The Robots are Coming!

Robots and humans have begun working alongside each other in Japan's Aizu Central Hospital. We still have a long way for them to go, but an early foothold for our new benevolent servants has been established.

The Misinformation Super Highway

Tim Berners-Lee has raised attention to the issue that the Internet may become a misused force if left unchecked. It could be used for misinformation and undemocratic purposes. I do believe that this is a very real concern, especially when you see explosions in trends like MySpace and Digg. While being extremely open for communication, they are potentially manipulatable, even Google has this power, but we are fortunately in the position of them being somewhat trustworthy and benevolent. This is a courtesy though, not a right.

So how do we address this problem, well one way is through democratic systems like Digg. However, it suffers what I call the Digg effect - as it grew and became more popular the content got strange, and stupider, leaving Slashdot on top for intellectual tech news despite losing it's throne for a short period. How can this be addressed? By building a democratic meritocratic system for content prioritization, and deliver it based on global and peer networks.

Why has nobody built this? No idea. Could Yoans use it? Definately. Would it be hard to build? Not really. Could I do it? No. If anybody wants to help build this, half of it is already done in PHP with Pligg.

Robot Fish

I'm not entirely sure why we need it, but I thought this video of a robotic fish was pretty cool. If you didn't get the Robot Chicken reference, it is seriously something you should watch.