SNS: Human Limits, Machine Ambitions

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Human Limits,

Machine Ambitions

 

 

 

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Human Limits,

Machine Ambitions

 

Beyond the Incremental

Seeing the World

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Upgrades

 

Bill Ford Sees It, Too

Lights Out for LightSquared?

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Ethermail

 

Takeout Window

 

The Nokia PureView 808

Electromagnetic Cloaking

U.K. Almost Dominates

Global Physics Research

Yes, Proview,

"China" Means China

New Transistor,

Made of a Single Atom

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Upcoming SNS Events & Media Links

 

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» Human Limits, Machine Ambitions

 

We each have a job to do in this world of technology driving economics, and, for the most part, it's head-down and incremental improvements that define our days. But there is another level of dreaming, designing, and engineering that takes humans and, increasingly, machines to a completely different plane of thought and experience.

 

To see the former clearly, one need only review the results from this week's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. While it is a truism to say that much of the industry's energy has moved to smartphones and their support systems, most of the new entrants remind me of the last lines of the Who's old hit "Won't Get Fooled Again": "Meet the new boss same as the old boss."