‘Technology - Future Trends’ Archives
Your Smartphone Is An Artificial Limb
Fast Company | August 22, 2011 By Kit Eaton While you were busy catapulting Angry Birds on your iPhone, scientists at Vanderbilt university were using the components inside your smartphone to create bionic limbs. The Vanderbilt leg, seven years in the making, anticipates [Read More]
IBM unveils chips that mimic the human brain
computing.co.uk | August 18, 2011 By Stuart Sumner IBM has unveiled a new experimental computer chip that it says mimics the human brain in that it perceives, acts and even thinks. It terms the machines built with these chips “cognitive computers”, claiming that [Read More]
5 things you probably didn’t know could be hacked
YTech | August 15, 2011 By Mike Wehner Of all the storage mediums you use to keep information that is most important to you, your brain is by far the most complex. Because of the immense amount of data that the human brain can hold, scientists have been attempting to crack [Read More]
Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands
Yahoo! News | August 16, 2011 By Liz Goodwin Comment From Old-Thinker News: Peter Thiel is a Steering Committee Member of the secretive Bilderberg Group, consisting of international bankers and elites from around the globe. This alone should raise red flags among true [Read More]
Stand tall as it all comes down
The Age of Transitions | August 13, 2011 By Aaron Franz The world appears to be falling apart, and indeed it is, but why? This is the question we must ask ourselves when faced with a constant media barrage of fear warning us of the imminent collapse of the world as we know [Read More]
Hacker group vows to ‘kill Facebook’
CNN | August 10 , 2011 By Doug Gross Apparently, “Anonymous” won’t be accepting your friend request. Members of the shadowy collective known for its politically motivated Web hacks and attacks are targeting Facebook for what they claim to be the [Read More]
Electronic skin tattoo has medical, gaming, spy uses
AFP | August 11, 2011 A hair-thin electronic patch that adheres to the skin like a temporary tattoo could transform medical sensing, computer gaming and even spy operations, according to a US study published Thursday. The micro-electronics technology, called an epidermal [Read More]
GMOs failing across America - Farmer to Farmer film reveals disastrous failure
Natural News | August 8, 2011 By PF Louis The mainstream media reports almost nothing about the downside of GMO farming. Only the propaganda of creating more agricultural abundance cheaply is broadcasted. A short video documentary “Farmer to Farmer: The Truth about GM [Read More]
Jason Silva Muses on Humans Turning Into Gods
Forbes | August 5, 2011 By Alex Knapp Jason Silva is a host and producer at Current TV, and a Fellow at the Hybrid Reality Institute, a research and advisory think tank focused on the intersection of technology trends and geopolitics. His current project is the [Read More]
Susan Greenfield: Living online is changing our brains
New Scientist | August 3, 2011 By Frank Swain We need to talk about how the digital world might be changing our brains, says the neuroscientist and former director of the UK’s Royal Institution You think that digital technology is having an impact on our brains. How [Read More]