http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GlobalRisks_Report_2013.pdf - 0 views
Our robotic revolution is only just beginning to gather steam - Telegraph - 0 views
Is the United States Militarizing Cyberspace? - Forbes - 0 views
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Sean Lawson, Forbes: "If the United States has not yet fully militarized cyberspace, it has taken significant steps in that direction. " Interesting metaphors in this article. Is cyberspace like an ocean, and is it just a normal thing to have a kind of cyberspace-navy? Or is this going much further, with the military trying to expand their role drastically?
Developments at MakerBot® Thingiverse™ | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com - 0 views
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"Thingiverse is also introducing a new "Follow" button that will connect you to the things, digital designs, designers, users, tags, categories: all the stuff you care about most. By following a Thing, you'll get a notification when someone comments on it, makes a copy of it, or remixes it. Some new digital designs inspire a whole family of new Things, and the Follow button helps you keep track of those. " As Bruce Sterling says, it's almost a social network of things. Now just imagine to have this affordance in augmented reality - you just point your smartphone, tablet or google glass to a thing, you activate some app and you get all this information. Also in the press release, the guys from Thingiverse explain how users have been tagging their uploads with useful descriptors - and so now you can follow tags or categories to get updates in a dashboard. We're talking here about the annotation of our physical reality, bookmarking no longer just the digital world of websites but of the objects which surround us.
Microsoft has its own Project Glass - 0 views
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"Microsoft has it's own Project Glass cooking in the R&D labs. It's an augmented reality glasses/heads-up display, that should supply you with various bits of trivia while you are watching a live event, e.g. baseball game. " The information is based on a patent application, so don't expect a Microsoft Glass for Christmas.
Becoming a Cyborg should be taken gently: Of Modern Bio-Paleo-Machines » Cybo... - 0 views
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"We, the biological part of the machine, are providing the tools for its uplift, we embed cameras everywhere so it can see, we implant sensors all over the planet so it may feel, but above all we nudge and we push towards a greater connectivity, all this unaware." And also: "We are on the edge of a Paleolithic Machine intelligence world. A world oscillating between that which is already historical, and that which is barely recognizable. Some of us, teetering on this bio-electronic borderline, have this ghostly sensation that a new horizon is on the verge of being revealed, still misty yet glowing with some inner light, eerie but compelling." An interesting and beautiful post, but then again, I'm not entirely convinced, more specifically about the implicit conceptualization of our own Paleo-past. I think our ancestors and many animals had something called consciousness, while all those fascinating machines and networks of today don't have any consciousness at all. The fact that we add cameras and sensors to the networks does not yet mean these networks acquire something like a body. It would be interesting to study how the proponents of cyborg-thinking conceptualize the relationship between mind, body and consciousness. Or am I mistaken here?
Manufacturing: The new maker rules | The Economist - 0 views
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Yet 3D printing is just one of many production technologies and trends which are transforming the way companies will be able to make things in the future. The old rules of manufacturing, such as "you must seek economies of scale" and "you must reduce unit-labour costs", are being cast aside. New machines can print every item differently. More flexible robots are getting cheaper and better at doing all the boring and dirty stuff.
The robot economy and the new rentier class | FT Alphaville - 0 views
Open Robotics University - Google+ - 0 views
TONI NEGRI: WHAT MAKES A BIOPOLITICAL SPACE « MARA-STREAM.ORG - 0 views
New framework: 2013 and beyond - What will appear and disappear in our lives | Trends i... - 0 views
After Merger, 3D Printing Industry Has A New Leader | Singularity Hub - 0 views
Open the Future: The Pink Collar Future - 0 views
Every page a homepage. The river of news. The infinite scroll. All have been built into... - 0 views
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Every page a homepage. The river of news. The infinite scroll. All have been built into the new Reuters dot com http://t.co/yGZzdJ906d - Jay Rosen (jayrosen_nyu) http://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/329962973240123394
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