Monthly Archives: February 2007

Neural Internet

Reading some papers on the Neural Internet - a new technological advancement in brain computer interface (BCI) research, which enables locked-in patients to operate a Web browser directly with their brain potentials.
Descartes - the man behind ‘Cogito, ergo sum’ - is also the name a system that uses neuronal signals from the brain and transforms [...]

Googlish - new language?

… from my moblog via sms …
Heard a rumor that Google has been working on a new form of mashed language communication, called ‘Googlish,’ a common denominator to replace all the world’s languages. It will have its own grammar, vocabulary and spelling rules.
Talk about power …
Tags: Googlish, language, translation, esporanto, communication
… by dg @ [...]

Digital thinking

One recent survey of eight to eighteen-year-olds (8-18 year olds) claimed that children were now spending on average 6.5 hours a day using electronic media.
Could this screen and multimedia culture impact on thinking and learning behaviors? And what does this mean for social change and the work of us technologists?
Obviously, the most notable difference [...]

Was LIFT07 a ‘Mr. Play-It-Safe’?

No.
Not at all. But what was most interesting about LIFT07 is what it wasn’t.
LIFT06 was about talking and there was enough of that at LIFT07 but there’s talking - and then there talking with conviction which in my mind equals knowledge.
Listen.
It’s becoming clearer that pervasive personal communication technologies offer the potential for important social benefits [...]

Digital divide thoughts

Here’s a thought:
Was there a ‘color TV’ divide in the late 1950s?
A ‘telephone’ divide at the beginning of the 20th century?
A ‘cell phone’ divide in 1990?
Can you add to that the microwave-oven divide, the automobile divide, the video game divide, and the video recorder divide?
But seriously, if you were to sit down and compare how [...]