We are all prisoners of metaphor when it comes to describing the world. English is a hodge-podge of Greco-Roman references and grunty Germanic loan words, so it should come as no surprise that precision is difficult to achieve through language. We are forced to analyze everything through a series of blurry images and loaded connotations. Now, imagine trying to understand …
Vos données ne sont pas au septième ciel
Après les révélations faites sur le programme PRISM par lequel les autorités américaines ont accès à la plupart des données des grands joueurs de l’Internet collaboratif et du nuage, il faut accepter que les données « confiées au nuage” ne sont pas stockées au Paradis, mais dans un Purgatoire construit par les compagnies privées et les états-nations. Nous sommes tous prisonniers …
DARPA has an amazingly lifelike robot
This is the robot designed by the Department of Defense. Extrapolate the implications of such a unit in the field of battle.
JC Penney to replace human cashiers with robots
JC Penney’s CEO Ron Johnson has made a bold statement regarding the future of the company – that it plans to move all of its inventory onto an advanced RFID system and obviate the need for human cashiers. He claims that this will mean that the money the company does invest in human beings will go right to better service, …