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Alex Wright introduces the idea of the radiated library. This system would allows acess to all the world's communication systems at one time, similar to the internet, but on a macro-scale. Books, magazines, films, music, etc. would all be readily acessible simultaneously.

Literary Cartography attempts to use literary geography to incorporate real place instead of just symbolic space. This cite conveys the importance of seeing the goegraphy in a literary text and the way it shapes our perceptions and culture.

This forum on digital gaming raises some controversial questions in regards to the gaming world in our culture today. It points out the "serious addictions" and "aggressive tendencies" that most digital games possess today and raises the question, "Could it change?" Would a gaming system that introduces "virtual Peace" catch on in the mainstream gaming culture, or only pool in the more "university study" sites that seek to introduce it? Could a spark catch in peaceful gaming that instead of violence incorporates UNICEF or Red Cross into the virtual gaming world?

Can emotions be replicated by a machine? Yann LeCun, a computer scientist at NYU, discusses the importance of emotions being prevelent in intelligent machines.

This post attempts to discuss and explor the possibility of the "thinking machine." Could computers become so smart as to function on a human level: think, feel, act, etc. as if it were really human? A panel discusses these phenominons and the reality behind the questions.

This post talks about the intricate role that Quantum Physics play as an undertone in nature. How could we function without a GPS these days, furthermore how does nature know instinctively how to coordinate with its inner instincts and does quantum physicas have something to do with this?

This article highlights the issue of technology assisting to those who could potentially do powerful and bad things with it. Some of this technology is in place today to help assist these terrorists to crumble our nation's infastructure. Security expert, Brian Snow, seeks to answer the hard questions concerning the intent to use technology in negative ways if put into the wrong hands.

With computers, we give up alot of face-to-face trust when we begin to engage in a more technology driven culture. So what steps need to be taken when we hand over the trust we give or revoke from human to human and hand it from human to computer. How can we build a safe and trustworthy relationship with this technology that we use everyday.

This article is about a movie showing that will pioneer a discussion concerning roboticists and exploring the future of computerized companions and caretakers. The program supports Alfred B. Sloan Foundation in asisting understanding of science and technology.

Digital physicists try to explain that computation is not just for approximating reality but might actually be reality itself. The use examples such as bits instead of elementary particles or computer algorithims instead of physics. An interesting view on the computer world.

The Creator is a film that personifies computers in the future to ask where it is they came from and trace their lineage back to a man named Alan Turing, who first asked the question, "Can Machines Think?" After the viewing of the film top computers scientist will have open discussions concerning the questions and concerns this film brings up.

This article attempts to survey the history and turn up the evidence of who actually invented the internet. Who were its' pioneers? And what was the driving force behing it all, what is the history here?

Eitan Grinspun walks us through the wonderful world of computers and physics and how they contribute, no how they make or break, a movie. This topic is so interesting because I feel like it embodies the term digital humanities. It is actually intertwined to make an inhuman thing human with the characteristics of movement, communication, etc.

How intricately is physics intertwined with nature: flight patterns or birds, photosynthesis, etc? How is the subatomic realm affecting the real world that we see taking place all around us each day, or is it? This posting talks about the correlations between the two and if there really is a correlation at all?

This article explores our useage/dependance on technology. Could this be the machine/device that, in human history, we have been most attached to, most intimate with. A video comments and explores our intimate dependance of technology to connect us with the world.

Alan Turing is written about in this article and praised for his pioneering efforts in the technology we see around us today. He set in motion that breaking of coding information to help spur on what we know today and information technology. He also had strong beliefs in the theory that technology could become intelligent.

Meet Watson, the new medical "miracle" machine. In an understaffed hospital this machine is being used to monitor and treat patients around the clock. It is interactive and meet the medical needs of patients based on their age. An interesting piece of machinery, that's for sure.

In this article we discuss the "intelligence" of the machine. They are able to do just about anything we ask of them these days, but are they actually able to "think" and "feel?" This article delves in to try and reason whether or not this phenominon is possible in the real world.

In this article four mathematicle "fanatics" as one might tend to call them sit down to discuss thier mathematical passions, how they began their journey into the mathmatic field, and what are the cons of math classes in today's classroom.

Is our information safe out there? This is the real underlying question behing this humorous blog posting. I love the way this article pulls up the humors or encryptions and juxtaposes it with some of the ways that encrytion can be used in poor ways as well.

This article describes a quitbit. It juxtaposes the new quantum computer with its quibits to the current ones we have now that une the simple bit and byte mode of operation. Basically a quibit is a much more deeply complex for of the 0 and 1, yes and no unit that computers use traditionally.

Cryptography is the art of being able to encrypt coding onto computers. But what has this "art" done to the safety of our information online. If this information is put into the wrong hands, it could be devistating to someone whose information (and most of ours is now days) on the internet. This article brings up the importance of safe guarding our information against those who could potentially attempt to steal it.