Sometimes the iPhone deserves the love it gets, and Microsoft Photosynth and Autodesk’s 123D Catch Apps are reasons why. Oh, and this phone-based 3D modeling thingy probably heralds China’s impending economic collapse and stuff.
Sep 202012
Jul 152012
No existential quandaries, no robots, and nothing on the steady and accelerating human/machine merger. There is simple fun to be found in technology – like interactive Japanoramas!
July 15, 2012
Internet, Internet Stuff, Japanorama, Microsoft, Multimedia, Photography Technology, Technology, Technology & Art
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)
Oct 292011
Actually, I give props to MS for producing these videos. The whole chicken/egg life-imitating-art and the inverse thereof motivation factor inherent in SCI-FI should never be dismissed.
October 29, 2011
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Future Already Very Pending, Microsoft, Technology, Technology & Work, Telepresence, The Beginning is Near
Oct 172011
Perhaps unconsciously, Allen is asserting the primacy of human intelligence in our known universe – a cognitive barrier beyond which nothing can pass – because evolution made it… or something. Paul, an AI doesn’t have to be smart LIKE us, just as smart AS us. Namsayen?
October 17, 2011
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Consciousness, Future Already Very Pending, Here First or Best Here, Microsoft, NBI, Neurology, Singularity, Technology