Archive for November, 2008


ID THEFT

Largest ID Theft Case

40,000,000 credit cards and more

Wireless Access Invasion

U.S. federal prosecutors have indicted 11 people for what officials say is the largest and most complex criminal identity theft case ever in the United States. U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said the indictments include residents of five countries — the United States, Estonia, Ukraine, China and Belarus.

CLICK – What are we doing online and who is watching us?

THE SEARCH

Bill Tancer | Click:
What People Are Doing Online and Why, analyzes consumerism.

As the general manager of Global Research at Hitwise, an online competitive intelligence company, he has access to the best data regarding Internet usage and the tools with which to properly analyze it.

Data sets include:
25,000,000 users data reviewed globally
10,000,000 users in the USA
Search terms analyzed by: HITWISE

Semantic Web 3.0

WEB 3.0

Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web

ONE MACHINE
[The Global Networked Connected Web of All Computers]
7 terabytes per sec. (1/2 of a Library of Congress per sec.) +
100 Billion Clicks Per Day +
1 Billion PC Chips +
5% of Global Power +
Size is doubling every two years… +
All computers connected +
RFID, Wired, Wireless and Interconnected +
Linking nodes, pages, video, voice calls +
__________________________
EQUALS = 1 HB = (Human Brain)

By 2040 the ONE MACHINE will be greater in complexity then all of the brains in humanity

Source: Thanks White… batflight

GLOBAL TRENDS 2025

GLOBAL TRENDS 2025:
THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE COUNCIL’S
2025 PROJECT

Some of our preliminary assessments are highlighted below:

* The whole international system—as constructed following WWII—will be revolutionized. Not only will new players—Brazil, Russia, India and China— have a seat at the international high table, they will bring new stakes and rules of the game.
* The unprecedented transfer of wealth roughly from West to East now under way will continue for the foreseeable future.
* Unprecedented economic growth, coupled with 1.5 billion more people, will put pressure on resources—particularly energy, food, and water—raising the specter of scarcities emerging as demand outstrips supply.
* The potential for conflict will increase owing partly to political turbulence in parts of the greater Middle East.

Check out page 47 for Technology Breakthroughs by 2025 by
accessing the 120 page report here and read for yourself the unclassified report prepared by the National Intelligence Council (NIC).

America in the Year 2025 – From the BBC
Reviewing this newly published Global Trends 2025 Report

  • Ubiquitous computing everything and anything with a RFID tag allowing monitoring.
  • Clean water technologies enabling faster and efficient treatment systems
  • Energy storage battery, ultracapacitors, hydrogen storage and renewables
  • Biogerontechnology identifying and treating diseases using biosensors DNA sequencing and medicines focused on targeted drug delivery
  • Clean coal technologies of carbon capture sequestration (CCS) to prohibit CO2 release
    Human strength augmentation technologies
  • Biofuels technology converting lignocellulosic and microalogae material into fuel
  • Service robotics autonomous robotic systems
  • Human cognitive augmentation technologies vision, hearing, and even memory

Robot Advances

Big Dog
Thanks to Boston Dynamics who just released a new video of the Big Dog on ice and snow, and also demoing its walking gait.



Rise

Climbing robot

Rhex

Recon
SYPBOT