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FUTURISM UPDATE (October 01, 2014)

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WFS: Signs of “Connected Consciousness” Detected on Global Scale http://www.wfs.org/blogs/richard-samson/signs-connected-cons…obal-scale

New York State Takes Activist Role in Implementing Solar Energy Projects http://www.21stcentech.com/york-state-takes-activist-role-im…-projects/

START: START researchers earn $2.6 million NSF grant to investigate social media’s ability to predict political instability http://www.start.umd.edu/news/start-researchers-earn-26-mill…ty-predict

MASHABLE: There Are Now 3 Million Data Centers in the U.S., and Climbing http://mashable.com/2014/09/30/doe-energy-efficiency/?utm_ci…-main-link

POLITICO: Did Obama Just Unify America’s Enemies? Why bombing Syria could turn out to be a disastrous mistake. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/09/did-obama-jus…z3Eq31JyW1

CIO: Inside the NSA’s Private Cloud http://www.cio.com/article/2688434/private-cloud/exclusive-i…cloud.html

CIO: How Live Tweeting Is Changing Broadcast Media http://www.cio.com/article/2689318/social-media/how-live-twe…media.html

How Wearable Devices Can Transform Contact Center Operations http://www.customerexperiencereport.com/strategy-and-trends/…perations/

DIGITAL COMMUNITIES: Forecasting the Future for Technology and Policing http://www.digitalcommunities.com/articles/Forecasting-the-F…cing.html#

FORTUNE: Hackers charged with stealing Xbox intellectual property http://fortune.com/2014/09/30/xbox-hacking/?utm_content=buff…ign=buffer

COMPUTER WORLD: Software stack from Eclipse could unleash Java developer army on IoT http://www.computerworld.com/article/2688541/networking-hard…n-iot.html

LINKEDIN: “Outright Conquering Success — 264 Easy Tips!” http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20141001014007-344…-easy-tips

BUSINESS INSIDER: Charles Nenner — Who’s Been Warning Of Market Collapses For Years — Warns A ‘Major Collapse’ Is Coming In 2018 http://www.businessinsider.com/charles-nenner-on-deflation-a…z3EqzWzTWR

THE ECONOMIST: India’s economy. Reform à la Modi. The new government’s modest policies will not bring back 9% growth http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21620231…rm_la_modi

FORTUNE: The worrying collapse in global trade http://fortune.com/2014/04/11/the-worrying-collapse-in-global-trade/

ZERO HEDGE: Steve Forbes Warns Of Economic “Catastrophe” Due To Fed’s Dollar Debasement http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-06-11/steve-forbe…debasement

BLOOMBERG: China Property Failures Seen as $33 Billion in Trusts Due http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-19/property-fl…redit.html

THE CITY FIX: Building the city of the future through smart, connected urban transport http://thecityfix.com/blog/building-city-future-smart-connec…on-feller/

FASTCOEXIST: 8 Ways Rail Travel Could Evolve By 2050 http://www.fastcoexist.com/3036165/8-ways-rail-travel-could-evolve-by-2050

AMERICAN SCIENTIST: Weaponized Ebola: Is It Really a Bioterror Threat? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weaponized-ebola-i…or-threat/

FORBES: Mantras That Guide Thriving Organizations http://www.forbes.com/sites/ekaterinawalter/2014/09/24/mantr…ium=social

CNBC: US, China, Europe nearing ‘Minsky moment’: Economist. The world’s three economic superpowers — the U.S., China and Europe — are heading for a major collapse in asset values because their economic models favor consumption instead of productivity, one economist has warned. http://www.cnbc.com/id/102035634#.

THE ECONOMIST: Critical infrastructure. Crashing the system. How to protect critical infrastructure from cyber-attacks http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21606419-how-pr…ing-system

THE FINANCIAL TIMES: Euro in Crisis http://www.ft.com/indepth/euro-in-crisis

FINANCIAL TIMES: The Future of European Union http://im.ft-static.com/content/images/84182838-d589-11e…eabdc0.pdf

LINKEDIN: “Outright Conquering Success — 468 Easy Tips!” http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20141001014007-344…-easy-tips

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By James Morgan — Science reporter, BBC News

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Scientists have for the first time separated a particle from one of its physical properties — creating a “quantum Cheshire Cat”.

The phenomenon is named after the curious feline in Alice in Wonderland, who vanishes leaving only its grin.

Researchers took a beam of neutrons and separated them from their magnetic moment, like passengers and their baggage at airport security.

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We live in world, where technological advances continually allow new and provocative opportunities to deeply explore every aspect of our existence. Understanding the human brain remains one of our most important challenges– but with 100 billion neurons to contend with, the painstakingly slow progress can give the impression that we may never succeed. Brain mapping research unlocks secrets to our mental, social and physical wellness.

In our upcoming releases for the Galactic Public Archives, noted American PhD Neuroscientist and Futurist, Ken Hayworth outlines why he feels that mapping the brain will not be a quixotic task. Through this, he reveals his unconventional plan to ensure humanity’s place in the universe—forever.

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In 1906 the great American pragmatist philosopher William James delivered a public lecture entitled, ‘The Moral Equivalent of War’. James imagined a point in the foreseeable future when states would rationally decide against military options to resolve their differences. While he welcomed this prospect, he also believed that the abolition of warfare would remove an important pretext for people to think beyond their own individual survival and toward some greater end, perhaps one that others might end up enjoying more fully. What then might replace war’s altruistic side?

It is telling that the most famous political speech to adopt James’ title was US President Jimmy Carter’s 1977 call for national energy independence in response to the Arab oil embargo. Carter characterised the battle ahead as really about America’s own ignorance and complacency rather than some Middle Eastern foe. While Carter’s critics pounced on his trademark moralism, they should have looked instead to his training as a nuclear scientist. Historically speaking, nothing can beat a science-led agenda to inspire a long-term, focused shift in a population’s default behaviours. Louis Pasteur perhaps first exploited this point by declaring war on the germs that he had shown lay behind not only human and animal disease but also France’s failing wine and silk industries. Moreover, Richard Nixon’s ‘war on cancer’, first declared in 1971, continues to be prosecuted on the terrain of genomic medicine, even though arguably a much greater impact on the human condition could have been achieved by equipping the ongoing ‘war on poverty’ with comparable resources and resoluteness.

Science’s ability to step in as war’s moral equivalent has less to do with whatever personal authority scientists command than with the universal scope of scientific knowledge claims. Even if today’s science is bound to be superseded, its import potentially bears on everyone’s life. Once that point is understood, it is easy to see how each person could be personally invested in advancing the cause of scientific research. In the heyday of the welfare state, that point was generally understood. Thus, in The Gift Relationship, perhaps the most influential work in British social policy of the past fifty years, Richard Titmuss argued, by analogy with voluntary blood donation, that citizens have a duty to participate as research subjects, but not because of the unlikely event that they might directly benefit from their particular experiment. Rather, citizens should participate because they would have already benefitted from experiments involving their fellow citizens and will continue to benefit similarly in the future.

However, this neat fit between science and altruism has been undermined over the past quarter-century on two main fronts. One stems from the legacy of Nazi Germany, where the duty to participate in research was turned into a vehicle to punish undesirables by studying their behaviour under various ‘extreme conditions’. Indicative of the horrific nature of this research is that even today few are willing to discuss any scientifically interesting results that might have come from it. Indeed, the pendulum has swung the other way. Elaborate research ethics codes enforced by professional scientific bodies and university ‘institutional review boards’ protect both scientist and subject in ways that arguably discourage either from having much to do with the other. Even defenders of today’s ethical guidelines generally concede that had such codes been in place over the past two centuries, science would have progressed at a much slower pace.

The other and more current challenge to the idea that citizens have a duty to participate in research comes from the increasing privatisation of science. If a state today were to require citizen participation in drug trials, as it might jury duty or military service, the most likely beneficiary would be a transnational pharmaceutical firm capable of quickly exploiting the findings for profitable products. What may be needed, then, is not a duty but a right to participate in science. This proposal, advanced by Sarah Chan at the University of Manchester’s Institute for Bioethics, looks like a slight shift in legal language. But it is the difference between science appearing as an obligation and an opportunity for the ordinary citizen. In the latter case, one does not simply wait for scientists to invite willing subjects. Rather, potential subjects are invited to organize themselves and lobby the research community with their specific concerns. In our recent book, The Proactionary Imperative, Veronika Lipinska and I propose the concept of ‘hedgenetics’ to capture just this prospect for those who share socially relevant genetic traits. It may mean that scientists no longer exert final control over their research agenda, but the benefit is that they can be assured of steady public support for their work.

FUTURISM UPDATE (September 30, 2014)

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LIVE SCIENCE: Higgs Boson to the World Wide Web: 7 Big Discoveries Made at CERN http://www.livescience.com/48052-cern-anniversary-big-discoveries.html

3-D PRINT: NYC Engineer 3D Prints a Mechanical Computer, The Turbo Entabulator http://3dprint.com/16795/3d-printed-computer/

STATE OF THE GLOBE: World’s First Wearable Drone Takes Flight http://stateofglobe.com/2014/09/28/worlds-first-wearable-drone-takes-flight/

STATE OF THE GLOBE: 12 Ways to Measure the Bitcoin Network’s Health http://stateofglobe.com/2014/09/28/12-ways-to-measure-the-bi…ks-health/

FORTUNE: Why Amazon’s Fire phone failed http://fortune.com/2014/09/29/why-amazons-fire-phone-failed/…ign=buffer

REUTERS: Vista Equity to buy Tibco Software for $4.3 billion http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/29/us-tibco-software-…1Y20140929

MOSCOW TIMES: Russia Calls for Joint Effort With U.S. to Fight Islamic State http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russia-calls-for-…07990.html

DER SPIEGEL: The Caliphate Next Door: Turkey Faces Up to its Islamic State Problem www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-jihadist-ac…94392.html

DER SPIEGEL: Finnish Prime Minister: ‘Moscow Is Provoking a Number of Its Neighbors’ www.spiegel.de/international/europe/finnish-prime-minister-d…94356.html

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Leaders Indicating. Why Markets Now Use Politics to Predict Economics http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/141849/ruchir-sharma/leaders-indicating

FOREIGN POLICY: Obama’s Islamic State Blame Game http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/09/29/obamas_islamic_state_blame_game

VENTURE BEAT: FireChat gets embraced by Hong Kong protesters, plans for verified usernames and encryption http://venturebeat.com/2014/09/29/china-blocked-instagram-so…-firechat/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Cyberwar: Not if. Not when. Now. http://washingtonexaminer.com/cyberwar-not-if.-not-when.-now./article/2553470

CIO: VoIP Phone Systems at Risk of Shellshock Bash Attacks http://www.cio.com/article/2687830/voice-over-ip/voip-phone-…tacks.html

CIO: How Social Media Can Influence High-Stakes Business Decisions http://www.cio.com/article/2686973/social-media/how-social-m…sions.html

CIO: IT Leaders Aren’t All Coming From Tech http://www.cio.com/article/2687205/careers-staffing/it-leade…-tech.html

KAI: ‘Greener,’ low-cost transistor heralds advance in flexible electronics http://www.kurzweilai.net/greener-low-cost-transistor-herald…lectronics

KAI: Turning the Moon into a giant cosmic ray detector http://www.kurzweilai.net/turning-the-moon-into-a-giant-cosmic-ray-detector

KAI: Ultra-low-energy-consuming transistors and circuits http://www.kurzweilai.net/ultra-low-energy-consuming-transistors-and-circuits

THE GUARDIAN: What is the ‘Google tax’? http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/29/what-is-goog…ge-osborne

THE GUARDIAN: Bitcoin goes mainstream: Circle’s payments make cryptocurrencies easy http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/29/bitcoin-ci…my-allaire

BLOOMBERG: HP Unveils Moonshot Servers Based on ARM Technology http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-29/hp-unveils-…ology.html

BLOOMBERG: Oracle Cloud to Match Amazon.com’s Pricing, Ellison Says http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-29/oracle-clou…-says.html

BLOOMBERG: Billionaire Ma Says Alibaba Works With China on Security http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-29/billionaire…urity.html

YAHOO NEWS: WATCH: FAA Approves Drone Use for Domestic TV and Movie Production https://www.yahoo.com/tech/this-is-the-first-time-the-faa-ha…65419.html

YAHOO NEWS: Protest over contract award to delay work on NASA space taxi http://news.yahoo.com/protest-over-contract-award-delay-nasa…nance.html

YAHOO NEWS: Global wildlife populations down by half since 1970: WWF http://news.yahoo.com/global-wildlife-populations-down-half-…18673.html

YAHOO NEWS: Sierra Nevada challenges NASA ‘space taxi’ contracts to Boeing, SpaceX http://news.yahoo.com/sierra-nevada-challenges-nasa-space-ta…nance.html

NEW YORK TIMES: Cisco: The Internet Needs More Control http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/cisco-the-internet-…y&_r=0

NEW YORK TIMES: E.U. Inquiry Into Tax Deals for Multinationals Like Apple Pushes Ahead http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/business/in-tax-inquiry-in…technology

NEW YORK TIMES: Microsoft Begins a Push Into the Polling World http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/upshot/microsoft-begins-a-…&abg=0

NEW YORK TIMES: Tibco Software Agrees to Sell Itself to a Private Equity Firm for $4.3 Billion http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/tibco-software-to-sel…technology

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Google Capital Makes First China Investment, Backs InnoLight http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/09/29/google-capital-makes-…t/?mod=ST1

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Brown Vetoes Bill Requiring Warrants for Drone Surveillance http://online.wsj.com/articles/california-governor-vetoes-bi…TopStories

ENGINEERING: Police Motorcycles Go Green http://www.engineering.com/ElectronicsDesign/ElectronicsDesi…Green.aspx

ENGINEERING: NASA Telescopes Detect Clear Skies, Water Vapor on Exoplanets http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…anets.aspx

ENGINEERING: Underwater Robots Could Increase Port Security http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…urity.aspx

ENGINEERING: Triton UAV Completes Cross-Country Navy Test http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…-Test.aspx

Phys.org: Now hear this: Simple fluid waveguide performs spectral analysis in a manner similar to the cochlea http://phys.org/news/2014-09-simple-fluid-waveguide-spectral-analysis.html

DAILY MAIL: Countdown to Mars: Nasa starts final assembly of huge rockets to test spacecraft it hopes will take man to the red planet http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2774080/Count…mailonline

BUSINESS INSIDER: Here’s How Apple Is Making Its New HQ ‘The Greenest Building On The Planet’ www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-apple-is-making-its-new-hq…2014–9

FORBES: Has Marissa Had Enough Of This Yahoo Turnaround? http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2014/09/26/has-maris…urnaround/

FORBES: Forbes 400: Richest Americans Facing Tougher Competition In China Business http://www.forbes.com/sites/russellflannery/2014/09/29/forbe…-business/

BBC: Argentina found to be in contempt of court by US judge http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29415608

BLOOMBERG: Toyota Faces New Unintended Acceleration Probe http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-29/toyota-face…ollas.html

FORBES: The Most Amazing PCs Of September 2014 http://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2014/09/29/the-mos…ium=social

THE ECONOMIST: Farming in the Netherlands. Polder and wiser. Dutch farmers add sustainability to their enviable productivity. http://www.economist.com/news/business/21613356-dutch-farmer…-and-wiser

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An innovative Australian digital radar built with a series of modified rugby goalposts is attracting worldwide attention the ABC reports.

A consortium led by La Trobe University in Melbourne developed the Tiger-3 digital radar, which is 10 times more sensitive than any other research radar. Lead researcher Professor John Devlin said the radar would be used to study space weather, which has an impact on navigation and surveillance systems for shipping and aircraft, as well as for GPS systems. “It measures the ionospheric reflections from a distance out to about 5,000 kilometres,” he said.

Researchers measure the data to study space weather, like recent solar flares, which can potentially knock out power, satellites, navigation and surveillance systems for shipping, aircraft and GPS.

The recent solar flares just grazed the Earth, but Dr Custovic said flares had the potential to knock out transformers, potentially shutting off power for weeks.

Radars were first developed during World War II, but engineer Dr Eddie Custovic said technology had come a long way since then. “The innovation is largely in new software technology that is used to analyse data and signal processing,” he said. La Trobe University Engineering and Space Physics staff have been working on digital radars since the 1990s, and the Tiger-3 took a team three years to build.

Digital radars still work on waves, using frequencies of 8–20 MHz in the High Frequency band, but the electronics and signal processing are now entirely digital, meaning the radar is less susceptible to instrumentation noise. Most radars are still analogue or hybrid, and the digital one offers greater sensitivity, longer range and a much wider field of view, which means researchers are able to detect objects and structures that were not previously visible.

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By Michael Harris — Wired

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Recently, my two-year-old nephew Benjamin came across a copy of Vanity Fair abandoned on the floor. His eyes scanned the glossy cover, which shone less fiercely than the iPad he is used to but had a faint luster of its own. I watched his pudgy thumb and index finger pinch together and spread apart on Bradley Cooper’s smiling mug. At last, Benjamin looked over at me, flummoxed and frustrated, as though to say, “This thing’s broken.”

Search YouTube for “baby” and “iPad” and you’ll find clips featuring one-year-olds attempting to manipulate magazine pages and television screens as though they were touch-sensitive displays. These children are one step away from assuming that such technology is a natural, spontaneous part of the material world. They’ll grow up thinking about the internet with the same nonchalance that I hold toward my toaster and teakettle. I can resist all I like, but for Benjamin’s generation resistance is moot. The revolution is already complete.

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By Chris Baraniuk — BBC Future
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A presumably naked man laughs open-mouthed as water trickles from his bright red face, soaking the Google Glass headset he is wearing in the shower. This infamous image, posted online by tech futurist Robert Scoble just over 12 months ago, encapsulated the excitement among early adopters of this technology. Glass, a voice-controlled wearable headset connected to the internet, promised a transformation of the way we interact with computers, and each other.

A year on and it’s Scoble’s enthusiasm that has been dampened. “I’m wearing it right now,” he says. “It’s really useless. I can’t store more than 20 contacts, and I can’t take photos and put them on Instagram or Facebook. Getting apps on here is a pain.”

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