Cybathlon 2020 was a recent cyborg Olympics in which people with physical disabilities competed using exoskeletons, bionic limbs, and other technology. In one race, competitors with quadriplegia wore scalp sensors that detected their brain waves and allowed them to steer vehicles on the screen. From IEEE Spectrum: Pilots controlled the
This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in
It sounds like something from a ’50s b-grade science-fiction movie: The Claw from Outer Space! But, in fact, a very real giant claw in orbit around the Earth is being proposed by the European Space Agency. Why not? It’s 2020, after all. Unlike some rampaging alien monster of Hollywood,
It goes without saying that Twitter is a sewer of deranged leftist hate. Something about the site seems to foster the vilest bullying and insanely vicious witch-hunting, mostly, it seems from the very people who at the same time loudly trumpet their own virtue and “inclusiveness”. Like the inquisitors of
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This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in
Mark A. DeWeaver mises.org Mark A. DeWeaver, PhD, CFA, is a co-founder of the fund management company Ithaca Advisors, LLC, and the author of “Animal Spirits with Chinese Characteristics: Investment Booms and Busts in the World’s Emerging Economic Giant.” On October 29, the nineteenth Central Committee of the
horizon-magazine.eu Picture this: You’ve experienced no physical sensation beyond your wrists for years, then a doctor drapes a thin, flexible membrane over your hand and, like magic, you can feel the trickle of water through your fingers again. This may sound like an outlandish scenario, but it’s
I have recently been diagnosed with a nasty cancer which, because of my dicky ticker, is probably untreatable. I’m not seeking your pity, but rather help to enable me to wrap up some of my affairs. I’ve had a good life, a long and successful marriage and don’
I’ve never been much of a Star Trek fan. I thoroughly disliked didactism in entertainment from the moment Sesame Street tried to force me to learn the alphabet in an American accent. Bugger that, bring me the afternoon cartoons and the adult amorality of Bugs Bunny and crew. So,
Nicholas Coppel lens.monash.edu Since the advent of web-based social media platforms, the creation and dissemination of information is no longer in the hands of a few. Citizens can now simultaneously be creators, consumers and spreaders of content. The analytics and algorithms of social media mean citizens have a
This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in
This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in
Usually when we read the phrase “Florida man”, it’s followed by a head-scratching, hair-raising tale of debauchery and criminality, invariably involving drugs and unspeakable acts with alligators. But Miami’s Craig Hershoff is singlehandedly proving a welcome exception to “Florida Man”, while promising to benefit millions. For people who
This series is designed to help people to understand modern technology, and become more confident in using computing devices. It is not designed to educate experts. The author is involved in tutoring older students at SeniorNet, a New Zealand wide organisation. SeniorNet hopes that students will feel more confident in
