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The Internet allows us to do all kinds of things we never imagined possible. It lets us communicate with people across the world. We can learn whatever we want at the click of a button. We can navigate roads using our iPhones, and translate languages within seconds. It makes us smarter, and more versatile, and faster than ever. But the Web isn’t just a truly extraordinary invention, it is the apex of human evolution — and the ultimate evolutionary adaptation. It may seem strange to think of the Web as part of the process of natural selection, but Raymond Neubauer, a professor at the University of Texas, doesn’t think so. In his far-reaching new book, “Evolution and the Emergent Self,” he argues that technology should be seen as part of our planet’s grand evolutionary narrative. He claims that two evolutionary strategies — one, emphasizing simplicity and rapid reproduction (as in bacteria), and the other, emphasizing complexity and hyper-intelligence (as in humans) — have been hugely successful in dominating the planet. The book charts the ways those strategies have managed to pop up everywhere from the animal kingdom to cellphones. Via Wildcat2030 
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Walking by a billboard ad in the future might be a bit like stepping on a scale and for advertisers, your weight is valuable.
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Robo-bar staff, even robo-sex and hotel rooms that change colour, could be commonplace in future travel scenario. Tourism futurologist Ian Yeoman from University of Wellington, New Zealand, said that by 2050 mass tourism would spawn a range of new indoor tourism products. It would include indoor artificial ski centres, circuses, zoos, golf courses and recreated landscapes, as well as giant cruise ships, according to a Wellington statement. Even robot 'prostitutes'' that would not pass on diseases such as HIV could make an appearance, said Yeoman.
's comment October 13, 2011 8:05 AM
Tourism futurologist? The dream job I never heard of! Very interesting but sounds too much like fantasy. Only time will tell, thank you for sharing.
Sakis Koukouvis's comment,
October 14, 2011 3:08 AM
Yes it seems an ideal job ;-)
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From scheduling conference rooms to rooting out incipient tumors, computers that can go to the information that we care greatly about...
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"Now that we can rewrite the code of life, Darwinian evolution can't stop us, says investor Juan Enriquez." Via Yvan Marechal, Frederic Emam-Zade Gerardino
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The map focuses on six big stories of science that will play out over the next decade: Decrypting the Brain, Hacking Space, Massively Multiplayer Data, Sea the Future, Strange Matter, and Engineered Evolution. Those stories are emerging from a new ecology of science shifting toward openness, collaboration, reuse, and increased citizen engagement in scientific research. We are delighted to share the map with you, under a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
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