Wednesday, December 28, 2011

The - and + of RFID

People need to see various perspectives on this stuff for the mind to fully register the implications of such gadgets. 
Radio-frequency_identification has many benefits, but it also means that people can be tracked like a bit of livestock.
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Saturday, December 03, 2011

The Global Surveillance Industry...

Things like GPS & RFID certainly have a good side, but the dark side of using data & digital-security can be challenging. https://wikileaks.org/the-spyfiles.html
As the Web grows, personal_privacy is tougher to maintain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks
The TV drama, Person-of-Interest provides a fascinating depiction of a supercomputer that can record & access almost anything.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Get Smart-phone

The days of talking into a phone the size of a shoe or a boot are long gone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe_phone 
The mobile phone use to be as big as a shoe & didn't boot up. It was a basic on & off device & a simple transmitter & receiver. Star Trek gave people in the 1960s an idea of what it could be like to have a personal communication device that's smaller than an apple & orange. A pocket size phone couldn't happen until the technology started to get small enough to allow for the gradual development path into pocket computers. That process took from the 1970s to the early 21st century.

Shoe Phone featured on Get Smart.

The 1960s version of Get Smart never had to worry about boot up speeds because the technology was so slow & bulky. www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/get-smart.htm
Today there are so many kinds of phones & choosing the best one is a matter perspective, objective & how you want to access the net.
Eventually an artificial arm might have a standard bionic phone included.

Jules_Verne was one of the few people to realize the long term potential of Telegraphy & made several interesting predictions about technology. Long before the Internet, newspapers like The Daily_Telegraph, realized that they could transmit & receive information from around the world.

A bionic arm or robotic limb would have to have its own Bluetooth & nano-fiber optic_communication system. In order for bionic limbs & other parts to fully mimic natural limbs, the proper signals need to reach the brain.

So the phone eventually became like a TV & the TV a phone, because of smaller & faster computers.

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The Tablet_PC and the iPad have the potential to become a mobile intercom, but hopefully not shoe size phone.


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Monday, September 19, 2011

Digital Security Technology, etc.

The website, unknowncountry.com has a good post on digital security & mentions Kevin Mitnick.
Cyber_security is essential but electronic-tracking of the public has the potential to get outrageous. Several books & movies have provided warnings of how things could get.
Kevin Mitnick is one of several people that can find there way around computers & the Internet.
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The Concept of The Global Data System goes back quite a ways.
Once a Hypertext_Editing_System was established then there had to be a World_Wide_Web. Eventually the development of locating each web_page became a goal for Larry_Page who became a key component in creating the algorithm for the PageRank. Although Vannevar_Bush didn't have the same level of technology that was available to the founders of Google, he was already realizing the potential for a global library or database that would become The Internet.
http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/2011/10/get-smartphone.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111_Eighth_Avenue,
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/09/14/111-8th-avenue-carrier-hotel-is-for-sale,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111_Eighth_Avenue#Google

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fiber#Future_expansion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Exchange_Point,
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/10/domestic_taps,
http://www.telegeography.com/telecom-maps/global-traffic-map

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Modular_Data_Center,
http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/en/it-services/it-facilities-assessment-design-and-construction-services-portable-modular-data-center.html

http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography/atlas/more_isp_maps.html


http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/2008/04/att_first_service_provider
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Saturday, September 10, 2011

From the (Crimson) Sky Down and into the U2 MATRIX

Before people got to see the first MATRIX movie in 1999, U2 transitioned into their cyberpunk ZOO TV entertainment phase. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-09-12-tm-34172-story.html , 
"the tour began in Lakeland, Florida, on 29 February 1992 and ended in Tokyo, Japan, on 10 December 1993." 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_TV_Tour 
From_the_Sky_Down : //www.u2.com/news/title/from-the-sky-down ,
http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2011/09/09/u2-from-the-sky-down-trailer-showtime ,

We’re free to fly the crimson sky...

"And I have no compass and I have no map" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooropa_(song)  


William Gibson has had some key influence for U2 over the years.
Thus, its not surprising that there was some collaboration.


William_Gibson was born on March 17, 1948. Is it that surprising that a famous band from Ireland would eventually cross paths with him? http://people.loyno.edu/~hobbs/bib/wgibson.htm

U2 ZOO TV Tour

ZOO TV 1st leg: North America

: Lakeland Arena - Lakeland, Florida, USA


There happens to be a Lake_Gibson in Lakeland,_Florida. 
https://upload.wikimedia.org/Lakeland_FLA_lake_Mirror , 

Of course 1992-2-29 was a leap-year and that was perfect for U2 to symbolically venture down The_Rabbit hole.

"U2 started the Zoo Tv Tour on February 29, 1992 with a sold out concert with a total of 7,400 people."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP_Funding_Center There is a W. Lemon Street near by.

Zoo TV Live from Sydney 1993-11-27

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_TV:_Live_from_Sydney

There is a lot of synchronicity between, W.Gibson, U2 and The_Matrix, that should be revealed.




It's all about exploring, The Nature Of Reality. (TNOR) 
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Monday, September 05, 2011

The Recreation Room & Games Room





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Monday, August 15, 2011

Electronic Tracking Chips and Tattoos, etc.

Its good to see that spychips.com is still online to provide valuable information from a different perspective.
http://www.spychips.com/media/liz-mcintyre.html

Digital tracking and data-mining are a big business.
Katherine Albrecht & Roger Tolces offer some interesting perspectives on technology & its potential for abuse.
Lauren Weinstein is quite an expert consultant on security & privacy.

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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Digital Memory Crystals & Robert Vamosi

www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/Supermans-memory-crystals-may-become-reality-in-computers.html,
Eventually once computers are fast enough, total immersion VR worlds could be created. Perhaps even an entire universe when enough data storage is available. A simulation of a city, world or galaxy. Some people already liken the universe as being like a vast OS.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

A Logic Named Joe (1946)

A_Logic Named_Joe provides a fascinating glimpse into an automated_online_assistant or personal A.I. program.
See the transcript at baen.com & bestsciencefictionstories.com for another perspective on the story. Some more interesting observations at markbernstein.org & sfsite.com .

 From As_We_May_Think to Machines_That_Think
Hypertext on a Smart TV is a commonplace feature & eventually most machines will be somewhere in between Siri & HAL.

A Smart-TV, along with a tablet computer & smartphone might be considered as an inanimate form of A.I. Of course laptops & phones are designed to be portable devices, but don't travel under their own power. Animated A.I. is basically self propelled robotics & the movie A.I. provides a glimpse of various possible robots. There is even one A.I. bot called, Joe.

 https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=A.I.
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Saturday, January 15, 2011

FB, Big Data, Tracking and Entertainment...

When you have a lot of money to invest sometimes you just have to invest in metadata. 

The Facebook_effect continues to grow in popularity and so much more data continues to be tracked and stored. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Accidental_Billionaires , 
You start out in a rock band in your teens & a few decades later the big money just keeps piling up. That's what has happened to a few of the world's most popular and successful bands like U2. 

Since the early 1990s, U2 has always been big on technology, as well as good showmanship.

U2 in Montreal.
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