Here's the disconnect between innovators and the status quo. This article is published in the Novelties section, rather than the Emerging Lifestyles section. Ug.
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What 23 Years of E-Mail May Say About You
http://www.evernote.com/pub/silverton/evernote#n=2bee3212-ce51-4f71-9e04-848ed749f92b
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Why You’re A Startup Founder: Nature And Nurture
http://www.evernote.com/pub/silverton/evernote#n=638368a0-9ecc-4eb6-9df9-29438e884d2f
Why You’re A Startup Founder: Nature AndNurture
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People Logging
http://www.evernote.com/pub/silverton/evernote#n=c133d7c0-f60c-4bc2-b7c5-c1f5ce927f2d
I’m looking for a unified system that can perform two core functions for me: 1. Capture all of the people I meet and all of the interactions I have with known people, regardless of channel (in-person, email, phone, events, etc) and store a record of that interaction. I call this the “people interaction log” for short. 2. Capture relevant contact information about those people and put it into a system where other services and applications can digest it – basically put it into a structured format so it remains useful to other applications and systems I use. I think of this as the “clean data about people API” that would be a really useful base service for lots of other apps I use.
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Calming Technology and Augmented Self-Regulation
http://www.evernote.com/pub/silverton/evernote#n=d33e1660-5234-42b3-9461-48773d9c8a44
Stanford Symbolic Systems Forum presents.... "Calming Technology and Augmented Self-Regulation" Neema Moraveji Calming Technology Lab Monday, April 9, 2012, 12:15-1:05 pm Building 460, Room 126 map link: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=01-460 ABSTRACT: Stress silently but steadily damages physical and emotional well-being, relationships, productivity, and our ability to learn and remember. Stressors are often thought to be exasperated by interactive technology. However, the Calming Technology Lab designs and evaluates techniques and processes for designing empowering technologies that either mitigate known stressors or induce states of calm in their users. In this talk, I will also discuss a particular research project, Breathwear, an attempt at augmenting one’s ability to regulate their respiratory patterns to reduce anxiety, increase focus, and increase the amount of calm in one’s life. BIO: Neema Moraveji is the Director of the Calming Technology Lab at Stanford University. He PhD dissertation...
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Google Project Glass
http://temporaryhuman.com/post/20539700616
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Google Project Glass
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/OMrRqqUPi9k/751
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‘Smart sand’ can self-assemble to duplicate parts or create new tools
http://www.evernote.com/pub/silverton/evernote#n=0eeb02dd-a0ad-4868-ba11-4e021c3c7459
‘Smart sand’ can self-assemble to duplicate parts or create new tools April 3, 2012 [+] To test their "smart sand" algorithm, the researchers designed and built a system of "smart pebbles" --- cubes about 10 millimeters to an edge, with processors and magnets built in (credit: M. Scott Brauer) New algorithms could enable heaps of “smart sand” that can assume any shape, allowing spontaneous formation of new tools or duplication of broken mechanical parts. Imagine that you have a big box of sand in which you bury a tiny model of a footstool. A few seconds later, you reach into the box and pull out a full-size footstool: The sand has assembled itself into a large-scale replica of the model. That may sound like a scene from a Harry Potter novel, but it’s the vision animating a research project at theDistributed Robotics Laboratory(DRL) at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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What Your Future Home Might Look Like
http://www.evernote.com/pub/silverton/evernote#n=5271a6c4-80a4-4011-b7b4-4b1cffb9cbce
http://mashable.com/2012/04/04/future-tech-home-design/ Living small Living simple Living sustainably Living City2.org
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Must Read: Arundhati Roy, Not Again
http://www.evernote.com/pub/silverton/evernote#n=15452d7b-ee2e-4c7d-940d-ba0b0e984a1d
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Braintrust: A public conversation about Morality and the Brain
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/LjENqYk0OAQ/740
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Does dual n-back training work?
http://www.quora.com/Does-dual-n-back-training-work
Michael Silverton followed a question.0 AnswersWrite an answer on Quora
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Evolution of OIM: 2001, 2006, 2012
http://www.evernote.com/pub/silverton/evernote#n=0d2e0d20-bd56-44db-9cf1-3a146482f86a
From where we've been, we've come a long way. Still, a few more steps to go. +Real Me vs +Verified Me
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Evolution of OIM: 2001, 2006, 2012
http://www.evernote.com/pub/silverton/evernote#n=0d2e0d20-bd56-44db-9cf1-3a146482f86a
From where we've been, we've come a long way. Still, a few more steps to go. +Real Me vs +Verified Me
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TweepsMap.com/!silverton
http://www.evernote.com/pub/silverton/evernote#n=d0753a5e-ab06-4696-8b8b-473b37b75a76
Time to go say hello to the tweeps. As maps like this become a commonplace facet of individual experience, how would life on Earth be different if we could each take that global journey, meeting the minds we've met all around the world?
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Where do I get free answers?
http://www.quora.com/Where-do-I-get-free-answers/answer/Michael-Silverton
Michael Silverton added an answer.Michael Silverton, Penultimate Global Cognition Grid UI? From free minds. ;-) /me ducks to avoid slap from implicit context police.See question on Quora
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Michael Silverton followed Zoe Miller.
http://www.quora.com/Zoe-Miller-1
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Earth's Perpetual Ocean Machine
http://temporaryhuman.com/post/20126943464
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Earth’s Perpetual Ocean Machine
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/LQIFPpBC55I/738
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Transhumanism (old-sk00l)by Arthur Sloman
http://temporaryhuman.com/post/20083092569
Transhumanism (old-sk00l)by Arthur Sloman
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"Plastic Bottle Skylights | Liquid Solar Lightbulbs"
http://temporaryhuman.com/post/20024843309
“Plastic Bottle Skylights | Liquid Solar Lightbulbs” - Plastic Bottle Skylights - 9bytz “Solar Demi” is a genius. Someone should send an expedition to equip with social, local, mobile technology to see what else Demi can do.
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On Crapitalism (iatrogenic vs. livable economics)
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/QPB2gMp9f2M/736
If you can visualize in your mind a readily foreseeable state of affairs, why would you not change your beliefs and behaviors to adapt, to mitigate harm, and maximize the opportunity for human flourishing, today?“With, without; and who’ll deny it’s what the fighting’s all about?” - Pink Floyd
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Waiting for the Bionic Man
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/metavalent/~3/DgCGnxzE9gc/1563
The author’s site lists this article as Waiting for the Bionic Man, so maybe Wired applied some kind of proprietary troll-baiting re-title algorithm to bump up the irritated enthusiast click through rate, or something: “A True Bionic Limb Remains Far Out of Reach.” Whatever. @MikeChorost‘s report is a fanstastic reality update to the previous post and indeed, all the content of this blog. We need much more of this to Get There!
From the article:
Hypothetically, a neurally controlled prosthesis would begin with a brain interface, a chip capable of picking up complex signals from the user’s brain. A computer would translate those signals into orders for the arm—”move up,” “bend my elbow,” “turn my wrist.” Motors in the joints would move the arm smoothly in response to commands from the computer. Sensors in the arm would feed information on its position and movement through the computer and into the chip in the user’s brain.
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Evernote Edits Create Sweetcron Dupes
Yikes. That was U.G.L.Y! Lesson learned. It would be better to script a solution than try to remember in the future. Not sure if I'll really put that much into it right now, though.
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CRAPITALISM (iatrogenic vs. livable economics)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbALjK4__GE&feature=youtube_gdata
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Fiscal Policy in a Depressed Economy: DeLong and Summers Conference Draft
http://www.evernote.com/pub/silverton/evernote#n=9bfb7246-5fe0-4b48-84e4-179fe4efd2b2
"If higher output this year raises potential output in the future by a fraction η because it reduces the shadow cast by the downturn through discouraged workers, lost skills, broken organizations, and missing investment on future productivity, then boosting government purchases now, in an environment with a policy-relevant net-of-monetary-policy-offset Keynesian multiplier μ, boosts future real GDP by the multiplier times some hysteresis coefficient η. That means that in an environment with a tax rate τ, the flow of future total tax collections are boosted by τημ. The extra debt incurred by a temporary government purchases expansion ΔG in an environment with a policy-relevant net-of-monetary-policy-offset Keynesian multiplier μ and a tax rate τ is (1 -μτ). If the government maintains a stable debt-to-GDP ratio then the cost of amortizing this extra debt is (r - g)(1 - μτ), where r is the real interest rate at which the Treasury borrows, and g is the long-term growth rate of the economy. If: r < g + τημ/(1 ...
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Chinese RV Industry Striving to Gain Acceptance
http://www.evernote.com/pub/silverton/evernote#n=ef282e8e-9a88-4cab-b859-15d3ff1d1426
Wang Xudong is obsessive about the great outdoors. So much so that he named his week-old twins Lu and Ying, after luying, the Chinese word for camping. Allied to that love, Wang has an almost unshakable belief that the future of China’s recreational vehicle industry is bright. Rather like Mr Toad in Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s book The Wind in the Willows, the wide open road is everything for Wang. And he may have a good reason for being so optimistic, having witnessed the development of China’s RV industry almost from its inception. Ten years ago, when Wang and his brother founded 21rv, the country’s first professional website dealing in RV-related news, few people in China had any idea what an RV was. In June, a convoy of 15 RVs will head to Europe on a three-month road trip.
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Nanosecurity to Fight Against Biological Spyware
http://www.evernote.com/pub/silverton/evernote#n=461b1ce9-eb7b-4d32-9cd3-f01e1e37df6d
Nanosecurity to Fight Against Biological Spyware February 26, 2012 by Neurofuturist A new era of nano-warfare and nano-spying may take place on battlefields that are not visible to the human eye. Nano-networks are poised to have a large impact on a variety of fields. A potential challenge for this science is to ensure that these nanodevices cannot have their information viewed or altered by an outside party. Novel nanotechnologies will increasingly perform numerous sophisticated tasks. Biological cameras or sensors can capture recordings from their immediate environment and maintain that data. Healthcare is a main application for the technology. There are several ways for rudimentary nanodevices to convey signals. One option is with electromagnetic radiation. Another way is using ultrasound pulses. These routes would work with fabricated nanosensors and academics could employ normal cryptographic techniques to protect them. They need to scale the intrusion prevention to a smaller size and reduce the power requi...
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Targeted Muscle Reinnervation
http://www.evernote.com/pub/silverton/evernote#n=1b8a47af-eb7e-4498-b7c6-9c14468405fb
Future
- 1 Hypothetically, a neurally controlled prosthesis would begin with a brain interface, a chip capable of picking up complex signals from the user’s brain.
- 2 A computer would translate those signals into orders for the arm—”move up,” “bend my elbow,” “turn my wrist.”
- 3 Motors in the joints would move the arm smoothly in response to commands from the computer.
- 4 Sensors in the arm would feed information on its position and movement through the computer and into the chip in the user’s brain.
"Intuitively, going straight to the brain seems smarter. The problem is, no one knows how the brain does what it does. Neuroscientists know how neurons work, sending waves of electrical charge along their lengths and then squirting out chemicals—neurotransmitters—to signal one another. But how an intention, a thought, a mind, arises from that network of electrochemistry-in-aspic is still largely a mystery."
“The human arm ...” says Rahul Sarpeshkar, a bioengineer at MIT who pioneered the design of ultralow-power circuitry for bionic interfaces. “does a lot of very intelligent local computation that the brain doesn’t even do." "The fault in neural control lies not within the limb but in the brain—in our incomplete understanding of not only how to get signals out but how to send them in. “There are muscle receptors. There are tendon receptors. There are capsule receptors, even skin sensors, all contributing in a very complex way that we don’t understand,” Kuiken says. “I don’t think there’s going to be a single spot in the brain where you can put a dense array of electrodes and get a strong percept of proprioception."
“The body is a harsh environment,” Donoghue says. “It attacks the materials and eventually degrades them.” Electrodes are made of metal. The body is loaded with water, salt, and a dizzying array of other chemicals. Putting them together is like trying to bond a fork and a steak. And the steak fights back by trying to dissolve the fork.
“We don’t understand the coding schemes that biology employs. We don’t understand how its feedback loops work together.” In other words, the science hasn’t yet caught up with the fiction. A true bionic limb—one that responded to mental commands with precision and fluidity, one that transmitted sensory information, one that its user could feel as it moved through space—would require a depth of understanding and technological complexity that is simply beyond today’s prosthetic experts. “It’s not that we’re not going to be able to do it,” Sarpeshkar says. “But it’s higher-hanging fruit than people think.” In other words, this is more than just an engineering problem. It’s a problem of basic science."
"[F]or the microscopic needles of brain-computer interfaces, head motion is a real problem. They monitor neurons that are 20 to 50 microns wide. Researchers have tried to route around this problem by creating what they call adaptive algorithms that can adjust when the electrodes shift. It’s not easy. “If you have an adaptive algorithm and it changes things too quickly, it confuses the brain,” Miller says. “You’ve got two systems trying to learn at the same time, and they essentially learn things out from under each other.”
"[S]pending all those resources to get comprehensible signals into and out of a brain means buying a central assumption: that the brain is the center of control for the limbs. But what if it isn’t? It takes 300 milliseconds, almost a third of a second, for the human arm to send a message to the conscious brain and for the brain to respond. If that was the only way to control the hand, we’d never manage to balance trays or hang up clothes."
"That’s what makes some researchers think that the brain has learned to delegate fast-response tasks to the spinal cord. It’s closer to the arm and can respond up to 10 times faster—in just 30 milliseconds. “The moment-to-moment timing of the hand’s muscle contractions is dependent on sensory feedback that is never going to the brain,” says Loeb, the USC biomedical engineer. “It’s being handled locally.” In other words, the spinal cord isn’t just a dumb trunk line. It’s a coprocessor."
“If the bionic hand has this sort of mind of its own,” Loeb says, “what kind of command signals do we need to get from the brain to control this semiautonomous beast?”
“By measuring how the brain controls the arm under more natural, real-world conditions,” Shenoy says, “we’ll at least learn how the neural activity relates to the arm in those other situations.” But the data sets will be enormous."
"The problem is, dimensionality reduction works best with a ton of raw data—input from hundreds of thousands of neurons would be ideal.
It’ll be a long time before anyone can monitor that many. The number of neurons we can record at one time has doubled just about every seven and a half years since 1959. At this rate, it should be possible to monitor 1,000 neurons by 2026. And researchers will be able to track all 100 billion neurons in a human brain in a mere 220 years."
"But what about now? Todd Kuiken ticks off a list of things that patients can do today with an arm like Glen Lehman’s: take out garbage, put on socks, open a jar, pick up a hat. Optimism seems reasonable in the long run. Arms and spinal cords and brains are complex, but they’re not magic."
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Politics is a Business. A Big, Broken One. Let's Fix It.
http://www.evernote.com/pub/silverton/evernote#n=9a7a0617-ca3c-4f5e-9d0b-e1277a87cdc9
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The Me-ification of Social Media
http://www.evernote.com/pub/silverton/evernote#n=938764c6-b723-4a3b-a8ae-5ba92ed5338c
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Hashtracking: FREE report for any Twitter hashtag
http://www.evernote.com/pub/silverton/evernote#n=f7ad9e98-67ad-41a8-940d-c9a67cfeb421
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Robotics Trends for 2012 - IEEE Spectrum
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Robotics Trends for 2012 POSTED BY: Erico Guizzo & Travis Deyle / Tue, March 20, 2012 What's in store for robotics in 2012? Nearly a quarter of the year is already behind us, but we thought we'd spend some time looking at the months ahead and make some predictions about what’s going to be big in robotics. Or at least what we think is going to be big. Lacking divine powers (or a time machine) to peek into the future, we relied on our experience as longtime observers of the robotics landscape, covering the field here on Automaton and on Hizook, another leading robotics blog. To make sure our forecasts aren’t too far off, we asked a group of roboticists with different backgrounds for their predictions for 2012. This “panel of experts” provided invaluable insight, and after we tabulated everyone’s suggestions we narrowed it all down to the final 12. It was not an easy task. So many great ideas. (Thanks, panelists!) In making our selection, we tried to avoid the “perennial trends”—areas like environmental robotics, en...