Archive for November, 2006

A Space Shuttle For Our Mind

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

A computer connected via the web is by far more powerful than a standalone desktop machine and the meshverse amplifies that power even more. If a computer amplifies the mind in the way that a bicycle amplifies locomotive force, the original web was a railroad, Web 2.0 a jet aircraft and the meshverse is a [...]

Military Mesh

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Referring to an Israeli military effort to build a robotic hornet, John Robb notes that:
Of course, an army/police force of nano-bots remotely controlled via mesh swarming might, in time, only require a small cadre to operate. Co-opt that cadre and you have a big problem for any society that employs it.
Nano-UAVs

Hyperlinking Reality

Monday, November 20th, 2006

A Nokia research project could one day make it easier to navigate the real world by superimposing virtual information on an image of your surroundings.
… The field of augmented reality, in which supplementary information from a computer or the Internet is overlaid onto the real world, has been the topic of science fiction and serious [...]

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