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EU
One of my memories growing up was the news of John Major vowing to veto every piece of EU legislation in retaliation for the BSE trade restrictions: http://articles.latimes.com/1996-06-22/news/mn-17472_1_european-union It wasn’t very effective. My father told me it had failed because it meant the UK was vetoing everything that the UK wanted to do as a member…
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The Singularity is Dead, Long Live The Singularity
The Singularity is one form of the idea that machines are constantly being improved and will one day make us all unemployable. Phrased that way, it should be no surprise that discussions of the Singularity are often compared with those of the Luddites from 1816. “It’s different now!” many people say. Are they right to think that…
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The near future
Five years ago, 3D printed kidneys were demonstrated live on stage. Teams like that are working on all the other organs in the human body right now, except for the brain. Brain–computer interface have been around for much longer. Not that you need them if there isn’t a brain in the body, and plenty of research is going on…
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Tryin’ out wordpress
I used to blog a little on Livejournal, but I’m curious to see if this is a better blogging platform these days…
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