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DISTANT BRAIN-BRAIN HUMAN INTERFACE. "(This) Internet-based interface -- which allowed Rao to use his mind to control the movement of Stocco’s hand to push the “fire” button while the two played a computer game on separate parts of the UW campus."" " http://lnkd.in/bCMkhcd View in LinkedIn

TEXTING IS LANGUAGE. "A second order effect of maintaining so much information in easily-retrievable: my short and long term memory have both atrophied, as has my verbal communication. I'm capable of writing a question rapidly with the information that I have available and liberal use of buffering bits of information... but if I attempt to verbalize any of this knowledge, the result is this sputtering mess of cache misses and inaccessible context attributable to the lack of said buffer."" " http://productivity.stackexchange.com/questions/1853/inability-to-function-without-use-of-the-exocortex View in LinkedIn

€1 BILLION COMPUTERIZED VIRTUAL BRAIN PROJECT (Markram's Human Brain Project by 2020). " It's going to be the Higgs boson of the brain, a Noah's archive of the mind...it's like a telescope that can span all the way across the universe of the brain from the micro the macro level."" " http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2013/10/12/meet_the_man_who_wants_to.htm View in LinkedIn

BANKERS IN JAIL? Ever wondered why bankers are never jailed for their ongoing and continued criminal malfeasance that make headlines almost monthly? "JP Morgan now has a contingency fund of $23bn to cover legal expenses. It also said that it could face litigation-related expenses of another $6.8bn." On ~$24 bn of net income. With this sort of astounding legal defense capability, they simply outgun the government lawyers. " " http://lnkd.in/bEnHSJx View in LinkedIn

TELEPATHY ONE. "It's a stripped down, simplified version of Google Glass. Whereas Glass is "an egotistical device" with a range of uses - you can surf the net, read emails, take photographs, do unspecified things with as yet unspecified apps, Telepathy will be "more of a communication device". Connected via Bluetooth to your phone, it will focus on real-time visual and audio sharing."" " https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2013/10/12/can_this_tiny_startup_really_be.htm&ct=ga&cd=Nzk3MzI2MzI1NDg5MjQ2MTcwMQ&cad=CAEYAA&usg=AFQjCNHAqQ5kLfywRYlOopHlCKJGOH0Hag View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL BRAIN ATROPHY (after all who can do mental arithmetic any more?). "My exocortex is so useful that it's made redundant my common senses for recall. My abilities to recognize information are firing on all cylinders, but my inability to recall information becomes terribly worrisome whenever I'm disconnected from my notes."" " http://productivity.stackexchange.com/questions/1853/inability-to-function-without-use-of-the-exocortex View in LinkedIn

BRILLIANT INTERVIEW with J Craig Venter. "'This isn't a fantasy look at the future. We are actually doing the future': Craig Venter, who created the world's first synthetic life, is building a gadget that could teletransport medicine and vaccines into our homes or to colonists on the red planet. The pioneering American scientist, known for his arrogance as well as his genius, talks to Zoe Corbyn."" " http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2013/10/12/this_isn_t_a_fantasy_look.htm View in LinkedIn

BRAIN IN TRANSITION. "The externalization of memory [via the use of external symbolic storage systems] has altered the actual memory architecture within which humans think, which is changing the role of biological memory, the way in which the human brain deploys its resources, and the form of modern culture. The human mind has long been a hybrid structure built from the vestiges of earlier biological stages and combined with our new external symbolic systems."" " http://lnkd.in/bzHN6Xv View in LinkedIn

MEGA-CONFLUENCE ON HORIZON. "The Internet of Things promises that every object will eventualy be hooked up to a network. And 3D printing promises that any object we can imagine, we can build—on site and on demand. And big data promises we'll know everything there is to know about these networked objects. What happens when you put those innovations together?" The possibilities are immense." " http://lnkd.in/br4Uw92 View in LinkedIn

LARGER PREDICTION OF IoT . "The number of IoT devices on the horizon are also staggering. Intel has often trotted out the figure of 15 billion such devices in place by 2015, but Steenman upped the ante on Tuesday, citing research by IDC, Intel, and the United Nations that balloon that number to 200 billion by 2020." (33 times the number of people on planet earth today). " " http://lnkd.in/byv9qbh View in LinkedIn