Sociologists want your brain in cyberspace

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: [...]

OECD to plot internet’s future

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 [...]

CCTVs don’t cut crime

They were supposed to fight crime–the ubiquitous cameras, which in London appear to be on every lamppost and crossing signal. But the billions the police have spent creating an all-seeing eye are proving worthless.
The police are building a database of CCTV images, however (see excerpt, below), which might have been their plan in the first [...]