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http://www.pulsethebook.com [Pulse] Ray has joined with virtual-reality visionary Jaron Lanier, and a board of other luminaries, in the Darwin@Home project. It preserves and extends the concept of linking private computers through the Web, as a habitat for experimental new A-Life creatures.

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http://innerdiablog.blogspot.com  El Blog Diablogico: Lanier is worried about the wikification of content: "When you see the context in which something was written and you know who the author was beyond just a name, you learn so much more than when you find the same text placed in the anonymous, faux-authoritative, anti-contextual brew of the Wikipedia." This problem is exacerbated by the fact that search engines are more likely to point users to wikified versions of pages. (via Cosmos)

http://wikip.blogspot.com  Wikipedia Blog: It's been criticized quite a lot, especially in the last year, but the Wikipedia is just one experiment that still has room to change and grow. At the very least it's a success at revealing what the online people with the most determination and time on their hands are thinking, and that's actually interesting information. (via Cosmos)

Classical Valueshttp://www.classicalvalues.com  Classical Values: Waldemar felt, perhaps rightly so, that the revenues from the fisheries in his territories should be more under his control and did his best to reduce the privileges his predecessors had given to the Germans. In 1361, just after the counsellors from the Hansa had returned to Luebeck after re-negotiating the rights to the herring fisheries, news came that Waldemar had sacked the city of Wisby on the island of Gotland. (via Cosmos)

http://www.pulsethebook.com [Pulse] 92 - Real Artificial Life (Part One): According to Mark Bedau, editor in chief of the journal Artificial Life, “One thing happening now is that people are connecting the results from virtual worlds with real world data.” That is in part now possible due to work by Bedau and Norman Packard, which compares statistics on the creativity of artificial life forms with statistics from the real-world fossil record, and from human patent files. According to Bedau, this indicates that “the biosphere””as reflected in the fossil record””shows a kind of creativity that no one has captured in an artificial life system.” In the first generation of A-Life programs designed by Langton, Ray, and others, the creativity of the system does eventually reach a plateau and stop.

LoopyLibrarianhttp://loopylibrarian.blogspot.com [LoopyLibrarian] Big Sam Allardyce's Big Tie Knot: Even after news of the first partial facial transplantation performed in France spread around the world, plastic surgeons have continued to research how to make the first full facial transplantation a reality. In the first peer-reviewed, scientific studies of their kind, U.S. plastic surgeons demonstrated how to successfully complete a full facial tissue transplantation from one human body to another, reports the March issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®

http://allthingscool7.blogspot.com [All Things Cool] Futurist foresees big gains in nanotechnology: Everywhere I go I bump into this Ray Kurzweil guy. In 2029, people and computers will be "intimately connected" in profound ways, thanks to breakthrough advances in artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and a soon-to-be-acquired knowledge of the human brain.

http://www.coolbusinessideas.com [CoolBusinessIdeas.com - New Business Ideas, Innovations And Opportunities Around The World] Big Nano Future: 7 at the Technology Association of Georgia's annual summit in Smyrna. Kurzweil, author of "The Age of Spiritual Machines" and inventor of the speech-to-text synthesizer, predicts scientists by 2029 will have created "nanobots" capable of repairing the human body from within and immersing the five senses in full virtual reality environments.

[Gdayworld.thepodcastnetwork.com] TPN:: G’day World » Blog Archive » G’Day World “On The Pod” #57 ...: Ray’s Web site, KurzweilAI.net, is a leading resource on artificial intelligence. I got an enormous kick out of doing this show and I hope you enjoy it.

Cednc.orghttp://www.cednc.org [Cednc.org] CED's Venture 2006: Featured Speaker -- Ray Kurzweil: Click here to download Ray Kurzweil’s Venture 2006 keynote remarks (please note this is a large file and will take approximately 5 minutes to download). Interested in seeing Ray Kurzweil’s PowerPoint presentation?

News.com.comhttp://news.com.com [News.com.com] Ray Kurzweil: Don't fear the nanofuture | Newsmakers | CNET News.com: We'll have detection of our body movements and high-bandwidth, wireless connections to the Internet so that walking around, you'll have things in your visual field and be able to connect to Web and its virtual manifestations.

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