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WoW of Fortune
"...while sleeping on it hasn’t yielded any additional insight, there’s something intriguing about the idea of mashing up casino slot gambling with - of all things - an MMORPG."Public webcams, not CCTV, urged to avoid Big Brother society [in UK]
"Footage from surveillance cameras must be made freely available to the public if Britain is to avoid becoming a Big Brother state, researchers warned yesterday." Someone's been reading DaviSingularity Reading Recommendations
"For those interested in more seriously exploring the issues of Artificial General Intelligence and the Singularity, I’d like to recommend the following writings ..." None of which are sf noTest Tube Meat Nears Dinner Table
Another common science fiction trope edges closer to reality. It'll come in handy when there's no biosphere left and we all live in orbital habitats.Will Canada be the first cashless society?
Intriguing article. Link via FutureWire.Go Dutch on your electric bill!
Residential windmill saves money, the environmentWhy We Must Flee the Planet: The Geometry of Earth is All Wrong
Seth 'SETI' Shostak lays down one of the best defenses of Hawking's call for diaspora that I have read so far. Come on people, let's dissassemble the moon! w00t!RFID Consultation Website
My fellow Europeans, rejoice! You have the opportunity to tell the EU government your feelings on the future of RFID implementation in Europe! Log in and have your say! (Or nod off and head for the puArtificial General Intelligence and its Potential Role in the Singularity
Does what it says on the tin; a serious essay on a serious subject. Link via Advanced Nanotechnology.Multi-Finger 3D Display
Ooooh! Looks fun, if a little rough-and-ready so far. Early days though - this has been a good year for 3D display technologies so far.Tau Zero Foundation Announced
Centauri Dreams discusses a new futurism foundation in the offing, named for a classic science fiction novel.Coming soon -- mind-reading computers
A system that can ascertain your mood from reading cues in your facial expression. Could save a few dented case-panels after caffeine-fueled gaming/blogging sessions.Geodesic domes: 'Doing more with less'
Fuller-domes get a dusting-off, and are starting to appear at festivals and corporate events. Some ideas are just to good to die off easily.Matrioshka Brain Home Page
What's a Matrioshka Brain? It's like a Dyson Sphere, just less anthropocentric; an idea that has been mined by a fair few SF authors, and will no doubt obsess me for weeks to follow. w00t!How to Cool a Planet (Maybe)
In the light of recent climate change evidence, a lot of 'ecological engineering' ideas, previously considered the stuff of science fiction, are being dusted off and re-examined. Link via Uncertain PrAmazon’s Jeff Barr on future of shopping
"Jeff Barr has the futuristic title of Web Services Evangelist at online retailing giant Amazon.com; as Jeffrey Batra in Second Life he is working hard on projects that bridge the virtual world aScientist regrow chicken wing
"A research team [...] has been able to regenerate a wing in a chick embryo -- a species not known to be able to regrow limbs -- suggesting that the potential for such regeneration exists innatelThe Wit and Wisdom of IDEA2006
"Cities are clusters of spatial events. We want to repopulate the map with the rhythms of urban life." Captain Sterling has been on patrol with his notebook again.Location-based Social Mapping on your mobile
"...unlike other social location services, [it] automatically updates the location of everyone in a private network and displays that information directly on a map on the phone." The futureThe Seoul of a New Machine
"Rity is the ghost in the machine: an autonomous agent that can transfer itself into desktop computers, PDAs, servers and robotic avatars, and adapt and evolve like a genetic organism."Election '08: Vote by TiVo
"...internet voting is considered heresy in security circles, where the concept has been repeatedly and violently pilloried since at least 2000. If American voters are not ready to trust Diebold,What Economists Agree Upon
"They like the free market, don’t they?" They sure do. Never thought I'd hear myself agreeing with economists, but there's a first time for everything.
