Great picture of augmented reality. It reminds me...

2009-07-02T16:34:44.632+03:00

Great picture of augmented reality. It reminds me of Singer's "Wired for War" which I read recently. That book introduced me to Ray Kurzweil and the "Singularity" with his assertion that technology fields are complimenting research in other fields (like genetics) such that technological advance is exponential and not linear. He maintains this advance is going to move so fast that society won't be able to deal with it and it will constitute an actual evolution of humans (some will adapt and some won't). This evolution will include augmented reality like you've shown and also augmented thinking (embedded computer processing). Very very interesting stuff.

Blogging, the new media, and the military reaction may be a fish bowl example of this phenomenon. As you've shown in your other blog posts, the connected minds sharing information makes for the superior harvesting of knowledge. As you've also shown, it brings up some social/normative issues with the military. We see the military grappling with the new media (and doing a great job it seems to me) and it will be even more interesting to watch as the "Singularity" nears.

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Great picture of augmented reality. It reminds me...