MARK Zuckerberg appears to have accidentally revealed plans to use artificial intelligence to spy on Facebook users’ private messages in a bid to combat “terrorism”. (Article by Jasper Hamill from Thesun.co.uk) The billionaire hinted at this controversial scheme in an early version of a 6,000-word manifesto about Facebook’s future. Zuckerberg’s wife Priscilla Chan and their tot […]

Virtual reality headsets are expected to be a hit this holiday season, but health professionals are warning about unknown health risks. The headsets immerse users in a 3D world. The experience could be of great benefit to paralyzed individuals or patients in hospitals and nursing homes. The experience could also be addicting, changing how the […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Zdnet.com reminds us, is not a “magical, mystical source of truth.” After all, AI machines are dependent upon algorithms “whose output is only ever as good as the data put in, or the rules that humans set.” Historically, Homo sapiens have been as capable of creating tremendously beneficial inventions as they have been in furbishing weapons […]

In a recent report, analysts at BofA Merril Lynch told their clients that there is a 20-50 percent chance we’re all living in a virtual reality simulation ala The Matrix films. Article by Melissa Dykes BANK OF AMERICA: There’s a 20%-50% chance we’re inside the matrix and reality is just a simulation Myles Udland pic.twitter.com/TltpYbjPxI […]

Like something out of a science fiction novel, a new computer game teaches its players how to spy on the citizens of a supposedly free society. Aptly titled Orwell, the video game is set in a universe not unlike our own, where a series of deadly terrorist attacks lead the federal government to enact a […]

I’ve been away from school for a couple of decades or so. I went to college in the ’70s, dropped out, and eventually finished in the ’90s. I leaned toward the theatrical, philosophical, sociological, communicable disciplines and ignorantly ignored the burgeoning planned obsolescence of male and female, which would eventually be rebranded as Human 2.0 where flesh melds with […]

Virtual Reality (VR) continues its pervasive ascent. But it’s more than VR video games or VR movies where one purposely suspends cognition for entertainment purposes. In the past two years, the idea of “immersive journalism” has been barnstorming the newsroom. Nonny de la Peña is considered the Virtual Reality pioneer; she created the very first VR “journalistic” story called Hunger in Los […]

The totalitarian net is tightening. You know this. We are the witnesses to an astonishing increase in surveillance, propaganda and fear mongering. But this isn’t about the GMOs, depleted uranium, the Black Pope, nanobots in the chemtrails, Wormwood, Syria, ISIS, fluoride or communist core curriculums. This is about the attacks upon the words you speak and the thoughts you think.  And […]