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Tag Archives: future
Solar Roadways is funding – and why you should care
Scott and Julie Brusaw of Idaho came up with the brilliant idea of embedding solar cells into roadways. Even with the meager conversion rates of today’s solar cells and even in the more Northern regions where the incident solar angle … Continue reading
Posted in Global issues, Social issues, Tech
Tagged economy, future, government, IMHO, life, power, technology, technology advances
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Facebook explores emergent behavior, invents bully-bot
Has anyone actually been successful getting Facebook to enforce its own Terms of Service? Because I’m striking out left and right. Oddly, the people having success seem to be the ones abusing the reporting process. In his book Out Of … Continue reading
Posted in Clue train, Global issues, Rant, Social issues, Tech
Tagged facebook, fail, future, internet, life, power, rant, relationships, singularity, technology
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VRM as root of sovereignty
A VRM-y system would presumably alert you if you didn’t meet the age requirements for some web site you wished to join or subscribe to. Considering that under the CFAA doing so would be a felony in the US, you’d … Continue reading
Posted in Clue train, PClouds, Rant, Social issues, Tech, VRM
Tagged fail, future, internet, marketing, network logins, power, technology, technology advances, vrm
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Soverign by design
Over at moxytongue.com, Devon writes: I am challenged by questions concerning the structure of #VRM tools that are built for “Me” in a personal data context, versus the structure of #VRM tools that are built for “Us” in a market … Continue reading
Posted in PClouds, Social issues, Tech, VRM
Tagged advertising, economy, future, internet, marketing, power, quality, relationships, singularity, technology, technology advances, vrm
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Imp no wimp
Hours after posting on-boarding for real people I ran across the Electric Imp web site. I hate the architecture, love almost everything else about it, especially the on-boarding. Take a look: (Note that the Electric Imp isn’t the thing you see … Continue reading
Posted in PClouds, Tech, VRM
Tagged future, internet, network logins, technology, technology advances, UI, vrm
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IoT Device on-boarding for real people
Did your grandmother walk 5 miles to school? Uphill? Both ways? Each generation has their hardship stories. I remember telling my kids “When I was your age, I had to walk all the way across the living room to change … Continue reading
Posted in Clue train, PClouds, Tech, VRM
Tagged future, hacking, infosec, internet, network logins, security, technology, technology advances, UI, vrm
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Futurist’s Groundhog Day
It’s deja vu all over again One aspect of intentcasting that fascinates me is how recursive it is. VRM is the manifestation of a desire for intentcasting in an environment which lacks a framework for intentcasting. It needs to bootstrap … Continue reading
Posted in Clue train, Global issues, PClouds, Rant, Tech, VRM
Tagged future, IMHO, infosec, internet, power, rant, security, singularity, technology, technology advances, vrm
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Cold Fusion = End of the World
Martin Fleischmann, one of the team of scientists who announced a successful implementation of cold fusion back in 1989 died last week. In their Notable Deaths in Schience-Technology article, UPI wrote: Researchers around the world attempted, without success, to replicate … Continue reading
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Tagged energy, future, global, green, IMHO, life, politics, power, sustainable, technology
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The singularity was here – did you miss it?
I buy into most of what Ray Kurzweil says about the singularity. If you aren’t already familiar with that term as used by Ray and others, the premise is this: By many measures, technology advances exponentially. If you plot out … Continue reading
Posted in Tech
Tagged future, history, ray kurzweil, singularity, technology, technology advances
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