‘Technology – Future Trends’ Archives
“Big Brother” is big business?
CBS | May 16, 2013 The odds are you are not just a face in the crowd any longer. Even if your picture isn’t plastered all over social networking and photo-sharing sites, facial recognition technology in public places is making it harder if not impossible to remain [Read More]
Google’s Plan To Take Over The World
Business Insider | May 18, 2013 Related: Google-Berg Merger Ushers in Planned-Opolis Future in the Hybrid Age By Steve Kovach Google‘s big keynote at its I/O developers conference this week wore me out. Not because it lasted a grueling three hours and fifty minutes, [Read More]
Humans Fully Outsourced to Robots by 2045?
Activist Post | May 17, 2013 By Nicholas West Discussion of the “Singularity” — the moment when computer intelligence surpasses that of humans to such an extent that humans become practically redundant — has been gaining steam across the media [Read More]
Google and NASA Snap Up Quantum Computer D-Wave Two
Scientific American | May 17, 2013 D-Wave, the small company that sells the world’s only commercial quantum computer, has just bagged an impressive new customer: a collaboration between Google, NASA and the non-profit Universities Space Research Association. The three [Read More]
Will giving the internet eyes and ears mean the end of privacy?
The Guardian | May 16, 2013 By Bruce Schneier Corporations and governments are turning the internet into a colossal, always-on surveillance tool. Once passive objects are able to report what’s happening, where is the power balance? The internet has turned into a [Read More]
Eggs for Sale? Brace yourself for the human embryo market.
The Weekly Standard | May 20, 2013 By WESLEY J. SMITH If you want to know what’s going to go wrong in the culture, read the professional journals. A case in point: An article in the April 10 New England Journal of Medicine called for the creation of a commodities market [Read More]
Google ‘Knows When You’re Home’
Prisonplanet | May 16, 2013 By Paul Joseph Watson Google has devised yet another ingenious way of convincing people to hand over their real-time location data, by offering location specific “reminders” as part of its Google Now feature. During the company’s Google I/O [Read More]
Brain implants: Restoring memory with a microchip
CNN | May 8, 2013 By Madeleine Acey William Gibson’s popular science fiction tale “Johnny Mnemonic” foresaw sensitive information being carried by microchips in the brain by 2021. A team of American neuroscientists could be making this fantasy world a [Read More]
Researchers create RFID-enabled paper, bringing us ever closer to traceable cash
Extreme Tech | May 2, 2013 By James Plafke Physical cash has both benefits and drawbacks. One of the major benefits is that you can use it at establishments that don’t accept credit or debit, which are surprisingly frequent if you live in a big city. Some major drawbacks [Read More]
Study aims to find out if technology is changing society
Tasmania Examiner | May 8, 2013 By Rosita Gallasch IS THE digital age changing the way we relate to each other? This is the question University of Tasmania school of social sciences PhD candidate Ashlin Lee aims to get to the bottom of as part of his project, Of Human [Read More]