VICTORIA SHANNON, New York Times Social networks may be nothing new to habitués of the Internet. Several years of competition among Facebook, MySpace and Friendster have generated tens of millions of members. But now the market is teeming with companies that want to bring the same phenomenon to the cellphone. There are so many “mobile […]
MARK BITTMAN – New York Times I took a real day off this weekend: computers shut down, cell phone left in my work bag, land-line ringer off. I was fully disconnected for 24 hours. ….In short, my name is Mark, and I’m a techno-addict…thus began my “secular Sabbath” — a term I found floating around […]
It isn’t always easy to communicate with a computer. Two Fraunhofer Institutes will be presenting new possibilities of man-machine interaction at CeBIT in Hanover (Germany) on March 4 through 9. They will demonstrate how computers can be operated simply by gesturing or pointing a finger. Full article: http://www.physorg.com/news123512518.html Morris Miselowski’s comments: This follows hot on […]
Adobe Blurs Line Between PC and Web Adobe will release AIR, a software development system that will power potentially tens of thousands of applications that merge the Internet and the PC, as well as blur the distinctions between PCs and new computing devices like… Full Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/technology/25adobe.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Morris Miselowski’s thoughts This is one of those […]
(AP) Virgin Atlantic carried out the world’s first flight of a commercial aircraft powered with biofuel on Sunday in an effort to show it can produce less carbon dioxide than normal jet fuels. full article http://www.physorg.com/news123077967.html Morris Miselowski’s thoughts: Over the next decade we will see many attempts at using biofuel’s, some will succeed and […]
Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted. Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people’s brains to make them more intelligent, said Ray Kurzweil. The engineer believes machines and humans will eventually merge through devices implanted in the body to boost […]
Download the FREE GLOBAL FORESIGHT REPORT revealing where AI capability collides with human hesitation and how today’s leaders are redrawing the decision-making line.
