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TED recently had a post on an interview with P.W. Singer on the future of war and the use of robotics. It’s very interesting to think about science fiction and the ripple effects of the current progress of technology. We as modern human beings are still not ready to accept the use of intelligent robotics or know that they’re in everything we’re using. Check out the article for more information.

Article: Pakistan, Afghanistan and Battlestar Galactica: An exclusive interview with P.W. Singer on the future of war

From the CTIA Wireless Conference, their theme was to add mobile data capacity to absolutely everything. This includes the human body. The more I hear about this stuff, the more of our shared nerd fantasy is coming true. The world is colliding together at a superfast pace. When Edward Lorenz theorized about the effect of butterfly’s flap of its wings on weather patterns, he probably didn’t know that it exactly the same with today’s progressing technology. It’s amazing how one person could in effect do something so simple like post a short message in a remote location with a cell phone and affect the whole world in an instant.  Data and pushing boundaries of our understanding of the world is the future, we will be one giant hive-mind progressing towards new frontiers of thinking. Crazy.

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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?

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.

I love funny videos and cartoons. I’d like to start posting the funniest things I find from around the web on my site. If you know of any great videos that I definitely have to watch, shoot me an email or post in the comments! Sharing is caring.

Many people these days go through the whole education process and come out with jobs they hate. At the end, they wonder why life has taken them down this path. Ken Robinson brings up a good point that schools were once created and geared towards industrialism. Today, this system is antiquated and does not fully cater to the multiple facets of a productive human life. Watch the video to learn more!

I just watched this great video on the history of American Chinese food. It traces back the origins of how the fortune cookie isn’t actually of Chinese decent and who the real General Tsao is and who made the General Tsao’s chicken. Interesting stuff for those who want to be in the know.

This is a great video on the basics of storytelling:

Hey everyone. Here’s a little inspiration to start cooking today! Don’t forget to cook by the book.

I want a powerful web tablet already! I came across The Net Impact of Netbooks? article from Knowledge@Wharton and became very curious about this recent market for the middle ground between a laptop and smartphone. Which led me to do a little research online about what other people are thinking and doing about netbooks. This is how I found TechCrunch’s dream project for the perfect netbook. A “Web Tablet” is what they call it and they’re doing it on their own. It’s one thing to wish and tell the world what you want and another to be actually developing it on your own from scratch.

If you don’t know already and want a little run down, a netbook or web tablet works much like a laptop would but is stripped down to the bare essentials to do the most computing experience through the internet. This is important and is a huge game changer because people are starting to trust storing their data online. You can now do all your office work online without having to use any space on your hard drive through services like google documents, Zoho, or any similar host of services online. In addition, all entertainment needs are starting to be provided outside your physical computer. You probably already watch a majority of your videos through services like youtube or vimeo and can listen to music on demand through services like imeem or last.fm. In addition, services like netflix can stream movies online and more and more TV stations are allowing full episodes of their shows to be streamed through the network websites such as ABC. Sooner or later, the original idea of the PC will be distant memory and we will have super fast, light weight, touch screen, wirelessly connected computers in our homes and offices in place of laptops and PCs.

The use of all data storage and cables that is not directly linked to the internet will be obsolete for the average consumer. This would include satellite TV, cable TV, large hard drives, CDs, DVDs, tapes, casettes, and 8-tracks. I will guess that most major data will be based online. Personal data that we’d like to carry around will ultra small like mini-SD cards. I see a market for encryption and privacy on accessing this type of hardware.

I am interested to see how fast our technology will develop to where all we have are wirelessly connected windows into the online world. We’d come home from working on our touch screen tablets where ever we wanted to work and watch TV on a super flat widescreen with over a million streaming feeds on whatever suits our desires. We would talk on our touch screen phones that have video feeds of who we’re talking to and we can go online and get feeds of information on whatever we wanted to know and get mini-entertainment on the go.