Posted on May 16, 2008 by Mark Baard
Call them transhumanists, or extropians, or convergenists. Call their mission GNR, or NBIC, or “RL meets SL.” A new generation of social scientists, with religious zeal, are changing reality as we know it.
(A meeting of the minds, at “Convergence of the Real and the Virtual: The First Scientific Conference in World of Warcraft.” Image: [...]
Filed under: Big Brother, MMORPG, Privacy, Psyops, Second Life, The Singularity, Transhumanism, Ubiquitous computing, Virtual reality, virtual worlds | Tagged: BCI, Genetics, hci, MMORPG, Nanotechnology, Robotics, Second Life, sociology, Virtual reality, world of warcraft, wow | No Comments »
Posted on May 16, 2008 by Mark Baard
Forty government ministers will meet with private business managers in Seoul next month to plan an all-reaching, all-seeing, all-knowing internet, which derives data from RFID tags and other ubiquitous sensors.
Father of the internet and Google chief internet evangelist Vint Cerf (pictured here) will be participating in the OECD meeting.
The ministers says they want to “provide [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by Mark Baard
… without getting all touchy-feely.
An infrared scanner developed in Woburn, Mass. might replace the bully boys and girls (now wearing new, policeman-like uniforms) feeling around passengers’ bodies for explosives and drugs. The Iscon 1000 can detect slight temperature differences, and is safer, because it does not use X-rays.
ISCON
Iscon1000 scans for temperature differences on the body’s [...]
Filed under: Big Brother, Homeland Security, Privacy, Surveillance | Tagged: drugs, explosives, Homeland Security, infrared, Terrorism, TSA, x-rays | No Comments »
