linkedin post 2020-04-05 01:35:30
SELF-REFERENTIAL. “Science itself is a cumulative cultural evolutionary process.’” (Nature contemplating herself). http://www.pnas.org/content/114/30/7853.full View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-04-05 01:33:52
DRIVERS. “Demographically, the threefold increase in the world population and increased global mobility in the past century should also have accelerated cumulative culture.” (Or its demise). http://www.pnas.org/content/114/30/7853.full View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-04-05 01:31:27
SPEED OF ACCUMULATION. “Ideas regarding the origin of cumulative culture can inform thinking about factors that might affect recent and ongoing cumulative cultural evolution. The invention of writing, followed by digital media, surely greatly increased the fidelity of social learning and, potentially, the speed of cumulative culture.” http://www.pnas.org/content/114/30/7853.full View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-04-05 01:29:17
CULTURAL EVOLUTION of complexity that comes anywhere close to the extraordinary biological complexity we see in nature might include advanced mathematics, scientific enquiry, some music, writing and language, and the internet. But in truth, none of these compares to layered sophistication of the merest bristle on the nose of a flea. These types of complexity are not comparable, they are simply very different. Complexity should not even be in the formula. View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-04-06 04:37:39
MOONSHOT. "We Advance Augmented Reality to Advance Humanity. Our moonshot: Inspire 1 Billion active users of augmented reality by 2020.” https://lnkd.in/dMhaqXP View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-04-08 04:08:02
98% CORRECT. "Looking around the room I have to ask him: which of his hundreds of projects is he most proud of. The answer comes back instantly. “No question, it would have to be when I hooked up with my wife.” He’s not talking about dating: In 2002, he and his wife, Irena, installed matching implants that recorded signals from their central nervous system. They were able to correctly identify each other’s nerve signals around 98% of the time." https://lnkd.in/d4mcDE3 View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-04-08 04:03:35
INTERNET EMPATHY. "A highly publicised extension to the experiment, in which a simpler array was implanted into the arm of Warwick's wife—with the ultimate aim of one day creating a form of telepathy or empathy using the Internet to communicate the signal from afar—was also successful in-so-far as it resulted in the first direct and purely electronic communication between the nervous systems of two humans." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Warwick View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-04-08 04:00:26
VIRTUAL TWIN. "Soldiers could be scanned before they enter the battlefield and a virtual 'twin' kept online so that new bones could be 3D printed when they get injured, scientists have suggested. “We do have soldiers that are injured, they lose limbs and it is a challenge to reconstruct." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/11413503/Soldiers-could-have-their-bones-copied-and-3D-printed-in-case-of-injury.html View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-04-07 04:45:31
WIRED COUPLE. "In addition to being able to measure the nerve signals transmitted along the nerve fibres in Professor Wariwck’s left arm, the implant was also able to create artificial sensation by stimluating via individual electrodes within the array. This bi-directional functionality was demonstrated with the aid of Kevin’s wife Irena and a second, less complex implant connecting to her nervous system." https://lnkd.in/dYHnAcN View in LinkedIn
linkedin post 2020-04-07 04:45:03
EARLY ADOPTER. "On the 14th of March 2002 a one hundred electrode array was surgically implanted into the median nerve fibres of the left arm of Professor Kevin Warwick. The operation was carried out at Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford ... Professor Warwick was able to control an electric wheelchair and an intelligent artificial hand ... using the neural interface." https://lnkd.in/dYHnAcN View in LinkedIn