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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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CTU: Web 2.0 Tool
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Friday, August 22, 2008. It would appear that money is the defining point between the 1st generation web and Web 2.0. John Batelle ( http:/ www.imediaconnection.com/content/7486.asp. Explains, "Version one of the internet was short on execution, very short on profits - the market and the technology were not ready for all our ideas. Version two is long on execution, it's long on profits, and I think, actually, there's a lot more opportunity now to start new companies.". The mainstream tools such as wikis,...
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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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CTU: Draft Futuring Prediction
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Thursday, August 21, 2008. Issue: Attempt to define the Impact and Future IT Technology support for education. Background: Education has long been the foundation of our society. Issues and problems in the current US education system are reflected in social problems such as chronic unemployment, crime, social unrest and continued inequality. The current philosophy for teaching is similar to physical training which is achieved by repeating a task until “muscle memory” is achieved. The futur...Education has...
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CTU: Question for the Class
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Thursday, August 21, 2008. Question for the Class. How can I more effectively keep up on all of the postings on BLOGs? I'm struggling with trying to keep up with posts to BLOGs and participate /comment to those blogs. How are you compiling the additions to all of the blogs? I tried using an RSS feed but not all of the changes are showing. I'm wasting huge amounts of time just trying to read all of the BLOGs and bouncing around from BLOG to BLOG. 3 Select the “Blog List” item. 8 Click on the Save button.
