…where science, futurism, and anything else Stephen finds interesting are thrown together in an informational stew for your consumption.
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- Flying car, or “roadable aircraft” was designed by a team of MIT trained engineers. Will be on sale 2011. http://j.mp/aZMhe5
With the exception of perhaps jetpacks, nothing says that you’ve made it to the “future” more than seeing actual flying cars in the sky.
- Bankruptcy judge approved $20 mil sale of a former GM plant in Wilmington, Del., to Fisker to make electric cars. http://j.mp/b0Ee8h
Fisker plans to use this facility to make a lower priced entry-level EV.
- Sites that, incredibly, ban you from linking to them. Self defeating. http://j.mp/aC7ht2
By the way, please feel free to link to the Speculist.
- “Cognitive surplus” through shared, online work – Wikipedia, Ushahidi – we’re building a better, more cooperative world. http://j.mp/a6ZlTD
Old news, but true: the Internet is creating opportunities for people to help each other in ways that just weren’t possible before.
- Stevenbjohnson
With 300,000+ apps, we need better tools than monolithic App Stores for discovery. Hence: appify.com My take:And here’s a good example of that cognitive surplus in action. People answering specific questions like “What’s the best app for navigating New York subway?”
- Only humans and whales live long past menopause. Evolutionary benefit = teaching time??
With more intelligent species, knowledge can be passed on to succeeding generations. This creates evolutionary pressure toward increased longevity.
- Early signs of a point in the market where the cost of offering a solar solution is becoming cheaper than utility pricing http://j.mp/bq22SK
We call this “The Solar Singularity.”
- techranch
Most hilarious startup name we’ve heard in a few weeks: Dog sitting network, “LaterDog.com”Well, the customers were already saying it when they dropped off their pets, so it seemed like a good name for the business.
- The brain and how we perceive the world — are a mystery on par with understanding the universe and the origin of life. http://j.mp/9cP0to
Particularly since our brains seem to create the reality around us. What if the missing piece of the Grand Unified Theory is our consciousness?
- wilw
Darn. The in-flight internet got too slow for Netflix to work. Back to reading my book, LIKE WE DID IN THE STONE AGES AND LIKED IT.The thought of Wil Wheaton having to put aside Netflix for a book strikes me as funny somehow. The future is still a work in progress. Still, pretty awesome that it was working at all.
- If this building really is used to treat people with cognitive disorders, well that’s just cruel: http://tinyurl.com/234guyk
