Justin James' Critical Thinking blog examines IT issues from the standpoint of someone who doesn't drink the Kool Aid. There is also discussion of various programming/development matters, particularly multithreading and parallelism. http://www.formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/BlogId/5/Default.aspx en-US formortals@thesophist.com Admin@formortals.com Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:50:05 GMT Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:50:05 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blog RSS Generator Version 3.4.0.39853 <p><font size="2">I love to read stuff from Microsoft Research. Say what you willa bout their <em>shipping</em> products, their <em>research</em> items are just plain fascinating, and I have learned a lot by reading their papers. </font><a target="_blank" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/technology/im/technology-humans-tan.html"><font size="2">I came across an item today, an interview with a guy there working on human/computer interfaces, Desney Tan</font></a><font size="2">. It was interesting; he talked about "wetworks" (merging the brain and the machine) fairly casually.</font></p> <p><font size="2">Now, I am all for technological progress, I am certainly no Luddite. But the idea of wetworks somehow bothers me in a weird way. Not really moral qualms, per se. But practical issues. Things like, "if my brain is wired up like this, what happen http://www.formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/73/Default.aspx formortals@thesophist.com http://www.formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/73/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.formortals.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=73 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:52:00 GMT 0 http://www.formortals.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=73