MarketNeutral
10th April 2010, 09:50 PM
The internet initially began as a researching tool and a networking test bed. The internet has evolved over the years and with the click of a button you can find information on nearly any subject that strikes your fancy. The internet of today is a networking tool more than anything else. The rise of social networking websites allows netizens to use these networks like a virtual diary and discuss every sordid detail of their lives with ease. The internet of tomorrow is being constructed today and I believe you should be informed as you have invested much time and energy into it.
“Computers have reached the point in which continuous, verbatim recording of an individual's life experiences is technologically feasible. The challenge now is turning vast repositories of such recordings into a useful resource while respecting the social, legal, and ethical ramifications of ubiquitous recording. We have built a "memory prosthesis" that can be used to amass such data for the purpose of helping people with common, everyday memory problems.†–Sunil Vemuri
There have been many public technological advances that have allowing people who have lost limbs in wars to walk again. Contact lenses with special circuitry are being tested at this moment that will eventually allow the blind to see for the first time. There was once particular undertaking where a monkey remotely moved a pair of robotic arms and now they are using monkey’s brains to pilot Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Technology is rapidly advancing far beyond the days of ‘Operation Acoustic Kitty’. An improvement on the internet is now on the chalk board and they will attempt improve you and I along with it.
“If the idea of turning consumers into true cyborgs sounds creepy, don't tell Intel researchers. Intel's Pittsburgh lab aims to develop brain implants that can control all sorts of gadgets directly via brain waves by 2020…There are still more implications to creating a seamless brain interface, besides having more cyborgs running around. If scientists can translate brain waves into specific actions, there's no reason they could not create a virtual world with a full spectrum of activity tied to those brain waves. That's right -- we're seeing Matrix creep.†–Intel Wants Brain Implants in Its Customers' Heads by 2020
Today it is nothing to convert our neural signal wirelessly into a machine readable format, then transmit said signal into a wheelchair or computer. These products are already on the market but that was just the tip of the iceberg. Companies like Intel, Microsoft and Google are feverishly pumping money into this budding market for dominance over your mind. Scientists a few years ago considered it impossible to record good neural data off the scalp using EEG or electroencephalography outside the brain. Marketing ad agencies are getting into the fray and investing in the technology to get real-time data on how television or radio ads affect the user. Electrode covered caps were need at first and now this is becoming unnecessary. You will be wirelessly sharing data with friends without any devices other than your noggin in no time. Who needs a text diary like Twitter when Microsoft’s MyLifeBits can use your brain like a TiVo and you can share your epic failures with friends on demand.
“As this threshold of development is crossed, as an index of our human / internet symbiosis becoming more pronounced, and irreversable, we begin to develop communication modalities which are quite "non-human" by nature, but are "socio-operative" norms of the near future.†–Charles Ostman
“The Internet represents a major step in our evolution, and is a forerunner of things to come. Artificial intelligence researcher Francis Heylighen sees huge growth as this new world-wide communication system continues to gain power from billions of humans adding to its intelligence every day. “It will get smarter,†Heylighen says, “as it morphs into a global super-organism that could one day provide solutions to most of humanity’s problems.†Experts compare the Internet to a planet growing a global brain. As users, we represent the neurons. Texting, emails, and IM act as nerve endings, and electromagnetic waves through the sky become neural pathways. Like germinating seeds, this global brain continues to evolve and as some forward-thinkers believe, will not stop until it develops feelings and achieves consciousness.†–Global Brain - The Internet could become conscious by mid-2030s
We have begun the merge with the Internet for some time. Thomas P.M. Barnett thinks Wikipedia has more central intelligence than the CIA. For most people their entire lives are on the internet and those who are doing the research and development think that we should completely integrate and share all of our information with the Internet. We will have access to each other, body and soul. We would be a far larger repository of data than the former Library of Alexandria in Egypt ever could have been. If this convergence takes place what happens to our individuality? Will we still have our own hopes and dreams or will we merely become external data drives for someone else’s benefit?
“The human eye is a perceptual powerhouse. It can see millions of colors, adjust easily to shifting light conditions, and transmit information to the brain at a rate exceeding that of a high-speed Internet connection. But why stop there? In the Terminator movies, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character sees the world with data superimposed on his visual field—virtual captions that enhance the cyborg’s scan of a scene. In stories by the science fiction author Vernor Vinge, characters rely on electronic contact lenses, rather than smartphones or brain implants, for seamless access to information that appears right before their eyes.
Conventional contact lenses are polymers formed in specific shapes to correct faulty vision. To turn such a lens into a functional system, we integrate control circuits, communication circuits, and miniature antennas into the lens using custom-built optoelectronic components. Those components will eventually include hundreds of LEDs, which will form images in front of the eye, such as words, charts, and photographs. Much of the hardware is semitransparent so that wearers can navigate their surroundings without crashing into them or becoming disoriented. In all likelihood, a separate, portable device will relay displayable information to the lens’s control circuit, which will operate the optoelectronics in the lens.†–Augmented Reality in a Contact Lense
Augmented Reality is another very important step in the integration process. You have to be able to see the data that you are accessing in a manner that is easy for you to digest. Augmented Reality puts external data in layers on top of your normal perception. If you don’t remember some loser who walks up to you on
the street you can instantly pull up his data via biometric Google images or recall previous interactions with this person and access your own data.
The augmented data will float in front of your eyes giving you his birthday, and other necessary data at your fingertips. This year at many tech conventions augmented reality contact lenses, glasses and even windshield wipers were on display. Three dimensional televisions are now on the market which will aid the internet convergence. The youth will be the first to jump headlong into this new system and they will be inundated with television advertising this new tech. Children will drag their parents into this new system and along with it your privacy and identity will be erased. On the internet there is no person there is only your avatar or your login. Just imagine the capabilities that will be used by governments and their military as their populace has been reduced to statistics and raw data.
Privacy is an illusion today; tomorrow it will be only a memory.
The internet has been transformed into a data mining experiment but we still use it because it benefits us. Technology is beautiful when it enhances our lives and we can shape it any way we please. In the last few years there have been plans for internet policing to be put in place and it was just assumed that the internet would become a global integrated organism in the minds of many futurists. The internet is now the drug of choice and they want to increase the dose.
http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/04/09/merging-man-and-machine-we-are-the-internet
“Computers have reached the point in which continuous, verbatim recording of an individual's life experiences is technologically feasible. The challenge now is turning vast repositories of such recordings into a useful resource while respecting the social, legal, and ethical ramifications of ubiquitous recording. We have built a "memory prosthesis" that can be used to amass such data for the purpose of helping people with common, everyday memory problems.†–Sunil Vemuri
There have been many public technological advances that have allowing people who have lost limbs in wars to walk again. Contact lenses with special circuitry are being tested at this moment that will eventually allow the blind to see for the first time. There was once particular undertaking where a monkey remotely moved a pair of robotic arms and now they are using monkey’s brains to pilot Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Technology is rapidly advancing far beyond the days of ‘Operation Acoustic Kitty’. An improvement on the internet is now on the chalk board and they will attempt improve you and I along with it.
“If the idea of turning consumers into true cyborgs sounds creepy, don't tell Intel researchers. Intel's Pittsburgh lab aims to develop brain implants that can control all sorts of gadgets directly via brain waves by 2020…There are still more implications to creating a seamless brain interface, besides having more cyborgs running around. If scientists can translate brain waves into specific actions, there's no reason they could not create a virtual world with a full spectrum of activity tied to those brain waves. That's right -- we're seeing Matrix creep.†–Intel Wants Brain Implants in Its Customers' Heads by 2020
Today it is nothing to convert our neural signal wirelessly into a machine readable format, then transmit said signal into a wheelchair or computer. These products are already on the market but that was just the tip of the iceberg. Companies like Intel, Microsoft and Google are feverishly pumping money into this budding market for dominance over your mind. Scientists a few years ago considered it impossible to record good neural data off the scalp using EEG or electroencephalography outside the brain. Marketing ad agencies are getting into the fray and investing in the technology to get real-time data on how television or radio ads affect the user. Electrode covered caps were need at first and now this is becoming unnecessary. You will be wirelessly sharing data with friends without any devices other than your noggin in no time. Who needs a text diary like Twitter when Microsoft’s MyLifeBits can use your brain like a TiVo and you can share your epic failures with friends on demand.
“As this threshold of development is crossed, as an index of our human / internet symbiosis becoming more pronounced, and irreversable, we begin to develop communication modalities which are quite "non-human" by nature, but are "socio-operative" norms of the near future.†–Charles Ostman
“The Internet represents a major step in our evolution, and is a forerunner of things to come. Artificial intelligence researcher Francis Heylighen sees huge growth as this new world-wide communication system continues to gain power from billions of humans adding to its intelligence every day. “It will get smarter,†Heylighen says, “as it morphs into a global super-organism that could one day provide solutions to most of humanity’s problems.†Experts compare the Internet to a planet growing a global brain. As users, we represent the neurons. Texting, emails, and IM act as nerve endings, and electromagnetic waves through the sky become neural pathways. Like germinating seeds, this global brain continues to evolve and as some forward-thinkers believe, will not stop until it develops feelings and achieves consciousness.†–Global Brain - The Internet could become conscious by mid-2030s
We have begun the merge with the Internet for some time. Thomas P.M. Barnett thinks Wikipedia has more central intelligence than the CIA. For most people their entire lives are on the internet and those who are doing the research and development think that we should completely integrate and share all of our information with the Internet. We will have access to each other, body and soul. We would be a far larger repository of data than the former Library of Alexandria in Egypt ever could have been. If this convergence takes place what happens to our individuality? Will we still have our own hopes and dreams or will we merely become external data drives for someone else’s benefit?
“The human eye is a perceptual powerhouse. It can see millions of colors, adjust easily to shifting light conditions, and transmit information to the brain at a rate exceeding that of a high-speed Internet connection. But why stop there? In the Terminator movies, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character sees the world with data superimposed on his visual field—virtual captions that enhance the cyborg’s scan of a scene. In stories by the science fiction author Vernor Vinge, characters rely on electronic contact lenses, rather than smartphones or brain implants, for seamless access to information that appears right before their eyes.
Conventional contact lenses are polymers formed in specific shapes to correct faulty vision. To turn such a lens into a functional system, we integrate control circuits, communication circuits, and miniature antennas into the lens using custom-built optoelectronic components. Those components will eventually include hundreds of LEDs, which will form images in front of the eye, such as words, charts, and photographs. Much of the hardware is semitransparent so that wearers can navigate their surroundings without crashing into them or becoming disoriented. In all likelihood, a separate, portable device will relay displayable information to the lens’s control circuit, which will operate the optoelectronics in the lens.†–Augmented Reality in a Contact Lense
Augmented Reality is another very important step in the integration process. You have to be able to see the data that you are accessing in a manner that is easy for you to digest. Augmented Reality puts external data in layers on top of your normal perception. If you don’t remember some loser who walks up to you on
the street you can instantly pull up his data via biometric Google images or recall previous interactions with this person and access your own data.
The augmented data will float in front of your eyes giving you his birthday, and other necessary data at your fingertips. This year at many tech conventions augmented reality contact lenses, glasses and even windshield wipers were on display. Three dimensional televisions are now on the market which will aid the internet convergence. The youth will be the first to jump headlong into this new system and they will be inundated with television advertising this new tech. Children will drag their parents into this new system and along with it your privacy and identity will be erased. On the internet there is no person there is only your avatar or your login. Just imagine the capabilities that will be used by governments and their military as their populace has been reduced to statistics and raw data.
Privacy is an illusion today; tomorrow it will be only a memory.
The internet has been transformed into a data mining experiment but we still use it because it benefits us. Technology is beautiful when it enhances our lives and we can shape it any way we please. In the last few years there have been plans for internet policing to be put in place and it was just assumed that the internet would become a global integrated organism in the minds of many futurists. The internet is now the drug of choice and they want to increase the dose.
http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/04/09/merging-man-and-machine-we-are-the-internet