David Ruben | News With Views | 13 Dec 2014 The more we find out about how the human mind works through today’s highly advanced technological research, the more power brokers and manipulators learn to control human beings. And what scares me the most is that the medium for takeover is has been in place…
Rory Cellan-Jones | BBC | 2 Dec 2014 Prof Stephen Hawking, one of Britain’s pre-eminent scientists, has said that efforts to create thinking machines pose a threat to our very existence. He told the BBC:”The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” His warning came in response to a…
by Mikael Thalen | Infowars.com | November 7, 2014 “It’s always on… voice recognition hears you from across the room” [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkOCeAtKHIc?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] Controlled by a user’s voice, Amazon boasts the device’s ability to answer questions, provide weather updates, and play music. “Amazon Echo is designed around your voice. It’s always on—just ask for…
by Paul Joseph Watson | November 3, 2014 Company’s new privacy policy causes consternation Samsung’s new global privacy policy for its line of Smart TVs states that a user’s personal conversations will be recorded by the device’s microphone and transmitted to third parties [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svtm9BMcxCk?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] A 46-page privacy policy which is now included in…
by New Scientist | October 30, 2014 As you read this, your neurons are firing – that brain activity can now be decoded to reveal the silent words in your head TALKING to yourself used to be a strictly private pastime. That’s no longer the case – researchers have eavesdropped on our internal monologue for…
by Mike Edelhart | Yahoo News | October 19, 2014 Given the frenzy of interest following the announcement of the Apple Watch, you might think wearables will be the next really important shift in technology. Not so. Wearables will have their moment in the sun, but they’re simply a transition technology. Technology will move from…
Old Thinker News 25 April 2014 Daniel Taylor First, the company hired Transhumanist figurehead Ray Kurzweil to work as its director of engineering. Now, Google has hired top geneticist Cynthia Kenyon to work at Calico, Google’s “moonshot” operation aimed at extending human life. At Calico, in partnership with Arthur Levinson, former chief executive of Genentech…
Mac Slavo April 24th, 2014 SHTFplan.com And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except…
Infowars.com November 13, 2013 Paul Joseph Watson Google is funding a secretive project that will use millions of linked computers to create an Avatar-like virtual reality world in which people could live, interact, and even have sex. The idea sounds like a rudimentary version of the 1999 science fiction thriller The Thirteenth Floor, in which supercomputers…