Hi Futurists, Weblog post with links: http://www.futuresalon.org/2004/12/what_is_wrong_w.html On my way home today I was listening to NPR's Cleveland City Club...
... No way, not owning a TV doesn't make you part of the problem. Actually, half the bafuture group doesn't have TV's. And I've been finding, increasingly it...
+ DNA Makes Nanotube Transistors + Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have harnessed the self-assembly abilities of DNA to construct ...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/12/05/INMCPHATE05.DTL According to the above article, the abandoned Union Carbide plant at Bhopal still...
... I think it depends on what problem your referring to. If TV's content is driven by the viewers, and that subscribership is getting less like Mark. It only ...
What is wrong with TV News is fundamental and structural in ways that will be difficult to change. All the news organizations present their news within a...
Hi Chris, That would be a total new twist to this tragic story. Dow Chemical is not yet grown up enough to clean up after it's disaster, doesn't see the...
Yes! "If you don't clean up your mess, we will do it for you. And we will budget 10% for publicity. If a mess has been in place for more than five years,...
With little fanfare, the Department of Energy's report on their "Review of Low Energy Nuclear Reactions" (aka "Cold Fusion") was released last week [1]. For...
... You apparently do not remember what the news was like before Fox News came on to the scene...? It used to be that you basically had a talking head droning...
... Hmm wasn't MTV or VH1 the first to do this CG overlay and panel style? I don't have a good timeline of TV since I don't watch it, but I do seem to remmber ...
... Sure I do, it's just that the only "innovations" I could think of were the special effects, the voooooom!! whizzy sound effects, the arguments, the special...
... You are trying to spin your personal antipathy toward Fox News into something nominally relevant to this discussion. Please try to separate your emotions...
... Why are your emotions relevent and not mine? ... Ok, look, you think Fox's "innovations" have improved TV news. I don't. Let's take the 9-11 attacks, to...
Hi Futurists, Weblog post: http://www.futuresalon.org/2004/12/interrupting_yo.html On this mailing list there is quite some discussion going on regarding the...
I was mentioning google AutoComplete (very cool) http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en in tonights LA Futurists and it's precursor to John Smarts...
Hi Futurists, Weblog post: http://www.futuresalon.org/2004/12/notes_from_weap.html Notes from the Movie: Weapons of Mass Deception viewed last night and a very...
Sunlight to Fuel Hydrogen Future The photovoltaic cell is old news. The latest way to exploit the sun is through tiny materials that can directly convert...
+ Wow! That's fast TCP! + The research team's "High-Speed TeraByte Transfers for Physics" record data transfer speed -- 12.6 Gbit/sec. or 4.6TB an hour -- is...
This is just in from Spot. Remember his mesmerizing presentation at SAP a few months ago? Here is the update on his work and a party invite for TONIGHT - Thur....
... + Capstone Report Concludes Little Health Risk From Depleted Uranium Particles + Chemical and radiological risks to human health of inhaling depleted...
+ The new pleasure seekers + Cabanac then promised the students increasingly large lumps of cash to endure the pain. The more he offered, the longer they ...
... Interesting stuff. I wasn't familiar with Indimedia, so I checked them out. Rough around the edges that they are, it's still nice to have someone...
I was there at the Berkeley Sy Hersh event that night, handing out Deception Dollars, which were eagerly grabbed up by an appreciative audience. I gave some...
Low-level magnetic fields concern By Dr David Whitehouse; BBC News Online science editor; Published: 2004/02/20 15:47:24 GMT Exposed brain cells release...
Forwarded from a friend: " If any of you want to try to catch the first launch of the Delta IV Heavy on live webcast, it's scheduled for today. Details: Now...
DJ Cline 12-25-04 Copyright 2004 Commentary Damian Isla, Lead Artificial Intelligence Programmer for the computer game Halo 2, had a great line about the...