The Cyborgization Of Humans And What This Means For Our Lives In The Future And Today
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Judge's decision means uncertain future
for PeopleSoft
Judge's decision means uncertain future
for PeopleSoft
09/10/2004 07:28 AMOne year ago at PeopleSoft Inc.'s Connect user conference, Chief
Executive Officer Craig Conway took the stage to assure several
thousand PeopleSoft customers that Oracle Corp.'s then three-month-old
bid for control of PeopleSoft had failed. When he stands before the
crowd at this year's Connect gathering later this month, he'll have a
harder time making the case that Oracle's lingering campaign isn't
harming PeopleSoft.
It Was The Week The Future Finally
Arrived... But Will iTunes Really Change
Our Lives?
It Was The Week The Future Finally
Arrived... But Will iTunes Really Change
Our Lives?
06/20/2004 12:39 AM"We are at a crossover point in history where the reality is far more
exciting than the hype." By Iain S Bruce, Sunday Herald (via
MyAppleMenu)
Banks of the Future? - The Convenience
Stores of Today!
Banks of the Future? - The Convenience
Stores of Today!
04/06/2005 02:38 AMChicago technology firm announces partnership to provide lower cost
financial services to large population of unbanked in America. [PRWEB
Apr 6, 2005]
"American lives are the most important
lives"
"American lives are the most important
lives"
07/31/2004 03:41 AMdie puny humans:
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12/24/2003 09:20 PMXAML is for humans
XAML is for humans
11/10/2003 11:12 PM
Don Box: Today, the data needed to initialize an object
graph is hidden behind imperative statements in your programming
language of choice. That makes it difficult to tease out of the
rest of your program without weird markers in the source code to
delimit the structure of your code into recognizable
pieces.
My previous post on this subject had more to it, but I chickened
out and didn't post it. What the heck, I could be wrong,
but... here's essentially what I said.
...The End of Mathematical Proofs by
Humans?
The End of Mathematical Proofs by
Humans?
04/06/2005 05:22 AMSlashdot Apr 6 2005 9:19AM GMT
Terraform Humans First, Then Mars?
Terraform Humans First, Then Mars?
06/19/2004 06:12 PMHumans vs. Computers, Again. But There's
Help for Our Side.
Humans vs. Computers, Again. But There's
Help for Our Side.
04/17/2004 07:09 PMAn effort is afoot to bring Googlelike clarity to the swamp of
personal data on a user's computer.
First PC Virus Spreads to Humans
First PC Virus Spreads to Humans
04/01/2005 02:15 PMSlashdot Apr 1 2005 6:37PM GMT
Robots to put humans to work
Robots to put humans to work
07/23/2004 06:35 PMFirm with Carnegie Mellon roots, plans to hire 100 people to help make
and sell 'bots that fix sewer pipes.
Humans vs. Computers, Again. But There's
Help for Our Side
Humans vs. Computers, Again. But There's
Help for Our Side
04/17/2004 07:25 PMNew York Times Apr 17 2004 10:53PM GMT
Measuring Pollution In Humans
Measuring Pollution In Humans
12/29/2003 08:25 AMCHaN_316 writes "Scientists have begun measuring pollutants in our
body and the results sound like a chemical clean-up site. They've
found things such as flame ...
Bots and Humans Play Together
Bots and Humans Play Together
01/01/2004 12:20 PMBots and Humans Play Togetherhttp://snipurl.com/3m2eJoining a pickup ball game is a good way to get to know people. It
might also be a good way for humans and robots to learn to work
together. To that end, CMU researchers are putting together mixed
teams for soccer, with the Segway scooter as the common
denominator.
Why Humans Must Return To The Moon
Why Humans Must Return To The Moon
12/09/2003 05:02 PMRoland Piquepaille
writes
"Space.com gives us "10 Reasons
to Put Humans Back on the Moon." While some of these reasons seem
obvious, like our needs for dreams or a common goal for nations to
collaborate, some are less expected, like generating energy from lunar
power stations. This also could lead to the arrival of space tourism
and to a better knowledge of our past through the analysis of craters
and rocks in situ. And many new things also might be invented on the
Moon just to live there. Finally, with men on the Moon, future
explorations of Mars or asteroids could be easier to organize. The
original article is spread over ten pages, so I put the full list of
these ten reasons on my blog
as a single page for your convenience, along with short quotes and
other references. "
When All The Humans Are Gone From
Customer Support
When All The Humans Are Gone From
Customer Support
12/29/2004 10:35 PMThe NY Times is running an article similar to ones that others have
run before, noting
how incredibly
difficult it is to actually get a human on the phone these days
when you need customer support from a company. While many people know
the "tricks" such as hitting 0 to get around the painful menus, it
looks like some companies are spending more time making it harder for
customers to reach humans (rather than, say, actually figuring out
ways to help their customers). This means that the "0" trick won't
always work -- though, sometimes hitting it three or four times in a
row
will get you through. Other tricks include hitting the *
key in the hopes of getting a company directory. What's still not
clear is why companies do this. Most of these automated systems
simply keep people on these phone calls for a longer period of time
and tend to piss them off. My favorite system so far was a Comcast
system that required me to go through
twelve menus before I
could speak to a human, whose first question to me was "what phone
number are you calling from" when in step two or three I had
specifically punched in my phone number.
Destroy All Humans! (Xbox)
Destroy All Humans! (Xbox)
06/24/2005 03:08 PMArticle.wn.com - Fri Jun 24, 06:59 am GMT
Humans vs Robots on Mars
Humans vs Robots on Mars
01/11/2004 08:15 PMThe Washington Post has an editorial
on manned vs robotic Mars exploration by Robert Zubrin,
president of the
Mars Society. The erroneous
idea that robots will eliminate human space travel seems to
come up whenever a space mission is in the news and we've covered it
before. Zubrin points
out that while robots are useful, fun, and cheap ways of exploring,
many
of the tasks involved in looking for life would be much easier for a
human
explorer. And, regardless of how many robots are sent to Mars for
exploration, humans will still go themselves eventually in order
to live
there.
A worthy aspiration for most humans: To
be like your own dog
A worthy aspiration for most humans: To
be like your own dog
05/11/2004 12:38 AMA worthy aspiration for most humans: To be like your own dog .. this
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The End of Mathematical Proofs by
Humans?
The End of Mathematical Proofs by
Humans?
04/06/2005 05:06 AMDid Early Humans Use Toothpicks?
Did Early Humans Use Toothpicks?
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The Top Three Reasons for Humans in
Space
The Top Three Reasons for Humans in
Space
04/11/2005 03:17 PMToshiba breeding Large Humans (TM)
Toshiba breeding Large Humans (TM)
01/09/2004 09:56 PMFrom richinternetapps:
Toshiba today announced at the Consumer Electronics Show the result of
a successful project to breed huge humans. Industry insiders suspect
that with Moore's Law starting to crumble, and physical limits on
lithographic technology causing tremendous problems on the continued
minituarisation of a range of devices, that the solution was to breed
huge people, which in the words of a spokesman, "...obviously have
huge hands...".
Results of this programme are demonstrated in the above photographs
showing large humans (TM) to scale against a traditional 40GB SCSI
drive. As can be seen from the above images, the technoloy has also
been applied to children, in attempts to bring school bullying to a
historic end. Rumours that Toshiba have in fact just announced a tiny
hard drive are being dismissed as ludicrous.
Link (thanks JD and Sean!)
UN: Bird flu poses threat to humans
UN: Bird flu poses threat to humans
07/11/2004 12:36 AM
Content.sina.com - Sat Jul 10, 08:14 pm GMT
Scientists Claim They Cloned Humans
Scientists Claim They Cloned Humans
02/12/2004 10:11 AM
Bird Flu Strain May Threaten Humans (AP)
Bird Flu Strain May Threaten Humans (AP)
06/28/2004 04:19 PM
AP - A strain of bird flu that scientists fear could lead to a
worldwide pandemic in humans is becoming more infectious to mammals.
Millions of chickens and other fowl have had to be slaughtered in Asia
— and thousands more have been killed in the United States and
elsewhere — to stem outbreaks of avian flu in recent years.
Scientists say it is only a matter of time before the virus adapts to
spread among humans.
Humans and Robots Team Up for Soccer
Humans and Robots Team Up for Soccer
01/07/2004 01:56 PM
TRNmag.com has an article about how Carnegie Mellon University
researchers are putting bots and humans together to play soccer.
Humans
get to ride segway scooters and the bots are modified segway scooters
that can kick a ball around. This will allow researchers to study how
robots and humans can interact and work together. All of the
human/robot soccer
rules haven't been finalized yet, but as soon as they are, the
research will begin. Of course this is another project initiated by
DARPA.
Hormone Elicits Trust in Humans
Hormone Elicits Trust in Humans
06/05/2005 11:01 PM
FC Now: Animals Got a Tsunami Warning.
Why Didn't Humans?
FC Now: Animals Got a Tsunami Warning.
Why Didn't Humans?
01/05/2005 06:49 AM
Reading about the aftermath of the tsunami in south Asia, I'm struck
by one story now making the rounds. As rescuers began assessing the
damage, they reported that, remarkably (and true to legend), the
wildlife populations of the region sensed...
PC virus makes humans feverish
PC virus makes humans feverish
04/01/2005 04:36 PM
Blog: As if computer viruses don't wreak enough havoc on our data, now
we have to worry about them giving us flu-like symptoms.
...
Genetic decoding moves beyond humans
Genetic decoding moves beyond humans
06/07/2004 05:30 PM
Humans Beat Machines in SodaRace For Now
Humans Beat Machines in SodaRace For Now
12/02/2003 12:22 AM
Cnet says that
Humans beat AI in robot wars. It's not really a war per se, but
rather it's an online competition
called the
SodaRace which pits humans
against
virtual robots. It seems that Canadian humans won the first round by
creating a
machine using trial and error. It may not be a fair test of man vs
machine, but interesting nevertheless. If you would like, you can
also create and play around with
your own
soda robots using the
sodaconstructor to test your intelligence abilities. You may have
seen the sodaconstructor before,
but it's the competition of human vs. ai that makes it very
interesting. It may be
hard to overcome
human craftyness but like recent
chess matches demonstrate, it may instead be hard to beat
the computer. It runs on Java and it's cool. Check it out.
The Real Difference Between Humans and
Other Animals
The Real Difference Between Humans and
Other Animals
04/12/2005 01:50 PM
A couple of years ago Chelsea,
our dog, accidentally got into a fight with a woodchuck (she was
exploring a large hole beside the walking trail in the conservation
are
near our home, and the sharp-clawed woodchuck didn't like the invasion
of her den and emerged and attacked). Chelsea was unsure what to make
of this creature, and she first approached and barked, and then, when
it squealed and lunged, she backed off and the woodchuck retreated.
Chelsea seemed fine, and was a bit distraught but made no sound of
distress, so we continued on our walk.
The next day we noticed Chelsea was licking herself on one side and I
went to check to see if she'd picked up some burrs. To my astonishment
I found a gash four inches (10cm) long and nearly one inch (2.5cm)
deep. It was invisible under her fur but was still bleeding -- a
battle
wound. If we hadn't been paying attention we would never have known.
If
it had been on a different part of her body she might have died. The
wound required several stitches and a long time to fully heal. We
resolved to keep a closer eye on her health from then on.
A month ago, we were going out for groceries and, as usual, Chelsea
came along for the car ride. With her arthritis and her hypothyroid
condition she's a little tentative now about jumping into the back
seat
of the van, but she made it all right. We were doing up our seatbelts
when suddenly Chelsea let out a terrible howl, just like a wolf's. We
panicked and rushed back to see what was wrong, convinced she must
have
injured herself somehow. It was a cold day and my wife had strapped on
her coat, and in walking through between the middle bucket seats to
the
back bench seat Chelsea had got caught and couldn't squeeze forward or
back. She was completely unhurt, but was terrified and shaken by this
experience of being trapped.
A serious wound she took in stride without a whimper, but the thought
of being immobilized, imprisoned was unbearable.
How different she is from humans! From childhood we howl for help --
from parents and then when we're older from doctors -- at the first
sign of pain. We measure out our childhood with band-aids. But we
learn
to take imprisonment stoically, silently, dutifully. Soon we even
learn
to lock ourselves in -- in
our rooms with 'keep out' signs on the door, in seatbelts in locked
cars,and in homes locked against outsiders, and some even in gated,
wired 'communities' -- voluntary prisons. Our imprisonment grows from
being forced to stand in the corner, to being forced to sit in
oppressive classrooms, to victimization by the cliques and bullies in
the schoolyard, to 'being grounded', to the humiliation of having to
pay and volunteer for even more stifling 'education' in universities,
to groveling for jobs, employment contracts and wage slavery, to the
'bonds' of matrimony, to addiction to consumption and debt, just
another form of imprisonment, and finally to fear on a global scale --
of criminals at every turn, of terrorists and tyrants -- causing us to
want to lock up our loved ones and put barbed wire around our whole
country.
This then, it seems to me, is the real difference between humans and
other animals: We can take imprisonment but not pain, and all the rest
of life on our planet can accept pain but finds imprisonment
unbearable. Perhaps then it's not surprising that we call imprisonment
without pain 'humane'. If you've ever watched chickens in battery
cages, you know nature doesn't see it that way.
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Humans to blame for security breaches
Humans to blame for security breaches
04/09/2004 04:09 PM
Building Robots to Learn About Humans
Building Robots to Learn About Humans
12/29/2004 02:11 PM
A new MIT
Technology Review article presents the controversial views of Mitsuo
Kawato, director of
the ATR Computational Neuroscience
Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan. Kawato believes that an important
reason for building robots is to learn about humans. This is a common
view
among AI researchers where one camp wants to build machine
intelligence
while another views AI simply as a tool to simulate and learn about
human intelligence. Kawato sees robotics as a way to simulate and
learn
about human neural structure and motor control. Kawato's research is
currently focused on a robot called DB2, a 30 DOF
humanoid. DB stands for Dynamic Brain, an attempt at using current
neurbiological theories to construct a robot brain.
Digital People: From Bionic Humans to
Androids
Digital People: From Bionic Humans to
Androids
08/09/2004 12:51 AM
Monkey Apes Humans by Walking on Two
Legs (AP)
Monkey Apes Humans by Walking on Two
Legs (AP)
07/21/2004 02:56 PM
AP - A young monkey at an Israeli zoo has started walking on its hind
legs only — aping humans — after a near death experience,
the zoo's veterinarian said Wednesday.
Segway Robots and Humans Play Soccer
Together
Segway Robots and Humans Play Soccer
Together
01/07/2004 06:09 PM
BoingBoing reader Roland points us to this:
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), working under a
grant from DARPA, are putting humans riding Segway scooters and robots
built on Segway bases on the same soccer team in the hope to encourage
the kind of cooperation that leads to understanding between the both.
Technology Research News has the story. This could lead to autonomous robot
vehicles sharing the roadway with human-driven vehicles or robot
building construction crews. Robots designed for specific applications
could become practical in 5 to 10 years. Robots that interact with
other robots and humans in general applications will take longer -- at
least 20 years. This overview contains additional details and pictures of a
human and a Segway robot playing together.
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