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mostlysignssomeportents: kadrey: m1k3y: Hugo Gernsback, who started the first science-fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, back in 1926, and without whom we wouldn’t be here today, was interviewed in the July 26, 1963, issue of LIFE magazine—where he modeled his “teleyeglasses” pocket-size portable TV set. He says he came up with the idea in 1936, but didn’t…
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wildcat2030: We Will End Disability by Becoming Cyborgs – Neural interfaces and prosthetics will do away with biology’s failings – Hugh Herr is a living exemplar of the maxim that the best way to predict the future is to invent it. At the age of 17, Herr was already an accomplished mountaineer, but during an…
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prostheticknowledge: GLASSHOLE.SH Code script put together by Julian Oliver which detects Google Glass devices on a WiFi network and blocks them: This script is a response to a comment by Omer Shapira that the presence of Google Glass worn by audience at an ITP graduate exhibition left him feeling understandably uneasy; it was not possible…
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brucesterling: *Well, Peter’s in jail now. *Not because of his public defiance of the NSA or anything, though. Oh no. Other reasons. *An operational tip here: you wanna be Mr Internet Dissident, better do that from Moscow or an Ecuadorian embassy. You don’t wanna sneak home over national borders to see friends and family. http://www.expressen.se/kvallsposten/co-founder-of-the-pirate-bay-arrested/…
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mylittleillumination: todayinkabbalah: Alfa Beta Shel Metatron: The Alphabet of Metatron – the celestial scribe | Gershom Scholem Gershom Scholem, the late great scholar of Jewish Mysticism, maintained the “Alphabet of Metatron, the celestial scribe,” to be the oldest of these angelic alphabets, which he mentioned “is preserved in many manuscripts and came to the German…