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THIS WEEK’S DISPATCH: JAXA & the ESA taking NASA stuff into space, Japan likes Apple’s patents better than Samsung’s, Toyota and Tesla made an electric baby RAV4, and the guy who invented DRAM got a Japanese medal and $500 Gs!
Jun 222013
Feb 282013
Europe & now maybe the U.S.A. want to map or simulate or build their very own version of the universe’s greatest known computational artifact: the gelatinous wad of convoluted electrical pudding in your skull.
February 28, 2013
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Consciousness, Existential Quandary Stuff, IBM, Neurology, Pure Science, Super Computer, Technology
Jul 062012
In many ways, technological utopianism is the heart and soul of the United States; it has driven our hyper-speed development and rise to global prominence. But, is the US rising or declining? Technologically speaking, does America still have “it?”
Jul 032012
Here in 2012 we still have to physically go to a location to cast a ballot for almost any election. Why is that acceptable? Do we just want the patronizing “I Voted” sticker? COME ON – WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY! (repost)
Nov 152011
Google’s broad-spectrum tech development efforts & investment probably excede that of any other private entity. That’s great, but what’s up here? Is cutting-edge technological innovation shifting away from governmental entities? Is that good or evil?
November 15, 2011
AI, Apple, Artificial Intelligence, DARPA, Google, Here First or Best Here, IBM, Internet, Kurzweil, Microsoft, Pure Science, Singularity, Space Technology, Technology, Technology & Politics, Technology Law