Site Contributions: Technocracy
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03/28/13 - Robotics Reporters: A Meme Compounded by a Theme
'Robo-reporter' computer program raises questions about future of journalists ... Reporters may not look like this in the future, but one media outlet employs a robo-reporter ... |
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03/14/13 - And You Thought the Particle Was Confirmed?
The particle found in the Large Hadron Collider last year "strongly indicates" that it is the long-sought Higgs Fri, Mar 8 2013 boson, the CERN physics research center said on ... |
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03/14/13 - Who Will Win the Electric Car Prize?
Henrik Fisker has quit as executive chairman of Fisker Automotive, the plug-in hybrid car company he founded in 2007. A dispute with other executives over a survival strategy ... |
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03/01/13 - Italy Founders While Greece Subsides: Is Austerity Over? Not So Fast ...
Stalling for Time: Greek Reform Effort Slows to a Crawl ... The troika is back in Athens this week and with all eyes on Italy, Greece feels it has little to fear. But important ... |
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02/22/13 - Harvesting of Big Game Animals to Be Legalized? Oxford Mathematical Equation May Approve
Cracking the code of rhino poaching ... A team of academics are building a mathematical model they hope will shed light on the complexities surrounding the illegal trade of ... |
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02/18/13 - Blended Wing ... Boondoggle or Progress?
Air travelers of the future may step onto a double-deck jetliner that resembles a flying wing, a radical departure that researchers think may carry up to 800 passengers to the ... |
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01/03/13 - Vision of a Mutant Future
Military Must Prep Now for 'Mutant' Future, Researchers Warn ... The U.S. military is already using, or fast developing, a wide range of technologies meant to give troops what ... |
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12/17/12 - Doubting One's Mind
A central topic of philosophy throughout the ages has been whether human beings can trust their minds, including their sensory awareness and thinking. Skepticism about this has ... |
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11/26/12 - Kaletsky: The Resiliance of Pure Fiat
Economic optimism is now official. The year ahead could be "a very good one for the American economy," Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, declared on Tuesday. ... |
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11/09/12 - Mayor Mike ... Technocracy Is 'The Bomb'
Mayor Bloomberg Signs Emergency to Establish Odd-Even License Plate System for Gasoline Purchases to Reduce Wait Times ... Mayor Bloomberg today signed an emergency order to ... |
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10/19/12 - Problem is Demand: First IBM, then Intel, now Google
Three technology bellwethers missed income or revenue expectations in the past few days. Let's take a quick look at IBM (IBM), Intel (INTC), and Google (GOOG). IBM TechCrunch ... |
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10/12/12 - Do We Need This? ... Hestia Project
The Hestia Project™ Quantifying Carbon Like Never Before − The Hestia Project™ will revolutionize how the world approaches and interacts with ... |
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09/18/12 - A Village of Scientists?
How many scientists does it take to make a discovery? ... The era of the lone genius, as epitomised by Albert Einstein, has long gone ... Ask people to conjure up an image of a ... |
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09/08/12 - In the 20th Century, Pillsbury Made Astronaut Energy Snacks, Playtex Made Space Suits
At your grocers next to the instant breakfast section. Space food sticks, the energy snack from US Aerospace Research and Pillsbury. – YouTube video Dominant Social ... |
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06/04/12 - Here Come the Car Robots ...
Robots will soon deliver pizza ... Self-driving cars are about to be legalized in California. That same technology will enable the robot revolution ... Futurists and science ... |
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06/01/12 - Patronizing Chinese Volkswagen Ad Shows Us the Shape of Elite Future
El Reg has difficulty believing that this video of a VW concept hover-car in China is genuine: The premise of the video is this: VW decided to crowd-source ideas for concept ... |
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05/29/12 - Japan's Population to Go Extinct as Fukushima Threatens ...
Safety fears grow at Japan nuclear plant ... Japan breathed a collective sigh of relief when the government declared that the worst of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster ... |
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05/02/12 - Almost Psychic ... Andreessen Most Clairvoyant Person Since Pythia, or Not?
Marc Andreessen on Mobile, Social, and the Next Big Thing ... Tech guru Marc Andreessen says he's bullish on the U.S. economy saying, "We're coming up on year 15 of a flat ... |
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04/30/12 - Let Mitt Romney Be Romney and the US Shall Be a Better Place
Romney begins to tell the story of Romney ... Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Friday began the process of introducing himself to a general election audience by ... |
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04/20/12 - Huge Water Resource Found in Africa: World Bank Steps In?
'Huge' water resource exists under Africa ... Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater. They argue that the total ... |
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03/19/12 - A Prominent Pair of False Alternatives
Jon Gertner, author of the forthcoming The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation ,* writes for The New York Times (in an excerpt from his book), ... |
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03/14/12 - Does the Market Really Want 'Smart Meter Version 2.0'?
New Arm chips herald 'Internet of things' ... New processors from Arm Holdings use so little power they could allow a new generation of connected devices, from credit cards to ... |
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03/01/12 - Bieber's Fisker Karma and Elite Gift-Giving
Justin Bieber Gets a Fisker Karma for His 18th Birthday ... Celebrating his milestone birthday Thursday on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Bieber is presented by his manager with ... |
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02/13/12 - Does the UN Plan Full-Spectrum Domination?
United Nations boss Ban Ki-moon and his top deputies gathered in secret last year to chart the future course of humanity through "sustainable development," a controversial ... |
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02/09/12 - High-Tech India Inventions 4,000 Years Ago
Ancient India was more Technologically advanced than the West ... A video by desciple of Shri Shri RaviShankar ji, Khurshed Batliwala, who is also director of World Alliance ... |
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12/08/11 - Infinitesimal Triumphs at Cern
Cern scientist expects 'first glimpse' of Higgs boson ... A respected scientist from the Cern particle physics laboratory has told the BBC he expects to see "the first glimpse" ... |
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12/05/11 - Scientism versus Liberty
The steady but slow march toward liberty has for some time come up against the appeal of scientism. This is the idea that everything in nature behaves just like ... |
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12/02/11 - The End of GM – Again?
Govt Motors Volt becomes burning green joke ... Obama's green dream goes up in smoke. The highly touted Volt bursts into flames in crash tests, could collapse the power grid if ... |
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11/16/11 - The Technocrat Meme Descends
In defence of Europe's technocrats ... Outside Britain, experts have often played a positive role in politics. Is it time we stopped knocking the technocrats? Mario Monti, ... |
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03/03/10 - Smart Grid: Trojan Horse of the New World Order?
This paper will demonstrate that the current crisis of capitalism is being used to implement a radical new economic system that will completely supplant it. This is not some ... |
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