Month: September 2022

RAY KURZWEIL: "The Singularity Is Near WHEN HUMANS TRANSCEND BIOLOGY"," "online book with tons of data, bound to provoke, irritate, amuse, astound, but you will not doze off. A must read (twice and loan out!)." " http://lnkd.in/bxRUPsu. View in LinkedIn

"The (UCL/Barcelona) team refer to it as a form of augmented reality, rather than virtual reality. In beaming the robot or avatar interacts with real people in a real place.. It has the potential to transform video conferencing and possibly even revolutionise the way we carry out international business. The BBC news article on beaming offers more suggestions for how the technology could be used including improving morale of military forces through allowing them to speak to love ones and, the not so positive use of ‘virtual crime’."" " http://lnkd.in/bNmdCyi View in LinkedIn

VIRTUAL RETINAL DISPLAY (VDR) and applications for eye defects. "With a VRD, defects in the eye's optical system, such as damaged cornea and lens and reduced retinal sensitivity could be bypassed, as well as the problems of the display environment, such as ambient brightness, angle-of-view and display brightness. Additionally, the seen image could be augmented with other information and brightness of the system doesn't affect the image formed on the retina."" " http://lnkd.in/bCFjr8d View in LinkedIn

RAY KURZWEIL's VISION of the future. " By 2030 you'll see full-immersion, shared, virtual-reality environments, or spaces, involving all the senses, where we can actually go inside our bodies and brains and tap into the flow of signals coming from our senses." An important read. " " http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/09/289307 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

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

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

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

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

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