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Both of these topics I've covered before, but in different links. The link below is a color Cellular Automata program, based (loosely) on Conway's game of life.
http://www.collidoscope.com/modernca/
And this follows some speculation I've done as to the future of technology, and imagining additional senses. While I couldn't find the associated video on TED it's sure to be interesting....
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I've posted before on the evils of the banking system. But it's an easy thing to criticize something without putting forward a solution. And it's a useless thing, criticism - valid, useful criticism - should always offer scope for improvement and accessable alternatives. Here's one writer's alternative.
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An excellent documentary serialized on minimovies.org, "I Love Alaska" reveals one persons story through search terms entered into AOL.
Excellent conception, narration & realization.
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Science and history made fascinating. A short but excellent read on the history and discoveries that led up to the current theories of Dark Matter.
Dylan Thuras should write textbooks.
Link: www.htmltimes.com
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Today it's both a link and a question. Or, perhaps less a question than an idea - we are used, as humans, to the 5 senses, classically divided as Sight, Hearing, Taste, Touch and Smell. This is, however, a short list, for a more thorough list I'll send you (yet again) to Wikipedia.
Now as we all know animals frequently have a different range of senses, dogs, famously, can hear sounds that people cannot, some insects and fish can see in wavelengths that are invisible to us. For a rather complex example try this: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080513210456.htm link- a Mantis shrimp that can see not only in UV and Infrared but as well polarized light.
And there are of course those senses - whether real or imagined - whereby we are able to read one anothers thoughts (ESP), or see into the future (Precognition) - but the existence of these is still much debated. But, for an exercise, try to imagine adding a sense - what would it be? Think of how much of our world view and "perception" is colored by our senses, so, if you had to invent a completely new one - not an enhancement of an existing one [like the abiltity to see in UV, which is simply a broader range of vision]- what would it be? And, having invented it, how would it affect your view of the world?