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PC World - Business Center: Anthropology's Technology-driven Renaissance - 0 views

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shared by Adam Bohannon on 18 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Mobile phones with flashlights are just one example of a product that can emerge from this brand of user-centric design. Others include mobile phones with multiple phone books, which allow more than one person to share a single phone, a practice largely unheard of in many developed markets.
  • Others include mobile phones with multiple phone books, which allow more than one person to share a single phone, a practice largely unheard of in many developed markets.
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Isolation by Lucas Bessire - 0 views

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  • Adam Bohannon on 13 Jun 08
     
    In South America's Gran Chaco, voluntarily isolated indigenous groups are still dodging the rampant development of the region, and with good reason: those that have already come out have found that even greater isolation awaits them.
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Truemors :: Global Green Behavior Patterns - 0 views

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  • Adam Bohannon on 12 May 08
     
    It is one thing to talk about going green and another to actually do something about it. A global survey was conducted in fourteen countries to track the behavior of individual consumers when it comes to matters of the environment. The survey looked at the size of peoples homes, the amount of energy consumed for heating and cooling, the number and types of appliances and electronic devices used, the modes of transportation employed, the types of food consumed, consumption habitats of non-essential items, and one's beliefs regarding the environment. See the results here
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The Law of Accelerating Returns - 0 views

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