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3D is crude now. But the future is 3 dimensional, I’m certain. Likely transparent holographic mid-air displays, as we’ve seen in many movies.
Here’s another baby step in that direction.
When Minority Report was released nearly a decade ago, it gave a glimpse into a future of participatory media environments and responsive technological infrastructures. We haven’t quite caught up to the yesterday’s future, but you can now simulate much of Tom Cruise’s cybernetic gymnastics at the Live Park 4D Art Factory in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
… the giant indoor theme-park, … opened at the end of January …
Kinect-Powered Amusement Park/Virtual Museum Opens in South Korea
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Good news — under the Obama administration:
A series of new airfare rules put forth by the Department of Transportation (DOT) will go into effect Jan. 26 and offer travelers better “passenger protections.”
The most visible of the new rules is a law that requires airlines to include mandatory government taxes and fees in all advertised fares. Other rules pertaining to ticket cancellation policies and baggage fees went into effect on Jan. 24. …
Luggage fees are still not included. And code-share flights not necessarily disclosed. When you buy a flight on Alaska, for example, you might find yourself on Horizon.
What happens in the States often ends up happening worldwide, the aviation industry so international.
In these times of economic gloom, personal financial trouble, it’s easy to think the world is going to Hell in a hand-basket.
Not so.
Last week The Millennium Project released its 2011 State Of The Future report …
Long Now Foundation – Almost everything is getting better
You have to look at the bigger picture.
I’m quite happy with my new GPS geotagging camera, despite the short battery life.
Friends report being happier than ever with their new cameras, too.
But the biggest innovation in decades may be just around the corner. This video shows how it works.
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PC MAG:
Ren Ng, the founder of Lytro, explains how a camera can capture images that are never out of focus. …
Lytro has big plans. … the Mountain View, CA-based startup said it would soon bring to market a new kind of camera that’s based on light-field photography. The result: photographs that you can focus after you take them. Simply click your mouse on the spot on the picture you want in focus, and it changes before your eyes …
the Lytro camera, assuming it debuts later this year as planned, will mark the first time the tech makes an appearance in a consumer camera …
“If you can shoot first, focus later, it’s going to be the fastest camera you’ve ever used,” Ng said in an interview with PCMag.
“Because when you press the shutter button, it takes the shot instantly. It doesn’t have to wait for the lens to move.”
My second and third favourite sources of information in 2011 are audio:
• Audiocasts
• Audio books
I pretty much always have an audio book or two in progress, buying most of those from Audible.com. … Sadly not every book I want is available in audio.
Audio podcasts are still quite crude. The most evolved, however, are superb: RadioLab, This American Life, CBC Spark, Economist Editor’s Highlights, and On The Media. Almost all audio podcasts are still free.
But my main sources of information … my most trusted … my most detailed and nuanced … are blogs.
The best are labours of love by passionate, often amateur writers. Most bloggers are unpaid, spending thousands of hours focused on a specific topic simply because they love that topic.
more photos of bloggers
For example, the best Apple blog is Daring Fireball. I don’t pay much attention to any other.
I do whatever I’m told by Michael Geist when it comes to Canadian government regulation of the internet. A big election issue right now.
There are 4-5 essential blogs on gymnastics, but if I only was allowed to read one blogger it would be Blythe Lawrence.
If you read Kraig Becker, you’ll know more about outdoor adventure than you’ll ever need to know for one lifetime.
… Those are just a few examples. Leave a comment if you’ve got a blog that I should follow.
(blogger photos via Spark)
As a gymnastics coach, I work with a lot of teenage girls.
Troubled teens, I’m oft to call them.
Over my lifetime I’m convinced that young ladies have gotten more confident, savvy and funny.
I first started noticing the trend in the mid-1990s. Teen girls were smart, organized and independent. Teen boys were … the same. Teen boys.
The internet, especially Facebook, has really liberated their creativity. I’ve seen stats showing over two thirds of the posts are by females. But the GOOD posts are about 90% female.
Facebook has not changed teen boys one jot.
Girls are better communicators than boys. And Facebook gives them the chance to really go crazy.
In this Facebook photo one girl is proposing marriage to another. She’s even offering a ring.
Hilarious.
… Am I wrong?
I’ve never had anybody else concur with my theory.
Congrats Mr. President.
Globe and Mail – Obama finding a way through the legislative ‘gridlock’
Though most of the positive press features DADT, I’m far happier about the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty). A symbolic event, perhaps.
But if it ever comes to nuclear war, we need Russia and USA to stand together against the aggressor.
START is a step forward, supported by former President George H. W. Bush and all six former Republican Secretaries of State.
I want to thank the 13 Republicans who defied their party’s leadership, voting to ratify the treaty.
… Before we get excited that the USA has got their act together, check the latest misguided CIA initiative:
WikiLeaks Task Force = … WTF
Is there a brain in that organization? WTF ??
I was close to declaring the highly entertaining American political scene dead to me.
A two party system constantly polarized is usually deadlocked.
Deadlocked in a fiscal death spiral.
Yet something happened:
… Eight Republican Senators voted in favor of repeal of DADT (Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell): Scott Brown (Mass.); Richard Burr (NC); Susan Collins (of Maine, and a co-sponsor of the repeal effort); John Ensign (Nevada); Mark Kirk (Illinois); Lisa Murkowski (Alaska); Olympia Snowe (Maine) and George Voinovich of Ohio.
I’m impressed. Nevada. Alaska.
Those are politicians with guts. They could have taken the easy way out. As McCain did:
McCain’s vigorous opposition to the DADT repeal is not the first time he’s found himself swimming against the tide of history. As a congressman in 1983, he voted against the creation of a federal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — a vote he later regretted.
“On the Martin Luther King issue, we all learn, OK? We all learn,” he told NBC in 1999, discussing his vote. “I will admit to learning, and I hope that the people that I represent appreciate that, too. I voted in 1983 against the recognition of Martin Luther King….I regret that vote.” …
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was not the most important issue facing the USA.
This was the right decision. Let’s hope they can move forward with more good decisions, rather than continue to stagnate.
Brian is in Education, training to be a teacher.
He disagrees that the future is dependent on technology. Especially gaming.
I’ll tell these kids to stop having so much FUN learning.
That’s from a Mashable post – 8 Ways Technology Is Improving Education
Teaching the old way in 2010 is like engaging in a basketball game, 30 players against 1 teacher. It could be that Kobe could make that an engaging class. … But there aren’t may Kobe’s teaching school.
Rick McCharles 