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oooh… this is genius!  i digg the download!! a real Human Interface, developed by Multitouch Barcelona, an “interaction design group that explores natural communication between people and technology.” niice.

i HATE Microsoft and their crappy products… but damn if they don’t have some amazing ideas!!  out of Microsoft’s mysterious new department, Volume Studios.

more Ray Kurzweil… MUST WATCH (all four parts).  from VBS (which is an incredible site of its own):

Ray Kurzweil tells us about his vision of the Singuarlity—a point around 2045 when computers will acquire full-blown artificial intelligence and technology will infuse itself with biology. His theories have all sorts of supporters, detractors, and critics, but do you even remember what life was like before three-year-olds had cell phones and you actually had to remember facts instead of relying on the internet? That was only 10 years ago. If Kurzweil is right, we’ll have supercomputers more powerful than every human brain on the planet combined within a few decades.

Despite being perceived as an extreme optimist, Kurzweil is the first to admit that this technology could very quickly bring an end to the world as we know it. Stuff like gray goo is a concern, but a biological terrorist attack could happen tomorrow that is based on the very same type of technology he touts as the harbingers of the unimaginable future. He believes we’ll exist in a permanent virtual/”real”-reality hybrid.

this… this is quite profound… the implications on society, let alone human beings.  if you don’t know Ray Kurzweil by name, you should.  fromTribeca Film‘s site:

Ray Kurzweil is one of the world’s foremost inventors. At age 15 he was designing programs that were adapted by IBM and soon after machines that allowed the blind to read. Today he is hailed by some as a modern-day Nostradamus and dismissed by others as a crackpot. The “futurist” and best-selling author is a leading theorist on the “technological singularity”—a time when humans and machines will fuse in the next phase of bio-technological evolution, creating superintelligent, godlike beings that could conceivably live forever. The kicker is, Kurzweil claims that this monumental change is destined to happen in just 30 years.

more on Ray Kurzweil to come….

this is absolutely fantastic.  the future of computing is among us.  PLEASE watch this video…. from Pattie Maes’ (MIT) speech at TED (Technology Entertainment Design) conference.