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Technology Articles - Articles About Technology

• Becoming A Futurist - It May Be In Your Future, by L. Winslow
  Often people ask me why I became a Futurist? The interesting thing is that our minds are set up to plan for the future, perhaps this is why the human species has indeed made it this far. Unfortunately, if we do not plan in advance and throw caution to the wind too often we make rather poor decisions and the law of unintended consequences prevails.
• Cybernetics on the Cheap, by Jason Comely
  Disposable implants and Open-Source Prosthetics are here, and it seems we're more plugged in, dependent on, and integrated into technological devices and systems than we even care to admit. Even mankind's collective consciousness has been coded into ones and zeros, in a self-supporting binary ecosystem where we log into our online personas with avatar faces and interface with other digital representations of self. Man created technology, and in turn technology has recreated us. Meanwhile, robots become more humanoid by the day, and even reality itself has stiff competition from today's computer graphics imaging. Is this the Cybernetic Age? Has mankind been assimilated?
• Do It Yourself Patents, by T.J. Madigan
  For those who cannot afford to dish out thousands of dollars for a patent lawyer, do it yourself patents can be a great alternative. Do it yourself patents can be done if you are up to the challenge. It is not impossible although the biggest drawback on do it yourself patents is that you are not afforded the luxury of having professional advice.
• Home Theater Room Design - Where To Start, by Mike Singh
  Once we decide we want a home theater design for our very own - what then? Do we have room for it in the basement, or in a spare room? Will our electricity have the power to handle it? Most professional designers will tell us that the design of our home theater system has to meet specific requirements in order to place it inside our home.