Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Technological life getting biological implants? I like this one even better.  So what we seem to be doing is planning for the future, when technological life has taken over.  In this future, entities that have come from the technologic substrate will be able to have biological implants! Ok ... all kidding aside ... this is till pretty cool stuff.  We're making huge advances in the merging of biological and technological life! Scientists Couple Nerve Tissues With Computer Chip. [Slashdot] [tags: singularity implants biological technological cyborgs] 3:07:42 PM      RNA Interference I first heard about RNA Interference a few years back ... caught this article today - here is the full text - that talks more indepth about the tools and techniques.  This is amazing stuff ... I have read a few papers about the possibilities and they are endless.  The first article that I saw was about a possible gene therapy using RNA interference to possibly change your eye color! Now we are talking about modern body/identity modifications! Sharpening the tools of RNA interference. Nature May 23 2006 8:13PM GMT [Moreover Technologies - Genetics news] [tags: genes rnainterference rna rna interference genetherapy] 12:54:16 PM      RFID Implants ... do it yourself? When I read this article I immediately began to think about all of the science fiction movies where the various characters are always trying to REMOVE tracking devices from themselves.  I can remember the image of Arnold pulling the giant round tracking module from his nasal cavity in Total Recall. This article, however, is about a growing number of people who are now inserting RFID tags into themselves!  Well ... in some cases they are having doctors do it ... but the one web page referenced includes the list of items to do it at home! Of course this links me back to Pete Ashdown's comments last night about integrity ... we spoke about this breifly after the Utah Bloggers conference had ended.  It's cool to see people who are ok with being tracked ... and aren't afraid of anything that might be gathered about them.  They are ok with where they go, and what they do. I'm going to keep thinking about this one.  I have been thinking that with the younger generations adopting lifestyles where 'body modification' is becoming the norm, they will be more and more open to technological implants.  If you are willing to get tattoos, and have piercings, then when might you go for subdermal animated LED impants, or RFID tags? Social Consequences and Effects of RFID Implants?. [Slashdot] [tags: future singularity implants rfid bodymodification identity scottclemon] 11:25:15 AM      Visualizing Communities I always like a good visualization of Internet activity.  Especially when it relates to social and human interaction.  I like this paper ... some nice ideas in here. Visualizing Bidder Activity In Online Auctions [Nooface] [tags: visual visualization babble IBM socialnetworks] 10:04:34 AM

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