Thoughts On Google Glass
thoughts on google glass
cool... actually, I think google glass is pretty important in that it's a transitional technology--- kind of in the way that Martin Cooper created the first handheld mobile phone:
that in no way resembles what our smartphones look like today, or what they're capable of... but, that phone was a critical piece of electronics in the evolution of technology... I already have my eyes on what's next, by the time they "do a good job" on glass, I think we'll be close to seeing that... GG can still be useful, there's actually a bunch of cool ways that it can be used in education too-- the problem is that it's poorly executed, clunky and is just the start of what can be done with wearables, AR, and IoT...
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Since the time I was in elementary school I wanted to become a marine biologist to study and swim with sharks. Next summer I’m planning a trip to Australia and for my 40th birthday, *this* is what I plan on doing.... Check out the video here. #dreamvacation
Great Whites circling the “ghost cage” video. This was pretty amazing and would totally love to do this, but with a door that stayed closed!
But this situation of linear movement is rapidly changing in every respect. And the greatest change is one that our Rip Van Winkle economist, looking only at the figures, wouldn’t even notice: In the past 20 years we have created a brand-new form of capital, a brand-new resource, namely knowledge.
Up until 1900, any society in the world would have done just as well as it did without men of knowledge. We may have needed lawyers to defend criminals and doctors to write death certificates, but the criminals would have done almost as well without the lawyers, and the patients without the doctors. We needed teachers to teach other ornaments of society, but this too was largely decoration. The world prided itself on men of knowledge, but it didn’t need them to keep the society running.
Kardashev Scale
The Kardashev Scale – Type I, II, III, IV & V Civilization
Will Mankind Destroy Itself? (video)
see also my posts on Fermi’s Paradox and miracle of life
as well as these links: Why is the Scale of the Universe so Freakishly Large? Science Says Earth is One of 700 Quintillion Planets in the Universe
Dyson Sphere: Capturing the Power of a Star infographic
Advanced alien civilizations rare or absent in the local universe via Physorg.com
Space Junk is Becoming a Serious Security Threat
Do some of the proposed technologies for removing space debris pose dual-use concerns?
The short answer is yes. In fact, pretty much any technology for removing debris could be used to take down a satellite under hostile circumstances. This is one of the reasons that many in the space community believe such activities will require a multilateral development approach and an international governance structure.
#educationimagined
Which Marvel Superhero Could Run a University?
Important Question: Which Marvel Superhero Could Run a University?
Gotta keep positive...
Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency David Remnick via The New Yorker
Bernie Sanders: Where We Go From Here Matt Taibbi via Rolling Stone
A Mathematician's Perspective on the Divide Vi Hart via YouTube
(btw, see Parable of the Polygons: A Playable post on the Shape of Society by Vi Hart and Nicky Case)
Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump via The Washington Post
Talking Back to Hate Speech, Explained. via Bill Moyers & Company
According to the Coalition for the Homeless, during Bloomberg’s twelve years in office the number of homeless families in New York went up by seventy-three per cent. One child out of every hundred children in the city is homeless. For baseball games, Yankee Stadium seats 50,287. If all the homeless people who now live in New York used the stadium for a gathering, several thousand of them would have to stand. There are now two hundred and thirty-six homeless shelters in the city.
Talk about timing...
It's amazing that it's been a year since Glen met with Snowden and the NSA landed in the headlines for violating our 4th amendment rights to privacy, a cornerstone of democracy.
Last week the USA Freedom Act passed in the house- doublespeak from our government that allows this abuse to continue. This week Snowden gave his first American Network TV interview.
Why does this issue of privacy and democracy matter so much? After all, "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide"?
----- excerpt from The Eternal Value of Privacy by Bruce Schneier-----
"Two proverbs say it best: Quis custodiet custodes ipsos? ("Who watches the watchers?") and "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Cardinal Richelieu understood the value of surveillance when he famously said, "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." Watch someone long enough, and you'll find something to arrest -- or just blackmail -- with. Privacy is important because without it, surveillance information will be abused: to peep, to sell to marketers and to spy on political enemies -- whoever they happen to be at the time.
Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.
and
"Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is still tyranny. Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. Widespread police surveillance is the very definition of a police state. And that's why we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide."
For the link to a short collection of other related articles, visit http://americanvirtueproject.wikispaces.com/readinglist
Democracy?
Exit Polls are the Thing Wherein to Catch the Conscience of Elections
“Exit polls are the accepted international standard for indications of election fraud and vote tampering… When election results do not match exit poll results, we should not simply accept these results.”
GIVEN THE 1-IN-77 BILLION mathematical calculation that indicates fraud, all Americans should be experiencing a reasonable doubt about the secret, private computer code that has been used in this Democratic Primary. We’re either witnessing the mathematically impossible, or we’re witnessing fraud.
#ExitPollGate
Petitioning U.N. Electoral Assitance Division (EAD) U.S. Citizens Officially Request Emergency Electoral Assistance From The United Nations
#ComeyHearing
LISTEN: 7 Exchanges That Explain FBI Director's Decision On The Clinton Case
#PeopleShouldBeIndictedFor
#moretrustedthanhillary
#seeyouinphilly
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