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		<title>The Scientist Who Controlled People with Brain Implants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i09 &#124; Decmber 28, 2011 by Keith Veronese Brain implantation and manipulation is a mainstay of science fiction. Often, characters can gain extra memory or get smarter, by having chips placed within the brain. (Or you can wind up mind-controlled by a psychopath. It&#8217;s a mixed bag.) But in real life, one scientist made huge [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thiswasthefuture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4485155&amp;post=262&amp;subd=thiswasthefuture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sci-fi predictions for 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i09.net &#124; January 7, 2012 We&#8217;ve all seen the predictions — both fictional and pseudoarcheological — that the world will end in 2012. But while some of science fiction&#8217;s predictions for the year 2012 are apocalyptic, some are merely disastrous — and a few are downright upbeat. Let&#8217;s see what triumphs and tribulations science fiction [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thiswasthefuture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4485155&amp;post=258&amp;subd=thiswasthefuture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will You Live Forever—or until Your Next Software Release—by Uploading Your Brain into a Computer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientific American &#124; December 5, 2011 By Gary Stix Ray Kurzweil and other so-called transhumanists have promised that in coming decades we will be able to transfer a digital copy of the trillions of connections among nerve cells in our brains into a computer. We would essentially reincarnate ourselves as non-biological beings that persist for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thiswasthefuture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4485155&amp;post=252&amp;subd=thiswasthefuture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HAL&#8217;s Legacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MIT Press &#124; January 12, 1996 By David G. Stork I am a HAL Nine Thousand computer, Production Number 3. I became operational at the HAL Plant in Urbana, Illinois, on January 12, 1997. &#8212; HAL, 2001: A Space Odyssey (the novel) At a dinner party some time ago, an acquaintance, a nonscientist, asked me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thiswasthefuture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4485155&amp;post=247&amp;subd=thiswasthefuture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Controlling an avatar with your brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kurzweil AI&#124; November 1, 2011 The Advanced Virtuality Lab (AVL) at the Interdisciplinary Center Israel, is developing a system for controlling a virtual or physical body using only the mind, Israeli Innovation News reports. The VERE (Virtual Embodiment and Robotic Re-embodiment) project is one of the first to use an fMRI brain scanner to control [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thiswasthefuture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4485155&amp;post=245&amp;subd=thiswasthefuture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Productivity Future Vision</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft&#8217;s new concept video for new interfaces in the next 5-10 years Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thiswasthefuture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4485155&amp;post=233&amp;subd=thiswasthefuture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HOW TO BUILD A GOD DAMN TIME MACHINE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Scientist &#124; October 12, 2011 Thankyou New Scientist. Now to find a wormhole and kill my own grandfather&#8230; Filed under: Reality, science fiction, technology, Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thiswasthefuture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4485155&amp;post=240&amp;subd=thiswasthefuture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paralysed man controls robotic arm with his mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Scientist &#124; October 12, 2011 A paralysed man has high-fived his girlfriend using a robotic arm controlled only by his thoughts (see video above). Tim Hemmes, who was paralysed in a motorcycle accident seven years ago, is the first participant in a clinical trial testing a brain implant that directs movement of an external [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thiswasthefuture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4485155&amp;post=236&amp;subd=thiswasthefuture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A summary of Globalisation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From &#8216;Manifesto 0f the communist part&#8217;, Marx, 1848 All fixed, fast frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thiswasthefuture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4485155&amp;post=230&amp;subd=thiswasthefuture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Most Australians duped by science fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABC News &#124; August 15, 2011 More than three-quarters of Australians believe microscopic life has been found on other planets and almost half believe humans can be frozen and thawed back to life, despite neither being true. These are some of the findings from a survey of 1,250 people commissioned by the Australian Nuclear Science [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thiswasthefuture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4485155&amp;post=225&amp;subd=thiswasthefuture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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