Tag: technology
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Bark! Bark! (Admitting your limits)
A dog thought-to-speech device! The future! Technology! Hip Scandinavians! A thing that translates your dog's thoughts into people-speak! Open up your check-book and post-date one for The Future! But wait. Isn't there something missing in the promotional video? Something important? Right. It doesn't show a real demonstration. (1) "What I saw in their video can't…
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Fall in love with a human... Take a stroll...
Can a human fall in love with a computer? (1) It is really annoying to realize that talking with bots can sometimes be better than talking to many humans... It really puts things into perspective. Most of the times other people do not care at all about what you say and just speak out what…
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Flying the easy way...
Who's flying your plane? Pilots' manual flying skills have become dangerously eroded because they rely too much on automated systems. That's one conclusion of a leaked report on air safety commissioned by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). (1) Relying on technology too much has a terrifying immediate effect that we tend to overlook: you…
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Computers. Do they solve problems?
Increased computing power. Increased memory needs. Increased power needs. (1) Computers consume the world. But how many problems of humans have been solved by that "progress"? All the important issues are related to human communication and compassion. And none of these can be improved with some GBs more RAM...
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"Dual" technology...
Do you want to publish a scientific paper? Please come by customs to get a permission! (1) Society understanding "dual use" (for good and for bad) technology. It will need some more years to understand that this is the only kind of technology…
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