Saturday, December 18, 2010

Tron: 1982 and 2010 Legacy, etc.

TRON: Legacy 3D-Blu-ray , http://tron-legacy.movie-trailer.com , http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1339119/The-real-Tron-Lightcycle-hit-120mph-costs-55-000.html , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TRON_Legacy_Light_Cycle.JPG , http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3822028288/tt1104001 , http://tron-legacy.movie-trailer.com/2009/07/tron-2-lightcycle.html - Tron:_Legacy#Development & Tron:_Evolution#Plot
File:Tron poster.jpg
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In the TRON movies, the consciousness of the protagonist is transferred or downloaded into a digital body. In Avatar, a genetically engineered body is grown for the user to temporarily link to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3
Eventually a person will be able to link to their digital avatar and enter something like SimCity for an hour or so. If you are in the game for a day or 2, you might get thirsty & hungry & certainly will have to go to the bathroom. A lot of people can regularly sleep for 7-9 hours & not have to go to the bathroom. So there could be a form of digital dreaming. The movie, Vanilla_Sky depicts a very advanced version of a digital dream program, where elements of the real world are integrated into the experience program.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory#Many-player_and_population_games ,
http://www.gametheory.nethttp://oyc.yale.edu/economics/econ-159

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation#Computer_science ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_simulation#Types ,
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/whatis.htm

http://www.realitysandwich.com/what_are_akashic_records ,
The concept of the akashic_records has been around since ancient times.
http://www.crystalinks.com/akashicrecords.html,
http://www.edgarcayce.org/are/spiritualGrowth.aspx?id=2078
TUS is a fascinating book & website that explores the nature of reality.
http://www.theuniversesolved.com , http://urlm.co/www.theuniversesolved.com 

People will continue to gather & store as much data as possible, on everyone & everything within reach.
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/12/03/wsj-google-has-bought-111-8th-avenue

The Earth Simulator will eventually become a super-program matrix. http://www.top500.org/system/167148
The various religions & belief systems of the world already imply that this world & universe is some kind of an interactive construct of space & time.
http://www.futurict.eu/the-project

A global resource & population management system might eventually become general public knowledge.
http://www.breathingearth.net
For now, most people remain unaware of such a global control program. At a certain point someone or something might determine that there are too many people on a limited planet. An advanced A.I. system might eventually see humanity as a herd that needs to be reduced or eliminated. The Matrix provides depictions of runaway A.I. technology.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/seo/the-matrix-4-and-the-matrix-5-are-on-the-way

Bill_Joy wrote a cautionary article in the year 2000 about the possibility of runaway A.I.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_Future_Doesn't_Need_Us ,
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/21/terminator-judgement-day-cameron

616 & 666, etc. can be a common theme in various Sci-Fi stories. However for some, this isn't just Sci-Fi entertainment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_beast#616
1,911-6-16 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM#History
 6-16-1977 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation#Overall_timeline

The cover of this book shows, 666/66/666 from a company that started up on 6-16 in the year 1,911. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Tools & technology have been used throughout history to capture & kill people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust#Company_response
Obviously, most people hope that nothing on the scale of WW2 ever happens again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II#Germany

As technology progresses, digital transactions to buy & sell things becomes more commonplace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Payments#Competition
People are already tracked in so many ways.
http://www.av1611.org/666/whatis.htmlhttp://biblehub.com/revelation/13-17.htm

http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Revelation-13-17
Its important that people study various religions & philosophies to gain a wider perspective of things.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/world.htm
Many people are atheist or agnostic, but still might be curious about various patterns that supercomputers can reveal about symbolism, coincidence & synchronicity. Especially if this world might be part of an interactive cosmic recording and projection of space-time.

Unless A.I. has specific instructions not to harm humans, there could be trouble. If A.I. can't understand why its OK to kill some people, but not others, it might not see any reason for people to exist in general.
http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.ca/2011/03/logic-named-joe.html

Battlestar_Galactica is another cautionary story about intelligent machines that no longer seeing any value in the existence of humans. Thus, the A.I. units eventually want to destroy most people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Rider_(1982_TV_series)#Plot
People die in car crashes all the time, perhaps some day with A.I., there might be less crashes. Technology has always been a double sided issue.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=A.I.

Friday, October 01, 2010

The Face Behind The Social Network

http://gizmodo.com/5530178/top-ten-reasons-you-should-quit-facebook

Do you have a Facebook? It has been quite a convenient tool for so many, but on line privacy & Facebook just might not be possible. Social_networking sites require a lot of personal and general data by design. So its up to the individual user to try to determine how much of their personal data they wish to have on line. Its always good to read the fine print about anything.

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Before and after the Inception of Bing

"The first public beta of Windows Live Search was unveiled on March 8, 2006, with the final release on September 11, 2006 replacing MSN Search."
- "REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 11, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the release from beta of Live Search and of Live.com in 47 markets worldwide, and final availability of Live Local Search in the U.K. and the U.S. Microsoft also announced that Live Search will now power the Web search capability on MSN®, the company’s media and entertainment portal, attracting more than 465 million unique users worldwide per month."
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Friday, July 30, 2010

The Christopher Nolan Method

The Inception_(film)#Plot & Screenplay.
Project X was released in 1968 with a cryogenic preservation element decades before Vanilla_Sky. Project X might have possibly served as part of the inspiration for INCEPTION. http://www.aycyas.com/liz_px.htm
{"Hagen Arnold (Christopher George) is an American spy in the year 2118. The geopolitical climate of Earth has changed significantly over the years with Sino-Asia (China) being the only other superpower and enemy of the United States. Overpopulation is a looming issue. Arnold is able to send a message to his handlers in the U. S. stating that "The West will be destroyed in fourteen days." He then takes an anti-torture drug that renders him an amnesiac.

Hagen is safely brought back to the USA and placed in cryogenic preservation until the government can devise a way to get the information out of him. With the key to discovering the secret weapon the Sino-Asians were working on locked inside his mind the American scientists resort to using a holographic memory reading device that can see inside his mind while he is asleep. The scientists also create an elaborate historical reenactment of the 60's as a means to create a role playing mechanism that may coax the information to the surface of the unsuspecting Arnold. To keep his suspicions down in the 60's mock-up, they also create a 60's personality matrix to implant in his mind. He is lead to believe he is a criminal hiding out at a farmhouse and cannot leave lest he be arrested.

As the days tick down until the East destroys the West Hagen comes into contact with a futuristic factory worker named Karen Sommers (Gretta Baldwin) who causes slight anachronistic errors with the 60's facade. An unseen sniper scares her off, leaving Hagen suspicious but none the wiser about the facade he is experiencing. The government finds and detains Karen but tension mounts as not only has Hagen not divulged the secret they need but another agent, the unseen sniper, a man known as Gregory Gallea (Monte Markham), enters the scene in an attempt to coax the memories out of Hagen. His intention is to obtain the prized info so he can doublecross the US government. Gallea has been gone for two years and presumed dead, apparently killed in action while keeping tabs on Sino-Asia. It was he who helped Hagen escape Sino-Asia.

The memory viewing and holographic machinery unleashes a mental power in Hagen. The mental power creates an energy field that kills Gallea in a spectacular display of light and fury. His death however becomes the key the scientist were looking for. They extract Gallea's brain, and, while keeping it alive in a nutrient tank, perform the same brain reading exercise on it as they did with Hagen. Gallea's memories show how the Sino-Asians plan on destroying the West. Gallea injected Hagen Arnold with a myriad of medieval diseases which will, in fourteen days, make him a living plague bomb capable of spreading the diseases throughout the US, thus effectively destroying it from within. The lead scientist, Crowther, recalls that Arnold was in cryosuspension most of the fourteen day period so there is still time to immunize him and save the West. They do so while he is unconscious and then implant a third identity into him, one in which he is living in the future, and happily married to the beautiful Karen Sommers.

Arnold wakes up in a bright and happy new future, a married man who will be allowed by the state government to have two children with his new wife."}
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_X_(1968_film)#Story

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

The Data Center Monolith

The Monolith was A.C.C.'s depiction of a hybrid-mainframe-topological-quantum-supercomputer-server. Whether in the year 2001 or 2011 such quantum machines still only exist at the theoretical concept level, as does time travel.

The old IBM tower is located next to the Marinacity complex.
( Reference photo from, stevendahlman.com )
http://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/95899186/Hulton-Archive?language=en-US&location=CAN
The former IBM Building at 330_North_Wabash, Chicago was designed to look like a 700 foot tall monolith computer.
"For the time it was built the IBM Building housed an extraordinarily large number of computers, which required an advanced level of environmental engineering. The walls were sealed by a plastic thermal barrier, and a reverse refrigeration system was used to reclaim heat given off by machines and people." http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=building&lng=3&id=ibmbuilding-chicago-il-usa
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So far the iP5 isn't quite shaped like a pocket monolith computer phone, but the iP5 has a lot of interesting features & potential. The Android phones don't seem to offer a monolith version either. Perhaps because its better to have rounded corners, but some people still might like to have a monolith phone. However, that option may have to wait quite a while until you can carry a room temperature quantum computer in your pocket.

Saturday, July 03, 2010

The MATRIX of VR, Disc and Holographic Data Storage...

http://fusionanomaly.net/matrix.html
Earth's location/ in the galaxy-zoo. + http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080210.html

Zoo_TV DVD Hybrid_drive
Bono_as_The_Fly_Cleveland_1992. Neo in 1999. Watch more ZOO TV.   http://www.thematrix101.com/matrix , http://fusionanomaly.net/virtualreality.html
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What is reality & how is all this cosmic information stored?
There could be many-worlds & levels within the Cosmos. VR technology has a long way to go until it attains what's depicted in some movies. Of course the universe might actually be a super advanced cosmic VR program. See: Michael_Talbot_(author)#The_Holographic_Universe &
http://www.theuniversesolved.com
Indeed, Jim Elvidge has quite a unique book & web site that provides compelling data about reality.
http://www.theuniversesolved.com/news.htm

Hopefully, many more people will start to ponder the notion of a Cosmic Operating System, figuratively or literally.
Detailed simulations of the Earth, this galaxy & even vast parts of the known universe can be constructed. Its just a matter of how much accurate data can be entered into a Sim program. Obviously, the closer to earth the more accurate such simulations can be.

Eventually these simulations could become very realistic & cause many more people to wonder if they are already in simulation created by someone else?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS88G5WBcfQ&feature=related ,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVsHjnY-o9s&feature=related
Indeed, most religions imply that a creator or force has already constructed the universe. Such an immensity of data would have to be organized like cosmic computer programs in the sky. The concept of Akashic_records has been around thousands of years before the development of Virtual Reality & the avatar-machine. Holographic-environments exist in a way & in a way they don't, its a quantum sort of thing.

Ashoka_Chakra ,
http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/bud_wheel.htm


In ancient times, it would be difficult for most people to grasp the concept of a crystal ball. 3D images in a sphere or ovals are depicted on this disc of lives from the 1200s. These life experiences are part of the wheel of Karma concept. It could also be seen as an ancient depiction of a cosmic hard drive. Reincarnation#Buddhism & the big interactive recording of space & time.
http://www.harekrsna.com/philosophy/truth/karma.htm ,
http://www.buddhanet.net/wheel2.htm
This ancient wheel is depicting a video-disk. Its full of bubble images of various life experiences.
Douglas Trumbull would later expand on this image bubble concept in the movie, Brainstorm.
The Multiverse Disc Theory is just the modern version of the wheel of time & space concept.

Hard_disk_drive#Capacity_measurements
Today when most people see a hard drive or DVD, they know that sounds & images can be stored on them. Hard_disk_drive#Integrity Single-molecule_magnet#Future_applications ,
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Metaphor: Suppose a galaxy is essentially like a giant holographic_disc of space-time & other forms of data. There is shape & form that's like a pattern & program, so then what if the universe or cosmos is like a vast hard drive?
Then several of these HDs could be part of a multiverse. The wheel of karma is an ancient concept & eventually VR programs could simulate vast parts of the known universe. What's astounding is that several people since ancient times believe that a creator has started everything in the cosmos. So, if that's the case, then the whole thing is running like an immense & intricate cosmic program. Several scientists already have arrived at this conclusion. They just view nature & the cosmos as a running program without a creator. Whether by chance or created design, the universe is running like a well organized system.
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The oval & the spiral are found throughout nature & space.
Some how since ancient times, humans have associated the shape of the wheel or disc as being connected to transportation & information.
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Since ancient times, several people had the idea that the earth & universe are in a created field of consciousness & data. Eventually sophisticated VR life experience worlds will be created.
So, various ancient writings & legends imply that we are already in some kind of cosmic running program.
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Dimensions: The Dimensional Ecology of the Multi-verse by, Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd


Is The Holographic Universe just another wild theory or concept?
Are people like lab mice in someone's game of life and death?


Tuesday, June 08, 2010

i-LIMB Touch Bionics...

Bionic hand that uses wireless technology unveiled.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1273258/i-Limb-Pulse-Bionic-hand-uses-wireless-technology-unveiled.html ,
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/touch-bionics-i-limb-pulse-the-bluetooth-bionic-hand-makes-you ,
http://www.roboticstrends.com/service_robotics/entry/i_limb_hand_wins_prosthetic_product_innovation_award ,
http://news.cnet.com/2300-11393_3-6197171.html ,
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20004178-1.html

Bionic Eye
http://www.gizmag.com/australian-bionic-eye-prototype-blind-vision/14680 ,
http://gizmodo.com/5403310/intelligent-learning-retinal-implants-to-adapt-to-real-eyes ,
http://www.gizmag.com/synthetic-cornea-could-offer-hope-to-thousands/15188

Eventually, LIVINGSKIN research can lead to the development of a synthetic life LIMB. For now, its about having strong & sensitive bionics.
http://gizmodo.com/281107/i+limb-hand-every-sci+fi-movie-made-real

http://www.touchbionics.com/corporate/timeline ,
http://medgadget.com/archives/2007/07/worlds_first_bionic_hand_makes_it_to_market.html
http://www.touchbionics.com/ news

http://www.touchbionics.com/patient-stories ,
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2436025525114814918#
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http://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/robotsuithal/move.html ,
http://www.hackingtheuniverse.com/singularity/robotics/exoskeleton

http://amal.net/?tag=technology ,
http://thefutureofthings.com/category/ai-robotics ,
http://thefutureofthings.com/category/technology-2/nano-tech

Saturday, June 05, 2010

Holography and Reality...

Past & future development of Holography

http://www.nobel-winners.com/Physics/dennis_gabor.html ,
Holographic_recording_media ,
Holographic_memory#Recording_data ,
Holographic_principle#Unexpected_connection ,
http://fusionanomaly.net/holograms.html

The_Doctor is a holographic depiction of an ai character of various possible hologram entities.
If a physical robot has its own OS to function in the real world, then a holographic robot would also require an OS.
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/characters/VOY/bio/1112409.html
Nanotechnology could enable a holographic robot (program) to physically materialize. Legends and myths talk about forces & beings from other realms that occasionally can physically interact in this world.
The Entity can be an intelligent force or being with a positive or negative objective. Event_Horizon is about a negative entity that has been able to cross over into this universe.

How many realities can there be?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZj9Qps8H6M&feature=related

David Bohm & the Holographic_Paradigm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/h/holographic_principle.htm

The_Holographic_Universe ,
http://fusionanomaly.net/holographicuniverse.html ,
http://quanta-gaia.org/reviews/books/holoUniverse.html

Michael_Talbot:  
The Universe as a Hologram
http://newdimensions.org/program.php?id=2256

SYNCHRONICITY AND THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE
http://www.thinkingallowed.com/2mtalbot.html

An example of coincidence.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1280658/What-chances-Son-father-grandfather-born-day.html
However, when its viewed in a larger context, a synchronicity can be perceived.
http://fusionanomaly.net/perceptions.html

Gregg Braden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXBnrLPVTVY
Mysteries of the Sacred Universe
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4232897377629019446#docid=-538297875584368796
The holographic universe - Beyond matter
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4232897377629019446#

http://fusionanomaly.net/metaphysics.html
Of course, Adventures in Wonderland, The Wizard of OZ & The MATRIX are symbolic stories about tapping into other dimensions, realms or some other reality.
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http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/2010/05/50-years-of-lasers.html
The Ancient Crystal Ball Concept
http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/2010/03/blog-post_690.html


Synchronicity and TNOR

Saturday, May 15, 2010

50 Years Of Lasers

Lasers have come a long way since the earliest focused light beams were created.
http://www.insidescience.org/current_affairs/50_years_of_lasers
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/the-laser-turns-50

Friday, May 14, 2010

GORT and the nano-spiders...

Did some people in ancient times see something like a GORT? Similar ancient drawings have been seen in ancient art.
"Genetically Organized Robotic Technology"
Meet the nano-spiders:
The DNA robots that could one day be walking through your body.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1278133/Meet-nano-spiders-The-DNA-robots-day-walking-body.html ,
http://www.theuniversesolved.com/theuniversesolved/blog/post/2008/03/And-I-thought-Nanobots-Were-Way-off-in-the-Future.aspx

Eventually some A.I. machines could become a combination of synthetic genomic animation & DNA.
Synthetic Biochemical Life 
Monkey Brain controls robot arm, hand
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20006862-1.html?tag=mncol
Eventually a synthetic artificial_limb could be developed. While it would be nice to have the technology to grow a new limb, replacing lost limbs with synthetic living material may happen first.
More reference links about, Prehistoric UFO and ET images found in remote cave in India. http://www.archaeologydaily.com/news/201002173333/Prehistoric-UFO-and-ET-images-found-in-remote-cave-in-India.html ,
http://veritasshow.blogspot.com/2009/07/ufo-historical-sightings-45000-bc-9-bc.html
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{Jack_E._Steele-"his main focus was on bionics, a term he coined in 1958. The term was officially used in 1960 as the title of a three-day symposium in September of that year.

His work on bionics, and the USAF research on cyborgs, caught the attention of SF writer and aviation expert Martin Caidin, whose 1972 book Cyborg makes explicit reference to then-Major Jack Steele. The book formed the basis of the TV series The_Six_Million_Dollar_Man (and spinoff The Bionic Woman), which popularized, if somewhat inaccurately, the term bionics. (Dr Steele's original meaning was the study of biological organisms to find solutions to engineering problems, a field now also known as biomimetics.)  also see http://amal.net/?tag=biometrics

After retiring from the Air_Force, Dr. Steele continued to practice medicine with a focus on psychiatry, and served as Medical Director of the Comprehensive Drug Dependency Treatment Program at the Dayton Mental Health Center, where he worked for 20 years until retirement. Dr. Steele died in Dayton, Ohio on 19 January 2009 after a protracted illness."} http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_E._Steele
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Nanotechnology
http://thefutureofthings.com/category/technology-2/nano-tech ,
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Nanotechnology ,
http://amal.net/?tag=technology


Monday, May 10, 2010

Blade Runner Sky Cars, etc.

Albert Robida:Futuristic_Trilogy
The_Circles_of_Power, The_Fifth_Element & Blade Runner all provide excellent visuals of how sky cars could interact with GPS navigation & virtual buffers.

The Blade Runner Spinner car:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3320748288/tt0083658 ,
Such a cars would not only have an integrated computer, but in some cases, its own chauffeur Data unit. But don't expect to see anyone like Brent Spiner in a Spinner just yet. Part of the mythology of the Greys involves a similar concept. Some are bio-mechanical beings that are a part of the ship.
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Blade+Runner like The+Terminator movies, provided a fine example of robots being camouflaged as humans.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Minority Report crime prediction software

Florida has adopted forecasting software, produced by IBM, to target high-risk youths. Is this the beginning of a "Minority Report" future? http://theweek.com/article/index/202036/Floridas_Minority_Report_crime_prediction_software - Precrime Analytical Wing http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=690 http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/09/precrime-detector-is-showing-p.html - 'Precrime' Database For London Homicide Prevention Unit {London pilots "future crime" database By Jacqui Cheng Last updated November 28, 2006 If heavy surveillance isn't doing much to prevent crime in the UK now, how will adding even more surveillance prevent uncommon murders such as those by serial killers? The database for predicting future crime incidents comes off as a flashy and intrusive solution that might only shave a small number off of the total homicides in a year—assuming that it even works.} http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2006/11/8299.ars http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=843 http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/software-predicts-criminal-behavior/story?id=11448231

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Terence McKenna's Last Trip

{The "altered statesman" emerged from Leary's long shadow to push a magical blend of psychedelics, technology, and revelatory rap. He had less time than he knew.}
By Erik Davis
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.05/mckenna.html

TM was quite the metaphysical adventurer.
http://fusionanomaly.net/terencemckenna.html

http://desertshapes.blogspot.com/2010/04/terence-mckenna.html

The lost fourth-generation iPhone prototype

The iPhone is one super-cool device & until the latest version is released, its features remain top secret. Whether its Jobs & Wozniak or any other business, its always in their best interest to protect their products. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20002892-37.html How-apple-lost-the-next-iphone http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20003021-261.html http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/a-next-generation-iphone-prototype-spotted-in-the-wild-20091130/ http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/704013/new-iphone-model-revealed-prototype-found-lost-in-a--bar.html In 2009 one worker paid the ultimate price for loosing an iPhone_Prototype. - There is tremendous pressure from the initial design to the physical prototype to marketing. http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/2010/04/momentum-to-build-ipad.html


Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Iron Mountain

The TOP Secret Government Facility
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aou6c2MOmg
http://www.ironmountain.com/digital/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettmann_Archive
http://www.ironmountain.com/company/tours.html
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/2009/snapshots/10987.html
http://www.wilhelm-research.com/nppa/NPPA_Corbis_Preservation.pdf
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/072408-iron-mountain-clancy-qna.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbis

The Crystal Ball

Since ancient times, some people have described or wrote about the concept of a crystal ball or sphere that could show 3D images. These images could be of things & events at various points in time.
http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Crystal_ball Quantum Bloch_sphere Terminology
Long before most humans could ever imagine the science required to develop TV & 3D imaging systems & Quantum computing, there was the concept of the crystal ball & the talking magic mirror.
Eventually inventors & technicians were able to create such things with modern technology.
The Oracle is an ancient concept but it has continued into modern times. The work of John_von_Neumann was an integral part of the ORACLE (computer) project at the Oak_Ridge_National_Laboratory.
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By the mid 1950s, Philip_K._Dick had realized that special future computers & certain precognition people could tap into various timelines. So in a way, even in ancient times, some people had the idea that holograms could be seen in things like crystalballs. An advanced quantum-computer might be able to tap into specific points & places in time & space. http://www.theuniversesolved.com/theuniversesolved/blog/post/2009/05/Non-locality-Explained!.aspx
So whether its a crystal ball (spherical TV) or a talking magic mirror, flat screen TV or tablet PC, its modern technology that's based on ancient ideas in the mind.
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But if too many people start to metaphorically perceive the universe as a vast interactive recording, there would be a lot more people questioning reality.