gravitymax | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 10 2009 | wireless, technology
Quoted: netless. a digital network that is using city public transport as its information carrier. permission-less, distributed and friend-2-friend, netless is an independent communication tactic; invisible digital network that does not need wires or dedicated radio frequencies. alternative communication device that helps its users to avoid such controlled and observed space as the internet. free from governmentally owned medium channels (radio frequency ranges, emission power), proprietary locked technologies and cable networks, netless stays Yours Truly.
- gravitymax | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 10 2009 | technology, culture, military
Quoted: If we look at the development of warfare in the modern era, we see three distinct generations. In the United States, the Army and the Marine Corps are now coming to grips with the change to the third generation. This transition is entirely for the good. However, third generation warfare was conceptually developed by the German offensive in the spring of 1918. It is now more than 70 years old. This suggests some interesting questions: Is it not about time for a fourth generation to appear? If so, what might it look like? These questions are of central importance. Whoever is first to recognize, understand, and implement a generational change can gain a decisive advantage. Conversely, a nation that is slow to adapt to generational change opens itself to catastrophic defeat.
- gravitymax | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 05 2009 | technology, internet, design
Quoted: This is the kind of error that technological utopians make. They assume that their particular scientific revolution will wipe away all traces of its predecessors—that if you change the fuel you change the whole system.
nice review. couldn't agree more with the above statement based on personal experience.
- gravitymax | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 14 2009 | technology, language
Quoted: The program did so by analysing the signs that accompanied each of those words whenever it appeared in the subtitles. Where it was not obvious which part of a signing sequence relates to the given keyword, the system compared multiple occurrences of a word to pinpoint the correct sign.
- gravitymax | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 08 2009 | technology
Quoted: As the threat of global warming grows more urgent, a few scientists are considering radical—and possibly extremely dangerous—schemes for reengineering the climate by brute force. Their ideas are technologically plausible and quite cheap. So cheap, in fact, that a rich and committed environmentalist could act on them tomorrow. And that’s the scariest part.
- gravitymax | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 30 2009 | technology, travel
Quoted: The United States has lost not so much the technology of rail speed as the public will, the cultural memory; this may have made sense for a historical period, but now, weighed in terms of the congestion, carbon emissions, and comfort of other travel modes, it seems time to reach for the way-back machine.
- gravitymax | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 03 2009 | technology
*buys* ^_^
- gravitymax | Shared With: Everyone - May 30 2009 | technology, energy, environment
Quoted: "If they're successful, it will be a very big deal. No one has achieved a net gain in energy before," said Derek Stork, assistant technical director at the UK United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)'s centre for fusion research in Culham, Oxfordshire.
- gravitymax | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 20 2009 | gravitymax, music, technology
i am partial to multiple units of small things. especially if they are cute, play well together, and infinitely scalable. siftables are cookie-sized computers that holds simple information. just like cookies, one is ok but 2 or more is better. side by side, each siftable sensed the preference neighbors and reacts or interacts with each other, producing a variety of results. just like any modular system, its applications are pretty much open to the imagination.
- gravitymax | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 20 2009 | gravitymax, media, technology
Quoted: The past 120 years saw some of the most rapid changes in how we record, collect, and use audio, visual, and now digital information. The pace creates in its wake, a long list of obsolete technologies, some of which, still exist, but for which equipment and storage technologies are not always available. This exhibit reflects this light-speed, developing technology world with a selection of media formats.
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