Web 2.0

I fancy myself and advanced interweb user. If someone has a something they need done, I can find just about exactly what they want to do on the internetweb. I was excited about this assignment because I wanted to flex my interweb brain muscle for everyone to see. I wanted to find that super cool tool that you couldn't live without and share for everyone to see. However, all the cool sites I found like www.screentoaster.com, or www.screenjelly.com for recording screencasts, or facebook or twitter for keeping up with friends, or del.ic.ious or Digg for keeping up with what is popular on the internetweb. None of them impressed me more than www.allmyfaves.com. AllMyFaves takes the top 5 to 10 sites, mostly Web 2.0 sites for dozens of topics and puts them all at your fingertips.  While the lists are not dynamic, they are picked by allmyfaves editors based on popularity, uniqueness, and newness.  What I like about allmyfaves is that it takes the sites you know, like Google and Bing and shows you alternatives you might not have heard of.  So if you don't know what you are missing on the internet...  Try http://www.allmyfaves.com/.  

Futuring with Ray Kurzweil...

This is a great discussion about the future of computing and nanotechnology. Seems like that is all the futurists are talking about, but it is fascinating. I really think he is on to something when he talks about nanobots used in internal medicine. That is really fascinating, almost a real life Fantastic Voyage (minus Raquel Welch)! I am science buff, especially human anatomy and physiology (some of my undergraduate work was in biology). But if we can get nanobots to fix what we can't get medicine to fix, or surgery to fix, that will be a major breakthrough. I imagine one day having nanobots that can fix genetic mutations, that cause hereditary disease. Imagine the possibility of that!




Link:  http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/38

Catching up with the brain...

Kwabena Boahen looks to create a computer to act like a brain.  In his discussion
Mr. Boahen describes how the transistor is like a neuron.  However, what is keeping
us from making a synthetic neuron and using that on a processor?  Or using it to
store data?  This is kind of what I was talking about when I mentioned bio computing,
but I want to use synthetic anatomy and physiology as a computer.