Archive for the 'prediction' Category

“The room was filled with the noise of bells, and speaking-tubes. What was the new food like? Could she recommend it? Had she any ideas lately? Might one tell her one’s own ideas?”

Apparently the brain uses the same areas to remember and to predict. That makes so much sense.

Vannevar Bush's landmark article in the Atlantic theorizing a machine which partially (wholly?) inspired the functional base of the world wide web.

ROBOTS / FUTURE CITIES / STAR TRAVEL (star travel?).

A not particularly carefully OCR'd pdf of Clynes' and Kline's groundbreaking article on the plausibility of modifying the human body to adapt to extended periods of spaceflight. Might be worth considering in the face of the doping scandal, might not.