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SERIOUS PEW RESEARCH POLL (2013). "According to the poll, more than two-thirds of Americans said they had presumed that by 2001 human beings would have bodies made entirely of pixels, by 2006 they would stop eating food and acquire sustenance by consuming pure data, and by 2011 they would no longer travel by car or on foot, instead hitching light-speed rides by fiber-optic cable whenever they wanted to go somewhere." (Explains election patterns?). " " http://lnkd.in/bZn_zJm View in LinkedIn

BEAMING as new VR state. "The researchers define ‘beaming’ as digitally transporting a representation of yourself to a distant place, where you can interact with the people there as if you were there. This is achieved through a combination of virtual reality and teleoperator systems. The visitor to the remote place (the destination) is represented there ideally by a physical robot."" " http://www.ucl.ac View in LinkedIn

CYBERNETIC IMMORTALITY attracts its share of truly loopy loo Cuckoos, with manifestos and more nonsense , but at the heart is an interesting question (which I have so far been negative about). "After the “resources of the biological body have been exhausted, the 2045 Initiative would enable an indefinite extension of our individual consciousnesses." (Whatever that is!). " " http://lnkd.in/bYxePNt. View in LinkedIn

NEW BEAMING TECHNOLOGY. "Putting all this together -- the rat interacted with a rat sized robot that represented the remotely located human, and the human interacted with a human sized avatar that represented the remotely located rat."" " http://lnkd.in/bfKVBevhttp://lnkd.in/b6hkjPK View in LinkedIn

REMOTE PRESENCE DEVICES (Avatars) "are expensive now but the price will drop. Suitable Technologies, which makes the Beam, is now one of more than a dozen companies that sell so-called telepresence robots. These remote-controlled machines are equipped with video cameras, speakers, microphones and wheels that allow users to see, hear, talk and "walk" in faraway locations."(Cherry 2000?). http://lnkd.in/bWFBd_k View in LinkedIn

VIRTUAL REALITY WITH RATS (2012). "The research enables the rat to interact with a rat-sized robot controlled by a human participant in a different location. At the same time, the human participant (who is in a virtual environment) interacts with a human-sized avatar that is controlled by the movements of the distant rat. The authors hope the new technology will be used to study animal behaviour in a completely new way." ( No shit!)" " http://lnkd.in/b6hkjPK View in LinkedIn

HOPE FOR THE DISABLED with beamed Avatar proxies. “You could control an avatar just by thinking about it and activating the correct areas in the brain."" " http://lnkd.in/bMQkYWH View in LinkedIn

DEAR READER, I extend a humble apology. I do no original thinking. No cunning calculations. My primary interest is to join the dots, and make sometimes unusual connections between glittering emerging trends. There are many thousands of brilliantly creative and productive minds generating the primary data, but not yours truly. I am a humble secondary synthesizer. View in LinkedIn

SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK AND ROLL! " have you heard this idea of beaming 5 sense reality to your head through ultrasound brain stimulation, just think we could kill the 2 sense tv with this! We could have virtual reality sex, drugs and rock and roll! We could stimulate pleasure senses we've not reached before! Could get the blind and deaf to see and hear too!"" " http://lnkd.in/bWvZHg8http://lnkd.in/bDip3ZT. View in LinkedIn

SENSORY AND EMOTIONAL SHARING VIRTUALLY . "Just the way today you have people beaming their lives from their apartments using Webcams, people will be beaming their entire flow of sensory experiences. Rather than just watching their apartment, you will actually experience their sensory experiences--and their emotional reactions."" " http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/09/289307/ View in LinkedIn