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...HEROMACHINE www.heromachine.com BATTLE READY Design your own cartoon superheroes. Choose a basic body type, then dress, arm and color your creation. Incredibly juvenile and riveting for eight-year-olds and their parents
What's going on in Taejon, at the Korea Research Institute, is a very basic example of what could be the most interactive technology of the future: brain-computer interfaces. Early computers were controlled by cardboard punch cards; the first PCs demanded typed DOS commands; the mouse gave us a graphic interface. Will we one day be able to enter the world of computing with no external mechanical intermediary whatsoever - in other words, just by thinking? Researchers around the globe are working on the problem. The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, for example, has developed the Adaptive Brain...
These simple principles are so obvious that it's amazing people forget them when it comes to the Internet. The basic standard still applies: If in doubt...
Although some oversight is helpful, especially for medical or government-mandated information, I think this basic approach is wrong. Let's go back to the first principle: people have different preferences and sensitivities about the use of their personal information. Many like free content and well-targeted marketing offers. So why not let the market work? Let websites disclose their practices in an intelligible way and then let consumers choose...
...simplest application of this technology is related to basic communications. You take notes at a meeting, say, and they're e-mailed or faxed wherever you want, without having to input them into a computer. Because what you've written is reproduced exactly, you can send any kind of information in any script...