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Jamais Cascio is a San Francisco Bay Area-based writer and ethical futurist.

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On the (Augmented) Media

All comments go through moderation, so if it doesn't show up immediately, I'm not available to click the "okiedoke" button. Comments telling me that global warming isn't real, that evolution isn't real, that I really need to follow [insert religion ...

From JAMAIS CASCIO, Open the Future,  21 Nov 2009

New Fast Company: The Meowtrix

Ultimately, this is a very interesting development, both for the obvious reasons (an artificial cat brain!) and because of its associated "Blue Matter" project, which uses supercomputers and magnetic resonance to non-invasively map out brain ...

From JAMAIS CASCIO, Open the Future,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Fast Company

IBM Simulates the Inner Workings of a Cat Brain: AI or Shadow Minds for Humans?

Scientists, at IBM Research - Almaden, in collaboration with colleagues from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, have performed the first near real-time cortical simulation of the brain that exceeds the scale of a cat cortex and contains 1 billion ...

From JAMAIS CASCIO, Fast Company,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: IBM

Radio Silence

All comments go through moderation, so if it doesn't show up immediately, I'm not available to click the "okiedoke" button. Comments telling me that global warming isn't real, that evolution isn't real, that I really need to follow [insert religion ...

From JAMAIS CASCIO, Open the Future,  18 Nov 2009

Blasphemy

What strikes me as interesting about the use of this term is that it (along with the use of "belief" and explicit references to "global warming religion") changes the frame of the discussion of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) to something for which ...

From JAMAIS CASCIO, Open the Future,  15 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Steven Levitt

The Singularity, In Five Slides

All comments go through moderation, so if it doesn't show up immediately, I'm not available to click the "okiedoke" button. Comments telling me that global warming isn't real, that evolution isn't real, that I really need to follow [insert religion ...

From JAMAIS CASCIO, Open the Future,  11 Nov 2009

Biopolitics of Pop Culture -- Updated

Lots of new speakers joining the Biopolitics of Popular Culture event on December 4. Here's the latest info: This is your chance to learn firsthand from artists, writers, filmmakers, and culture critics whose work plays an important part in shaping our ...

From JAMAIS CASCIO, Open the Future,  11 Nov 2009

New Fast Company: Multifractals in the Sky, With Power-Laws

McGill University physicist Shaun Lovejoy kept coming back to the idea, though, and he and his team found suggestive indications that there was a multifractal process at work. (Standard fractal systems involve a single exponent defining the "fractal ...

From JAMAIS CASCIO, Open the Future,  9 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Fast Company

Is the Atmosphere Simpler Than We Thought?

Now Lovejoy's team is keen to see cascades extend the reach and reliability of current models. While the existing models cannot handle structures much smaller than 100 kilometers across, the cascades may continue down to scales smaller than a ...

From JAMAIS CASCIO, Fast Company,  9 Nov 2009

Putting the Human Back Into the Post-Human -- The Motion Picture

The entire video runs about 98 minutes; my talk starts after a couple of minutes of intro, and I finish up right at the one-hour mark. The remainder of the video is the Q&A period, which has some good stuff, too. When I get a chance, I hope to pull out ...

From JAMAIS CASCIO, Open the Future,  9 Nov 2009

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