I’ve never tasted daikon (I stared at it for too long and it reminded me of the radish spirit in Spirited Away) or even had a banh mi, for that matter, so I’m pretty glad someone made this foodwish. So here it is, as requested by Anon – I hope it doesn’t disappoint.
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Author: v3l0c1r
IFTF – Human+Machine Futures forecast map
The great people from The Institute For The Future (IFTF) have released a new infographic which highlights advances in technology that will create new forms of human-machine symbiosis. The map examines how Humans & Machines are:
- Discovering how our senses work at high-resolution levels.
- Amplifying our “natural” sensory modalities.
- Borrowing, mimicking, or inventing senses we don’t yet have.
- Mediating our sensory experience through machine interfaces.
- Remixing our senses for different experiences.
- Sharing our senses in high fidelity, and in more profound ways.
In addition, they created four artifacts from the future, each representing one colour in the system. Good stuff (as always)!
Google adds a “dead-man’s switch” — uses cases from torture-resistance to digital wills [2013]
Google’s rolled out an “Inactive Account Manager”
– a dead-man’s switch for your Google accounts. If you set it, Google
will watch your account for protracted inactivity. After a set period,
you can tell it to either squawk (“Email Amnesty International and tell
them I’m in jail,” or “Email my kids and tell them I’m dead and give
them instructions for probating my estate”) and/or delete all your
accounts. This has a lot of use-cases, from preventing your
secrets from being tortured out of you (before you go to a protest, you
could set your dead-man’s switch to a couple hours – if you end up in
jail and out of contact, all your stuff would be deleted before you were
even processed by the local law) to easing the transition of your
digital “estate.”
Escapes from Apathy 