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Anthropologists Have No Place On Battlefield -- Courant.com

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:26:35 -0000

Tags: anthropology ethics military

Posted by: abo46n2

Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Main Page

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:28:55 -0000

Tags: history reference resources

Posted by: abo46n2

YouTube - America America

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:46:31 -0000

Tags: anti-americanism video

Posted by: mwesch

Isolation by Lucas Bessire

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:57:53 -0000

Tags: anthropology ayoreo bolivia humanrights paraguay

Posted by: abo46n2

World Prison Population (IMG) - prisonstudies-org.jpg (JPEG Image, 1024x576 pixels)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:41:24 -0000

Tags: image law prison statistics

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YouTube - The End of Poverty - The "Homework" of Our Generation

Fri, 30 May 2008 14:42:55 -0000

Tags: inspirational poverty youtube

Posted by: mwesch

Adobe - Design Center : Design anthropology: What can it add to your design practice?

Fri, 23 May 2008 16:00:17 -0000

Tags: anthropology design

Posted by: abo46n2

Video Selections for Global Prob

Mon, 19 May 2008 19:26:26 -0000

Tags: videos worldsim worldsystems

Posted by: mwesch

Meeting The Other (How to Learn about Humanity)

Thu, 15 May 2008 13:35:25 -0000

Tags: anthropology humanity maybury-lewis

Posted by: abo46n2

Hominin Fossil Database

Wed, 14 May 2008 02:55:29 -0000

Tags: anthropology database fossils hominin resource timeline

Posted by: abo46n2

Truemors :: Global Green Behavior Patterns

Mon, 12 May 2008 23:33:02 -0000

Tags: environment global green research statistics sustainability

Posted by: abo46n2

The Law of Accelerating Returns

Thu, 08 May 2008 12:53:48 -0000

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

Can the pace of technological progress continue to speed up indefinitely? Is there not a point where humans are unable to think fast enough to keep up with it? With regard to unenhanced humans, clearly so. But what would a thousand scientists, each a thousand times more intelligent than human scientists today, and each operating a thousand times faster than contemporary humans (because the information processing in their primarily nonbiological brains is faster) accomplish? One year would be like a millennium. What would they come up with?

Well, for one thing, they would come up with technology to become even more intelligent (because their intelligence is no longer of fixed capacity).

This, then, is the Singularity. The Singularity is technological change so rapid and so profound that it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history.

Needless to say, the Singularity will transform all aspects of our lives, social, sexual, and economic,

Some prominent dates from this analysis include the following:

We achieve one Human Brain capability (2 * 10^16 cps) for $1,000 around the year 2023.
We achieve one Human Brain capability (2 * 10^16 cps) for one cent around the year 2037.
We achieve one Human Race capability (2 * 10^26 cps) for $1,000 around the year 2049.
We achieve one Human Race capability (2 * 10^26 cps) for one cent around the year 2059.

Downloading the Human Brain

A Thought Experiment

By 2030, going to a web site will mean entering a full immersion virtual reality environment.

Brain implants based on massively distributed intelligent nanobots will ultimately expand our memories a trillion fold, and otherwise vastly improve all of our sensory, pattern recognition, and cognitive abilities.

And in the same way that biological self-replication gone awry (i.e., cancer) results in biological destruction, a defect in the mechanism curtailing nanobot self-replication would endanger all physical entities, biological or otherwise.

A related question is "is death desirable?"

Plan to Stick Around

Tags: k kurzweil singularity

Posted by: mwesch

YouTube - A Cyborg Manifesto

Thu, 08 May 2008 10:38:46 -0000

Tags: cyborg video

Posted by: mwesch

Why face symmetry is sexy across cultures and species

Wed, 07 May 2008 21:02:37 -0000

Tags: anthropology attraction biology culture

Posted by: abo46n2

Bolivia region 'chooses autonomy'

Mon, 05 May 2008 02:39:41 -0000

Tags: bolivia latinamerica politics

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Worldometers - real time world statistics

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:52:41 -0000

Tags: economics education environment government health media population statistics world

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The New School | Undergraduate and Graduate Programs in Media Studies

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:05:41 -0000

Tags: grad mediastudies thenewschool

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twitter saves student

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:47:45 -0000

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

Buck, 29, a former Oakland Tribune multimedia intern, used the ubiquitous short messaging service to tap out a single word on his cellular phone: ARRESTED. The message went out to the cell phones and computers of a wide circle of friends in the United States and to the mostly leftist, anti-government bloggers in Egypt who are the subject of his graduate journalism project.

The next day, he walked out a free man with an Egyptian attorney hired by UC Berkeley at his side and the U.S. Embassy on the phone.

Tags: tech

Posted by: cautiongetclear

He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work) - New York Times

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:11:45 -0000

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

Mr. Parker has generated more than 200,000 books

developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a subject — broad or obscure — and, aided by his 60 to 70 computers and six or seven programmers, he turns the results into books in a range of genres, many of them in the range of 150 pages and printed only when a customer buys one

“I guess it makes sense now as to why the book was so awful and frustrating.”

Tags: tech

Posted by: cautiongetclear

Macenstein | Cluttered desktop folders become art

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:16:22 -0000

Tags: tech

Posted by: cautiongetclear