Holy Miniature People Batman!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/10/11/hobbit.jaw.ap/index.html

 

We think we have discovered a strain of humans that is different from what we are. Evolution. It is there. Foolish religious people. Can't see reality beyond their own scared noses. But that is understandable. This world is full of answers we cannot yet find and fears we have not yet spoken of. Life is the rule...not the exception.

What this really means...

http://www.cerncourier.com/main/article/45/8/8

 

Is that we once again have overcomplicated existence. Dark Matter need not exist. There doesn't have to be something greater than what we can see in this instance. This is a big thing if it pans out. A lot of scientific thought has been given to this idea. We shall see where the evolution of scientific theory moves.

It's the end of the world and we know it..

And I feel fine...

 

Of course every marketer in the world will know who we are. Maybe this will cause the system to be evened out reducing inefficiency to zero. Maybe this will allow Ice Cream trucks with a lot more than Ice Cream to target neighborhoods...or...just maybe, this will make our entire society into one gigantic roving organism which grows and shrinks all over and we understand it.

 

It could hurt...in the long though I think it will help...

 

http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2005/10/10/you_need_not_be_paranoid_to_fear_rfid?mode=PF

My powers prove irrepressable

http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/07/news/economy/katrina_effect/index.htm?cnn=yes

 

The US economy for some reason I cannot figure out. I can predict short term where it is going to move, as can all people…but its ability to weather storm (no pun intended) after storm mystifies me. I do wonder where the federal government is getting all of the money to write these checks from. Is the world economy really ready for this much debt? Well I guess so. Lets hope we can start making money again at some point and buy back all of our dollars from China. Lets go USA!

Another year, another DARPA race

First off

http://news.com.com/2300-11394_3-5889028-1.html Pretty pictures.

 

The government is smart sometimes. Why test a few random agencies to build one or two designs for $500,000,000 when you can tap into the university system of the United States and pay $2 million (and get at least 23 models and many times that more in different perspectives). We will no longer drive to school and work, we will be passengers in our independently moving vehicles that get a smidgen from us where we want to go and get us there as best they can. Highway travel will be in the hundreds of MPH because there will be no human error. And traffic will significantly lessen because computers will be able to regulate traffic flow significantly better due to it having access to larger amounts of data on a large scale and, on a small scale, the vehicles will wirelessly, instantly communicate their paths to each other. There is no ego in a computer...not until we program them in at least.

hrmm

I am torn...

 

cnn.com

The next piece moves

http://gigaom.com/2005/09/30/google-confirms-san-francisco-wifi-plans/

Google officily unvield their plan for sending out free 300kbs wireless to the residents and visitors in San Franciso. FREE. Why? Because now they can perfectly target their ad experience. They know EXACTLY where you are and can make advertisers pay premium for your eyes. And now that they know who you are on a very simplistic nature the ads wont eb annoying...because they are local and in some sort of way focused on you from your desires. Inteliigent advertising. Free internet access...of course you need a computer, a wifi card and to live in San Francisco ($$$)...but other than that its free. I want to buy a laptop for every homeless person in San Fran now (maybe one of those 100$ MIT developed laptops - http://laptop.media.mit.edu/ )