Brains, Bots and Bodies

I was sitting a home watching TV the other evening when a commercial came on the screen that blew me way.  It was made to look like archival footage of an old gas station being built, circa early 20th century. Snow-capped mountains loom in the distance indicating the creation of an American outpost where the [...]

As part of my work with Architecture & Governance Magazine, I had the opportunity to review a new book: Blown to Bits.  The following conversation will appear in the October issue of A&G.
A&G sat down with the Ken Ledeen and Harry Lewis, the authors (along with IEEE Fellow Hal Abelson) to discuss their new book, [...]

Recently, SciVestor was quoted in a piece on the emergence of Semantic Web technologies in InfoWorld.

With the Semantic Web’s ability to hone in on just the information a user needs, companies based on a Web search advertising model such as Google may have to reconsider their plans, said analyst Jonas Lamis, executive director of SciVestor.
“They [...]

The creation of insects whose flesh grows around computer parts — known from science fiction as cyborgs — has been described as one of the most ambitious robotics projects ever conceived by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research and development arm of the U.S. Department of Defense.
FOXNews.com - Scientist: Military Working on [...]

I’m following the Metaweb thread and came across a great posting from Esther Dyson. Her analysis of folksonomies vs. flexible metamodeling vs. DB design is spot on from my perspective.
Intelligence will emerge from systems when the right metamodel is pared with the right algorithms. Algorithms alone (eg. Google Search) won’t get us there.
The Blog | [...]

The World In 2007 | Towards immortality
From the Economist Magazine…
More and more drugs developed to treat disease are turning out also to offer the potential to “enhance” the cognitive powers of healthy people, and to push human life expectancy much further, perhaps to 115 years and beyond.
and covered on the Accelerating Future blog.

The next 10 years of technology innovation will be unlike anything our world has ever seen. Corporations need to paddle like hell to catch this wave—or they might just be ripped asunder.
Download and read the full article excerpted from the August issue of Architecture and Governance Magazine.