Internet


3
Jan 09

Apple & Trade Shows.

Apple non parteciperà più ai Trade Show, agli eventi fisici organizzati attorno al brand sin dai primi anni.

Chiessenefrega, hanno detto a Cupertino: ormai abbiamo 3.5 milioni di persone che visitano i nostri negozi ogni settimana, e milioni di persone che ci raggiungono dal nostro sito Internet.

Perdere però il tipo di dinamica che ha visto Apple spopolare in rete in questi ultimi anni è un incredibile errore. Può andar bene tagliare i ponti con le vecchie lobby, boicottare i MacWord e Apple Events vari per far crollare schiere di inutili che campano a pidocchio sul lavoro altrui. E questo ci sta.

Ma che venga creato un calendario di eventi Apple, intorno ai quali costruire quegli spaventosi appuntamenti mediatici ai quali ormai siamo abituati.

Non vedere lunedì Steve Jobs sul palco fare il suo speech sarà bruttissimo, un colpo al cuore. Poi chissenefrega, dopo andremo comunque tutti a spulciare ogni virgola del sito Apple; ma non sarà la stessa cosa.

Portare “into the cloud” anche gli eventi fisici, credendo che non debbano esistere più gli appuntamenti è un errore. Toglierci Jobs ancora in forze è un sacrilegio!


12
Dec 08

Extracting Images From the Brain

The Pink Tentacle blog writes (update: currently getting a quota exceeded message there):

<<Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while they sleep.

The scientists were able to reconstruct various images viewed by a person by analyzing changes in their cerebral blood flow. Using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine, the researchers first mapped the blood flow changes that occurred in the cerebral visual cortex as subjects viewed various images held in front of their eyes. Subjects were shown 400 random 10 x 10 pixel black-and-white images for a period of 12 seconds each. While the fMRI machine monitored the changes in brain activity, a computer crunched the data and learned to associate the various changes in brain activity with the different image designs.

Then, when the test subjects were shown a completely new set of images, such as the letters N-E-U-R-O-N, the system was able to reconstruct and display what the test subjects were viewing based solely on their brain activity.>>

(Utopic and dystopic scenarios: leasing parts of your brain space to a big corporation for a side income; building a problem solving computer based on low level brain growing farm; big brother supervising thoughts to crack down on dissidents; drawing tools; advanced lie detectors; brain exporting and importing of movies, smells, feelings…)

[Article CC-licensed by Pink Tentacle. Via Reddit.]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Extracting Images From the Brain | Comments]

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