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Technology Quarterly

Posted by michael on from the three-months-of-excitement-compressed-into-one-day dept.

LarsWestergren writes "There is an unusually interesting Technology Quarterly available for free from The Economist where they discuss some of the more interesting new areas in the area of science and technology. Of most interest to Slashdot might be Open source's local heroes, or perhaps playing Pac-Man on thought-controlled computers. Among the other articles this month: Predicting microweather, transparent magnetic memories, smart robotic transplants, how to bake the perfect chip, and Benoit Mandelbrot - the father of fractals."

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  1. Though Controlled Computers by sirReal.83. · · Score: 5, Funny

    ha! no need to type one-handed anymore! ;)

    sorry.

    1. Re:Though Controlled Computers by cgranade · · Score: 2, Funny

      Looks over at TV... mmm... sex...
      WAIT! I didn't mean it that way...
      (I couldn't bring myself to link to goatse or tubgirl.)

      --

      #define DRM chmod 000

    2. Re:Though Controlled Computers by Cooke · · Score: 1, Funny

      Yeah but your browser will be going nuts

      Forward
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  2. Similiar. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Benoit Mandelbrot - the father of fractals"

    Hmmm...all his later work seems so similiar.

  3. "Computers that can read your mind" by theneb · · Score: 5, Funny

    mate....eat....mate...eat.

  4. AI Robots aren't bad enough by burgburgburg · · Score: 5, Funny
    AI Robots that time travel and try to kill John Conner aren't bad enough. Self-replicating nanobots overrunning the planet aren't bad enough. Computers that can lip read and know that you're going to shut them down so they send one of the pods to kill your fellow astronaut and then won't open the pod bay door aren't bad enough.

    Let's build computers that can read our minds.

    Okay, I'm getting my family and we're going up to the hills. I mean it this time. Who's with me?