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Foxtail Island: Self-Replicating Robots – Prediction – Failure or Success?
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Monday, August 25, 2008. Self-Replicating Robots – Prediction – Failure or Success? After more in-depth study of this subject overall, I’m more inclined to say this is still a debate. Scientists say this technology is definitely soon to be reality. Science fiction gurus say this technology is dangerous, will wipe out mankind and the self-replicating robots take over the planet. Self – replication Definition. The Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann (1966), set for himself the goal of showing...
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Gem's Blog: Medical Thoughts - Final Project
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Thursday, September 4, 2008. Medical Thoughts - Final Project. Some ideas are running around in my mind for the class final project. I'm leaning towards a non-invasive diagnostic and treatment tool. I envision the tool to be along the lines of the security x-ray machines and the Star Trek medical tri-corder. Now to merge the concepts and address political, religious, social, cultural, and technical aspects to develop a prototype. September 8, 2008 at 11:03 PM. September 9, 2008 at 5:26 PM. I just read an...
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CS855 - Futuring and Innovation: Think Tanks
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CS855 - Futuring and Innovation. Tuesday, September 2, 2008. The web is full of definitions for Think Tanks, including the top Google search result from Wikipedia. So I'll spare the world from having to sort through another one, and offer a more personal perspective on the concept instead. I work at a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), which is a special type of Think Tank. It's a great place to work - we've been listed on Fortune's ". 100 Best Companies to Work For. There are obvi...
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CS855 - Futuring and Innovation: Satellite Communication - Analysis of a Successful Prediction
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CS855 - Futuring and Innovation. Sunday, August 10, 2008. Satellite Communication - Analysis of a Successful Prediction. I raised a few questions in my previous post. Why were early predictions of satellite communication successful? Was satellite communications inevitable, or was it driven by the creative minds of the people who predicted it's development? That John Pierce, from AT&T's Bell Telephone Lab, identified satellite communications as a billion-dollar technology. Hmmmmm. Personally, I believe th...
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CS855 - Futuring and Innovation: Satellite Communication - a Successful Prediction
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CS855 - Futuring and Innovation. Sunday, August 10, 2008. Satellite Communication - a Successful Prediction. Aurthur Clarke, a Sci-Fi author, published a technical paper in 1945 titled: ". Extra-terrestrial Relays – Can Rocket Stations Give World-wide Radio Coverage? Clarke later described the technical concept of satellite communications in essays he published between 1958 and 1961. In 1967 Herman Kahn and Anthony Wiener published ". Direct broadcasts from satellites to home receivers. CS 855 - Jan.
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Gem's Blog: Failed Prediction
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008. 8220;Television won’t last. It’s a flash in the pan.” — Mary Somerville, pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948 ( Top 30 Failed Technology Predictions. Is one failed technology prediction. Television has involved from “a rotating-disc technology to transmit pictures over wire” (. Television History – The History of TV. To displaying on plasma screens and web TV. My prediction is that television will continue evolving in the foreseeable future. August 4, 2008 at 11:13 AM.
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CS855 - Futuring and Innovation: Web 2.0 - Podcasts
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CS855 - Futuring and Innovation. Monday, September 1, 2008. Web 20 - Podcasts. As I've mentioned, I'm not an active participant of the Web 2.0 social scene. I spend my entire day (and many nights) working with computer technology, so I prefer to explore other adventures when I get some free time. With those criterion in mind, I performed the following steps to create the podcast below:. Recorded the audio in mp3 format with a digital recorder. Cleaned up the audio with Audacity. View my complete profile.
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CS855 - Futuring and Innovation: Exploring the Future
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CS855 - Futuring and Innovation. Tuesday, September 2, 2008. Represents one of the most drastic changes for the future. Nanomanufacturing is based on molecular-level construction, which means we can build absolutely anything that we can describe in the form of a molecular-level blueprint (which is obviously a major challenge, but we're exploring the future here). In other words, do you think a molecular-based "print" of yourself would retain all your memories and personal charactersics? I guess that also...
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CS855 - Futuring and Innovation: August 2008
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CS855 - Futuring and Innovation. Sunday, August 31, 2008. Innovation in other fields. Innovation is not limited to technology. Cris Angel has revolutionized "magic". If you haven't seen his work, check out these videos. There's lots more on YouTube. This is an innovative approach to a classic magic trick:. I'd say this an innovative. Approach to getting from one side of a pool to another:. Sunday, August 10, 2008. Satellite Communication - Analysis of a Successful Prediction. Technology advances have dro...
