His Master's Toys » cyberpunk http://desoumal.a3ai.com/blog “All is but toys: renown, and grace, is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of” --- William Shakespeare Sat, 22 May 2010 20:05:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Remotely programming a cardiac pacer or defibrillator http://desoumal.a3ai.com/blog/2008/03/12/remotely-programming-a-cardiac-pacer-or-defibrillator/ http://desoumal.a3ai.com/blog/2008/03/12/remotely-programming-a-cardiac-pacer-or-defibrillator/#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:57:33 +0000 soum http://desoumal.a3ai.com/blog/2008/03/12/remotely-programming-a-cardiac-pacer-or-defibrillator/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> It is not important to ask ‘when’ the first heart device will be hacked. As is always with any innovation, universal acceptance happens sooner rather than later, however controversial it might be.A more interesting discussion is — what happens if the heart devices allowing open access. What is it that changes? 

As with every change, the outcome is at the minimum a duality and everything in between. If the at least, the opposite poles can be identified (at any particular instant — this is important), then it allows us to break down the problem into simpler blocks.

As an example — if a hundred cellphones are distributed in a village in Ethiopia — the two possible outcomes could be:a) A hyper-connected village, and a range of services / economic changes that emerge as a consequence.b) the cellphones are never used for productivity at all — they are used a jewelries instead.

The actual outcome would be a combination of the above opposites, of course.In that sense, if I try and analyze the outcome of an innovation such as a heart device with open api —

  •  positive: a range of middle layer services that promote life — such as: heart beat based art creator, romance analyzer (does her heart beat faster when she’s around me?), stress analyzer (during war?), longer life expectancy, music which modifies according to the heart rate (different music during sleep and jogging), better monitoring of food quality…. there is literally no end. 
  • negative: a range of possibilities that destroy life — such as: freaky weapons of mass destruction, employee exhaustion monitoring, mass scale deaths due to machine failures…

By tomorrow morning, I will think of fifty more possibilities. Of course, I am just ranting… early morning coffee induced rant. There is no point to this rant, since both of the above will happen sooner or later. The fact is, we are living a cyberpunk novel… we just don’t see it yet. ;)

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“The Multiverse consist(ed) of multiple versions of the universe existing in the same physical space, but separated from each other by their vibrational resonances.

The Original Multiverse was created as the result of interference in the Big Bang by Krona. It was destroyed by the Crisis on Infinite Earths.

An Interregnum Multiverse was created by Alexander Luthor during Infinite Crisis.

After the events of Infinite Crisis, the remaining Earths created collapsed back together, combining historical remnants to form one New Earth. However, the single universe was too small to contain the energy inside it and it began replicating – into 52 identical Universes, the 52 Multiverse.”

Continue reading here… BTW, I am quite impressed by the Wikia project by Jimmy Wales. Apart from the fact that its highly usable, generating 40-50 mil pageviews simply through viral marketing (after raising 10 mil series B funding from Amazon) is the sign of a *very* smart venture.

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