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[tamaranth]

On 20 May 2010 an event known as "Digital Death Day" brought together the businesses of social networking, data management and death care. What happens to your online presence after you die?

The "dead-but-alive" telecommunications satellite, Galaxy-15, has begun to enter the space of neighbouring craft, and their operators are planning evasive action. Dancing satellites ...

"I don't know what it's like to be God - obviously ...Until that very first moment when you get to sit down and type the words in your script: INTERIOR. TARDIS." That nice Mr Gaiman on writing an episode of Doctor Who

A British scientist says he is the first man in the world to become infected with a computer virus. Well, 'become infected' on purpose: he has a chip in his hand ...

In other news, am floppy and achy after walk to beer festival yesterday and moderate intake. Perhaps post-viral nonsense not quite over yet.

Comments

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Gosh - another publicity stunt from the Cybernetic Intelligence Research Group at the University of Reading. It seems that Kevin Warwick alone is insufficient.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly. I saw the headline and thought "oh it's bloody Kevin Warwick again" but no.

Perhaps Warwick himself is a virus?

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Bah. I know someone else who experimentally implanted an RFID chip, which unlocks his office door and logs him in to his computer, but he never gets the mention. Might be that he doesn't have the same publicity machine. Either that, or he looks scary, rather than mad ...

(He is, admittedly, also a researcher in this field.)