Old dog learns new tricks

[eric j]

Hi Friends

I imagine that some among us were taught their "technology" in earlier decades. Certainly I am in that category. Now 80 years old but fortunate to possess a brain of which at least a part still seems to function, I have taken to visiting the websites of one or two world-renowned universities.

Neuroscience and physics are among the topics that hold my transient interest.

In the "unlikely" event that others may share my wish to fill a portion of their time in serendipity, I dare to offer links to the sites that I have been visiting recently:-

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/23/free-...ord-videos.html


http://mitworld.mit.edu/browse

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=owne...so=2&emb=0#

Best wishes.

eric j

[krissel]

Thanks!  

[gunug]

My interest in such things is purely marginal in that I want to train myself to eat properly and not too much.  I guess that I would also like to train myself to learn and retain technological information more effectively!  Going beyond that for me is slipping into the sad and borderline creepy things like the Milgram Experiment ( http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Origina...Experiment-1961 ) or Skinner raising his children in a box!  Is the end result going to be to make us something other than what we are?

Warning: some shocking Nazi footage included in that link above, there is a recreation of the experiment ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6GxIuljT3w ) that doesn't have any Nazi footage in it!

There is a lot of more hopeful stuff available at TED: (  http://www.ted.com/ )

[jcarter]

Great links, thank you, I will forward them to my husband.
He already has the MIT ones, as our son-in-law works there.
Jane

[gunug]

Artificial human brain to be ready in the next 10 years; this is something that was just announced at this years TED conference in England:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8164060.stm

I'm not sure I can wait that long to upgrade mine!