Cool and Crap Awards of the Week

At least two thing happened in the world of science fabrication and science in the past workweek . One of them was cool , and the other was crap .

cool fashion to get support for time travel that takes you beyond the singularity : Paul Saffo , a renowned cultivation forecaster among technobiz types , has leave his job at the Institute for the Future after twenty years because it was n’t futurist enough . Hetold the San Jose Mercury Newsthat the trouble with the IFTF was that he could only get funding for predictions about the next decade , whereas he ’s more interested in the next half - century . So he ’s setting up workshop in Stanford University ’s engineering section , where ( implicitly ) there is funding for estimate about what might take place in 2050 . So what are the issues that IFTF wo n’t fund futurist to think about , but Stanford will ? Number one is apparently that global warming is n’t a good thing , and another is that sophisticated new anticipation software might make “ forecaster ” a Book of Job that anyone could do . penetrate through to find out the bullshit on how your car is spying on you .

Crappiest new path the constabulary or your mum can come after your every move without ever entrust the sofa : The groovy satellite navigation organization in your car that tells you how to get to any reference you type into it is also rat you out . Most satnav system keep records of every reference you type into it , and the route you took to get there . If you sync it with your bluetooth phone , it also has records of phone calls and messages you ’ve received . That ’s why police officers in the U.K. have started sucking datum off the satnav systems of defendant to find out where they ’ve been . Now the authorities can tail you without ever leaving their station – and probably without get a motor lodge ’s license to succeed you either . Plus , according to New Scientist , the hacks take to get this data off the satnav organization are widely live and can be used by anyone smart enough to look them up on various wikis or discussion board . So your mom or your boyfriend could be snarfing up your localization data too , checking to see whose theatre you ’re go to after study and where you go for tiffin . That is severely crap .

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