. Palm-sized quadcopter. Read more at geekboy.it
Alternative title: How Steve Jobs killed the animator profession.
A very good friend of mine is an animator and it’s thanks to her that I have any insight into the animation industry at all. Though I confess, my insight is marginal to say the least.
Nevertheless it’s due to her that I was…
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JustVined.com was brought to my attention by @buster
It reminds @patrickmoberg of the scene from Batman.
It reminds me of the architect scene from The Matrix.
Enjoy the 2013 flavored dopamine, kids.
About that brain:
—Markram thinks that instead of studying individual areas of the brain, science should try to build a unified model of the brain. If done correctly, this should leapfrog the cumbersome, piecemeal approach from his colleagues that he thinks is unsatisfying. The end goal is to build a brain that is intelligent and behaves like a human, confirms Markram: ”It is not impossible to build a human brain and we can do it in 10 years,” he said in 2009 at the TED conference in Oxford.[4] In a BBC World Service interview he said: “If we build it correctly it should speak and have an intelligence and behave very much as a human does.”—
About to watch The Startup Kids with the folks of Jini and Idealabs…
(Source: vimeo.com)
Augmented Reality is generally important because it’s one of those grand, metaphysical quests in computer science — what is reality, what can we do to reality?
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| — | Bruce Sterling in an interview on 40kbooks. |
Fictional machines make us think. The intersection of the physical, the virtual, and the domestic.
