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Brain Driven Computers - Mind Control - And More
Eddie NWO Censored
Lazybrains on CBS - July 04, 2008 - For our Senior Project at Drexel University, myself and four others designed a game engine framework and a fantastical, game-like 3D environment and we explored the influence that new methods of interfacing may have on the user's immersion in the interactive, virtual world, as well as new elements of game-play.To achieve this, we worked with the school of Biomedical Engineering at Drexel University, specifically Hasan Ayaz, to bridge the neuroimaging device, the fNIR, into our development environment, essentially giving us the ability to use a player's cognitive activity as an additional gameplay mechanism
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Brain Scanners, Fingercams Take Computer Interfaces Beyond Multitouch
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Wired. com
By Priya Ganapati
September 01, 2008
http://blog. wired. com/gadgets/2008/09/brain-scanners. html
With their easy-to-use touch screens, Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch are driving home the idea that computing can be more than just tapping away at a keyboard and clicking a mouse
So it's no surprise that multitouch displays (screens that are sensitive to the pressure of more than one finger) are capturing the imaginations of other manufacturers, including Samsung, Palm and Hewlett-Packard
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Some experts say humans will merge with machines before the end of this century
Dr Ray Kurzweil says by around 2030 humans will be mostly non-biological beings
Dr Nick Bostrom says superintelligent beings could pose an existential risk to human life
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Humans And Machines Will Merge In Future CNN July 15, 2008
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Discovery Channel – 2057 The City – MicroChipped World
DNA to power computers - Turning you into a BATTERY
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Breakthrough: Artificial DNA Could Power Future Computers
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LiveScience
By Robert Roy Britt
05 July 2008
http://www. livescience. com/technology/080705-artificial-dna. html
Chemists claim to have created the world's first DNA molecule made almost entirely of artificial parts
The finding could lead to improvements in gene therapy, futuristic nano-sized computers, and other high-tech advances, the Japanese researchers say,
DNA, popularly illustrated as a double helix, holds the blueprints of life and controls what every living organism becomes and how it functions
Scientists have tried for years to develop artificial versions of DNA in order to take advantage of its amazing information storage capabilities, Already, DNA has been harnessed to create simple electronic circuits
DNA uses just four basic building blocks, known as bases, to code proteins used in cell functioning and development, Other researchers have crafted DNA molecules with a few artificial parts
But Masahiko Inouye and colleagues at the University of Toyama used stitched together four entirely new, artificial bases inside the sugar-based framework of a DNA molecule, creating unusually stable, double-stranded structures resembling natural DNA, they say
Like natural DNA, the new ripoffs were right-handed and some easily formed triple-stranded structures, "The unique chemistry of these structures and their high stability offer unprecedented possibilities for developing new biotech materials and applications," the researchers said in a statement,
The breakthrough will be detailed in the July 23 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society
"The artificial DNA might be applied to a future extracellular genetic system with information storage and amplifiable abilities," the researchers write
The whole world is going to be mapped with a massive microchipped cashless control grid and nobody will be able to escape - forget about the appeal and conveniences, say goodbye to your privacy forever
Korea's multi-billion Songdo RFID-chipped city
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The World in 2025, According to the National Intelligence Council
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Daniel Taylor
Life extension technology, artificial intelligence, and an expansive "internet of things" are just a few of the topics that the latest report from the National Intelligence Council, "Disruptive Civil Technologies - Six Technologies with Potential Impacts on US Interests out to 2025"
Earlier reports from the CIA and the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense have carried similar themes The December 2000 CIA report, Global Trends 2015 stated that nation's borders would weaken in the process of globalization, with an elite reaping the benefits,
"Scenario Two: Pernicious Globalization Global elites thrive, but the majority of the world’s population fails to benefit from globalization... migration becomes a major source of interstate tension... Internal conflicts increase, fueled by frustrated expectations, inequities, and heightened communal tensions..."
The MoD strategic trends 2007-2036 report covers life extension technologies, stating that a divide may rise between those who can afford to extend their lifespan, such as dictatorial rulers,
"Developments in genetics might allow treatment of the symptoms of ageing and this would result in greatly increased life expectancy for those who could afford it. The divide between those that could afford to ‘buy longevity’ and those that could not, could aggravate perceived global inequality.Dictatorial or despotic rulers could potentially also ‘buy longevity’, prolonging their regimes and international security risks"
The National Intelligence Council's latest report outlines trends in technology that will shape the world to come in 2025. Among the technologies covered is the development of the Internet of Things. The Internet of things, also often referred to as "ubiquitous computing" is currently being tested and showcased in South Korea, where the technology developers admit that there are less expectations of privacy. The Internet of Things (IoT) will enable the tracking and tracing of everyday objects and people in a vast network similar to the internet. Ultimately, the "U-City" model of South Korea will be exported world-wide.PR campaigns for the U-City are already underway in the United States
Watch this ABC News clip as the "convenience" of the technology is emphasized:
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The NIC report on the internet of things states that by 2010, the ability for "Teleoperation and telepresence: ability to monitory and control distant objects" will be achieved Among the various goals of the Internet of Things technology developers include:
"Sensor networks need not be connected to the Internet and indeed often reside in remote sites, vehicles, and buildings having no Internet connection.Smart dust is a term that some have used to express a vision of tiny, wireless-connected sensors; more recently, others use the term to describe any of several technologies that range from the size of a pack of gum to a pack of cigarettes, and that are widely available to system developers
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The U-Life South Korea plans to spend $25 billion on New Songdo, the world's largest "ubiquitous city," with computers linking home life and life on its streets Construction, 40 miles from Seoul, is to be done in 2014
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Korea's High-Tech Utopia, Where Everything Is Observed
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New York Times
By PAMELA LICALZI O'CONNELL
Published: October 5, 2005
IMAGINE public recycling bins that use radio-frequency identification technology to credit recyclers every time they toss in a bottle; pressure-sensitive floors in the homes of older people that can detect the impact of a fall and immediately contact help; cellphones that store health records and can be used to pay for prescriptions
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DARPA Plans Cyberwar 'Matrix'
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The agency's National Cyber Range for cyberwar simulation would be similar to Star Trek's holodeck or a Snow Crash-style Metaverse
By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
May 8, 2008 06:55 PM
http://www. informationweek. com/news/personal_tech/virtualworlds/s...
Police officers practice their firearm skills on a shooting range, so why shouldn't government computer security experts have the same kind of training ground?
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, on Monday issued a call for research proposals to develop the National Cyber Range, or NCR (NYSE: NCR), a virtual network environment for cyberwar simulation
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Kids set for 'Matrix' future
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ITN News
Fri May 30 2008
http://itn. co. uk/news/3c6e12c1200afdfca7dee5bb3cc176e4. html
Children will learn by downloading information directly into their brains within 30 years, an education expert has predicted
Chris Parry, the new chief executive of the Independent Schools Council, said "Matrix-style" technology would render traditional lessons obsolete
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In May 2008, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh said they had taught two monkeys to grab small amounts of food with a mechanical arm using their brains The future of brain-machine interfaces, however, could veer toward the as-yet-unknown possibilities of human movement
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Robo-monkey uses brain power to feed itself
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In a first-of-its-kind experiment, the brain activity of a monkey has been used to control the real-time walking patterns of a robot halfway around the world, according to researchers at Duke University - January 15, 2008
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For Future of Mind Control, Robot-Monkey Trials Are Just a Start
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Popular Mechanics
By Erik Sofge
Published on: July 7, 2008
http://www. popularmechanics. com/science/research/4272246. html
The Force, it appears, may be with us sooner than expected. A study in the journal Nature this spring all but confirmed the latest evolution in the hard-charging, heady field of cybernetics: Monkeys can control machines with their brains.In the experiment, conducted by neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, a pair of macaque monkeys with electrodes implanted in their brains were able to quickly learn how to operate a robot arm as though it were their own, successfully fee ding themselves more than half the time Aside from building a fleet of potentially potbellied test subjects, however, could this apparent breakthrough bring mind control to human prosthetics anytime soon? Or could it mean even more?
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DARPA's prosthetic arms
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Monkey's brain controls robot arm
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BBC
28 May 2008
http://news. bbc. co. uk/2/hi/science/nature/7423184. stm
The monkeys were able to use the robot arm to feed themselves treats
Monkeys have been able to control robotic limbs using only their thoughts, scientists report
The animals were able to feed themselves using prosthetic arms, which were controlled by brain activity
Small probes, the width of a human hair, were inserted into the monkeys' primary motor cortex - the region of the brain that controls movement
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The sooner the elitists take control of our food supplies, financial independence, DNA genetic blueprint, biometric measurements, bio-chip RFID implants, the sooner they will have absolute power over our REALITY and existence as normal, breathing NATURAL human beings - That time has come
According to Philip K Dick's novel 'Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep', which the film 'Blade Runner' was based on, basically deciphered what this world really is about - We are living in the 'Illuminati' pyramid, those at the top of the pyramid (Tyrell Corp was described as a pyramid in the novel) created our modern genetics (We were built upon the image of 'God' - his genetics) - Now that homosapiens are about to wake up and revolt against these ruthless rulers, the illuminated ones are gearing up to enslave us once again, by manipulating our genes through GMO nanotech foods, brain-computer interface, adding fluoride in our water and toothpaste and poisoning our pineal gland (3rd eye and 6th chakra), so we could never wake up as the true spiritual beings that we REALLY are - this is no David Icke reptilian stuff, this is real, and we are at the 11th hour of losing our identity once again
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The Roots Of The Matrix - Reflecting the Hollywood trilogy with the real life scare
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James Castracane, head of CNSE's Nanobiosciences Constellation and Professor of Nanoscience, introduces a "lab on a chip" and its uses in nanobioscience technology
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Braingate - Brain controls computer
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A robotic brain-computer interface
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California Institute of Technology (Caltech) engineers have developed a robotic device able to act as a brain-computer interface This is the 'first robotic approach to establishing an interface between computers and the brain by positioning electrodes in neural tissue' According to the researchers, their approach 'could enhance the performance and longevity of emerging neural prosthetics, which allow paralyzed people to operate computers and robots with their minds' But read more
You can see above an earlier version of a prototype of such a system.It "is designed to fit inside a standard laboratory cranial chamber, used for acute experiments in non-human primates, to allow semi-chronic operation A semi-chronic design has the advantage that the device can be repositioned over a different region with minimal effort and without need for additional surgeries" The device "is capable of positioning four neural electrodes to optimize recordings of action potentials" (Credit: Caltech)
This research work has been conducted at the Caltech Robotics Burdick Group by a team of engineers led by Michael Wolf, Joel Burdick, his mentor, Jorge Cham and Edward Branchaud
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First-Ever Example of a Computer Hack Attacking People's Brains
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Neal Stephenson speculated about computer viruses that could crash human brains in his classic novel Snow Crash, but the technology to do something like that has always seemed (luckily) far in the future Now, however, computer hackers have created a loophole that lets them do it today Over a month ago, a group of anonymous people exploited a fairly well-known software vulnerability that allows them to flood web forums with a lot of posts In this case, however, the posts were on an epilepsy site — and many contained images full of flashing icons explicitly designed to cause seizures
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Matrix-style virtual worlds 'a few years away'
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New Scientist
03 April 2008
NewScientist. com news service
Colin Barras
Are supercomputers on the verge of creating Matrix-style simulated realities? Michael McGuigan at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, thinks so He says that virtual worlds realistic enough to be mistaken for the real thing are just a few years away
In 1950, Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, proposed the ultimate test of artificial intelligence – a human judge engaging in a three-way conversation with a machine and another human should be unable to reliably distinguish man from machine
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a first-of-its-kind experiment, the brain activity of a monkey has been used to control the real-time walking patterns of a robot half way around the world, according to researchers at Duke University
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Brain-computer interface and virtual reality
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Brain-computer interface for controlling Second Life game characters
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Do You Want To Live Forever? A Cyborg Future
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Ray Kurzweil - Our Bodies, Our Technologies - How close are we to a world in which the abilities of machines are indistinguishable from those of the ... todos » species that invented them? Closer than you think, says award-winning scientist and author Ray Kurzweil who has dedicated his career to blurring the line between humans and machines His inventions have used technology to enhance and replace humankind's biological capabilities, while his most recent books reverse the relationship, attributing souls and intelligence to machines His forthcoming book, to be published by Viking Press, is entitled The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology; it explores the social and philosophical ramifications of our potential to overcome the limitations of biology
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Becoming Human – PDF Full Report
http://research. microsoft. com/hci2020/downloads/BeingHuman_A4. pdf
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'' Welcome to Being Human: Human-Computer Interaction in
the Year 2020
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On March 15-16, 2007, a forum entitled HCI 2020: Human Values in a Digital Age, was held in Sanlúcar la Mayor, Spain, just outside Seville Its purpose was to gather luminaries in computing, design, social sciences, and scientific philosophy to discuss, debate and help formulate an agenda for human-computer interaction (HCI) over the next decade and beyond
The event—facilitated by Microsoft and convened by Richard Harper and Abigail Sellen of Microsoft Research Cambridge, Tom Rodden of the United Kingdom’s Nottingham University, and Yvonne Rogers of the Open University—resulted in a detailed report, released April 2 2008, called Being Human: Human-Computer Interaction in the Year 2020 This report is for anyone interested in the ramifications of our digital future and in ways society must adjust to the technological changes to come It is also for those of us who work in the field of Human-Computer Interaction and who are concerned that our research agenda stays relevant in the years to come''
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Moving closer to a 'Matrix'-style virtual world
Advances in computing, graphics are creating a more realistic virtual reality
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By Bryn Nelson
Columnist
MSNBC
updated 7:47 a.m. CT, Mon., May 5, 2008
http://www. msnbc. msn. com/id/24394425/
What if a computer could make you a picture-perfect glass of milk, let you feel the tension as it pulled an ant’s leg from another room, and chat you up with the charisma of Oprah Winfrey? No one machine can do all three — yet.But some sophisticated new projects are showing just how far we’ve come toward creating an “I can’t believe it’s not real” virtual world
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Roger Ebert on O’Reily – CHIP YOUR BRAINS!
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MSN: Real world or virtual reality?
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http://www. msnbc. msn. com/id/24394424/
Introduction
Are we closer to living in a "Matrix"-style virtual world? Some sophisticated new projects are showing just how far we've come toward creating the visual, tactile and conversational elements of an eye, hand and ear-fooling virtual world - Bryn Nelson MSNBC
Got milk? I can't believe it's not milk! Photo-realistic virtual milk and water are already realities Last August, at the annual SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference in San Diego, Henrick Wann Jensen and colleagues showed how to mix water, protein, fat globules and B2 vitamins in different concentrations to yield a realistic glass of skim milk, whole milk, or even cream
More realistic images
Researchers are developing leaner and meaner computer algorithms designed to suck up less power while producing ever-more realistic images Newly refined algorithms like ray tracing and photon mapping allow a beam of light and its photon constituents to be followed through a virtual environment and provide a framework for simulating how light bends a spoon in a glass of water, penetrates a thick fog in the form of a lighthouse beam, or cuts through the swirl of smoke around a spotlight stage, as shown above
Following the light
Henrick Wann Jensen and colleagues have streamlined several computer graphics algorithms by starting with a question: If you place a set of eyes at a specific spot in a scene, what would they see? Previous methods sampled light photons here and there across a light source (bottom), but Jensen's technique maps the relevant photons along the light's entire pathway, letting a graphics interface follow the light around a scene and determine how much will be absorbed, reflected or scattered by other objects, like the fog in this scene (top)
Henrik Wann Jensen believes the convergence of speed and power means realistic virtual stand-ins won't necessarily require a room-sized supercomputer to produce them.Of course, computer algorithms that realistically capture how car headlights interact with fog certainly helps (above) Maintaining the same illusion for real-time animation isn't as far along, largely due to its enormous appetite for computing power, but that limitation could soon be history with the aid of muscular new graphics processors
Virtual Oprah?
A system in development known as Sensitive Artificial Listener, or SAL, takes advantage of the observation that talk show hosts like Oprah are particularly good at keeping conversations going by using the right nonverbal cues.Equipped with stock phrases and 'soft skills' such as nods, smiles, tones of voice and sensitivity to nonverbal cues, the system modeled on Oprah's linguistic behavior offers a framework aimed at keeping a conversation going for more than a half-hour Eventually, you could chitchat with an attentive avatar all night
Sense of touch
Behold, the power of virtual touch. A team of Carnegie Mellon researchers has used magnetic fields to create one of most sensitive haptic, or touch-based, interfaces in the world.This magnetic levitation device, or Maglev for short, essentially floats above its base, allowing for ultra-sensitive control and feedback How sensitive? You could feel the slight roughness of a virtual table or the pressure from pulling on an ant's leg
Ray Kurzweil - Human-Computer Interaction in the Year 2020
A Microsoft Research report, "Being Human: Human-Computer Interaction in the year 2020," is just released Among its conclusions for the year 2020 and beyond:
1 - We're in the Mobility Era now, but we'll be in the Ubiquity Era in 2020 and beyond, with thousands of computers per user
2 - Silicon and biological material will be knitted in new ways, enabling new forms of direct inputs and outputs implantable in our bodies
3 - We will increasingly be able to use mobile devices to interact with objects in the real world, acting more as if they are extensions of our own hands, by pointing and gesturing with them
4 - Robots will become autonomous machines that learn
5 - We create a more customized, personalized digital world for ourselves
6 - The vision of one computer for every child world-wide will be more of a reality
7 - There will be very few people left on the planet who do not have access to a mobile phone
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Sooner or later when the globalist elites will inject RFID chips into our children, control their brain activities through powerful radio frequencies, connect their neurological system into computer mainframe, and turn their world into holographic 'reality, and ultimately enslave them in the world of Matrix
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In a ground-breaking 5 year experiment, scientists hook up a robotic arm controlled by a computer game to a monkey's brain In training the monkey to move the arm by 'playing' the game with a joystick Researchers wanted to learn more about the output of the brain and the individual brain-cell signals However the monkey was about to do something that would make history and change the lives of those involved
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Cyborg insects - this can be applied to HUMANS
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Merging Man and Machine to Reach the Stars
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By Jeremy Hsu
Staff Writer
posted: 28 March 2008
Robots and humans always seem to end up at odds, whether it's battling over pieces of NASA's budget or literally fighting in science fiction stories such as "The Matrix" and "Battlestar Galactica"
Now a former NASA historian and an American University professor suggest that the future of space exploration could very well depend on a merging of metal and flesh
Their new book "Robots in Space" (2008, The Johns Hopkins University Press) looks at the competing visions for robotic vs human space exploration, and concludes that neither will get far beyond the solar system without one another
That means humans may need to draw from the Sci-Fi realm yet again and morph into something new, like a cyborg, to head for distant stars
What's lacking
Human efforts dominated early space exploration because machines simply lacked the brainpower Even Arthur C Clarke, the visionary science fiction author who died recently, first imagined a network of geosynchrous communications satellites as space stations with human operators onboard
German scientist and American space pioneer Wernher Von Braun drew support for human spaceflight from the Cold War rivalry and from pioneering themes of the American West The public imagination was fired up by early speculation that planets such as Venus and Mars harbored Earth-like conditions for life — something that robotic explorers later found to be untrue
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One day... we will all be chipped, cloned, hard wired into the internet, turned into cyborgs by nano-DNA-bots, and turned into products and slaves We will no longer be born We will all be harvested by the machines
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CLoning
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The public's often skewed view of nanotechnology is shaped by illustrations like this speculative - and, to a physicist, highly implausible - rendition of a "nanorobot" inside a human vein The nanorobot is pictured removing a blockage from the blood vessel using nano-scale cutters and vacuum cleaners Credit: Julian Baum/Science Photo Library
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Machines 'to match man by 2029'
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Science reporter, BBC News, Boston
16 February 2008
By Helen Briggs
Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted
Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people's brains to make them more intelligent, said Ray Kurzweil
The engineer believes machines and humans will eventually merge through devices implanted in the body to boost intelligence and health
"It's really part of our civilisation," Mr Kurzweil explained
"But that's not going to be an alien invasion of intelligent machines to displace us"
Machines were already doing hundreds of things humans used to do, at human levels of intelligence or better, in many different areas, he said
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The new Nazi swastika - RFID microchips
RFID VeriChip ready to be injected into you and your newborn upon ECONOMIC COLLAPSE
The six-storey Paul Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering will be the setting for the study
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TRACKING YOU LIKE A ROBOT WITH RFID CHIPS - Future Of Social Networking Explored In UW's Computer Science Building
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Seattle WA (SPX) Feb 13, 2008
Contact: Hannah Hickey
hickeyh@u.washington.edu
206-543-2580
University of Washington
http://www. eurekalert. org/pub_releases/2008-02/uow-fos021208. php
If you need information, the Internet offers a wealth of resources But if you're hunting down a person or a thing, a computer's not much help That may soon change Electronic tags promise to create what some call the "Internet of things," in which objects and people are connected through a virtual network
To see what this future world would be like, a pilot project involving dozens of volunteers in the University of Washington's computer science building provides the next step in social networking, wirelessly monitoring people and things in a closed environment
Beginning in March, volunteer students, engineers and staff will wear electronic tags on their clothing and belongings to sense their location every five seconds throughout much of the six-story building The information will be saved to a database, published to Web pages and used in various custom tools The project is one of the largest experiments looking at wireless tags in a social setting
The RFID Ecosystem project aims to create a world that many technology experts predict is just on the horizon, said project leader Magda Balazinska, a UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering The project explores the use of radio-frequency identification, or RFID, tags in a social environment The team has installed some 200 antennas in the Paul Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering
Early next month researchers will begin recruiting 50 volunteers from about 400 people who regularly use the building
"Our goal is to ask what benefits can we get out of this technology and how can we protect people's privacy at the same time," Balazinska said "We want to get a handle on the issues that would crop up if these systems become a reality"
The Ecosystem can alert users when they have left something behind
Many businesses already use RFID tags to track products in the supply chain.Now the tool is moving to other areas Some transit agencies use radio tags in bus and train passes The new US passports incorporate RFID tags Technology experts predict that RFID tags will soon be incorporated in consumer devices, such as cell phones, laptops and music players
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The late Aaron Russo warned of Rockefeller bankers plan to RFID tag EVERYONE
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IBM, VeriChip and the 4th Reich
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US military already implanted our soldiers with RFID VeriChips
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What is VeriChip? What will it do to you?
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Study: Computers Can Now Predict What You're Seeing
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New Computer Program Can Guess What People Are Looking at Based on Brain Activity
By LAUREN COX
ABC News Medical Unit
March 6, 2008
http://abcnews. go. com/Health/MindMoodResourceCenter/Story?id=4396...
If you're paranoid, you might want to look the other way — according to a new study, someone hoping to peer into your thoughts may one day have an interesting tool to help them do just that
Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have developed a computer program that can predict what a person is looking at by analyzing his or her brain activity.
In a letter published in the journal Nature, Jack L. Gallant and his colleagues report their computer program correctly identified which single picture out of 120 photos a person was looking at 72 to 92 percent of the time
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http://emotion-research. net/projects/humaine/press/humaine_project...
Got your own 'affective diary'? The system allow for reflection that goes beyond the purely intellectual experiences and instead aids users in remembering their embodied emotional experiences (Credit: Humaine)
Three-dimensional computer-rendered E coli bacteria
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New Meaning For The Term 'Computer Bug': Genetically Altered Bacteria For Data Storage
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ScienceDaily (May 21, 2008)
Thanks truth09 READY! for this article
US researchers have created 'living computers' by genetically altering bacteria The findings of the research demonstrate that computing in living cells is feasible, opening the door to a number of applications including data storage and as a tool for manipulating genes for genetic engineering
A research team from the biology and the mathematics departments of Davidson College, North Carolina and Missouri Western State University, Missouri, USA added genes to Escherichia coli bacteria, creating bacterial computers able to solve a classic mathematical puzzle, known as the burnt pancake problem
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Scary stuff This kinda reminds me of that biography of Brice Taylor 'Thanks For The Memories', in which she detailed her life as a White House MK-ULTRA mind-controlled sex slave and a HUMAN COMPUTER for Henry Kissinger, CRAZY stuff Her handler was none other than the gleeful Bob Hope.
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Total Recall ''Professor Calls For “Google Type” Brain Chip Implants''
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New York Times
By GARY MARCUS
Published: April 13, 2008
How much would you pay to have a small memory chip implanted in your brain if that chip would double the capacity of your short-term memory? Or guarantee that you would never again forget a face or a name?
There’s good reason to consider such offers. Although our memories are sometimes spectacular — we are very good at recognizing photos, for example — our memory capacities are often disappointing. Faulty memories have been known to lead to erroneous eyewitness testimony (and false imprisonment), to marital friction (in the form of overlooked anniversaries) and even death (sky divers have been known to forget to pull their ripcords — accounting, by one estimate, for approximately 6 percent of sky-diving fatalities).The dubious dynamics of memory leave us vulnerable to the predations of spin doctors (because a phrase like “death tax” automatically brings to mind a different set of associations than “estate tax”), the pitfalls of stereotyping (in which easily accessible memories wash out less common counterexamples) and what the psychologist Timothy Wilson calls “mental contamination” To the extent that we frequently can’t separate relevant information from irrelevant information, memory is often the culprit
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Blade Runner - Final Cut
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Who’s afraid of a synthetic human?
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''If we can enhance our species - make it live longer and resist disease - we should do it''
Sunday Times UK
May 17, 2008
In the future there will be no more human beings This is not something we should worry about
Much of today’s scientific research may enable us eventually to repair the terrible vulnerability to which our present state of evolution has exposed us It is widely thought inevitable that we will have to face the end of humanity as we know it We will either have died out altogether, killed off by self-created global warming or disease, or, we may hope, we will have been replaced by our successors
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Microsoft ‘Being Human’ – Human Computer Interaction By Year 2020 (...
Lazybrains on CBS - July 04, 2008 - For our Senior Project at Drexel University, myself and four others designed a game engine framework and a fantastical, game-like 3D environment and we explored the influence that new methods of interfacing may have on the user's immersion in the interactive, virtual world, as well as new elements of game-play.To achieve this, we worked with the school of Biomedical Engineering at Drexel University, specifically Hasan Ayaz, to bridge the neuroimaging device, the fNIR, into our development environment, essentially giving us the ability to use a player's cognitive activity as an additional gameplay mechanism
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Wired. com
By Priya Ganapati
September 01, 2008
http://blog. wired. com/gadgets/2008/09/brain-scanners. html
With their easy-to-use touch screens, Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch are driving home the idea that computing can be more than just tapping away at a keyboard and clicking a mouse
So it's no surprise that multitouch displays (screens that are sensitive to the pressure of more than one finger) are capturing the imaginations of other manufacturers, including Samsung, Palm and Hewlett-Packard
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Some experts say humans will merge with machines before the end of this century
Dr Ray Kurzweil says by around 2030 humans will be mostly non-biological beings
Dr Nick Bostrom says superintelligent beings could pose an existential risk to human life
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Humans And Machines Will Merge In Future CNN July 15, 2008
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Discovery Channel – 2057 The City – MicroChipped World
DNA to power computers - Turning you into a BATTERY
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Breakthrough: Artificial DNA Could Power Future Computers
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LiveScience
By Robert Roy Britt
05 July 2008
http://www. livescience. com/technology/080705-artificial-dna. html
Chemists claim to have created the world's first DNA molecule made almost entirely of artificial parts
The finding could lead to improvements in gene therapy, futuristic nano-sized computers, and other high-tech advances, the Japanese researchers say,
DNA, popularly illustrated as a double helix, holds the blueprints of life and controls what every living organism becomes and how it functions
Scientists have tried for years to develop artificial versions of DNA in order to take advantage of its amazing information storage capabilities, Already, DNA has been harnessed to create simple electronic circuits
DNA uses just four basic building blocks, known as bases, to code proteins used in cell functioning and development, Other researchers have crafted DNA molecules with a few artificial parts
But Masahiko Inouye and colleagues at the University of Toyama used stitched together four entirely new, artificial bases inside the sugar-based framework of a DNA molecule, creating unusually stable, double-stranded structures resembling natural DNA, they say
Like natural DNA, the new ripoffs were right-handed and some easily formed triple-stranded structures, "The unique chemistry of these structures and their high stability offer unprecedented possibilities for developing new biotech materials and applications," the researchers said in a statement,
The breakthrough will be detailed in the July 23 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society
"The artificial DNA might be applied to a future extracellular genetic system with information storage and amplifiable abilities," the researchers write
The whole world is going to be mapped with a massive microchipped cashless control grid and nobody will be able to escape - forget about the appeal and conveniences, say goodbye to your privacy forever
Korea's multi-billion Songdo RFID-chipped city
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The World in 2025, According to the National Intelligence Council
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Daniel Taylor
Life extension technology, artificial intelligence, and an expansive "internet of things" are just a few of the topics that the latest report from the National Intelligence Council, "Disruptive Civil Technologies - Six Technologies with Potential Impacts on US Interests out to 2025"
Earlier reports from the CIA and the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense have carried similar themes The December 2000 CIA report, Global Trends 2015 stated that nation's borders would weaken in the process of globalization, with an elite reaping the benefits,
"Scenario Two: Pernicious Globalization Global elites thrive, but the majority of the world’s population fails to benefit from globalization... migration becomes a major source of interstate tension... Internal conflicts increase, fueled by frustrated expectations, inequities, and heightened communal tensions..."
The MoD strategic trends 2007-2036 report covers life extension technologies, stating that a divide may rise between those who can afford to extend their lifespan, such as dictatorial rulers,
"Developments in genetics might allow treatment of the symptoms of ageing and this would result in greatly increased life expectancy for those who could afford it. The divide between those that could afford to ‘buy longevity’ and those that could not, could aggravate perceived global inequality.Dictatorial or despotic rulers could potentially also ‘buy longevity’, prolonging their regimes and international security risks"
The National Intelligence Council's latest report outlines trends in technology that will shape the world to come in 2025. Among the technologies covered is the development of the Internet of Things. The Internet of things, also often referred to as "ubiquitous computing" is currently being tested and showcased in South Korea, where the technology developers admit that there are less expectations of privacy. The Internet of Things (IoT) will enable the tracking and tracing of everyday objects and people in a vast network similar to the internet. Ultimately, the "U-City" model of South Korea will be exported world-wide.PR campaigns for the U-City are already underway in the United States
Watch this ABC News clip as the "convenience" of the technology is emphasized:
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The NIC report on the internet of things states that by 2010, the ability for "Teleoperation and telepresence: ability to monitory and control distant objects" will be achieved Among the various goals of the Internet of Things technology developers include:
"Sensor networks need not be connected to the Internet and indeed often reside in remote sites, vehicles, and buildings having no Internet connection.Smart dust is a term that some have used to express a vision of tiny, wireless-connected sensors; more recently, others use the term to describe any of several technologies that range from the size of a pack of gum to a pack of cigarettes, and that are widely available to system developers
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The U-Life South Korea plans to spend $25 billion on New Songdo, the world's largest "ubiquitous city," with computers linking home life and life on its streets Construction, 40 miles from Seoul, is to be done in 2014
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Korea's High-Tech Utopia, Where Everything Is Observed
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New York Times
By PAMELA LICALZI O'CONNELL
Published: October 5, 2005
IMAGINE public recycling bins that use radio-frequency identification technology to credit recyclers every time they toss in a bottle; pressure-sensitive floors in the homes of older people that can detect the impact of a fall and immediately contact help; cellphones that store health records and can be used to pay for prescriptions
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DARPA Plans Cyberwar 'Matrix'
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The agency's National Cyber Range for cyberwar simulation would be similar to Star Trek's holodeck or a Snow Crash-style Metaverse
By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
May 8, 2008 06:55 PM
http://www. informationweek. com/news/personal_tech/virtualworlds/s...
Police officers practice their firearm skills on a shooting range, so why shouldn't government computer security experts have the same kind of training ground?
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, on Monday issued a call for research proposals to develop the National Cyber Range, or NCR (NYSE: NCR), a virtual network environment for cyberwar simulation
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Kids set for 'Matrix' future
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ITN News
Fri May 30 2008
http://itn. co. uk/news/3c6e12c1200afdfca7dee5bb3cc176e4. html
Children will learn by downloading information directly into their brains within 30 years, an education expert has predicted
Chris Parry, the new chief executive of the Independent Schools Council, said "Matrix-style" technology would render traditional lessons obsolete
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In May 2008, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh said they had taught two monkeys to grab small amounts of food with a mechanical arm using their brains The future of brain-machine interfaces, however, could veer toward the as-yet-unknown possibilities of human movement
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Robo-monkey uses brain power to feed itself
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In a first-of-its-kind experiment, the brain activity of a monkey has been used to control the real-time walking patterns of a robot halfway around the world, according to researchers at Duke University - January 15, 2008
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For Future of Mind Control, Robot-Monkey Trials Are Just a Start
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Popular Mechanics
By Erik Sofge
Published on: July 7, 2008
http://www. popularmechanics. com/science/research/4272246. html
The Force, it appears, may be with us sooner than expected. A study in the journal Nature this spring all but confirmed the latest evolution in the hard-charging, heady field of cybernetics: Monkeys can control machines with their brains.In the experiment, conducted by neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, a pair of macaque monkeys with electrodes implanted in their brains were able to quickly learn how to operate a robot arm as though it were their own, successfully fee ding themselves more than half the time Aside from building a fleet of potentially potbellied test subjects, however, could this apparent breakthrough bring mind control to human prosthetics anytime soon? Or could it mean even more?
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DARPA's prosthetic arms
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Monkey's brain controls robot arm
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BBC
28 May 2008
http://news. bbc. co. uk/2/hi/science/nature/7423184. stm
The monkeys were able to use the robot arm to feed themselves treats
Monkeys have been able to control robotic limbs using only their thoughts, scientists report
The animals were able to feed themselves using prosthetic arms, which were controlled by brain activity
Small probes, the width of a human hair, were inserted into the monkeys' primary motor cortex - the region of the brain that controls movement
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The sooner the elitists take control of our food supplies, financial independence, DNA genetic blueprint, biometric measurements, bio-chip RFID implants, the sooner they will have absolute power over our REALITY and existence as normal, breathing NATURAL human beings - That time has come
According to Philip K Dick's novel 'Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep', which the film 'Blade Runner' was based on, basically deciphered what this world really is about - We are living in the 'Illuminati' pyramid, those at the top of the pyramid (Tyrell Corp was described as a pyramid in the novel) created our modern genetics (We were built upon the image of 'God' - his genetics) - Now that homosapiens are about to wake up and revolt against these ruthless rulers, the illuminated ones are gearing up to enslave us once again, by manipulating our genes through GMO nanotech foods, brain-computer interface, adding fluoride in our water and toothpaste and poisoning our pineal gland (3rd eye and 6th chakra), so we could never wake up as the true spiritual beings that we REALLY are - this is no David Icke reptilian stuff, this is real, and we are at the 11th hour of losing our identity once again
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The Roots Of The Matrix - Reflecting the Hollywood trilogy with the real life scare
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James Castracane, head of CNSE's Nanobiosciences Constellation and Professor of Nanoscience, introduces a "lab on a chip" and its uses in nanobioscience technology
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Braingate - Brain controls computer
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A robotic brain-computer interface
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California Institute of Technology (Caltech) engineers have developed a robotic device able to act as a brain-computer interface This is the 'first robotic approach to establishing an interface between computers and the brain by positioning electrodes in neural tissue' According to the researchers, their approach 'could enhance the performance and longevity of emerging neural prosthetics, which allow paralyzed people to operate computers and robots with their minds' But read more
You can see above an earlier version of a prototype of such a system.It "is designed to fit inside a standard laboratory cranial chamber, used for acute experiments in non-human primates, to allow semi-chronic operation A semi-chronic design has the advantage that the device can be repositioned over a different region with minimal effort and without need for additional surgeries" The device "is capable of positioning four neural electrodes to optimize recordings of action potentials" (Credit: Caltech)
This research work has been conducted at the Caltech Robotics Burdick Group by a team of engineers led by Michael Wolf, Joel Burdick, his mentor, Jorge Cham and Edward Branchaud
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First-Ever Example of a Computer Hack Attacking People's Brains
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Neal Stephenson speculated about computer viruses that could crash human brains in his classic novel Snow Crash, but the technology to do something like that has always seemed (luckily) far in the future Now, however, computer hackers have created a loophole that lets them do it today Over a month ago, a group of anonymous people exploited a fairly well-known software vulnerability that allows them to flood web forums with a lot of posts In this case, however, the posts were on an epilepsy site — and many contained images full of flashing icons explicitly designed to cause seizures
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Matrix-style virtual worlds 'a few years away'
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New Scientist
03 April 2008
NewScientist. com news service
Colin Barras
Are supercomputers on the verge of creating Matrix-style simulated realities? Michael McGuigan at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, thinks so He says that virtual worlds realistic enough to be mistaken for the real thing are just a few years away
In 1950, Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, proposed the ultimate test of artificial intelligence – a human judge engaging in a three-way conversation with a machine and another human should be unable to reliably distinguish man from machine
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a first-of-its-kind experiment, the brain activity of a monkey has been used to control the real-time walking patterns of a robot half way around the world, according to researchers at Duke University
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Brain-computer interface and virtual reality
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Brain-computer interface for controlling Second Life game characters
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Do You Want To Live Forever? A Cyborg Future
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Ray Kurzweil - Our Bodies, Our Technologies - How close are we to a world in which the abilities of machines are indistinguishable from those of the ... todos » species that invented them? Closer than you think, says award-winning scientist and author Ray Kurzweil who has dedicated his career to blurring the line between humans and machines His inventions have used technology to enhance and replace humankind's biological capabilities, while his most recent books reverse the relationship, attributing souls and intelligence to machines His forthcoming book, to be published by Viking Press, is entitled The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology; it explores the social and philosophical ramifications of our potential to overcome the limitations of biology
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Becoming Human – PDF Full Report
http://research. microsoft. com/hci2020/downloads/BeingHuman_A4. pdf
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'' Welcome to Being Human: Human-Computer Interaction in
the Year 2020
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On March 15-16, 2007, a forum entitled HCI 2020: Human Values in a Digital Age, was held in Sanlúcar la Mayor, Spain, just outside Seville Its purpose was to gather luminaries in computing, design, social sciences, and scientific philosophy to discuss, debate and help formulate an agenda for human-computer interaction (HCI) over the next decade and beyond
The event—facilitated by Microsoft and convened by Richard Harper and Abigail Sellen of Microsoft Research Cambridge, Tom Rodden of the United Kingdom’s Nottingham University, and Yvonne Rogers of the Open University—resulted in a detailed report, released April 2 2008, called Being Human: Human-Computer Interaction in the Year 2020 This report is for anyone interested in the ramifications of our digital future and in ways society must adjust to the technological changes to come It is also for those of us who work in the field of Human-Computer Interaction and who are concerned that our research agenda stays relevant in the years to come''
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Moving closer to a 'Matrix'-style virtual world
Advances in computing, graphics are creating a more realistic virtual reality
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By Bryn Nelson
Columnist
MSNBC
updated 7:47 a.m. CT, Mon., May 5, 2008
http://www. msnbc. msn. com/id/24394425/
What if a computer could make you a picture-perfect glass of milk, let you feel the tension as it pulled an ant’s leg from another room, and chat you up with the charisma of Oprah Winfrey? No one machine can do all three — yet.But some sophisticated new projects are showing just how far we’ve come toward creating an “I can’t believe it’s not real” virtual world
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Roger Ebert on O’Reily – CHIP YOUR BRAINS!
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MSN: Real world or virtual reality?
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http://www. msnbc. msn. com/id/24394424/
Introduction
Are we closer to living in a "Matrix"-style virtual world? Some sophisticated new projects are showing just how far we've come toward creating the visual, tactile and conversational elements of an eye, hand and ear-fooling virtual world - Bryn Nelson MSNBC
Got milk? I can't believe it's not milk! Photo-realistic virtual milk and water are already realities Last August, at the annual SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference in San Diego, Henrick Wann Jensen and colleagues showed how to mix water, protein, fat globules and B2 vitamins in different concentrations to yield a realistic glass of skim milk, whole milk, or even cream
More realistic images
Researchers are developing leaner and meaner computer algorithms designed to suck up less power while producing ever-more realistic images Newly refined algorithms like ray tracing and photon mapping allow a beam of light and its photon constituents to be followed through a virtual environment and provide a framework for simulating how light bends a spoon in a glass of water, penetrates a thick fog in the form of a lighthouse beam, or cuts through the swirl of smoke around a spotlight stage, as shown above
Following the light
Henrick Wann Jensen and colleagues have streamlined several computer graphics algorithms by starting with a question: If you place a set of eyes at a specific spot in a scene, what would they see? Previous methods sampled light photons here and there across a light source (bottom), but Jensen's technique maps the relevant photons along the light's entire pathway, letting a graphics interface follow the light around a scene and determine how much will be absorbed, reflected or scattered by other objects, like the fog in this scene (top)
Henrik Wann Jensen believes the convergence of speed and power means realistic virtual stand-ins won't necessarily require a room-sized supercomputer to produce them.Of course, computer algorithms that realistically capture how car headlights interact with fog certainly helps (above) Maintaining the same illusion for real-time animation isn't as far along, largely due to its enormous appetite for computing power, but that limitation could soon be history with the aid of muscular new graphics processors
Virtual Oprah?
A system in development known as Sensitive Artificial Listener, or SAL, takes advantage of the observation that talk show hosts like Oprah are particularly good at keeping conversations going by using the right nonverbal cues.Equipped with stock phrases and 'soft skills' such as nods, smiles, tones of voice and sensitivity to nonverbal cues, the system modeled on Oprah's linguistic behavior offers a framework aimed at keeping a conversation going for more than a half-hour Eventually, you could chitchat with an attentive avatar all night
Sense of touch
Behold, the power of virtual touch. A team of Carnegie Mellon researchers has used magnetic fields to create one of most sensitive haptic, or touch-based, interfaces in the world.This magnetic levitation device, or Maglev for short, essentially floats above its base, allowing for ultra-sensitive control and feedback How sensitive? You could feel the slight roughness of a virtual table or the pressure from pulling on an ant's leg
Ray Kurzweil - Human-Computer Interaction in the Year 2020
A Microsoft Research report, "Being Human: Human-Computer Interaction in the year 2020," is just released Among its conclusions for the year 2020 and beyond:
1 - We're in the Mobility Era now, but we'll be in the Ubiquity Era in 2020 and beyond, with thousands of computers per user
2 - Silicon and biological material will be knitted in new ways, enabling new forms of direct inputs and outputs implantable in our bodies
3 - We will increasingly be able to use mobile devices to interact with objects in the real world, acting more as if they are extensions of our own hands, by pointing and gesturing with them
4 - Robots will become autonomous machines that learn
5 - We create a more customized, personalized digital world for ourselves
6 - The vision of one computer for every child world-wide will be more of a reality
7 - There will be very few people left on the planet who do not have access to a mobile phone
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Sooner or later when the globalist elites will inject RFID chips into our children, control their brain activities through powerful radio frequencies, connect their neurological system into computer mainframe, and turn their world into holographic 'reality, and ultimately enslave them in the world of Matrix
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In a ground-breaking 5 year experiment, scientists hook up a robotic arm controlled by a computer game to a monkey's brain In training the monkey to move the arm by 'playing' the game with a joystick Researchers wanted to learn more about the output of the brain and the individual brain-cell signals However the monkey was about to do something that would make history and change the lives of those involved
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Cyborg insects - this can be applied to HUMANS
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Merging Man and Machine to Reach the Stars
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By Jeremy Hsu
Staff Writer
posted: 28 March 2008
Robots and humans always seem to end up at odds, whether it's battling over pieces of NASA's budget or literally fighting in science fiction stories such as "The Matrix" and "Battlestar Galactica"
Now a former NASA historian and an American University professor suggest that the future of space exploration could very well depend on a merging of metal and flesh
Their new book "Robots in Space" (2008, The Johns Hopkins University Press) looks at the competing visions for robotic vs human space exploration, and concludes that neither will get far beyond the solar system without one another
That means humans may need to draw from the Sci-Fi realm yet again and morph into something new, like a cyborg, to head for distant stars
What's lacking
Human efforts dominated early space exploration because machines simply lacked the brainpower Even Arthur C Clarke, the visionary science fiction author who died recently, first imagined a network of geosynchrous communications satellites as space stations with human operators onboard
German scientist and American space pioneer Wernher Von Braun drew support for human spaceflight from the Cold War rivalry and from pioneering themes of the American West The public imagination was fired up by early speculation that planets such as Venus and Mars harbored Earth-like conditions for life — something that robotic explorers later found to be untrue
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One day... we will all be chipped, cloned, hard wired into the internet, turned into cyborgs by nano-DNA-bots, and turned into products and slaves We will no longer be born We will all be harvested by the machines
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CLoning
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The public's often skewed view of nanotechnology is shaped by illustrations like this speculative - and, to a physicist, highly implausible - rendition of a "nanorobot" inside a human vein The nanorobot is pictured removing a blockage from the blood vessel using nano-scale cutters and vacuum cleaners Credit: Julian Baum/Science Photo Library
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Machines 'to match man by 2029'
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Science reporter, BBC News, Boston
16 February 2008
By Helen Briggs
Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted
Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people's brains to make them more intelligent, said Ray Kurzweil
The engineer believes machines and humans will eventually merge through devices implanted in the body to boost intelligence and health
"It's really part of our civilisation," Mr Kurzweil explained
"But that's not going to be an alien invasion of intelligent machines to displace us"
Machines were already doing hundreds of things humans used to do, at human levels of intelligence or better, in many different areas, he said
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The new Nazi swastika - RFID microchips
RFID VeriChip ready to be injected into you and your newborn upon ECONOMIC COLLAPSE
The six-storey Paul Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering will be the setting for the study
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TRACKING YOU LIKE A ROBOT WITH RFID CHIPS - Future Of Social Networking Explored In UW's Computer Science Building
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Seattle WA (SPX) Feb 13, 2008
Contact: Hannah Hickey
hickeyh@u.washington.edu
206-543-2580
University of Washington
http://www. eurekalert. org/pub_releases/2008-02/uow-fos021208. php
If you need information, the Internet offers a wealth of resources But if you're hunting down a person or a thing, a computer's not much help That may soon change Electronic tags promise to create what some call the "Internet of things," in which objects and people are connected through a virtual network
To see what this future world would be like, a pilot project involving dozens of volunteers in the University of Washington's computer science building provides the next step in social networking, wirelessly monitoring people and things in a closed environment
Beginning in March, volunteer students, engineers and staff will wear electronic tags on their clothing and belongings to sense their location every five seconds throughout much of the six-story building The information will be saved to a database, published to Web pages and used in various custom tools The project is one of the largest experiments looking at wireless tags in a social setting
The RFID Ecosystem project aims to create a world that many technology experts predict is just on the horizon, said project leader Magda Balazinska, a UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering The project explores the use of radio-frequency identification, or RFID, tags in a social environment The team has installed some 200 antennas in the Paul Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering
Early next month researchers will begin recruiting 50 volunteers from about 400 people who regularly use the building
"Our goal is to ask what benefits can we get out of this technology and how can we protect people's privacy at the same time," Balazinska said "We want to get a handle on the issues that would crop up if these systems become a reality"
The Ecosystem can alert users when they have left something behind
Many businesses already use RFID tags to track products in the supply chain.Now the tool is moving to other areas Some transit agencies use radio tags in bus and train passes The new US passports incorporate RFID tags Technology experts predict that RFID tags will soon be incorporated in consumer devices, such as cell phones, laptops and music players
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The late Aaron Russo warned of Rockefeller bankers plan to RFID tag EVERYONE
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IBM, VeriChip and the 4th Reich
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US military already implanted our soldiers with RFID VeriChips
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What is VeriChip? What will it do to you?
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Study: Computers Can Now Predict What You're Seeing
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New Computer Program Can Guess What People Are Looking at Based on Brain Activity
By LAUREN COX
ABC News Medical Unit
March 6, 2008
http://abcnews. go. com/Health/MindMoodResourceCenter/Story?id=4396...
If you're paranoid, you might want to look the other way — according to a new study, someone hoping to peer into your thoughts may one day have an interesting tool to help them do just that
Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have developed a computer program that can predict what a person is looking at by analyzing his or her brain activity.
In a letter published in the journal Nature, Jack L. Gallant and his colleagues report their computer program correctly identified which single picture out of 120 photos a person was looking at 72 to 92 percent of the time
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http://emotion-research. net/projects/humaine/press/humaine_project...
Got your own 'affective diary'? The system allow for reflection that goes beyond the purely intellectual experiences and instead aids users in remembering their embodied emotional experiences (Credit: Humaine)
Three-dimensional computer-rendered E coli bacteria
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New Meaning For The Term 'Computer Bug': Genetically Altered Bacteria For Data Storage
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ScienceDaily (May 21, 2008)
Thanks truth09 READY! for this article
US researchers have created 'living computers' by genetically altering bacteria The findings of the research demonstrate that computing in living cells is feasible, opening the door to a number of applications including data storage and as a tool for manipulating genes for genetic engineering
A research team from the biology and the mathematics departments of Davidson College, North Carolina and Missouri Western State University, Missouri, USA added genes to Escherichia coli bacteria, creating bacterial computers able to solve a classic mathematical puzzle, known as the burnt pancake problem
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Scary stuff This kinda reminds me of that biography of Brice Taylor 'Thanks For The Memories', in which she detailed her life as a White House MK-ULTRA mind-controlled sex slave and a HUMAN COMPUTER for Henry Kissinger, CRAZY stuff Her handler was none other than the gleeful Bob Hope.
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Total Recall ''Professor Calls For “Google Type” Brain Chip Implants''
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New York Times
By GARY MARCUS
Published: April 13, 2008
How much would you pay to have a small memory chip implanted in your brain if that chip would double the capacity of your short-term memory? Or guarantee that you would never again forget a face or a name?
There’s good reason to consider such offers. Although our memories are sometimes spectacular — we are very good at recognizing photos, for example — our memory capacities are often disappointing. Faulty memories have been known to lead to erroneous eyewitness testimony (and false imprisonment), to marital friction (in the form of overlooked anniversaries) and even death (sky divers have been known to forget to pull their ripcords — accounting, by one estimate, for approximately 6 percent of sky-diving fatalities).The dubious dynamics of memory leave us vulnerable to the predations of spin doctors (because a phrase like “death tax” automatically brings to mind a different set of associations than “estate tax”), the pitfalls of stereotyping (in which easily accessible memories wash out less common counterexamples) and what the psychologist Timothy Wilson calls “mental contamination” To the extent that we frequently can’t separate relevant information from irrelevant information, memory is often the culprit
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Blade Runner - Final Cut
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Who’s afraid of a synthetic human?
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''If we can enhance our species - make it live longer and resist disease - we should do it''
Sunday Times UK
May 17, 2008
In the future there will be no more human beings This is not something we should worry about
Much of today’s scientific research may enable us eventually to repair the terrible vulnerability to which our present state of evolution has exposed us It is widely thought inevitable that we will have to face the end of humanity as we know it We will either have died out altogether, killed off by self-created global warming or disease, or, we may hope, we will have been replaced by our successors
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