MemeBox FutureScanner

What Will it Mean to be Human in the Future?

Mielle — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:40:13 +0000

Just as interesting as thinking about how society will adapt to climate change or to new modes of communication, is how society will react to and evolve with our future abilities to enhance human capabilities.
Category: Social Issues
Year: 2008
Tags: futurehumans, transhuman

ESPN launches 3D augmented reality age of media

garrygolden — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:06:37 +0000

ESPN will tap power of 3D virtual avatars to replay and analyze NFL sports reporting! This might launch a new era of augmented reality reporting with layers of real and synthetic images.
Category: Metaverse
Year: 2010
Tags: 3d, media, art, technology, virtual, avatars

How can science blogging achieve acceptance by the scientific establishment?

mycophage — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:27:05 +0000

Science blogging is proliferating, but older/more established scientists don't perceive it as valuable. What are the barriers and disincentives to acceptance of blogging as a worthwhile activity within the greater scientific enterprise? One possi...
Category: Communication
Year: General
Tags: publishing, open, access

Broadband to 'skip a generation'

Mielle — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:28:08 +0000

Communities bypassed by broadband should be the first to get even faster services, says an Ofcom advisory group.
Category: The Web
Year: 2008
Tags: broadband, ofcom

Liquid-cooled Underwear and Other Micro-climates

Mielle — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:33:06 +0000

Natick engineers listened to the feedback from pilots operating in the hot evironments of Iraq and Afghanistan and, with the assistance of private contractors, designed and produced "liquid-cooled underwear."
Category: Technology
Year: 2008
Tags: natic, liquidcooledunderwear

Transgenic Genetic Engineering

Mielle — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:36:11 +0000

A transgenic animal is one that carries a foreign gene that has been deliberately inserted into its genome. (Usually from another animal.)
Category: Biotechnology
Year: General
Tags: transgenic, geneticengineering

What Would Radical Longevity Mean?

Mielle — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:48:44 +0000

An a detailed article that explores many of the questions around radical longevity--some of which have been touched on by Memebox writers.
Category: Culture
Year: Beyond
Tags: radicallongevity, extremelifeextension

MySpace links users to US hurricane emergency alerts

I Told Ya — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:38:45 +0000

In what is heralded as the seeds of an Internet-age emergency broadcast system, MySpace has teamed with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to spread news on hurricanes through users of the online social network.
Category: Communication
Year: 2008
Tags: myspce, communication, alerts, publicservice, psa

God’s Dice: Intelligence in Robots

Mielle — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:24:13 +0000

A fascinating article exploring some intriguing roots of intelligence in biological and artificial beings. "The rapid switching between behaviors causes an emergence of behaviors that transcend the collective behaviors that are explicitly programm...
Category: Technology
Year: 2008
Tags: roboticsprograming, artificialintelligence

Goodbye Bike Chains; Hello Belt Drives

martymcfly — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:14:20 +0000

Bike chains may soon be a thing of the past.
Category: Technology
Year: General
Tags: belt, drive, bike, chain, old

Where Is My Cure for Cancer?

martymcfly — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:50:57 +0000

Sadly, cancer is not a single disease, but a class of diseases - while we may effectively cure some forms of cancer, it's doubtful that we'll be able to cure them all.
Category: Health & Medicine
Year: General
Tags: cancer, cure, impossible, hard

Junk DNA may have handed us a gripping future

Christina — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:04:36 +0000

In the six million years since humans and chimpanzees last shared an ancestor, millions of genetic changes have accrued in both animals. Yet one may have given us a hand up over our closest relatives.
Category: Health & Medicine
Year: General
Tags: dna, genetics, chimpanzee

The Terrifying (Inevitable) Future of Advertising | Cracked.com

martymcfly — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:11:48 +0000

An interesting look at what we may see in the near future as far as advertising.
Category: Culture
Year: General
Tags: future, advertising, ads, scary

Cocaine 'flush' could be first anti-overdose drug

Christina — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:13:36 +0000

By tweaking a naturally occurring enzyme, chemists have created a molecule that could flush a cocaine overdose out of the body before it can cause irreparable damage to the central nervous system.
Category: Health & Medicine
Year: General
Tags: drug, cocaine, chemistry, nervous, system

New Bread Packaging Thwarts Mold

Christina — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:34:59 +0000

Bread sitting on your counter can get moldy in just a few days. But a new type of packaging could extend freshness up to 10 days.
Category: The Home
Year: 2008
Tags: food, bread, mold, packaging, fresh

What is Social Networking? 58% Still Have No Clue

Joe Meme — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:45:08 +0000

The survey of more than 13,000 people in 17 developed nations also asked if users were losing interest in social networks. According to the report, 36% said “yes,” with interest fading fastest in Japan, Slovakia, and Canada, with 45% of US users s...
Category: Social Media
Year: 2008
Tags: socialnetworking, mashable, media, awareness

Google in the Next 10 Years

AJ0111 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:59:35 +0000

What technology at a similar early stage today will have changed our world as much by 2018? Nature asked some researchers and business people to speculate � or lay out their wares. Their responses are wide ranging, but one common theme emerges: th...
Category: The Web
Year: 2018
Tags: big, data, google, future

Retro Futurism: pre-WWII

martymcfly — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:44:25 +0000

A look at what people thought the future would be like back in 1940.
Category: Culture
Year: General
Tags: future, retro, navy, video

Plastic material that gets cold

garrygolden — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:32:33 +0000

Penn State researchers have developed a new polymer material hat changes temperature in response to shifts in electric fields. This new material could be used to cool things such as computers, refigerators, et al.
Category: Technology
Year: 2010

Microgrippers could perform surgery with no incisions necessary

jheylin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:11:28 +0000

In the future, surgery might be a lot less invasive thanks to some downright-amazing new medical technologies.
Category: Health & Medicine
Year: General
Tags: surgery, incision, cut, micro, nano