Monday, August 23, 2010

RRRR! Hit the Brakes...

As ridiculous as this traffic jam in China looks, its somehow a perfect visual metaphor of the chaos that lurks on the edges of industrial society.  A few things go wrong and-- hit the brakes-- we're all stuck...
 


 
 
 
 
 
 




Saturday, July 31, 2010

Dragon Naturally Speaking Will One Day Become a Dragon

Voice recognition software improves further--we train it ourselves each time we make a correction.  Excellent!
 
But how cruel the irony will be when the same software is sold to the Department of Homeland Security and used for Big Brother-ish purposes to monitor the populace.