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A video info graphic that compares the internet today to 10 years ago. 
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The researchers, Monica Ortiz, a doctoral candidate in bioengineering, and Drew Endy, PhD, an assistant professor of bioengineering, have parasitized the parasite and harnessed M13’s key attributes — its non-lethality and its ability to package and broadcast arbitrary DNA strands — to create what might be termed the biological Internet, or “Bi-Fi.” Their findings were published online Sept. 7 in the Journal of Biological Engineering.
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No one can remember everything, and the Web can be a great mind-expanding device.
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Sydney Morning HeraldHow digital culture is rewiring our brainsSydney Morning HeraldOur brains are superlatively evolved to adapt to our environment: a process known as neuroplasticity. Via Tom Perran
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The Internet has revolutionized the way we connect and the way we think, speeding up the rate of virtually everything. At times, having so many facts at your fingertips can feel less like an upside and more like a deluge. (There's a reason why Gleick's book is subtitled "a flood.") But fundamental cultural and technological shifts in our relationship to information are hardly unprecedented. They're "part of the evolution of the species," he says.
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Being online does change your brain, but so does making a cup of tea. A better question to ask is what parts of the brain are regular internet users using.
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he Web's ability to facilitate the transfer of information will continue to revolutionize our world, replacing the very physical space which many of our institutions take for granted. Office buildings, universities and shopping malls exist in large part to store information and facilitate its transfer between human beings. Many offices still hold large file cabinets, college lecture halls were built to allow many students to learn from one professor and malls provide consumers with information before they make a purchase.
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Neuroscientists have traced circuits in part of the rat brain and find no sign of a top-down hierarchy. The distributed network of the Internet may be a better model, they say. Via Flavio Bernardotti
Teresa Levy's comment,
October 25, 2012 8:31 PM
more like a pyramid. People did it and threw away the key
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Read the full article here: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/04/how-the-internet-can-read-your-mind.html Don't forget to subscribe!
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A perfect storm engenders online rudeness, including virtual anonymity and thus a lack of accountability, physical distance and the medium of writing
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![[VIDEO] Invention of the Internet in 1934? | Science News | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/v2m4yfWdLdViv6CTGuBUBTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
In a 1934 book titled, The Treaties on Documentation, Belgian entrepreneur Paul Otlet conceived of a system for requesting and retrieving massive amounts of information. Calling it a “radiated library,” Otlet’s device would allow users to retrieve all the world’s information—books, magazines, film, music—with a single phone call. Did he invent the Internet? Here, Alex Wright, director of user experience at The New York Times and discoverer of Otlet’s lost opus, explains at the 2012 World Science Festival program, Internet Everywhere, just how close Otlet had come to creating the world’s first information-networking system.
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The electro-type, the Electro Sapien, will expand conscious access to brain realism, merge — through miraculous data crunching — our insipid linear perception of reality with actual multidimensional reality. He will abstract linear thinking, see and analyse in greater detail the sapient mass of present time. He will feed on vision and memory connectivity stored in all constructs of matter, and harness integration of individual electric signatures with the internet’s electric signature. He won’t fear death, nor personal identity dissolution and insignificance.
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There is only one measure of time that matters to the current Internet generation: the here and now. The Cult of Now is influencing everything that we do and every interaction we have on the Internet, especially since providing a live, real-time update is often no more difficult than pressing a button on a smart phone. We now perceive our digital lives as a continuous flow of information, and as the intensity of this information flow builds, it means that "the now" gets a disproportionate amount of attention and focus in our society. The Cult of Now satisfies our desire for instant digital gratification, but does it impoverish us in other ways?
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New software could tell Washington exactly what social network users are really thinking, collectively.
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