technophobe rant

New rules found in DNA grammar:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27402/
Isolated brain:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolated_brain
Incepted skills without training:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1413

FPB:
http://apps.facebook.com/intelinnovators/ideas/show/id/3705#lstbdb0mpg0

Zion eyez:
http://www.zioneyez.com/#/home/
Virtual reality eyewear and wearable computing:
http://www.vuzix.com/site/_news/2011_News/vuzix-wrap-1200VR-availability-rele.... http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/39471/
Internet contact lenses:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-le...
The Sims guy building augmented reality software:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/02/us-videogame-willwright-idUSTRE8010...
Autonomous vehicles:
http://www.technologyreview.com/article/39407/
http://www.wfs.org/content/driverless-cars-driving-force-coming-future-near-you
James N. Gardner's idea:
http://www.biocosm.org/

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[TheDystopiaInside]

Technology exists for two reasons...

1 To protect rich people.

2 To distract everyone else.

[ClearCritic]

@TheDystopiaInside

to distract everyone else from what? i fear you might have missed one of my points. i argued that people are technologies, built by several influences: evolution by natural selection over billions of years, by other people, and by themselves. in my opinion we are technologies that build other technologies to extend our reach.

[SeniorGarbonzo]

So if mnemes, beneficial or parasitic, occupy the same real estate in the brain, is there a possibility that these mnemes can undergo a form of reproduction via fusion/juxtaposition/other means of blending thoughts and ideas? This seems to be the missing link in the "mnemes are living things" argument.

[ClearCritic]

@SeniorGarbonzo

there is a possibility. one thing i've noticed also is that there are many ways to express an idea (different combos/sequences of adjectives, nouns, and verbs) and that the meme is perhaps more stable than the smaller components used to express it (the specific adjectives, nouns, and verbs are less predictable than the idea). i agree also that whole new synthesis of ideas comes from recombination when an individual thinks/writes/converses with someone.

[Schutt1212]

you on speed? or meth? holy crap. hahahaha.

[ClearCritic]

@Schutt1212

i'm on a full night's rest

[DCioccoloni]

Here's why youtube depresses me, I find a video covering a range of interesting topics that I find stimulating, and I think to myself "I wonder what others watching this think about it all.." only to then find an endless stream of comments such as this "OMG HIS HEAD MOVES!!!! D:". Yes it does, get the fuck over it, it's not an interesting fact, have you nothing better to say?

[weeryan2008]

@TheDystopiaInside Surely you're familiar with Brave New World then? Especially considering your name.

[BluntVerbally23]

@TheDystopiaInside WHAT LOL then why are you using a computer????? Are you insane?

[jonisaok]

@TheDystopiaInside Wow, you sound pretty paranoid.

[zenoftw]

@ClearCritic Amazing that I never get that.

[LyJah281]

Dude you almost look like the actor Jesse Bradford.

[logosloki]

I was going to post something clever or thought provoking. Then I saw the top comment. So, instead I will resort to OMG HIS HEAD MOVES and What does he use and where can I get some (if the answer really is sleep, I need to learn your sleep patterns, mine sucks and I"ve always believed that you should explore other people's habits and integrate favourable ones).