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Cloud Clarity vs. Shadow Banking

March 23, 2008 :: jr3o :: 3 Comments

The United States is facing what some experts are calling an “economic perfect storm”, with historical economists worrying about symptoms and reactions “not seen since the Great Depression”. Resources (natural and financial) are increasingly scarce, strained by tight credit markets and by competition from major emerging economies (China and India), and food prices are soaring.

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Nano-chemical Computation Heralds New Era in Molecular IT

March 12, 2008 :: jr3o :: No Comment Yet

Scientists have achieved the goal of creating a nano-scale “chemical brain” that can transmit instructions to multiple (at present as many as 16) molecular “machines” simultaneously. The new molecular processor means that nano-chemical computation may soon be possible, ushering in a new era in super-light, super-fast, more versatile computer processing capabilities and, by extension, robotics.

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Cloudscape Computing: the Dispersed Matrix as ‘Infinite’ Computing Platform

March 8, 2008 :: jr3o :: 2 Comments

As the web moves into a more mature stage of its adolescence, the beginnings of an all-media platform, computing has begun to move to the “cloud” format. Cloudscape computing means that software, files, private accounts and processing power are dispersed over an extensive array of machines across the world.

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Electronic Paper Makes Reading a More Diverse & Flexible Experience

February 23, 2008 :: jr3o :: 2 Comments

Researchers at MIT have been working for years now on a wide range of variations on the changeable visual text formats that might replace many of the backlit screens we now use to read and interact with electronic documents. ‘Electronic paper’ refers to a number of these technologies, able to reproduce encrypted files in visual text form, as if they were computer monitors, some touted as having “the look and feel” of real paper.

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