In another example of the value of proper requirements analysis before any major project is undertaken, the Planetary Society has announced an initiative: the first human mission to an asteroid.
I wrote more than a year ago about the imminent development of having robots replace humans in management situations. Now, a story from the New York Times that explores this idea. The boss isn’t so much a robot, but is instead using robotic telepresence devices.
Punctuated equilibrium: that’s the notion that long stretches of routine activity that are randomly interrupted with massive game-changing events. Think asteroids crashing into the Yucatan peninsula 65 mm years ago. Or, Lincoln assassinated by Booth. Or, cooling systems on the International Space Station (ISS) failing.
Free-Market ideology holds that the solution to every problem in the social, economic, and political spheres is to allow markets unfettered reign so that they can solve all problems in their natural course. Including slavery, which is not nearly as efficient as “remote workforces.”
The International Space Station (ISS) is now nearly complete, and it can be surprising just how many compartments it has, and yet at the same time how crowded it can feel. The age when people begin to live and work in space is here and now. Take a look at this video virtual tour...
“Even if migrant workers still do not know the specific details of each of their legal rights, far more came to realize that they have rights and there are laws protecting them.”
The next time you hear someone bemoan how President Obama is destroying the American Way Of Life by nationalizing the healthcare, banking, and auto industries ( AS IF! ), tell them about SpaceX’s historic test launch of June 4, 2010.
Could it be that Chinese workers are getting wise to the way that transnational corporations have been abusing them for decades?
And you thought the need for antivirus protection was limited your computer. Not anymore! It seems that Mark Gasson of the University of Reading has demonstrated that it’s possible to contract and spread computer viruses via implanted RFID chips. And pacemakers. And insulin pumps. And ….