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Beijing issues rules to make the country more like North Korea.
This week, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released regulations, dated Dec. 15, requiring the registration of all Web sites.
MIIT’s justification was the need to eliminate sexual content. As a Ministry spokesman stated, “This is about mobile pornography, it’s not referring to any other issue.”
Read more at www.forbes.com
2010 preview: Genome sequencing for all
Fancy having your genome sequenced? It’s becoming affordable, and 2010 will see the launch of a wave of genetic discovery that could turn it into a purchase worth making.
Read more at www.newscientist.com
“the future is now”
The 5 Most Likely Ways Humans Will Become Obsolete
And according to a growing number of science fiction authors and, more importantly, a few actual scientists, that bad habit may catch up with us, and soon. That moment–when technology renders humans obsolete–even has a name.
It’s called the Technological Singularity, and it’s basically the point at which our toys start to consider us toys, and life as we know it starts losing its shit. Here are a few of the ways it could feasibly shake out.
Via @Wildcat2030
This hypertext book explores the psychological aspects of environments created by computers and online networks. It presents an evolving conceptual framework for understanding how people react to and behave within cyberspace: what I call “the psychology of cyberspace” - or simply “cyberpsychology.” Continually being revised and expanded, this hypertext book originally was created in January of 1996. See the article index which indicates the articles most recently added and revised. Read more at www-usr.rider.edu
<3 Japan!
Lalapipo - A Lot of People
Design Firm Shows Gadgets From the Near Future
Cube Radio (above)
Implantable Antenna
Connected Patient
“Several theories have been developed to explain the mysteriously recurring presence of this man in the dreams of different people who are not related in any way. The following theories are the ones that elicit the greatest interest among the dreamers themselves.“
