#April2012
Video: WILLIAM GIBSON Interview Touching On Drugs, Politics, Cityscapes
William Gibson predicted the future, and as I type on this keyboard to you across our mass hallucination, I’m only ratifying that claim. Here’s a pretty fucking awesome interview by Alex Pasternack in which he gets Gibson to open up on a variety of things. Gods, I love this man.
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Microsoft Is Working On A Universal Translator. Foreign Language Teachers Shitting Themselves.
…Naw!, I’m just kidding. As products of the cultures they reflect, foreign languages will always have worth. Plus French is sexy. However, it would be goddamn glorious if I could have something to translate for me in a pinch. That’s why my boys Microsoft and their Science Daemons have my back.
Yesterday, Anonymous Dropped DoJ, RIAA, MPAA and More Offline.
Anonymous was a little bit cheesed about the U.S. Justice Department taking down popular website Megaupload.com the day after the internet went somewhere near dark to protest SOPA. In response they dropped the hammer on a considerable amount of impressively high-target websites.
AOL Still Has 3.5 Million Dial-Up Users. My Porn Fetishes Are Confused.
The day I got broadband back in 2000 (a term probably now also antiquated) my life was inextricably changed. I began to demand video, porn, music, porn, more porn, and more media at the click of a button. I could never go back. There’s a lot of people on AOL who still have never left.
Google Group Uses Facial Recognition To ID London Rioters. The Future.
From what I can tell safely ensconced in my computer chair across the pond, things are getting out of control over in London. A community of people have formed a Google group dedicated to using facial recognition technology to identify London rioters via online photos. Welcome to the future-present.
GM Has Autonomous Pod Car, Will Take You Hands-Free Wherever You Want.
Oh great! GM has an autonomous Pod Car thing, the Electric Networked-Vehicle (EN-V). Someday in the near future you’ll be able to summon this death trap to your side with your smart phone. It’ll appear, you’ll punch in coordinates, and pray the robotic uprising doesn’t happen that day.
Doctors Create Artificial Heart That Doesn’t Beat. It Also Works.
Welcome to the fucking future. Where we eat shit-steaks and we have outstanding artificial hearts that keep us alive, sans-pulse. Whirling glories of devices that apparently actually work. Amazing.
