Posts from — January 2006

Članek iz Wired

During a press conference on Friday, Hofmann revealed that he was told by Nobel-prize-winning chemist Kary Mullis that LSD had helped him develop the polymerase chain reaction that helps amplify specific DNA sequences.

In the 2005 book What the Dormouse Said, New York Times reporter John Markoff quotes Jobs describing his LSD experience as “one of the two or three most important things he has done in his life.”

I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD,” said Hofmann. “It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.”

Zdi se da gre Skypu odlično, na letošnjem sejmu CES v Las Vegasu je bilo mogoče videti mobilni telefon z Wi-Fi povezljivostjo in Skypom…

Vendar: še en produkt za onemogočanje Skypa v podjetjih. Skype se zna zelo zajebati, če ne bo prav hitro izdal nekakšne corporate rešitve. Omrežni administratorji v podjetjih so vedno bolj zaskrbljeni glede nemogočega nadzora nad porabo pasovne širine in kriptiranih povezav. Po moje ima Skype velik del uporabnikov prav v podjetjih, saj je njihova VoIP/IM rešitev (v nasprotju s konkurenčnimi) že od začetka delovala ne glede na običajne omejitve dostopa do interneta v podjetjih. Če prav hitro ne zadovoljijo teh uporabnikov in omrežnih administratorjev, imajo veliko za izgubiti.

“Challenge everything!” pravi geslo Electronic Artsa.

Moj sodelavec (in skupina vremenskih entuziastov) so začeli sestavljati alternativno vremensko napoved. Kolikor razumem berejo direktno iz sourca (satelitskih kart ipd.), dodana vrednost pa je seveda v interpretaciji. Kako se lahko primerjajo s Trontljem & co. bo pokazal čas, vsekakor pa je to zelo zanimiv primer peer produkcije vsebin. Vremenska napoved je zadnja stvar, za katero bi si mislil, da jo lahko producira kdo drug kot ena in edina državna ustanova…

http://www.krtina.com/napoved/Napoved.asp

Ena res nadvse zanimiva online publikacija. Nekakšna futurološka zadeva:

The mandate of Edge Foundation is to promote inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for the intellectual and social achievement of society.

WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?

The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous in their time; the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are the most obvious. What is your dangerous idea? An idea you think about (not necessarily one you originated) that is dangerous not because it is assumed to be false, but because it might be true?

tukaj govorijo o tem:
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2005/12/predicting_the__5.html

podobna stvar kot iskanje po forumih iz prejsnjega posta, le da je to bolj primerno za slovenijo (vsaj se za kako leto). blog scena pri nas se ni ravno razvita.