It can be used to make models for a huge array of things, including airplanes, spacecraft, cars, ships, this ice breaking propulsion pod, industrial robots, joysticks, energy consumption, and health simulations.
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Media, technology, digital design: How they are impacting society
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Twenty years ago, electronic health records were nascent, digital music was mostly a fantasy, Twitter was what birds did, and Google cofounder Sergey Brin was a summer intern at Wolfram Research. 
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April 25, 4:40 AM
This might all seem a bit techy to our usual Pharma stakeholders, but this is becoming mainstream, and can't be ignored any more. Serious considerations should be make regarding how this impacts the environment in which we need to play. 
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April 28, 12:02 PM
Note that business email, the bane of productivity is the largest figure mentioned in the article! Delete the scoop?
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Forty years ago today, the first cellular mobile phone call was made by Motorola engineer Martin Cooper Delete the scoop?
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In 1963, in the depths of the Cold War, all of the futurists in the world could probably assemble in a largish conference room and still have space for an overhead projector. Half a century later, it would take a small stadium to hold all of the people who use the title in some form. The world of futures is a broad church today populated by everyone from author and inventor Ray Kurzweil and his obsessive focus on the singularity to Kanye West with his future-esque fashion fetishes. While it’s been a relatively quiet profession for a long time, suddenly it seems like futurists are all around, feeding a growing appetite for all things strange, metallic, and digital. Delete the scoop?
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Robots confused about what they encounter in the world of humans can now go online to get help from a web-based 'brain'. Delete the scoop?
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If you asked me to describe the rising philosophy of the day, I’d say it is data-ism. We now have the ability to gather huge amounts of data. This ability seems to carry with it certain cultural assumptions — that everything that can be measured should be measured; that data is a transparent and reliable lens that allows us to filter out emotionalism and ideology; that data will help us do remarkable things — like foretell the future. Delete the scoop?
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Aaron Swartz was determined to free up access to academic articles. He perceived an injustice in which scientific research lies behind expensive paywalls despite being funded by the taxpayer. The taxpayer ends up paying twice for the same research: once to fund it and a second time to read it.
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A researcher who specializes in analysing the way that information flows through Wikipedia during a breaking news event compared the way seven mass shootings -- including the recent incident at an elementary school in Connecticut -- were reported... Delete the scoop?
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Ray Kurzweil is a leading thinker, inventor, and futurist known for his track record of accurate predictions. In this video, shot in Kurzweil’s office near Boston, he talks to Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick about Watson, IBM’s artificial intelligence computer system that famously defeated Jeopardy champions on the TV game show. Kurzweil explains Watson’s human-like intelligence by referencing the Turing Test, an assessment that measures a machine’s ability to exhibit behavior indistinguishable from that of a human.
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Expect Labs thinks it has what it takes to read your mind, and it's building the MindMeld iPad app equipped with its "anticipatory computing engine" to prove it. The company ... Delete the scoop?
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Eventually this kind of screen-on-the-eye technology could displace the smartphone. 
Alex Butler's comment,
December 12, 2012 7:40 AM
I couldn't get normal contacts to work for me so I could miss out with this, will have to stick to the Google 'goggles' :-)
ADOmedia's curator insight,
December 12, 2012 7:41 AM
A crazy, super modern and slightly insight into the potencial future of tech and computing. 
Matmi's comment,
December 12, 2012 9:31 PM
I have the same issue as you Alex. But for this tech, my strong inner geek may win through and I'll get them working in my eye no matter what.
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Anyone whos ever been to Wikipedia.org has probably seen their message in bright yellow across the top: "We are the small non-profit that runs the #5 website in the world. Delete the scoop?
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When the first website was born, it was probably quite lonely. And with few people having access to browsers - or to web servers so that they could in turn publish their own content - it must have taken a visionary leap of faith at the time to see why it was so exciting. The early WWW team, led by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, had such vision and belief. The fact that they called their technology the World Wide Web hints at the fact that they knew they had something special, something big. Delete the scoop?
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More than 500 million unique visitors now access Wikipedia and other websites owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, including Wikibooks, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, on a monthly basis. Delete the scoop?
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Security systems, cars, homes, appliances: everything modern, seemingly, has a remote control. Delete the scoop?
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Google's Project Glass is a very interesting product. At this week's TED 2013 conference in Long Beach, I had the chance to wear and tinker with Google Project Glass (for photographic proof, you can follow me on Twitter and see the... Delete the scoop?
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In an excerpt from his book Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere, Paul Mason argues that a global protest movement, based on social networks, is here to stay Delete the scoop?
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Hans Rosling explains that our ideas about developed and developing countries largely reflect the reality of fifty years ago, rather than today. Delete the scoop?
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The IBM Next 5 in 5: Our 2012 Forecast of Inventions that Will Change the World Within Five Years « A Smarter Planet Blog
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Ray Kurzweil, one of the most wide-eyed futurists around, is going to work at Google.
Kurzweil is one of the foremost authors responsible for the popularity of the notion of technological singularity, the idea that artificial intelligence will someday (soon) reach a crescendo of self-improvement, kicking off an endlessly growing planetary intelligence and allowing us to transcend our limited humanity. He's written multiple books about artificial intelligence, the singularity and transhumanism. He's also intensely interested in human life extension and has written extensively about health and biology. On top of all that, he's an inventor of musical instruments, and he's worked on optical character recognition, text-to-speech and speech recognition technology. It's in those last few areas that Kurzweil will be of most immediate use to Google. The KurzweilAI press release says he's joining Google to "work on new projects involving machine learning and language processing." Delete the scoop?
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Unless you’ve been living in a hole these past twelve months, there’s a good chance you’ve used Google at least once to search for something online.
With that in mind, the Internet giant has revealed some of the key search trends in 2012, in its annual report which reveals trends on a global level and, indeed, by country. The full Google’s Zeitgeist 2012 website is now live, marking its 12th annual look at all the searches that constituted what it calls the year’s ‘Zeitgeist’ – or, the spirit of the time. Delete the scoop?
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This year’s Le Web event in Paris was based around the them of the Internet of Things (IoT); the way in which objects around us will gather data and connect to controls or other machines ... Delete the scoop?
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The rules of the internet decide its speed, safety, accessibility, flexibility and unity. They therefore matter not just to computer enthusiasts, but to everyone.
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Augmented reality (AR) -- the term does not exactly jump off the tongue. But the concepts behind the technology are beginning to change what we think of ourselves, objects and the people in the world that surrounds us... Delete the scoop?
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