Google Goggles

... this is your mind on android ...



Google goggles can process landmarks, books (at least their covers), artwork (and their masters), places, wine labels, logos, business cards and contact information ... available on phones that run Android 1.6+ (i.e. Donut or Eclair)

Jonathan Zittrain: "Minds for Sale"

A new range of projects is making the application of human brainpower as purchasable over the cloud as additional server rackspace. Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, dives into the ethics and issues surrounding cloud labor in this talk from the Berkman West reception at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California on November 18, 2009.

[*] RT @brainopera, http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=2821

[1] (downloadable link?)

[2] Jonathan Zittrain, Ubiquitous Human Computing (modified September 2009), available from http://fsi.stanford.edu/news/minds_for_sale__liberation_technology_summary_20091028/

[2] Jonathan Zittrain, "The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It" was released last year from Yale University Press and Penguin UK -- and under a Creative Commons license. Papers may be found at http://www.jz.org. A publisher's blurb can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/2008/The_Future_Of_The_Internet_And_How_To_Stop_It

when robots write the news ...

looking toward the day when robots write the news. david carr, the rise and fall of media, new york times. http://tinyurl.com/yhwhzgn

Verizon DROID. It's not pretty.

RT @PlanetAndroid ... Verizon DROID. It's not pretty, it's a robot. http://android.to/H7