Cyber Futures Scanning

Advances in Drama Theory for Managing Global Hazards and Disasters. Part I: Theoretical Foundation

May 31, 2009 9:06 AM

http://www.springerlink.com/content/5h86m65n8... Journal article: Advances in Drama Theory for Managing Global Hazards and Disasters. Part I: Theoretical Foundation Jason K. Levy1 , Keith W. Hipel...

Web 3.0 will be 3 dimensional : The internet of the future!

May 31, 2009 8:57 AM

http://www.internet3d.org/hardware-immersion-3d-web-cyberspace/ [Ed Note: The future in this case is right around the corner with Gartner predicting that 80% of the active internet will have migra...

Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today? - O'Reilly Radar

May 31, 2009 8:39 AM

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/google-wave-what-might-email-l.html [ ED Note: Keep an eye out for Googles launch of Wave, it could mean a quantum leap in productivity for communications and team...

IEEE launches smart-grid standards project

May 16, 2009 8:29 PM

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.d... It could serve as the foundation for an IT-driven upgrade of the electricity grid By Grant Gross May 4, 2009 12:00 PM ET IDG News Service - The Inst...

BMI - Brain Machine Interface to Honda's Asimo Robot

Apr 6, 2009 8:23 AM

http://www.jp.honda-ri.com/ Although the computer has been developed as a numerical computational tool, it has become a core processor of many of our daily tools brought about by the harmonized con...

Pattie Maes - MIT Media lab versionof 6th Sense Computing

Mar 29, 2009 8:53 PM

Really Cool, New Sixth-Sense Technology - Watch more Funny Videos

Technology Review: Building a Brain on a Silicon Chip

Mar 25, 2009 8:38 PM

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/223... An international team of scientists in Europe has created a silicon chip designed to function like a human brain. With 200,000 neurons linked up by ...

FACETS The FACETS Project

Mar 25, 2009 8:35 PM

http://facets.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/ read more

Wolfram Alpha is Coming -- and It Could be as Important as Google | Twine

Mar 18, 2009 7:19 AM

http://www.twine.com/item/122mz8lz9-4c/wolfra... [Ed.Note: For those that have suspected Semantic Web/Ontology efforts are to web 3.0 as expert systems were to AI, Wolfram brings a breath of exhila...

University of Miami physicist develops battery using new source of energy

Mar 13, 2009 8:23 PM

His discovery is a 'proof of principle' of the existence of a 'spin battery' IMAGE: The top is a graphic representation of the overall device structure. The diameter is roughly that of a human hai...

Augmented reality Demo you can run on most PCs or Macs.

Feb 18, 2009 9:06 PM

http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/augmented-reality-engineering Here’s a demo you can run without a compiler, etc See the YouTube video below: read more

Lifeboat Foundation Press Releases

Feb 17, 2009 5:58 AM

February 2, 2009 - Google and NASA are throwing their weight behind a new school for futurists in Silicon Valley to prepare scientists for an era when machines become smarter than people. read more

The Internet of "Things" could ironically reflect into Virtual world of "Things" 5 Companies into wiring "things:

Feb 14, 2009 6:35 AM

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/5_compan... The "internet of things" is a concept that describes a wireless network between objects. In a way, it parallels the current network of addressable w...

Semantic web promises a smarter electricity grid

Feb 12, 2009 6:40 AM

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dispersed wind farms and solar panels on people’s homes are posing new challenges for managing power grids that were designed when all electricity was generated in centralised plan...

True Innovation Sighting: The Mobile Man Machine Interface And MIT « Great Falls Ventures

Feb 9, 2009 9:42 PM

http://greatfallsventures.wordpress.com/2009/... At times, over the last two decades, we fall into a trap to believe that the major tech mountains have all been climbed, and that new thinking will ...

AuthorMapper - Scientific Research and Author Locations Globally

Feb 7, 2009 6:13 AM

Want to get an idea of who is doing what research where? Try the new tool from Springer publisher of Journals and books. Do a search for the type of research you are interested it, and AuthorMapp...

Collaboration in Second Life

Jan 17, 2009 3:02 PM

http://www-304.ibm.com/jct01005c/isv/marketing/industrynetworks/benefits... Network with IBM and IBM Business Partners from the comfort of your desk Connect with IBM and IBM Business Partners in Se...

Second Life to beat web as collaboration platform, says report | ComputerWeekly.com

Jan 17, 2009 2:53 PM

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/0... IT managers should begin experimenting with Second Life in business today as the collaboration tool is expected to become as popular as e-mail withi...

visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on mapping complex networks

Jan 1, 2009 7:51 AM

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/ An index (visual of course) to more than 600 projects exploring aspects of visualization.

USC Public Good Challenge to Virtual Worlds

Dec 30, 2008 11:13 AM

In June 2007 USC won a McArthur competition to explore the use of virtual worlds for the pubic good. Watch the attached "in world" videos or as it is called "in world" machinima to learn more abou...

RAND | Monographs | Green Warriors: Army Environmental Considerations for Contingency Operations from Planning Through Post-Conf

Oct 21, 2008 2:21 PM

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG632/ By: David E. Mosher, Beth E. Lachman, Michael D. Greenberg, Tiffany Nichols, Brian Rosen, Henry H. WillisRecent experiences in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the ...

Cellular botnets, cybermilitias: Hackers stay one step ahead.

Oct 20, 2008 6:54 AM

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.d... October 17, 2008 (Computerworld) The ability of malware writers to consistently stay ahead of those seeking to stop them has been a constant factor ...

RNA-based logic gates compute inside cells

Oct 18, 2008 12:28 PM

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081017-rna-based-logic-gates-comp... Researchers have been experimenting for some time with the that biology can be harnessed to perform computations. Biologi...

Takara 2.0 Koreans Develop Robotic Plant

Oct 17, 2008 7:37 AM

[Editors Note: Dancing plants were popularized by the Japanese toy company Takara in the 80's and 90's. Korea has taken this to a whole new level of biomimicry by creating robotic plants that not...

Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Dark Flow, and Now "Black Silicon"

Oct 12, 2008 5:57 PM

No, it's not really in the same cosmological category, but "Black Silicon" certainly sounds like it should be. http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2008/10/12/sionyx-brings-black-silicon-int... SiOnyx Bri...

Emails show journalist rigged Wikipedia's naked shorts article• The Register

Oct 5, 2008 5:54 PM

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/01/wikipedia_and_naked_shorting/ Two and a half years ago, Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne penned an editorial for The Wall Street Journal, warning that widespr...

The methane time bomb -(7A70)

Sep 30, 2008 7:58 AM

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/exclusive-the-me... By Steve Connor, Science Editor, The Independant Arctic scientists discover new global warming threat as melting permafro...

The methane time bomb -

Sep 30, 2008 7:58 AM

Hundreds of methane 'plumes' discovered -

Sep 30, 2008 7:49 AM

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hundreds-of-methane-plumes-dis... British scientists have discovered hundreds more methane "plumes" bubbling up from the Arctic seabed, in an area to the w...

Autonomic communication services: a new challenge for software agents

Sep 27, 2008 7:28 PM

http://www.springerlink.com/content/v83011u3102v91p8/ read more

Massively Multiplayer Forecasting Games: Making the Future Real | The Institute For The Future

Sep 24, 2008 11:14 AM

[Editors Note: This could be an interesting exercise to track. I have followed Jane McGonigal's work, especially her pioneering blends of street theater, flash mobs, online role play, and alterna...

Governing the Futures: Dream or Survival Societies?

Sep 23, 2008 8:51 AM

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:6aDB1GOwbjgJ:web.eduskunta.fi/dman/D... By: Jim Dator, Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa ...

Japan hopes to turn sci-fi into reality with elevator to the stars - Times Online

Sep 22, 2008 7:58 AM

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4799369.ece From cyborg housemaids and waterpowered cars to dog translators and rocket boots, Japanese boffins have racked up plenty of near-...

The Army's Totally Serious Mind-Control Project

Sep 20, 2008 9:28 AM

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1841108,00.html Soldiers barking orders at each other is so 20th Century. That's why the U.S. Army has just awarded a $4 million contract to begin dev...

Breakthrough In Energy Storage: New Carbon Material Shows Promise Of Storing Large Quantities Of Renewable Electrical Energy

Sep 17, 2008 7:15 AM

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080916143910.htm ScienceDaily (Sep. 17, 2008) Engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have achieved a breakthrough in the use of ...

Inhabitat » Free Energy Modeling for Google Sketchup!

Sep 15, 2008 12:12 PM

http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/09/15/integrated-environmental-solutions-e... Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) recently revealed a free plug-in for Google SketchUp that will allow anyone to p...

India's use of brain scans in courts dismays critics - International Herald Tribune

Sep 15, 2008 7:47 AM

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/15/asia/15brainscan.php MUMBAI, India: The new technology is, to its critics, Orwellian. Others view it as a silver bullet against terrorism that could render wa...

The problem with the ‘‘portfolio approach’’ in American

Sep 13, 2008 6:43 PM

http://www.springerlink.com/content/r64l2072m7600360/ SpringerLink - Journal Article read more

Lines and Bubbles and Bars, Oh My! New Ways to Sift Data

Sep 6, 2008 7:41 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/technology/31novel.html?_r=2&oref=slog... [Editors Note: you can see one of these visualization tools applied to the WFUNA Millennium Projects Mid East Peace Scena...

A side of Solar Cells with that Pizza ?

Aug 21, 2008 11:23 AM

http://www.smh.com.au/news/energy-smart/thinking-outside-the-square-find... A new cheap way of producing solar cells in a pizza oven that could eventually bring power and light to the 2 billion peo...

Cybercrime organizational structures and modus operandi

Aug 8, 2008 2:35 PM

Finjan announced the latest findings by its Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC). In its latest trends report for Q2 2008, the MCRC and analyzes the latest Crimeware business operations, and provi...

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Aug 8, 2008 8:32 AM