17 JUN 2013 by ideonexus

 The Surveillance Ecosystem

Lifeloggers capture every instant of their existence for their own reference. XP stars live, love, and die with passionate abandon so everyone can enjoy it on demand. Habitats depend on constantly updated operational and environmental data as well as troops of transhuman observers to function seamlessly and provide the day-to-day necessities of transhuman life. Hypercorps, governments, organizations, and individuals safeguard the information they need to survive and seek out what they need to...
Folksonomies: celebrity public privacy
Folksonomies: celebrity public privacy
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A futuristic peak at the world of public sharing and private protection and the different motivations for them.

11 APR 2011 by ideonexus

 Microscopic and Macroscopic Perspectives in Science

In science, simultaneous macroscopic and microscopic exploration is quite customary, especially in biology. Molecular biology, for example, which derived from the application of chemical analysis to biological problems and led to the discovery of DNA and its function as the carrier of information for every form of life, has developed independently from physiology, which concerns the whole animal and the way it functions as an integrated living system. In like manner, the difference between th...
Folksonomies: science perspectives
Folksonomies: science perspectives
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Seeing the trees for the forest and forest for the trees.