by mnikolic | Aug 31, 2010 | Ramblings
When I was a kid, there was a t.v. show called Beyond 2000. It showcased cutting edge technology that was supposed to change the way we worked and lived. I guess, at the time, the siren song of the millennium still held its allure. Then we got American Idol and it all...
by agleites | Aug 30, 2010 | IT Hardware, Tech & Innovation
Like the antiquated American cars still driving on Cuban roads, China’s economy still runs on Five-Year Plans. With China’s growing wealth, the last few Five-Year Plans have been able to fund projects from the Chinese space program to developing green...
by mnikolic | Aug 26, 2010 | Ramblings
“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology…Better, stronger, faster.” -from The Six Million Dollar Man Memresistors and human engineering. Artificial intelligence and supercomputers. Biosynthetic corneal implants and facebook updates....
by agleites | Aug 25, 2010 | Tech & Innovation
In 1944, several of America’s most advanced bomber planes, the B-29 Superfortress, landed in the Soviet Union. Years ahead of anything that the Soviets had in the way of strategic bombers at the time (the B-29 was the plane used to drop the atomic bombs on...
by mnikolic | Aug 24, 2010 | Networking
A team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology created a router, built from parts found in most high-end desktop computers, that transmits data at nearly 40 GBps. The technique used by the scientists could lead to the development of cheap commodity...
