This Wired article talks about a brain-computer interface that allows a man with a severed spinal cord to beat people in Pong, operate various devices in his room, and use the Internet. BCIs examine neural activity to learn how to interpret certain impulses from the human brain - “raise my left arm,” “lower my left […]
Introduction The “Technological Singularity” defines a subset of the possible (and in the opinion of many futurologists, such as myself, very likely) futures that could be in store for the human race. The Wikipedia article on the Singularity has this to say about the term itself:
“…the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode […]
I suppose it’s customary to write a “hello world” entry any time you get started with a new portal engine (such as WordPress), so here goes. I’m going to use this space to write about various things that I find interesting, probably Second Life and the Technological Singularity more than anything else.