A Thousand mouths all babbling

Assignment Zero is interesting in that it is open to anyone who wants to contribute their time and their knowledge to assignments that are posted on the board or discussion. Given that the project is so open ended, there exists the possibility that there are people out there who have the time to work on [...]

Mobbing you for your phone

In Howard Rheingold’s own blog he talks about an argument that Scott Sanders has about smart mobs not being all that common even today. In part of Scott’s article, Scott cites that people will only gather into a smart mob if the text being sent to them relates to them in some manner:
People will not [...]

The Machine cometh

Social robots are already a lot closer than you think. Kismet and Leo are two such examples. Robots are only now getting into the stage where they are learning to think for themselves.
But what the M.I.T. robots may lack in looks or finesse, they make up for in originality: they are programmed to learn the [...]

Ancient Honeymen

These two sites, cnn.com and anthropology.net both cover the recent story of a 3000 year old beehive that was unearthed at Tel Rehov in Israel’s Beth Shean Valley. While both sites skim over the possibilities of what the hives mean and their construction, they take a slightly different view on how ancient beehives might [...]

Extinction of the book?

This might not be a book burning, but it shows on way that books might be on the path of the dodo especially with the influx of a number of technologies that tend to make us lazy:

Here’s the direct link if the picture above is too tiny to see: http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j312/senior_draco/Untitled-2.jpg
Note.. this was not the originally [...]