Smarter Than You Think - Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic

via ispyce.com

"At the TED 2011 conference this week, Google has been giving extremely rare demos of its self-driving cars. TED attendees have even been allowed to travel inside them, on a closed course. The car is a project of Google, which has been working in secret but in plain view on vehicles that can drive themselves, using artificial-intelligence software that can sense anything near the car and mimic the decisions made by a human driver."

Looks like soon the days of slotting your car into lane and switching to "auto" will be here sooner than you think!

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ArsTechnica on how Apple's strategy might cause it to fail in the long run

via arstechnica.com

Apply is in a very Microsoft like situation today where it not only owns the platform (OSX, iOS) but also sells products and services on that platform (movies, music, ebooks.) A similar situation with Microsoft in the 90s caused the company to stagnate. Will the same happen to Apple?

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Cyborg brains: The next evolutionary step is closer than you think | Silicon.com

The creation of the World Wide Mind depends on unlocking the secrets of the brain's workings, according to Michael Chorost

Imagine being able to sense friends' and colleagues' thoughts and feelings almost as they experience them.

A world where everyone has technologies built into their brain that capture their sensations and stream them to other people around the world.

A world where police officers can instantly sense that their partner is in danger or parents immediately know when their child is scared, and where people can explore random thoughts in each other's minds in an attempt to devise groundbreaking ideas.

This is the World Wide Mind - a concept explored in a new book of the same name by science writer Michael Chorost.

via silicon.com

I don't know how comfortable I would be with being linked into a larger network, which would almost border on a hive mind. But I figure if almost have the technology to do that, they can also use it purely to augment the brain.

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