links for 2006-08-20

• Future Salon : Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) White Paper
  Numenta just posted an Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) white paper. HTM is the brain theory of Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee described in their book On Intelligence.
  (tags: brains Computation ideas)
• TRANSPARENT BUNDLES by Seth Goldstein: Media Futures 2006: 1/5 Automata: The Human Computer
  While the recent inventions of Web 2.0 and User Generated Content (UGC) seem to be radical departures from the computing culture we grew up in, their organic social metaphors are in fact rooted in the beginning of computer science.
  (tags: science web2.0 history)
• Lifeboat Foundation: Safeguarding Humanity
  The Lifeboat Foundation is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization, dedicated to ensuring that humanity safely adopts increasingly powerful technologies, including genetics/biotechnology, nanotechnology, and robotics/AI, as we move towards a technologic
  (tags: space future science)
• Ice Age DNA may now be sequenced - life - 15 August 2006 - New Scientist
  JURASSIC PARK here we come? Not quite, but we might now be able to sequence the genomes of mammoths and even Neanderthals, thanks to a new way to correct the errors in sequencing ancient DNA that are made because it degrades over time.
  (tags: evolution)