-Inventor Denied Patent For Human ‘Killer Chip’.

While my older works from long ago made frequent mention to these types of technologies, I’m no longer too worried about them. A mandate to enforce them on the social scale would almost instantly erupt into total rebellion, in my view. If anything, I see them as being a sort of sign. My real concerns [...]

*Don’t Ignore The Blue Sky.

I realize that many of the things I try to ‘expose’ here are technically “Blue Sky” technologies, but since such alarms aren’t known to be existing technologies does that make them any less critical? This is a look into “Blue Sky” technologies becoming reality in the short term if Artificial General Intelligence succeeds. First and [...]

-FBI “Going Dark” Program to add $234M in new surveillance technology.

ABC News: The release of the 2010 budget request has shed more light on some FBI surveillance programs the bureau is currently developing and testing. The budget request shows that the FBI is currently developing a new “Advanced Electronic Surveillance” program which is being funded at $233.9 million for 2010. The program has 133 employees, [...]

-Google Wants You to Profile Yourself.

WIRED: Google’s information appetite is never-ending , and now the search-and-advertising giant wants your help in building a profile page that will show up anytime anyone searches on your name. Be afraid. The Google Profile service is intended to let you tell Google how to index you. You tell it (or hide from it) your [...]

-Researchers use brain interface to post to Twitter.

In early April, Adam Wilson posted a status update on the social networking Web site Twitter – just by thinking about it. LINK