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The coming medical revolution. We need HYPERINNOVATION to fix Health Care Crisis

Via Scoop.it – Creating the FutureTechnology has the potential to transform our concept of sickness.   There’s nothing in the 2,000-plus page [Healthcare] bill that gets into this kind of hyper innovative individual medicine, biosensor leveraging, genome and all these sorts of things – it doesn’t really show up.   But it is a great opportunity to make medicine and…

Upcoming Mini-tutorial at BigDataCamp: How to Build a Hadoop Cluster from Scratch in 20 Minutes by CTO of Infochimps

Flip  Kromer (@mrflip), CTO of Infochimps will give a an overview and tutorial on using the latest version of Ironfan (which until today was called cluster_chef)  at the BigDataCamp unconference put on by  Dave Nielsen just before O’Reilly’s Strata Conference Feb 27 from 5:30pm to 10pm We’ve been using cluster_chef at Runa as the basis of our chef management for our entire production environment for the…

I have a bad feeling about this (Star Wars meets the RIAA/MPAA)

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationStar Wars meets the RIAA, the MPAA, Intellectual Ventures, and everyone else scheming to enthral the people with digital “rights” management and criminal prosecution of “file sharing.”Via raganwald.posterous.com

The Real Goal Of Regulating Buffer Copies? So Hollywood Can Put A Tollbooth On Innovation

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationOne jaw-dropping leak is that that the treaty contemplates requiring licenses for ephemeral copies made in a computer’s buffer. That means that the buffers in your machine could need a separate, negotiated license for every playback of copyrighted works, and buffer designs that the entertainment industry doesn’t like — core technical architectures — would become legally…

MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors – IEEE Spectrum

Via Scoop.it – Creating the Future DARPA’s new memristor-based approach to AI consists of a chip that mimics how neurons process information…   MoNETA will be a general-purpose mammalian-type intelligence, an artificial, generic creature known as an animat. With the DARPA hardware, we think we will be able to fit this level of intelligence into a shoebox. The key feature…

Lessig: The tyranny of tiny minds and big money: Time to rout the Cancer of Washington DC Insiders

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation After three years, it’s time for Obama to deliver on his promise to curb money in politics…   The corruption of this government is a cancer. And you don’t launch an attack on cancer by prescribing good eating and exercise. Nor can you make change believable by pushing for reforms that won’t change anything in…