{"id":170,"date":"2008-02-21T06:41:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T22:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=170"},"modified":"2008-05-22T07:46:18","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T23:46:18","slug":"thought-controlled-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Unevenly distributed futures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Gibson once insightfully observed that &#8220;<em>the future is already here, it&#8217;s just unevenly distributed<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As if you needed more proof,  the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/low\/technology\/7254078.stm\">BBC <\/a>reports that a neuro-headset which interprets the interaction of neurons in the brain will go on sale later this year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/44438000\/gif\/_44438417_headset_info416.gif\" title=\"Bike helmets will never be the same again\" alt=\"Bike helmets will never be the same again\" align=\"middle\" height=\"375\" width=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Still not convinced of Mr Gibsons forsight?  I recommend you read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/Infotech\/18911\/\">this article in MIT Tech Review<\/a> from August 2007 entitled Second Earth (free registration required), which details real world data being used in Second Life.<\/p>\n<p>The photo below gives a glimpse of what is possible &#8211; this is real time weather inside Second Life.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/player\/07\/07\/MagSecondEarth\/images\/3.jpg\" title=\"Real weather, real time but virtual world\" alt=\"Real weather, real time but virtual world\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Gibson once insightfully observed that &#8220;the future is already here, it&#8217;s just unevenly distributed.&#8221; As if you needed more proof, the BBC reports that a neuro-headset which interprets the interaction of neurons in the brain will go on sale later this year. Still not convinced of Mr Gibsons forsight? I recommend you read this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-technology","category-at-the-fringes","category-futures-thinking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}