I wonder what would happen if someone combined the Milgram experiment with the Stanford Prison experiment? Any guesses?

Question is: Who will be the first to get patent rights to iUnion technology?

Now IBM can afford by buy back OS/2 and make a smartphone version that features Watson running on CIGS solar cells.

Strange how such a small rumor has so quickly acquired such large mass.

Or we could start building Thorium reactors next year and move past all talk about a looming energy crisis.

The data-alien is touching down all over the planet! Oh what fun! Data and computation and evolutionary principles grow into conscious-like clouds of swirling people posts and product purchases. There really are no countries anymore; just money looking for fine places to grow. Who would have thought that money has a mind of its own? Luckily we humans need our money plants and the data-alien just like we need our laws and list of friends. Oh the poetry of our modern times. There is no east versus west, only money doing its thing where it finds itself. The world is just a bunch of people coexisting with money and data - just fine I think.

News: Apple announces that secret succession plan has been completed. In other News: Apple has just filed over three hundred patents concerning human cloning.

Any engineer knows that there is going to be trouble when you make a bridge out of sand. It seems like another case of that mystical name/fate thing - where a name carries its own karma.

What are the terms of service going to look like in ten years? "30% of thoughts elicited from an ebook purchased on iTunes must be happy thoughts about Apple?"

When Egypt goes dark it is best to evacuate your firstborn out of the country! Really, the population of Earth is at such a size that we should be witnessing the rise of more geniuses than we have seen throughout the whole of human history. This should be a time of peacefully working out our past karma and past prejudices and preparing the way for a new generation of spirited helpers and builders. We are one Earth population, any country filled with people in pain is our own pain.

Us: We humbly welcome you to our solar system in peace!

Them: Cute, our food is trying to say something to us!

Us: Please don't hurt us!

Them: Aha, food with a message, kind of like the fortune cookies mentioned in their "All you can eat, galactic, we are here for your dining pleasure, Earth is number 1 your bestest restaurant," beacon they have been sending out for the last 100 years.

Us: I think you are looking for the dolphins ...

Them: We wish to start with the one you call Lucy. We have a good feeling we are going to love her as opening appetizer! And where is this so called Island of Gilligan?

I suppose Facebook is too proud to do a Google search or they would find plenty of web hosting companies that offer unlimited bandwidth for only $12.95 a month.

The simulation may find it difficult to simulate all the world's computers processing data at full capacity and even if it manages to do that it will still have to simulate itself simulating everything including again itself and so on forever.

It's the end of defining life as we know it and I feel fine!

Who would have thought Kurzweil's idea of a singularity would predict Hegel's idea of a historical dialectic culminating in the absolute idea where consciousness becomes conscious of itself and everything becomes known. That is a prediction foreseeing a full 200 years into the past!