Turing Test Passed?
If you’re a muggle, or have slept for most of the past 30 years, you may not know what the Turing Test is. If so, you should stop reading this blog immediately and find out. Try google. So today I …
Author: Max K Goff
Brain Implant Me!
Are you ready to take the next bold step in evolution? If brain implants today are as far away as laser eye surgery was a couple of decades ago, it could very well be that an implanted cognitive prosthesis is …
Network Age Eyes
The holiday season is now nearly done — with The Epiphany soon upon us, Christmas 2013 comes to a close. It’s been a wonderful holiday this year; hope yours was equally joyful. Time to now get back to work … …
Seven Steps for a Better World
The puppet show these past few weeks — the U.S. government shutdown/debt-limit drama playing on all channels — seems to have more of us than ever buying into the Us v. Them meme. Us v. Them has been around for …
Techlepathy
Yeah, just go ahead and mindtweet me. Telepath me that thought, would you? Not now, I’m telephathing! Wasn’t it Orson Scott Card’s sequel to Ender’s Game (Speaker for the Dead) that featured a matured Ender Wiggin with a technology-based telepathic …
Awesome 2.0
I took a fiction writing course once during a hazy undergrad phase. One memorable story I recall, written by a classmate, featured a character named Awesome. That was before awesome was awesome. The character Awesome was ironically named. But the …
Microbots in Surgical Scrubs
You may recall the hypothetical respirocyte from the turn of the century. The salad days of the Network Age were filled with promise — anything was possible then, as new companies like google and yahoo seemed to transcend old school …
Seeing Data
Just came across this fabulous article by Marcus Woo … Seeing Data. Big data, by definition, implies drinking in vast quantities of information that must necessarily be distilled down into a mixture which we humans can tractably consume and digest. …
Telekinesis Now
By sensing a disturbance in the force, as it were, Network Age telekinesis at home is soon upon us. Through the analysis of ambient Wi-Fi signals a team at the University of Washington has developed code that senses very subtle …
Hackers Spawn Web Supercomputer
Wired article worth the read: Hackers Spawn Web Supercomputer on Way to Chess World Record There are several Network Age themes of note in this one article. Consider: – Education has fundamentally changed. Immersion is emerging as a best practice. …