Archive for March, 2009
10 Years to a Robot with a Brain
That is predicted in this Scientific American article on the way robots are being programmed to learn from experience. This is pretty exciting and potentially scary news. If today a robot is capable of learning at the rate of a 2 year old, what happens when it’s learning ability surpasses the lifetime capabilities of human beings?
Link: Can Robots Be Programmed to Learn from Their Own Experiences?
First Signs: Death of Local Data Storage
- Image via Wikipedia
As I had said back in December about data storage and Netbooks, local data storage will be obsolete in the future. Aside from having small temporary local data on your computer, everything will be accessible from the internet through secure cloud computing. PSFK has a great article highlighting quantitative data on “The Death of Music Ownership and Illegal Downloading.” Basically, this is just the beginning of how everyday users are moving away from downloading and storing their media and relying on streaming data instead. It is exciting to see how our technology and human habits will progress with other forms of media.
