October 2009
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Life Logging
Mike Treder at IEET writes a little about a new device from a UK company that is essentially a camera worn around the neck, photographing every significant moment of our lives.
Worn on a cord around the neck, the camera takes pictures automatically as often as once every 30 seconds. It also uses an accelerometer and light sensors to snap an image when a person enters a new environment, and an...
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“Recent developments in neuroimaging have created concerns about the ethics of...”
– Practical Ethics: The ethics of mind-reading
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Implications of increased lifespans
[Miami Herald: Oh baby, it’s a long life]:
Today’s babies will be tomorrow’s centenarians. A new report says that reaching the age of 100 may become ordinary for most American babies born since 2000. How will living for a century affect our kids? And what quality of life awaits those who live this long?
An interesting article with some facts about the growing number of...
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“I realized from watching this wonderful summary that space stations will be like...”
– The Technium: Evolution of the Space Station
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CCNx: Content Centric Networking
CCNx (code) is a next-generation content-centric “networking” protocol born from the CCN research group at PARC. Instead of connecting hosts like traditional protocols, CCNx creates a P2P model where clients address data instead of other clients (protocol overview).
I, for one, don’t want to ask the lights of my home-of-the-future to dim by way of an IPv6 address, and I...
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“In recent years, quantum computers have lost some of their luster. In the 1990s,...”
– Quantum computing may actually be useful, after all