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The interactive storefront comes to life in this interactive window display
"Imagery
in which poetry and music
are melded into
an unchanging worth".
" It was August 2004, and Bezos and his new senior vice-president in charge of worldwide digital media, Steven Kessel, were exploring what seemed like a radical idea for an online retailer: making their own hardware. "
..."There is a sense, as one easily holds the Kindle Fire in one hand (try doing that with an iPad), that Bezos is working from the same set of principles as Jobs: Content matters. Simplicity is key." ...
We are the children of our times, and I look to the future with passion and expectation, despite the risks of an cyberpunk future described so many times and so well in literature, movies and videogames.
Everything is evolving so fast and Everything seems more natural. The Human enhancement technologies (HET) are techniques that can be used not simply for treating illness and disability, but also for enhancing human characteristics and capacities.
Because, the true thing that make us humans, is the capacity of success and overcoming even when everything seems impossible and the ability to create and innovate to make it happen.
When I was reading about Oscar, I couldn't think that even with his disability, Oscar has exceeded all expectations. For the first time in the human history, technology is evolving to a level of perfeccion that makes me belive that very soon will improve the skills and abilities of the human race.
Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius (known as the "Blade Runner") is a South African sprint runner. In 2008, Time magazine chose him as the one hundred most influential people in the world, in the "Heroes and Pioneers". Oscar Pistorius also is the new model of Thierry Mugler advertising campaign. In July 2011, he made history in Italy with a personal best of 45.07 seconds for the men's 400m, a result that saw him qualify for the South African national team and the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea (Aug 2011). Here he made history yet again, running against non-disabled athletes and qualifying for the 400m semi-finals.
Is Oscar a superhuman? Or he is just one of the first example of an enhance human? This can be taken as a radical idea, but today millions of men and women go through surgery to improve certain aspects of their anatomy "just on a whim" this way I think that is very realistic to think that all we will pass through surgery to improve ourselves with chips and implants sooner that we think.
Act Now: Stop Apple's iPhone Kill Switch
Dear Friend,
Think you own your smartphone? Think again.
Apple wants to patent a kill switch technology that can detect when people are using their phone cameras and give corporations the power to shut them down.1
Think that's bad? Imagine what would happen if this tool fell into the hands of repressive regimes. Thousands of people across the Middle East have used cellphone cameras to document government abuses.
This kind of technology would give tyrants the power to stem the flow of videos and crack down on protesters with impunity.
Apple says this new technology was designed to stop concertgoers from taking unofficial video at live events. But you can bet that governments and corporations will use it in other, more dangerous ways – to silence the voices of protesters, political opponents or anyone else they dislike.
As Steve Jobs obviously knows, smartphones have become extensions of ourselves. They are incredibly powerful tools for communication, education, political expression, community organizing and just plain fun.
Earlier this year, researchers discovered that iPhones recorded your every move for the past year in a hidden but unprotected file.2 The public was outraged, and Apple soon announced that it was updating its software to better protect users.
We must stop Apple again. This new camera-blocking technology is a pre-emptive strike against free speech. If activated, it would be immensely harmful to our rights to connect and communicate.
Please take action now to urge Steve Jobs to pull the plug on this censorship technology.
Thanks,
Josh Levy
Online Campaign Manager
Free Press
www.freepress.net1. "Is Apple Launching a Pre-emptive Strike Against Free Speech?" Huffington Post, June 22, 2011: http://act2.freepress.net/go/4692?akid=2596.9879142.Ccv_dD&t=7
2. "Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves," O'Reilly Radar, April 20, 2011: http://act2.freepress.net/go/4627?akid=2596.9879142.Ccv_dD&t=9
