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    <title>Slate Magazine - Brave New World</title>
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    <description>The future of technology.</description>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 4 Apr 2005 00:46:22 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>When will androids beat us at sports?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  It's spring training at Carnegie Mellon's MultiRobot Lab. On a 6-by-4-meter, green-felt field, little robot dogs run through drills: shooting, passing, goaltending. Every Wednesday, the Sony AIBOs line up for a full scrimmage, their heads swiveling to find the ball and their rumps pointed to the sky. It's last week's code against this week's code—may the best robots win.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2116163/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Sam Schechner</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 4 Apr 2005 16:46:22 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Aubrey de Grey is helping humans live forever.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  If a tall, gaunt man with a ruddy 2-foot beard were to loom over you in a bar and claim he was a scientist who could help you live forever, you'd probably check his breath. Aubrey de Grey has that effect on people. But he also has the effect of reanimating the largely ignored science of why we die.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2115015/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>brave new world</category>
  <author>Paul Boutin</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2005 07:30:02 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Communicating with unconscious minds.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  This week, Neurology published an unsettling study of two brain-damaged men who are "minimally conscious"—able to breathe on their own but otherwise generally unresponsive. When neuroscientists scanned the patients' brains as they played audiotapes of loved ones, the activity was strikingly normal. The visual cortex of one of the men even lit up in a way that suggested he was visualizing the stories that his relatives told. One of the researchers told the New York Times that they've repeated the experiment on seven more patients and found the same results.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2113353/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Clive Thompson</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:33:17 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>New tricks for finding terrorists.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  How will the technologies of the future help protect us against terrorism? The new book Safe: The Race To Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous World examines innovative techniques for sniffing out attacks before they happen and for limiting damage if a strike does occur. In today's excerpt, in the last of a three-part series, Martha Baer, Katrina Heron, Oliver Morton, and Evan Ratliff consider a new technology that allows the government to root through citizens' private data without behaving like a police state. Tuesday's excerpt explained how to recognize potential terrorists with facial heat sensors and automated video cameras. Yesterday's selection looked at a computer chip that could be the best weapon against bioterrorism.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2112986/entry/0/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4963" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4963" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
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  <author>Martha Baer</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:22:52 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Why holograms look so lame.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Ever since I saw a 1-foot-high holographic Carrie Fisher plead, "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi," I've been waiting for a 3-D video player to call my own. I'm not talking about fake, View-Master-style 3-D that lets you look at an image from only one angle—you can already get that on a $3,000 laptop. That "360-degree hologram phone" you read about last week? It's not even a real hologram, just a stereoscope that's 3-D from left to right, not up and down. Impressive? Sure. A video hologram that lets you check out your subject from front to back and top to bottom? Not even close. And why would anyone want to call me on my hologram phone if they can't stand on their tiptoes and check out my bald spot?<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2110446/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>brave new world</category>
  <author>Paul Boutin</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 2 Dec 2004 19:13:47 EST</pubDate>
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