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Welcome to Transhuman News. Transhuman is a term that refers to an evolutionary transition from the human to the posthuman. While many transhumanist theorists and advocates seek to apply reason, science and technology for the purposes of reducing poverty, disease, disability, and malnutrition around the globe, transhumanism is distinctive in its particular focus on the applications of technologies to the improvement of human bodies at the individual level.
Many transhumanists actively assess the potential for future technologies and innovative social systems to improve the quality of all life, while seeking to make the material reality of the human condition fulfill the promise of legal and political equality by eliminating congenital mental and physical barriers.
Transhumanists support the emergence and convergence of technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science (NBIC), and hypothetical future technologies such as simulated reality, artificial intelligence, superintelligence, mind uploading, and cryonics. They believe that humans can and should use these technologies to become more than human.
Some theorists, such as Raymond Kurzweil, think that the pace of technological innovation is accelerating and that the next 50 years may yield not only radical technological advances but possibly a technological singularity, which may fundamentally change the nature of human beings.
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Posted by admin on Jun 13, 2010 in Articles | 0 comments
RFID technology is something that most people would claim to know nothing about. The technology is not new, it has its roots as far back as 1946 and chances are, you are sitting within a few feet of an RFID device right now.
RFID, short for Radio Frequency Identification, is a umbrella term used to describe technologies that transmit the identity of a person, animal or object in the form of a unique serial number wirelessly, using radio waves. The technology is in the same category as barcodes, OCR and some biometric systems such at retinal scanning.
The applications of this technology are obviously massive, it can (and has) been used in security, identification and as a replacement for barcodes among other things. The Oyster card, London’s prepaid public transport system uses RFID as does the similar Japanese Octopus card.
The RFID chips embedded in Oyster cards, passports, cattle and people across the globe come in two forms; passive and active. Active RFID holds its own power supply, passive requires no power. Passive RFID is the more commonly used and slightly less controversial of the two and it is passive RFID that I will be focussing on in this article.
Imagine the passive RFID in your Oyster card and the reader in the turnstiles at Charing Cross as two players in a game of table tennis. The reader serves the ball constantly and as long as the ball is not returned it knows that another player is not nearby. When a RFID chip is near to a reader it bounces back the signal, just like a table tennis player returning a serve. Now imagine that when the returning player (the RFID chip) hits the ball back his bat leaves a unique mark.
The serving player (the reader) always knows who returned the ball due to these identifying marks. This is essentially how Oyster cards work, the marks left on the proverbial table tennis ball represent the card’s remaining balance and that balance is updated whenever the card is used to travel. This data is kept on a central database not on the chip itself. All that is usually on a RFID chip is a unique string of numbers that identifies it to aforementioned database.
Naturally, with a silent way of checking who has been moving where, people are concerned RFID can and will be used to create a big brother state. Companies have already produced and are heartily marketing RFID-proof clothing and a sleeve for your passport that prevents the chip being picked up unless the passport is opened and deliberately presented to a scanner/reader.
These concerns are natural and by no means unfounded but it must be considered that passive RFID is easily blocked, even thick clothing can disrupt the signal. It must also be kept in mind that passive RFID cannot be easily employed to track people in the traditional sense. You must pass by a sensor to be detected and all that is recorded is that you passed by, not your speed, your direction or even your actual identity. After all, to a RFID scanner you are nothing more than an anonymous string of digits.
As we speak I have a RFID wristband from Alton Towers YourDay system sitting on my desk. As I am hundreds of miles out of reach of their scanners the wristband is useless. Alton Towers have no idea where I am and even less idea who I am. These things considered, it is my personal opinion that concerns that we are being spied on using RFID are as valid as the worry of alien mind control or the interesting but ridiculous chemtrail poisoning theories.
Among the most exciting applications for RFID is the human sub-dermal implant. By placing a tiny RFID chip encased in silicate glass under the skin users can open RFID-enabled doors, start cars and store medical and personal information such as allergies or insurance details.
The possibilities are literally endless for the RFID implant. Eventually, a bead of glass the size of a grain of rice implanted in your wrist or hand could replace your keys, your credit card, your work swipe card/ID, your passport and even every username and password on every computer you own. Providing they are all equipped with the relevant RFID scanners of course.
With a nation-wide network of RFID scanners, the rough location of escaped criminals or missing children could be ascertained in moments. To some this may sound like tracking, a way for the dastardly government to keep an eye on us, but this is merely one application of a technology that could change the world, it could be the first step towards integrating man and machine, to becoming cyborgs.
One Spanish nightclub has begun offering RFID implants to it’s VIP customers. They use them as a kind of debit card which means no need to carry wallets or cash, just scan your hand. These implants are hardly widespread, they are hardly used at all in fact. The one place they seem to have any semblance of popularity is in the body modification community where they are being seen almost as a 21st century piercing.
Transhumanists and cyberpunks are slowly embracing the RFID implant, at the moment it’s more basic uses are those you commonly hear of, computer locks and ID cards. One tattoo parlour even uses RFID implants as the staffs sign-ons for the cash register, I can only assume that they are removed when the employee stops working for the parlour.
The medical applications of RFID are fast becoming one of the hot topics surrounding this exciting technology. Implants containing the medical history, allergies, insurance details and personal details of patients would allow medical staff to quickly identify and treat patients in emergency situations.
The American FDA only approved the implants for such use relatively recently and so this application is in its infancy. The massive impact it could have on emergency medicine is obvious. Patients full medical histories could be accessed even if the patient is unconscious or incapable of speech. If only used for this purpose RFID implants will still be one of the biggest technological revolutions since the internet was born.
The terrible shame about this technology is that it is unlikely to be welcomed with open arms by the general public. The tin-foil hat brigade will always voice their over-enthusiastic conspiracy theories and scare people off long before RFID implants can really take hold.
Some might be put off by the whole implantation thing and that’s fair enough, it’s a pretty big needle after all. I for one intend to embrace this potentially world-changing technology as soon as RFID enabled locks and cars become readily available. Someone call Sarah Connor, I’m going cyborg.
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Posted by admin on Jun 9, 2010 in Articles | 0 comments
Many men agree that attracting women who are older (28+) is easier because women at that age tend to allow your personality to shine more so than younger women (18-27).
The argument usually centers around younger women being too ‘flighty’ and less interested in being serious for too long in an interaction.
Those suggestions are partly true.
Generally speaking and compared to older women, younger women don’t have as much experience with sexual courtships and the ins and outs of dating, love and relationships.
To a younger woman, being all giggly and energetic may be her best way of socializing, connecting with you and expressing her happiness with you in a situation.
If you can’t ‘vibe’ with her on that sort of level, then she might see you as ‘weird’ or ‘boring’.
Additionally, a younger woman might thoroughly enjoy watching movies where Hollywood stars demonstrate passionate and interesting sexual courtships, but will be clueless as to how to make it happen for herself in real-life.
This inexperience on the younger woman’s part might leave you thinking that she isn’t interested or doesn’t like you, or that attracting women of that age is too hard. However, it is more likely that you are incorrectly reading her signals, or lack thereof.
Generally speaking, an older woman will have had more experience with dating and be able to give you more obvious and effective signals of interest so attracting women of that age will seem easier.
An older woman might also express her happiness with you in a situation by using more ‘interested’ facial expressions, body language and tonality and involving herself in longer and more meaningful conversations with you.
Now, I’ve been using the words ‘generally speaking’ because, as you may have experienced, some younger women are very mature, sexually and socially.
One of my girlfriends from last year was 21 years old (I’m 29). She understood things about dating and sex that you’d expect from someone much, much older.
When we first met, our conversations and interactions, while flirty and fun, were also deep and mature.
If you aren’t attracting women between the age of 18-27 and then moving it towards the point of having a younger girlfriend, then you may simply be going about it in the wrong way.
Here’s an example…
I was coaching a client in Sydney a couple of weekends back. As we vibed with two younger women in a popular city bar, there was an old, black & white cartoon playing in the background.
The two younger women were very energetic and giggly, so I geared the conversation towards the cartoon, cartoons in general and the funny things that cartoon characters do, for about one or two minutes.
We all had a good laugh. We then we talked about some ‘normal stuff’ relating to the bar we were in, for a minute or two, and then went back to talking about some other ‘fun stuff.’
I lead the women through a conversation that had emotional variance, in a way that they could relate and contribute to. Afterwards, my client commented with amazement on how the two women just naturally took to me.
Here’s the thing though: Regardless of how skilled I am at meeting and attracting women, the interaction would not have gone so well if I had tried to interact with the two younger women by focusing on ‘normal, boring stuff’ and then expecting them to want to stay there and experience that sort of vibe.
They had a different energy level and way of interacting, so I adapted to the situation.
If you want to beging successfully attracting women of all ages, then you are going to need to learn how to be flexible with the various personality types you meet.
A quick disclaimer: I’m not saying that you should not be yourself, or that you should pretend to be interested in talking about cartoons.
Hell, one of my favourite subjects second to dating advice is transhumanism, but talking about the mind-blowing possibilities of science just doesn’t seem to enthrall 99% of women in bar environments!
…especially younger women. So, I adapt in order to be effective…and it works every time.
Note: Once you begin dating, you’ll be surprised at how interested women will be in who you are, what you know, what you like talking about and where you’re going with your life.
However, before you even get to that enjoyable place, you’re going to need to learn how to adapt and explore interactions and conversations based on the unique individuals you meet.
I can’t remember who said this, but I think it’s an awesome take on calibrating to the situation. I think it might have been Samuel L. Jackson on some TV show when they interviewed him.
Anyway, the ‘guy’ said: “The epitome of cool, is being able to walk into a room full of strangers and get along with everyone on their level, while still being yourself.”
Now get out there and start attracting women!
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