"This may sound appealing, but it has a dark underside. The moment that we can easily display location-aware images on a blended-reality system, people will try to block any images they don't like. Forget ads: Some people will block even slightly suggestive images, or signs proclaiming religious beliefs that they oppose, or newspapers and magazines with arguments they don't like--anything that would upset their custom-built reality."

"researchers are developing an armband worn on the forearm that recognises finger movements by monitoring muscle activity. They have called it MUCI, which stands for muscle-computer interface."

"The technique is known as “augmented reality” (AR) or, less frequently, as “augmented vision”, because the real world is augmented with virtual text or graphics."

"The Chinese are not constructing virtual worlds for fun; they are deadly serious. Although online games will be part of the mix, the underlying strategy is strictly economic: to boost the profits from the country's booming industrial base."

"researchers at Boston University believe they can correctly identify the sound Mr Ramsay's brain is imagining some 80% of the time. In the next few weeks, a computer will start the task of translating his thoughts into sounds."

"We rely on our hard drives for saving our music, photographs, e-mails and videos — so perhaps life-logging software and memory prosthetics are simply the next stage in the evolution of our relationship to the computer."

2004 paper from Lindeman, Page, Yanagida, Sibert

"f we do not tell the truth, if we do not strive for accuracy in our spoken and written words, we will be held accountable. If we are not willing to accept correction or admit to our mistakes and immediately correct them, we lose credibility."

"Totally ubiquitous computing. One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real. In the future, that will become literally impossible."

"Example: I'm playing golf, but my Mook will get in touch to discuss the new software... or perhaps you are out surfing and my Mook will just discuss it with your Mook?"

"The Mook was going to be a chatbot that you could install, which would pretend — in a very limited fashion — to be you if you didn’t want to / couldn’t IM but wanted people to be able to get certain information."

"It will result not in the infotopia that the prophets conjure up but in one in a long series of new information ecologies, all of them challenging, in which readers, writers, and producers of text have learned to survive."

"It takes advantage of the "massively parallel processing" capabilities of... the processor normally used to produce realistic graphics for video games. ... Using an $800 graphics card ...increased the speed of its password cracking by a factor of 25,"

"If the metamaterials making up the tube were able to bend all wavelengths of visible light, they could be used to make a 3D television display.... It would be as if thousands of pixels were simply floating in the air."

"US scientists have unveiled a detector thousands of times smaller than the diameter of a human hair that can translate radio waves into sound... Made of carbon nanotubes a few atoms across, it is almost 1,000 times smaller than current radio technology."

"The system consists of a headpiece equipped with electrodes that monitor activity in three areas of the motor cortex (the region of the brain involved in controlling the movement of the arms and legs)."