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Future Tech

The Avatar Will See You Now

June 17, 2013

From MIT …patients can communicate their condition to an emotionally reactive avatar through their phone, desktop, or TV. The avatar asks the patient simple questions, and if programmed by a doctor, it can answer questions too—such as what a diabetes patient with high blood-sugar readings should eat that day. via The Avatar Will See You [...]

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Books and More

June 6, 2013

Emmott on Technology is an Amazon affiliate. Scroll down and look at the offers in the boxes in the right hand column. These include some of my favorite books on technology, medicine , business and the future as well as daily deals on electronics and technology. If you choose to connect and buy from this [...]

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The Anti-Buzz: Computers Are (Not) Smarter Than Us

June 1, 2013

Antibuzz has been running as a weekly column (more or less) for three years. We have decided to give Andrew a few weeks off and run some “best of” columns from the past. This column was published originally in August of 2010 and introduces a common Anti Buzz theme. The Buzz: Computers are taking over [...]

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Humans With Amplified Intelligence Could Be More Powerful Than AI

May 30, 2013

Hmmm (BTW AI isn’t some guy named Al it is Artificial Intelligence) Radically extending the abilities of a pre-existing human mind — whether it be through genetics, cybernetics or the integration of external devices — could result in something quite similar to how we envision advanced AI. via Humans With Amplified Intelligence Could Be More [...]

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Star Trek’s Tricorder Becomes Reality

May 28, 2013

to use the device you simply hold it against your forehead and wait. Results are synched from Scout to your smartphone, where you can track your health over time. On a basic level, you can see that your temperature or heart rate is elevated from the norm at any given time. On a larger level, [...]

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Intellectual Property Laws Are Out of Control

May 17, 2013

Interesting, related to “Who owns the data?” The publisher had argued, essentially, that you might own a book you bought, but the company retained the right to sell it. Ownership ought to mean something. When you buy a smartphone or an automobile, it should be yours, and companies shouldn’t be able to leverage their intellectual [...]

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3D Printing and Plastic Guns

May 16, 2013

This relates to the concept I wrote about in Dentalcompare, A Car is not Merely a Faster Horse. We (all of us) need to understand how different the actual world is from the world most of us think we’re living in. Most people believe that tomorrow is going to be substantially identical to today. The [...]

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Quantum computer leaves PC in the dust

May 15, 2013

Hmmm For the first time, a commercially available quantum computer has been pitted against an ordinary PC – and the quantum device left the regular machine in the dust via Commercial quantum computer leaves PC in the dust – physics-math – 10 May 2013 – New Scientist.

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Oh Yeah, It’s a Phone Too

May 14, 2013

One of the fundamental changes that digital technology has produced is so subtle we often don’t even acknowledge it yet it is so substantial that it has altered everything. Once the basic capacity is in place a digital device can do many many that is to say many tasks. The most obvious example is a [...]

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Anti-Buzz: Stylus Pens

May 11, 2013

The Buzz: A tech prediction! The Anti-Buzz is going to make a tech prediction! The Anti-Buzz: I predict that stylus pens are going to get really popular. The Buzz: … Groan, I hear you say, that’s a boring prediction. I admit that it might only seem bold in as much as it is very unexciting. Stylus pens? you [...]

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A Car is Not Merely a Faster Horse

May 2, 2013

This week on Dentalcompare. Dentists buy the wrong technology because they are stuck in the wrong timeframe “A car is not merely a faster horse.” E-mail is not a faster fax. Word processing is not a faster typewriter. And Google is not merely faster Yellow Pages. At the basic level this is a simple idea [...]

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Brain Computer Interfaces

May 1, 2013

The future is coming……. The technology, often called a brain computer interface, was conceived to enable people with paralysis and other disabilities to interact with computers or control robotic arms, all by simply thinking about such actions. Before long, these technologies could well be in consumer electronics, too. via Brain Computer Interfaces Inch Closer to [...]

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Transplant jaw made by 3D printer

April 30, 2013

Hmmm, Amazing! A 3D printer-created lower jaw has been fitted to an 83-year-old woman’s face in what doctors say is the first operation of its kind. via BBC News – Transplant jaw made by 3D printer claimed as first.

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Changes in Hardware Change How We Practice

April 16, 2013

From my article in Sidekick Mgazine: It is no longer necessary to assign a computer to a place—the computer can be assigned to a person and it simply goes wherever the person goes. It is a bit like an old wall-mounted corded telephone and a handheld cell phone. The old wall mount is the kitchen [...]

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Dentistry in the Cloud

April 16, 2013

Follow the link to my latest Inscriptions article on “The Cloud” Inscriptions—April 2013.

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Anti-Buzz: Data Smog

April 13, 2013

I’m not a social scientist, but I play one on the Internet. And so does everyone else. Which is sort of the problem with the Internet. If you’ve read my articles even a little bit, you know I’m pretty much a wild optimist about the positive impact computing technology has had and will have on humanity, [...]

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Rational Optimist

April 7, 2013

What I am reading right now: Excellent

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Eight Things That Will Disappear in Your Lifetime

April 2, 2013

I adapted this from one of those roving e-mail messages. I am sorry to say I do not know the original author so I can not give credit. Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come…….. The Post Office. The [...]

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George Jetson Gets A Check-Up

March 26, 2013

From Paleofuture part of the Smithsonian: George goes to the doctor for an insurance physical and gets some bad news. George swallows a Peek-A-Boo Prober Capsule which travels around the inside of his body showing the doctor (in a rather humorous way, of course) how George’s various organs are holding up. “You just swallow it [...]

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10 Companies Chasing Innovations That Really Matter

March 24, 2013

…these companies could change the world in deep ways by solving tough problems, via 10 Companies Chasing Innovations That Really Matter | Wired Business | Wired.com. Several of these have possible dental applications especially Organovo a 3D organic printer.

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