact: Imagine a future where all legal practice works in the imaginary domain rather than the real.
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'I think the sex robot will happen fairly soon' -... →
The Guardian interview (via Futurismic)
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When "smart" homes shouldn't be too smart →
Via @iftf. There are dangers of too smart homes of course. In movies, they could turn on their owner, but in the long run, they can make the inhabitants less excersised and intelligent. Future man is a vegetable.
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A trip through Dubai on the new metro →
A slightly futuristic feeling to this Dubai sightseeing.
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Runaway Drone Shot Out of Sky [UAVs] →
Drones can stop responding to commands. They still fly somewhere. What will happen when drones are solar rechargable?
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When the highways seceded →
A small piece of genius from blog Quiet Babylon (via Futurismic): a possible future where the highways of US seceded and became their own corporations/states. Why would they do that? In the future of drone and AI based security, protecting arbitrary borders are no longer a problem.
Even better, charge for highway usage based on security level (and imagine future GPS:es including security based...
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“zombie leggy sennit mucus!
bliss mauve codex leggy!
piker beater.
skim fee...”
– A poem found in my spambox… this is the future.
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Google's CEO on search: “Connect It Straight To... →
I truly believe this is Google’s vision. If I ran the company, it would certainly be my vision ;)
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BoingBoing: The death of "locational privacy" →
Nothing new here, privacy died already, mourner’s can dress in black for next few years.
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Transhumanism = overhumanism?
Charles Stross, SF-writer, gives us a long, good and almost essay-like blogpost regarding transumanism. There are signs that transhumanism (ideology of modifying humans to something better) would be used by nasty political ideologies.
Well, nothing new here, to be honest. Transhumanism in its purest form is still a dangerous (but inevitable) path to go. The rich world will get the...
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Corporates killing themselves in steady numbers →
Twenty-three employees of France Telecom have killed themselves since the beginning of 2008. […]
The latest suicide occurred on Friday, when a 32-year-old woman leapt to her death at a France Telecom office in Paris.
On Wednesday, a 49-year-old man in Troyes, east of Paris, plunged a knife into his own stomach during a meeting in which he had been told he was being transferred.
(via...
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“A suicide bomber is, at a technical level, only a wetware delivery system for...”
– Global Guerrillas: ERRATA: Mid September 2009
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Ads in your eyes
My Futurismic feed came up with something that got my brain spinning on some extra ideas. The blog Future Perfect talks about “Owning Eyeballls”:
What happens when the lens through which you view the world is owned by someone whose business model is all about selling eyeballs?
Of course, with augmented reality everywhere, the advertisers want a piece of the cake. First is to put in...
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Human brain cells to control robot →
(via Futurismic)
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Rent an exoskeleton from Cyberdyne →
Now available in Tokyo (via @chrull)
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Your Warren Ellis moment for the week: snorting... →
(via Futurismic)
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Genetically remove pain senses from animals →
“Now the cow huggers won’t bother us anymore” - Cynical, near-future food corporation
(via Futurismic)