Hope is Everything ... Life is Everything...
Hope is Life and Life is Hope ...
Hawking open up the space window wider...and democratized the vision of space for us....
Google and Apple and Samsung...and the rest of the young pioneers democratized information for us...
Space and time and information are open to ALL of us...
But the Big Brother is relentless...They will eavesdrop and they will spy and they "will protect" us ...from the evils of democratized information and space and the universe...
I guess too much democracy is a danger... to Big Brother ...so they have to "protect" us ... in order to "protect" themselves...
Watch the trailer of Stephen Hawking...
It is a fascinating story that should inspire all...of us...
His mind is brilliant...His body may give in...
Despite the odds Hawking conducted amazing research and introduced theories of space and time ...
His mind governed all... regardless of the fragile body...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
The trailer is beautiful and brilliant ... like ALL of you...
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Here are the campuses of the IT giants...that fascinated me... Looking at the aesthetic and amazing architecture is heart lifting and inspires hope for the future...
That the world will evolve in time into a better space...
"Technology powerhouses have recently become aware of the power of architecture," says Ward one of the architects in London, England...
"Across the board, companies are looking to project an image, but they really want it to be an authentic expression of this quest for innovation they are on."
Ward emphasizes two basic concepts in his vision for new headquarters...
" porosity" and "connectivity"...
- Porosity is the idea that buildings, work places...may be learning campuses are no longer meant to be closed spaces...
- Connectivity makes the campus as connected to each other in a single unit...
Steve Jobs of Apple never got to see one of the projects dearest to his heart fulfilled.
This is a huge silver donut-shaped building in Cupertino, California, encircling an orchard...
And the circle has no ends...!
Visionary...Indeed...!
- A circumference of 1 mile (1.6km) - Steve Jobs wanted an orchard for workers to wander in and generate ideas ... Indeed a beautiful vision...We have copied so many ideas from nature...and now "Apple"s may and have "eureka"s in nature too...
- It is of nature...by nature...and for nature...
- I am, sure the world will be a better place because of that...
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One of most striking designs is the new headquarters for Chinese internet giant Tencent...
The Tencent building is intended to be a vertical campus
In Shenzhen, and scheduled for completion in 2016.
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Architects are working on Google's extended campus HQ in Mountain View, California
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Proposed Five-Story Biodome for Amazon's Seattle Headquarters
The Biodome bubbles will be in the middle of three towers
Amazon in Seattle
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Samsung — one of the world's largest high-tech companies
New American headquarters in Silicon Valley.
Construction of Samsung's new Silicon Valley headquarters designed by architecture firm NBBJ has begun. The San Jose-based project will cover 1.1 million sq ft (102,000 sq m) and feature a 10-story office tower, multiple garden areas, a green-walled parking complex, and a degree of sustainable technology, including solar power.
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...And of course there is the Big Brother...
Eavesdropping with a camera and potted plants
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
· Researchers have
found a way to re-create audio from silent videos
· They translate the
small vibrations in common objects into audio files
· The technology
could be used for law enforcement, space research and more
Will your house plant rat on you...?
That's what the new technology says...
Be aware...
Talk to the hand
A woman displays body paintings of her eye and her mouth on the backs of
her hands at the Future En-nichi festival in Tokyo. The misplaced features
were created by Hikaru Cho a contemporary artists whose.
Just thought the artist will amuse the Big Brother...
Will they be confused to which of her mouths they listen to...?
Not a chance...The Big Brother is PROFESSIONAL ... He will destroy YOU ...
Researchers at MIT, Microsoft and Adobe have developed a way to
turn regular objects into visual microphones.
- In one experiment, they played the notes to "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on a loud speaker near a potted plant. They used a custom processing algorithm on a high speed video of the plant, shot without audio, to detect movements not visible to the naked eye. They then translated those movements into a sound file, which recreated the song.
- In another experiment, they picked up spoken words from an empty potato chip bag recorded through sound proof glass. They even used the popular app Shazam to correctly identify a recovered version of Queen's "Under Pressure" based on the movements of a pair of earbuds.
- "We spent a lot of time talking and yelling at objects ... . It was a fun project," the researchers say... The technology is just in the proof of concept phase, but the potential practical uses are fascinating. Law enforcement immediately comes to mind. Detectives might use video cameras as an alternative to wiretaps or sound amplifiers. Investigators could mine soundless surveillance videos for a whole new layer of helpful information.
- The Big Brother is getting more astute at monitoring our digital footprint.
- Check out the following lengths the government is going to spy on us.
1) In
Your Face: Social Media has become a favorite of eaves droppers...
When
you walk in the store the billboard memorizes your face recording the products
you commonly purchase. A video billboard for Forever 21 (clothing company) in
Times Square features women interacting with pedestrians. They take pictures of
actual people on the street or pick them up (digitally) and they suddenly
appear on the giant screen.
2) Many
televisions purchased today are connected to the internet. Each time you
download a Netflix movie or use Pandora to listen to music it is recorded in a
database far, far away or as close as Utah…Utah is a center where the Big
Brothers lives…too.
3) GPS
is a good tool to follow you… Does it surprise you that your iPhone
can be tracked via a GPS device? The GPS chip in your phone can enable the
microphone remotely so the government can hear and record your conversations.
For over decades the government has had devices that track where you were when
you called. This feature has only become more sophisticated and visual in the
past five years.
4) Where
Your Vehicle Goes the Big Brother knows... Get your own vehicle tracking device in one click, it’s that easy. A
small device magnetically placed in the undercarriage of a vehicle becomes a
way for officials to monitor private citizens.
5) They
have eyes in the sky …
Satellite
cameras can take images anywhere on the surface of our planet. Google Earth, a
free to the public online software, allows a view of your back yard. As if
having a world-wide spy camera wasn’t intrusive enough the government may be
using these sophisticated civilian surveillance satellites to remotely harass
and violate targeted citizens.
6) New
NSA Center Targets Email and Cellphones
Almost
too staggering to recount the National Security Administration’s actions these
days the NSA, ( Not Saying Anything) department apparently has a bottomless
budget to build a bigger than life facility in Utah just to house spy
communications... Every word we say and every image we put out into the
universe is collected and put into an enormously sophisticated database where
it will be sorted and deciphered.
7) Digital
Sensors…
Some may argue that cameras are keeping us safe, however as you walk out
your door there are many places that record your image on camera without your
permission. For example, the Kinect accessory for Xbox is another facial recognition device
allowing you to start and play a game only using your face and voice. It is
also conveniently connected to the internet so you can play with other players.
Microsoft claims it is not spying on you, but they could if they wanted to.
Also it is
the 100 anniversary of WW I
High beam
An art installation entitled Spectra
by Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda lights up the night sky as part of Lights Out, a
series of arts events to commemorate the centenary of Britain's involvement in
World War I.
Lest we forget...
The Young Royals ... visit an art installation by ceramic artist Paul Cummins entitled
Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red at the Tower of London.
Work in progress ...
Currently consists of approximately 120,000 ceramic poppies;
when complete
There will be 888,246,
One for each British and Commonwealth soldier who died
in
World War I.
(AP Photo/Matthew Knight)
Question...
What would have been if the "Young Royals" were born in
poppies instead of monies...?
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