Monday Marvels: Top 5 Wonders for August 20th – 26th 1.) Facebook’s Lofty Goal to Bring Internet to the World Facebook is teaming up with other major corporations including Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm and Samsung with the aim of providing affordable internet service to the two-thirds of the world who is still without. Of…
DetailsWelcome to the Serious Wonder podcast. This week Gray Scott joins up with Kevin and Kyle Russell, and Mat Lee. We bring you futuristic ideas and interviews with the intent to inspire awe and wonder. Serious Wonder. “Who’s your techno philosopher prophet?” – Gray Scott “We are a technology birthed from the earth.” – Gray…
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[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B004ZLV4JG” locale=”us” height=”160″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41UywapRmbL._SL160_.jpg” width=”88″] Facebook and Google+ are all about sharing our times and joys with the world, to paint the image of our lives or the personality of ourselves that we desire others to see. That is what Social Networking is about today; sharing the sights we enjoy in different locations, whether on…
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[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B0018QOWEU” locale=”us” height=”160″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31BdF6eXTzL._SL160_.jpg” width=”160″] Whether you dismiss it as science fiction or not, virtual reality is inevitable. Just as self-flushing toilets that rely on sensor flush systems are a common reality today, though once probably a subject of humor, the communication of tomorrow is voiceless, virtually telepathic and touch-free; in other words,…
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Monday Marvels : August 12th – 19th [easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”1613744307″ locale=”us” height=”160″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xsdw3gf0L._SL160_.jpg” width=”108″]1.) The Jet Pack has Finally Arrived The long awaited Martin Jet Pack has now officially been granted permission to begin test flights by the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority. The inventor Glen Martin is confident that a military prototype will be…
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[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”012375030X” locale=”us” height=”160″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61M9NAaydvL._SL160_.jpg” width=”129″]When the common language of computers was first being established, engineers had to agree that the piece of code 1101 was the equivalent to an A (example). This collaboration helped create a standard working model that current and future developers could use to build off of. As computers continued…
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Jack’s Reservation Had it happened? The point was endlessly debated by the infinite spectrum of cognizance that made up the machine over-mind. Many philosophers and technicians claimed we were “post-singularity” whereas, ironically enough, the AI avatars and cyborg humans claimed we weren’t there yet. The machines claimed that because the rate of technological growth was…
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[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B0071FK66K” locale=”us” height=”160″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31JL2rd9CjL._SL160_.jpg” width=”128″] Imagine a world where all the headlines of the latest happenings or news that you are concerned with from your preferred sources list themselves on a screen or in a holographic projection near your bed each morning you wake up. Or perhaps they would be near your breakfast table…
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[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B003F1KETI” locale=”us” height=”107″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41oRx9gCiWL._SL160_.jpg” width=”160″] No, this is not about Sky Net from the Terminator franchise. This is not about machines and robots taking over the world. This is about technology that would hardly ever go obsolete, because it will keep evolving itself. Whether it is self-powering electricity generators or self-evolving computers that innovators…
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Read “Methods for Futuring” Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. Futuring Methods In this section we will look at the broad strokes of the methods behind [easyazon-link asin=”1576750418″ locale=”us”]futuring[/easyazon-link] in eleven different ways. 1.) Scanning – Typically scanning is based on systematic survey of news articles, reviewing academic journals for new developments in technology and…
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[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B007N9217Q” locale=”us” height=”160″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418hTsPu5gL._SL160_.jpg” width=”107″]As technology increases in complexity, with more servers crunching more data, shouldn’t the way the humans interact with computers also grow in complexity? At the same time, shouldn’t they also be ameliorating to a state where complex objectives can be executed without equally complicated computer input? As the vastness…
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