His Suave, Electric Tongue...So Sophisticated.

Robotic tongue can detect different brands of beer with up to 82% accuracy. Will we have Robotic Wine Snobs and Beer and Food Snobs in the future?  Perhaps we will also be able to have robots that can taste test our foods and water supplies, etc., to see if it meets the bosses' standards of taste for poisons in our food or water supply. McDonald's can ensure for that same McTaste everywhere. Bada ba ba ba! I'm lovin' it! RoboChef approved.

 No need for the King to potentially sacrifice humans to see if his dark and brooding nephew is trying to poison him during the Royal Feast. Hamlet could have used one of these.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140130092848.htm

photo courtesy wikipedia.

Robots and Humans...BFFs?

We made them in our image...what do we expect? Will our robot children pick up after our bad habits, or will they pick up on our bad habits? Will we hack them or will they hack us?  We will probably want to have robot-free vacation get-aways robot-free or
robot-reduced zones or perhaps more HUMAN FREE(ISH) ZONES, where robots are free to work out the damage we have caused on a grand scale....like how the robots are cleaning up Chemical Spills and Oil Spills....it's kind of becoming that way already.
Many places across the world, since the rise of artificial robotics and cybernetics, have transformed our economies and environment and moved on to the next area.

Detroit was mostly human, with robots making cars, and then the humans stopped working and the robots stopped working and robots 'popped up' in Japan, then Korea and China. Can we learn to co-exist? The Robots, the Human Masters, the Human Masters of the Humans and the Robots? So far, it's been a wild ride. Has anyone noticed their rise? We are the ones that need organic food...the robots do not. What will we do? Perhaps they will offer us a place in their neuro-feed. We can plug in just like Neo from the Matrix. They will make sure your heart rate is fine....right?

For now, the individual humanoid robots at least, are getting better at figuring out bringing us our lemonade. We should show them gratitude. As so should they, even if they don't understand. We need to incorporate the Golden Rule into their software and also have them take the Hippocratic Oath, before it will be too late. But then, if the masters can't follow it, how can the engineers and software designers 'program' this into them? If the golden rule was actually 'programed' into our internet, hypochondriacs would have to be blocked out of searching for medical diseases and so on.

For now, our robo assistants will bring us a drink. For now we thank them. Except the people who lost their jobs to an 'artificial entity or entities'.  The robot revolution has been happening since the Luddites rose up and warned us. For now, I press enter+paradigm+shift on my keyboard and see what happens....

OH OH it's an ad for  (insert whatever                          )

-Paul von Dubrovnik

Check out the robotics industry's improvement in better automated robots here: 

http://www.33rdsquare.com/2014/01/roboearth-project-aims-to-build-cloud.html

The Robot Revolution already started before you were born. Here's a recent example:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/9778354/Our-robotic-revolution-is-only-just-beginning-to-gather-steam.html

Korea wants to have all robot factories. People better start making their own Kimchi again, lol. Or is that already made by robots? No Kimchi 4 U!

http://www.advancedtechnologykorea.com/9013/

From Spam to Spam, Killer Robots from Japan in a Can, Because Yes We Can (spam) Man.The Singularity Will Be Positively Mad.

 First we had spam in a can. Then we had spam in the fridge. Now we have fridges spamming. Humans were behind it all. (Or Satan, depending on which way you look at it.) If we decide to invent some types of police or military robots that kill and we don't have a kill switch or non-psycho humans controlling them, and then maybe also invent some types of robots that do your tweets for you, and some types to fill in for you, some to respond for you based on your previous comments and likes and purchases and everything, and some robots to take the spam out of your fridge, some that are physical look alikes of you but make you feel like crap because they do everything better, and some that can memorize all the lines  way better than you - from Star Wars and Terminator and iRobot and the entire internet database and these humans create robots that create even more of these robots, and those robots, and databanks and then toss in nanotech and artificial cells, and genetic engineering and competing groups of humans from billionaires to the military to hackers to terrorists to the CIA and NSA and Hollywood...well, our automatic urinals and toilets and water faucets and lights that always breakdown and don't have a properly working manual over ride (if they even have one at all) -- I'm pretty sure our spamming fridges of the YEAR 2014 will seem like the good old days from a more innocent time in retrospect. And that's crazy. LMFO...for now :)

As for the spamming fridge story, you can check it out below. Hopefully the insulting toasters and jailbroken and unruly tweet-pic-peeking ovens, scalding automatic shower faucets, and overly aggressive bluetooth sex toys will not follow. On twitter or on the news or anywhere. Really, it did all start when somebody decided to put spam in a can. It may have actually tasted good, and some people occasionally have tasted it, or even peeked inside. I mean, it came with it's own can opener attached to it. So convenient. Designed for the curious. Suddenly you're peeling it open...you're almost there...what's inside? Will it be different from the last time? You take a look, take a whiff...yes...yuck...it's still spam :( Unless you're starving:). What ever you do, don't think of the movie Soylent Green!! Don't do it!

-Paul von Dubrovnik

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25780908

Is your Cat Making You Crazy? Have YOU or ANYONE you know been infected?

Does it seem crazy that your cat could be making you crazy? Research is beginning to show that Toxoplasma gondii, often picked up through cat feces, and even some infected foods could be affecting humans in ways that would seem closer cheesy plots of zombie sci-fi and horror films, rather than scientific explanation. Some researchers even propose that entire cultures may have been affected over the course of time and shaped our very history. A recent Atlantic Monthly article investigates a specific case of a Czech scientist who claimed his fearless and outspoken nature was a result of him being affected by T.gondii. One has to wonder if the world's militaries would (or have already clandestinely) used or enhanced the protozoan in order to garner a more effective soldier, or even rout out the enemy and luring them like mice. Or perhaps it could be tweaked for pharmaceuticals applications for patients suffering from excessive shyness. Generally, it is said: "When the cat is gone, the mice play," could now use this scientific discovery to read, "When the cat is here, the mice don't give a darn and play anyway...besides, the cat is on happy cat-nap pills." It would be like the Lion chewing straw with the Lamb. Joy!

Either world peace breaks out, or world war breaks down. Let's inoculate ourselves through keen awareness, regardless.

-Paul von Dubrovnik

Here is the Atlantic article and another one featuring how cultures have perhaps been affected as a whole by 'the infection' :

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/308873/http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/308873/

and:

http://www.livescience.com/933-study-cat-parasite-affects-human-culture.html

Please enjoy this cute kitty picture, although I fear (or do I? No! I don't, I'm...fearless...oh, oh) that you may be looking at cute kitties in a whole new light.

Courtesy of cute kitties everywhere :)

Breathable Underwater Scuba Mask. Like Qui-Gon-Jinn and Obi-Wan Going to the Gungan Underwater City of Otoh Gunga.

Amazing and more sustainable way to breathe underwater. Underwater 'hunters and gatherers' and ocean clean-up crews of the near-future, or scary military type spy stalkers? LET'S DECIDE.

http://www.naturalcuresnotmedicine.com/2014/01/revolutionary-scuba-mask-creates-breathable-oxygen-underwater.html

The God Helmet. When Church or Yoga Just Won't Do.

Many Christian believers and others have reported throughout the ages the feeling of God's presence and mind expansion, the third eye and other phenomena. A materialist approach is now being offered in the form of a 'God Helmet', a device placed on the head, originally conceived by Stanley Koren and Dr. Michael Persinger. Persinger was studying the field of neurotheology and many of the subjects wearing the helmet experienced and 'sensed presence', the same experiences many church goers and spiritual people, mystics and so forth, throughout the world over the ages while alone or in groups.

The original helmet has generated much media coverage throughout the decades and some variations of the device are now being sold over the internet, such as the Shiva Neural Stimulation Program, where you can buy it, run the computer program and experience the presence.

The question is: will this bring us closer to God, or we will we just plug in the USB cable, run the program, press enter and kick back while watching the news or a movie, crack open a beer and eat some popcorn? Who's to know? Who will mind? Who? I thought the Universe was beyond holographic. I thought the pixels (us) were awakening; that Pinocchio is becoming a real boy. Perhaps the helmet will show us the way.


-Paul von Dubrovnik

For the curious and uninitiated in these matters, you can check out the Shiva version below. You can Google other versions yourself:

http://www.shaktitechnology.com/shiva/god%20helmet/index.htm

Here is a YouTube clip of the classic old-school original version of the 'God Helmet':

Transcendence. A Movie that May Become a Reality as We Approach The Singularity...With Johnny Depp (NOT Will Ferrell)

Only Johnny Depp can pull this one off. In the future, this may become a reality. Will we be able to handle this techno-created transcendence? Could anyone, really? Would we need yogic training, and if we did, would we bother to be a part of it? Or would this be encouraged by hollywood and your doctor, perhaps with pharmaceutical pills to 'enhance' our experience? Would it be like getting REALLY, REALLY HIGH and then 'surfing' the WEB back in 1999, feeling like you're INSIDE the WEB? Smoking a fatty and flying through the streets of Google Earth and Google Sky while viewing unofficial versions of Brittany? That was only fun for awhile. Sucked into the Singularity like the guys from TRON? Transcendence, with the way people program computers and Palm Pilots, would probably feel like being a five year old kid Lost in Disney Land after his parents lost him and a stranger slipped him some Ecstasy or LSD and letting him find his way home.

Like the loss of the garden of Eden but replaced with a pseudo-heaven programmed by Bill Gates. That's my prediction. Yikes.


Still, Johnny Depp always kicks ass. Make sure you eat your Mars Bars when you watch this one:

'Invisibility Cloak' Can Help Protect From 'Bad or 'Unwanted' Vibrations'

...in this case, from earthquakes. But the cloaking procedure can theoretically work against any vibration/frequency/light, etc. Shields on, anyone?

"You can't 'see' me, earthquake." It is interesting how imagination, philosophy, science, and so on, becomes a very inter-linked web/layer cake. Nevertheless, it still may be more advisable at this time to try and not build things near and around known earthquake prone areas and so forth....just saying.


http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=44495

Peak-a-boo....you can't see me! In a 'way'.      :)

The Awareness. A Short Film That Leaves The Fate Of The World To A Janitor.

Move over, Hollywood. This short film is more memorable than most blockbusters often hope to be.

It's 18 minutes that will leave you contemplating the future and the nature and observation of awareness, power and judgment.

You can watch it here:  http://www.33rdsquare.com/2014/01/the-awareness.html

South Korea, the Land of Kimchi and Hyundai Creates Nanorobots For Treating Some 'Solid Type' Cancers.

South Korea develops 'Bacteriabot.' This short video, courtesy of Reuters on YouTube, explains the success they achieved with mice subjects. However, it is still not advisable for the mice to take up smoking or engage in other cancer risks lifestyles.

Nanotechnology is illustrating how Homeopathic Medicine is NOT a Quack-Psuedo Science

Homeopaths have always operated on a nanoscale. And now the proof is in the (nano)pudding. Indians, I believe, having been steeped in millennia of ancient wisdom will likely have an innate ability to understand the bridges between homeopathic medicine and the up and coming techno child of nano medicine.

http://hpathy.com/scientific-research/iit-researchers-prove-homeopathy-is-based-on-nanotechnology/

In order to have a general understanding what Homeopathy is, I have provided a link below. With the wisdom of Homeopaths knowledge of the Goldilock's Zone, these Doctors may be able to help nano medical designers not head into the dangers of going beyond the Goldilock's Zone and therefore avoid the highly probable long term side-effects and consequences of nano-medicine or medical devices that may 'freak out' the host. Nobody wants that. With Homeopathy there has practically NEVER been any side effects due to taking Homeopathic medicine. This link will also present the myths/misunderstanding of Homeopathy.

Here's the link on  'What is Homepathy?:

http://www.homeopathy-soh.org/about-homeopathy/what-is-homeopathy/


Here's the link on Homeopathic Myths:

http://www.naturalnews.com/024670_home_homeopathy_homeopathic.html

- Paul von Dubrovnik

The Process of Homeopathic Dilution..."An Old-Fashioned' and perhaps still mysterious nanomedicine.

Automatic Plastic Ocean Cleanup?

This is how we approach the Singularity. From all angles and everything at once. Teenagers and young people are going to have to undo the damage that old people have done to the Earth...no offence old people. We can't wait any longer. Don't let them stop us. Check out one idea that is being 'floated' to help in clearing away the micro-debris and other garbage/plastic debris in our oceans.


http://www.boyanslat.com/TEDx/

                                                 GYRES: WE COME FOR YOU!!!!

Curious About The Effects of Nanotechnology in Your Socks?

Hohenstein Institute, a leading provider of technical testing and certification for apparel and textile products, will present a webinar entitled ‘Nanotechnology, Human Health, and the Environment: Answers to the Questions Surrounding Silver Nanoparticles’ on 15 January 2014.

The webinar will feature the final results of a multi-year evaluation of the effects of nanoparticles on humans and the environment.

http://www.innovationintextiles.com/effects-of-nanoparticles-in-textiles/

Welcome to the PanaCloud.

By 2040 we may be able to download/upload our consciousness. Perhaps we swap or upload our memories/emotions/feelings/vibes and so on, via iMemory, or the Panacloud. Will we all be responsible for the maintenance of our memories, making sure to renew our 'licensing' and dishing out monthly fees or mortgages, or will it be part of The National Health Care Package? Will it be a Human Right to upload your consciousness, or will it be something you buy, like on iTunes? Just click “upload my last 2 weeks of consciousness/experience for $199 a month” or “25 year mortgage for $900,000.” You won't be able to tell your wife you forgot your wedding song. Maybe we'll have to buy hacked false memories, or hire Sony back-track delete programs to cover our open-to the public memories that someone 'accidentally' shared over the Cloud. Please note, Sony is not compatible with iCloud memory systems and Apple's affiliates. 

On 'Quantum-Grid', old friends from your home town, will be sharing memories and tastes of recipes and illegal drugs on neo-facebook and neo-pinterest or neo-whatever, via quantum-computing and teleportation torrents; like going to the "Feelies" in Aldous Huxley's famous book, only from the comfort of your own iHome or Sony cyber-coffin. A Brave New Future might be in store if the march of technology doesn't destabilize the bio-dome-  through botched genetic engineering or bio-destabilizing artificial cellular implants in our food supply, and so on.

In 2040, entire parallel Universes are to be simulated. Our avatars from the quantum-reality-grid- our programmers- are smiling at themselves as we rapidly begin to discover the differences in degree between realities of Reality. Theoretically, we become a dream becoming real. Or is it the other way around? "THIS"-what you are experiencing "NOW"-  is a program where we are meant to think it's us discovering that it IS or is NOT a program. How do I know that I am ME, or not really ME? Theoretically, I could be my Avatar clone self, as you may be, scattered throughout parallel realities, forced to discover a way to upload ourselves on Atoms or Dimensions, and quickly, before McDonald’s changes our minds back. Follow the Purple Grimace and watch out for Hamburglers. -------> Click here to preview taste of BigMac. <----

 Deja deja-vu...:)
                                                                              

-Paul von Dubrovnik

*Names of companies and links are used for artistic license only.

Nanocrap 4 your family? If it's for sale, it must be safe, right?

NanoSilver socks and toothpaste at Walmart*. Carbon nanotubes and the likeness to asbestos. When you design things at the nanoscale that have the violent look of clingy, scratchy asbestos, is it any wonder that there is a danger to the people and planet?

We are always thinking and behaving like exited monkeys playing with atomic weapons. An 8% chance of destruction from manufactured black holes at CERN? What the heck, let's try it. (And even shut it down temporarily, while we update it to be even more powerful, and try it again...something's gotta happen this time, hopefully-- something wonderful; something full of little stars.)  DDT can harm eggshells and children and DNA? Well, let's get rid of the weeds, who wants to get their hands dirty in the fresh earth anyway? It's always the same old pattern of experimenting on common people all over again, however, since the chemical 'revolution' we now know that side effects and consequences happen across species and the landscape and ecosystem as a whole, eventually TRICKLING UP to the rich who marketed  them in the first place.

Yes, nanotechnology exists in nature, yet when scientists design things on the nano scale that looks like ugly and violent asbestos, so small you can't cough it out, we then may have a problem, Houston.

We have often mishandled the current periodic table, and now we are jumping onto the nanoscale. Oh, such exiting times. Nanotechnology poses so many dangers across the scientific spectrum that we will have to invent a whole new set of hazardous waste symbols that will outpace the wave of mutilation it may usher in. You will need a degree just to understand the symbols. And judging by how most dentists treat mercury removal and average people throw out mercury and other toxic materials from their households, there will be someone in the nano -lab that will rush out and 'hand off' the nano waste to a non-english speaking janitor, (or Kazakh-Russian speaking scientist who has a bad bedside manner). Because, you know, it's Friday and it's pizza night, and he's quitting his job anyways. And his medication is having side effects, and the nano skin cream his company designed has crossed his blood brain barrier. Why does everything fall onto his lap all the time? Take this job and shove it!

Mistakes happen, right? Deadlines have to be met. The budget has to be balanced. The boss caved in to the Madmen wearing sleek, skinny ties and 'enamelly-challenged' polished white teeth, who just love what "This nanotech stuff can do."

He does have to pay for his BMW, you know?
The scientists have become the monkeys, and the hippie chick behind the health store counter has become more effective than the doctor with the stethoscope. Who bothers  to check your heart beat and tongue anymore nowadays, right? That's just for show, isn't it? Doctors don't believe in superstition. They believe in money. And whatever the guys at the FDA say. And they're out  playing golf with the chemical guys. You can follow them on twitter. (They have an IT guy for that). He has bad acne. He just bought the possible cancer or disease causing nano skin cream. The chemical guys gave him that for doing such a good (low paying) job. If only people knew he was using it to wackoff with while he was updating the web site. Somebody call a Doctor! One who understands nanotoxins for what they really are. No whistle blowers need apply....(they were all weeded out on campus anyway.)

-Paul von Dubrovnik

*The companies alluded to or mentioned in this post were used for artistic purposes only

                                                               Nanocrap 4U.

See some nano hazardous symbol proposals here:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=nanotechnology+hazardous+symbols&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Pgc4UZXdO8Lo2QWT7oEw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1234&bih=702




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