Dialup Modem connecting to the Internet (video)
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One of the first examples of Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ca 1974. Made by the research group of Richard Ernst in Zurich, acquired by Anil Kumar in July 1974. Read more...
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The old world that Norbert and János helped create is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.
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Founder of Autodesk Inc. (https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/) and supporter of many interesting initiatives such as the RetroPsychoKinesis project (https://fourmilab.ch/rpkp/) Born in the US, he lived in Switzerland for decades.
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Futurism is a distraction for those too scared to simply relax & perceive what is unfolding here & now.
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Zettascale Computing - Computing systems capable of calculating at least "1021 IEEE 754 Double Precision (64-bit) operations per second (zettaFLOPS)
In 2018, Chinese scientists predicted that the first zettascale system will be assembled in 2035.[5] This forecast looks plausible from the historical point of view as it took some 12 years to progress from the terascale machines (1012) to petascale systems (1015) and then 14 more years to move to exascale computers (1018). A Zettascale Computer Today Would Need 21 Nuclear Power Plants
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“I had not realized … that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.” - Joseph Weizenbaum (1960s)
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“In the age of instant information man ends his job of fragmented specializing and assumes the role of information-gathering. Today information-gathering resumes the inclusive concept of “culture” exactly as the primitive food-gatherer worked in complete equilibrium with his entire environment. Our quarry now, in this new nomadic and “workless” world, is knowledge and insight into the creative processes of life and society.”
― Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
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Science for the People poster from 1971 - "Computer workers - join with other workers; make computers serve the people!"
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Is computationally augmented Dhyana states induction ("Dhyanatronics") practical & desirable or illusory & oxymoronic?
