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The Internet of Yesteryears
I found this wonderful Slate.com article yesterday talking about the Internet way back in good ol’ 1996. I enjoyed it (and hope you might as well) partially because I often find myself thinking about...
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Steve Jobs, Apple, and the Future of Organs?
Perhaps you have heard the report, which surfaced last week, that Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently had a liver transplant in Tennessee (if you didn’t hear about it, you can read about it at TechCrunch...
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Contemplation/Signs of the Apocalypse: The Dreadful Transhumans?
Holy crap, this is two combined Contemplation/Signs of the Apocalypse posts now. But it seems appropriate, so I intend on going with it. Yesterday I read a piece in The New York Times by Jack Hitt...
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Contemplation: Phones. Why do we do it in the road?
“This relative risk is similar to the hazard associated with driving with a blood alcohol level at the legal limit.” On the risk of talking on a cellular phone while driving, via the New England...
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Looking at the iPad From Two Perspectives
This is fun. David Pogue, a tech reviewer for the New York Times, writes a two sided article that considers the pros and cons of Apples iPad tablet device to be released this weekend. What I love...
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Contemplation: Whatever Would You Do If the Internet Were to Disappear?
The above question is posed in this Wondermark Comic by David Malki with a hilarious retort (well hilarious in my opinion anyway). I include it here because I feel that it is a worthwhile piece of...
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Signs of the Apocalypse: Creepy Fucking Lip-Egg Kissing-Bots!
WHAT. THE. FUCK! Alright, there is a lot of stuff in regards to robots that I consider perhaps inadvisable, a little disconcerting, and, on occassion, really base-jumping into the uncanny valley, but...
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This week my step-daughter will be ending her time as a home school student and become a sophomore attending public high school. This is an exciting, interesting, and some what stressful time for our...
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When Technology Betrays You (or, At Least, it Feels Like it Does)
So, I’ve had a pretty shitty time with technology so far this week. First, my phone, a pretty dated model flip phone, decided that its sudden and absolute death was the only way it could go out with...
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Signs of the Apocalypse: Laser Weapons
So, um, we have real honest-to-goodness laser guns now . . . well kind of anyway. Here watch this nifty (and eerily silent) video. Now, obviously these are not your standard sci-fi staple handheld...
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All in the Palm of Your Hand
There needs to be a word (preferably a German word, though a Portuguese or Japanese one could suffice) that describes the feeling of profound wonder mixed with unease and discomfort at the advancements...
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That’s Witchcraft! A New Posting Topic and a First Example
Arthur C. Clarke famously said or wrote (not verbatim really) that any sufficiently advanced technology would appear as magic to a less advanced society. I can buy that. In our modern world, with...
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