Babylonokia - a 2012 artwork by Karl Weingärtner in the form of a clay tablet shaped like a mobile phone, its keys and screen showing cuneiform script.
tag > Technology
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In the 1890s, there were only a few antennas in the world. These rudimentary devices were primarly a part of experiments that demonstrated the transmission of electromagnetic waves. By World War II, antennas had become so ubiquitous that their use had transformed the lives of the average person via radio and television reception. The number of antennas in the United States was on the order of one per household, representing growth rivaling the auto industry during the same period.
By the early 21st century, thanks in large part to mobile phones, the average person now carries multiple antennas on them wherever they go (mobile phones have multiple antennas such as GPS, WIFI, Cellular and NFC). This significant rate of growth is not likely to slow, as wireless communication systems become a larger part of everyday life. In addition, the strong growth in RFID devices suggests that the number of antennas in use may increase to one antenna per object in the world (product, container, pet, banana, toy, cd, etc.). This number would dwarf the number of antennas in use today. Hence, learning a little (or a large amount) about antennas couldn't hurt, and will contribute to one's overall understanding of the modern world.
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Huawei pivots to renewable energy as smartphones slump - U.S. sanctions force Chinese company to pursue solar power and storage projects
#Comment: China is already the world leader in all things renewables and is poised to significantly expand its technological and logistical lead in this crucial sector. Any other actor (nations, etc.) that wants to transform legacy energy systems to renewables, will inevitably have to deal with the Chinese and hence maintain somewhat positive relationships. Otherwise, all proclamations of energy transformation are just nice words. Case in point, recent headline from Germany - a country that is actively supporting the US-Empire lead war against China/Russia/Global-South/etc.:
Germany aims to get 100% of energy from renewable sources by 2035
Germany aims to fulfil all its electricity needs with supplies from renewable sources by 2035, compared to its previous target to abandon fossil fuels "well before 2040," according to a government draft paper obtained by Reuters on Monday. Europe's top economy has been under pressure from other Western nations to become less dependent on Russian gas, but its plans to phase out coal-fired power plants by 2030 and to shut its nuclear power plants by end-2022 have left it with few options.
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Ka Band - a portion of the microwave part of the electromagnetic spectrum defined as frequencies in the range 26.5–40 gigahertz (GHz), called Ka, because it is the upper part of the original NATO K band.
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In 1970, the Transcendental Students took a CDC 6600 super computer hostage at NYU's Courant Institute. Some of the students present attempted to destroy the computer with incendiary devices, but Peter Lax and colleagues managed to disable the devices and save the machine.
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"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible & useful"
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Today in the fall of western civilization: 🤡 Facebook/Meta threatens to leave the EU: A 4-Act Comedy
Bonus: 🤡 The Zuck will "cure all disease in our children's lifetime"
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Podcast with Jack Hidary, AI and Quantum Director, Sandbox at Alphabet
Interview with Jack Hidary, AI and Quantum director at Sandbox at Alphabet. Speaking about the Hybridization of quantum computing, abstraction layers in software, the new edition of his quantum computing book, and much more.
Meet the NSA spies shaping the future
In his first interview as leader of the NSA's Research Directorate, Gil Herrera lays out challenges in quantum computing, cybersecurity, and the technology American intelligence needs to master to secure and spy into the future.
Jian-Wei Pan: ‘The next quantum breakthrough will happen in five years’
The leading expert talks to EL PAÍS about his latest research, which paves a way forward for computing and to understanding the interactions of particles at the atomic and subatomic level
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“Innovative people do not need to be told to do it, they need to be allowed to do it.” ― Eric Schmidt
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Today in "the fall of civilization":
🤡 "Sweden approves plan to bury spent nuclear fuel for 100,000 years" - Peak Human Hubris?
🤡 "The lawmakers note that U.S. airstrikes since 9/11 have killed at least 48,000 civilians with drone strikes alone accounting for 2,200, including 450 children." - Peak Military Industrial Complex?
🤡 The Road To Serfdom Part V: Pay No Attention To That Man Behind The Curtain
- 🤡 CIA Funded Experiments On Danish Orphans For Decades
- 🤡 Silence of the Lambs, MK-Ultra & Jeffrey Epstein
- 🤡 James C. Smith: Pfizer's Minister of Propaganda
- 🤡 Computers Uncover 100,000 Novel Viruses in Old Genetic Data
- 🤡 Federal judge ordered 13yrs of targeted discovery on all communications by Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg related to a cover-up on their largest breach of trust in company history.
- 🤡 Google deceived consumers about how it profits from their location data, attorneys general allege in lawsuits
- 🤡 AI’s 6 Worst-Case Scenarios Who needs Terminators when you have precision clickbait and ultra-deepfakes?
- 🤡 China's 'social credit' system ranks citizens and punishes them with throttled internet speeds and flight bans if the Communist Party deems them untrustworthy
- 🤡 A Truly Evil Golem: Billionaire Peter Thiel and his Palantir
- 🤡 James Pond: Chinese state news agency releases spoof mocking MI6 focus on Beijing
🤡 Epstein, Martin Nowak, Eric Lander, MIT & a very sinister genome project tied to the Covid test
#Technology #Biotech #Politics #Economics #Cryptocracy #Military
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DRM fetishism (aka "Cryptocurrencies") is what you get when you put Lawyers & Accounts in charge.
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"A computer can never be held accountable" - An IBM slide from 1979. Have things changed since?
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The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison
