Author Archives: Scott C. Lemon

About Scott C. Lemon

I'm a techno futurist, interested in all aspects of humanity, sociology, community, identity, and technology. While we are all approaching the Singularity, I'm just having fun effecting the outcomes of the future!

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Round Four with Novell Complete!
So I am now done with Round Four at Novell. I have been working at Novell for the last year, and have enjoyed it tremendously. I returned this last time to complete a number of outstanding issues from the past, and to pursue from possibilities that I saw. I also was committed that I would leave Novell this time under completely different circumstances, and I have!

This time, I offered to be layed-off when it became obvious that my projects were not going to be funded and supported for success. There is nothing wrong with this … it’s just a choice of the current executive team and leadership, based on the type of company they are looking to create.

This break is going to give me a chance to get caught up on reading, writing, and a number of other things I want to get complete! Life is grand! 😉

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How simple to get things going again …
I have not been posting for a long time now, due to my frustrations with the Radio Userland archiving “feature”. I didn’t realize that I had turned this on … and recently learned that it’s an option that I can turn off under the “prefs” page!

The archiving “feature” kept moving my home page articles that were unread to a database where there is no tool to read them!

So I have now turned it off … and am back to bloggin’ …

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Interesting read … all sorts of perspective on changes to the human brain in recent years … myopia caused by reading more and more?
http://www.mailgate.org/sci/sci.psychology.journals.psycoloquy/msg00021.html

ABSTRACT: Storfer’s (2000) argument that there was a parallel
increase in myopia, brain size, and intelligence due to
urbanization (complex visual inputs) during the last century is
analyzed in this commentary. Sex differences, sex hormones, and
human handedness also need to be considered. In his excellent
monograph, Storfer (1999) argues that human brains gradually
increased in size during the past century along with a dramatic
upsurge of myopia, which is highly correlated with human
intelligence. Storfer also argues that these adaptive changes
following urbanization may occur by adaptive epigenetic inheritance
without violating the basic concepts of Darwin’s theory.

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With wireless wearable computers, this will get even more impressive …
With our wearable computer research, and digital identity project, we are also looking to add a lot of geospacial applications … this is nothing! There are going to be so many virtual object servers out there in a world, they’ll be fighting for your attention. A virtual object server might contain all sorts of objects, which will appear to you in your VR (virtual reality) or AR (augmented reality) goggles as you wander around in the physical universe … this stuff is coming quickly.

Handhelds: Tagger’s Best Friend?. Call it digital graffiti: a fledgling wireless application that allows users to leave floating messages wherever they go. Sounds spacey — and prone to abuse, observers say. By Aparna Kumar. [Wired News]

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Yeah sure … his company is hurting now, just wait for wearables …
This guy is jumping to all kinds of conclusions … just to defend his current market?

Yeah … he’s really looking to promote his lagging sales. These limited capability little toys are only going to last a few years. You’ll be buying them for children to play with …

CEO: Users Dislike PC-Like Appliances. Claims Cidco, RIM prove users just want e-mail [allNetDevices Wireless News]

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An awesome Flash site … based on the work of a visionary …
I have to say that I am beyond impressed with the incredible vision and foresight of Ray Kurzweil … and this is a cool site based of this incredible book. If you have not yet read this book, it is a must read! His upcoming book on the Singularity is also bound to be awesome. I am now working on my first paper on my theories of memetics … we’ll see how it goes …

Alternative rock album based on “Spiritual Machines” [Nanodot: News and Discussion of Coming Technologies]

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YES! I agree completely! And I’m building one now …
I just bought a new LCD monitor for the car … it’ll run on 12vdc, and I’m looking to test it out this weekend on our trip to Goblin Valley! We’ll be hiking Little Wild Horse Canyon, and then wandering around the goblins … this is going to be a wild trip! This will be the first testing of my “in car” computer (which I intend to permanently mount in the car), but also using wearable computers in the wildernes … full GPS tracking, and using the USGS DEMS maps …

Smart Cars Net Wireless Users. Forget trying to look for directions or shop on a handheld, auto-loving Americans will prefer dashboard delivery of information. Elisa Batista reports from the Mobile Commerce conference in San Jose, California. [Wired News]