Agent-to-agent commerce is the practice of software agents buying and selling discrete jobs from each other: summarize this packet, label these images, fetch a priced data slice, or run …
Thomas Szasz (1920 to 2012) was a psychiatrist and academic writer whose books and essays argued that much of what modern societies call mental illness is better understood through …
Longevity escape velocity is a forecast idea about aging: the claim that if therapies improve life expectancy fast enough, each year of research may add more than a year …
In game development, especially for isometric or 2.5D titles inspired by classics like Ultima Online, creating authentic, dynamic clothing for characters can elevate the visual appeal dramatically. The challenge …
Thinking about the future can mean many different things. Someone might speculate about artificial intelligence transforming society, imagine humans living far longer lives, consider the economic effects of automation, …
Most educational technology is built around applications and cloud services rather than around the computer itself. A student signs into a platform, completes work, generates data, and often sends …
Human knowledge has always depended upon storage. Clay tablets, libraries, printing presses, microfilm, hard drives, websites, and cloud servers have each helped preserve information beyond the moment when it …
Some of the most interesting developments in artificial intelligence are happening where AI intersects with other fields. Computer vision meets language. Machine learning meets molecular biology. Robotics meets simulation. …
Educational wikis have always had an interesting promise. They can function as shared spaces for learning, teaching, research, experimentation, and the gradual organization of knowledge. Unlike a traditional textbook, …
Human life is organized around needs, aims, relationships, constraints, obligations, environments, and the continual requirement to adapt. When something important is missing, blocked, threatened, deteriorating, or in conflict, a …
