http://words.kadath.org WORDS WORDS WORDS Tue, 23 May 2006 18:40:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Continued from Cold Storage I So you've done it. Your heart is stopped. As far as the law and most of society is concerned, you are dead. But you are not gone... not yet anyway. Before you died, you had a number of long talks with your loved ones, arranged ... http://words.kadath.org/2005/05/09/12/ "I wish it were possible ... to invent a method of embalming drowned persons, in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should ... http://words.kadath.org/2005/05/05/11/ According to this CNN article, Sony has been granted a patent on a brain-computer interface that uses ultrasonic pulses to alter timing within the brain. Since the brain's neural network exploits its own innate timing to perform calculations, it should theoretically be possible to introduce data into the brain by ... http://words.kadath.org/2005/04/09/10/ 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 ... http://words.kadath.org/2005/03/31/9/ 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 ... http://words.kadath.org/2005/03/25/8/ **Words** 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 ... http://words.kadath.org/2005/03/13/2/