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Soon there will be no difference between man & machine – We’re already merging man and machine in order to help people who are locked in by disease or injury. To abductees with implants, this sounds familiar! Computer designers predict that by 2020, there will essentially be no difference between a machine and its user, to the extent that computers will be able to anticipate what we want from them.

BBC News reports on a new Microsoft-backed report on human-computer interaction and warns, “Without proper consideration and control it is possible that we?both individually and collectively?may no longer be in control of ourselves or the world around us.”
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UPDATE: Its prediction was correct! – Engineers have created a computer software program that consistently predicts NCAA basketball rankings more accurately than the AP poll of sportswriters and the ESPN/USA Today poll of coaches. So which team did it predict would win? UPDATE: It predicted Kansas!
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Exciting new developments will be coming to us in the computer world in the future and some of these were predicted by the Master of the Key!

John Letzing reports in Market Watch that Microsoft has taken the first step in designing an intelligent machine?one that is capable of interacting with human brain waves. He quotes researcher Desney Tan as saying, “It’s our fundamental belief that computers are still relatively dumb, no matter how smart they act. We’re trying to make computers smarter, and provide them with a mechanism to understand the user more deeply.” Will we soon throw away our old computers?
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If you’re like many Americans, you made a New Year’s resolution to increase efficiency in your life using some of the newest gadgets. But this can be dangerous?maybe not to your physical health, but to your personal relationships.

Can we become addicted to technology? Psychologist John O’Neill says, “We have become so accustomed to the luxuries of technology that we may be forgetting how to play, have personal connections and use coping skills in face-to-face interactions. We can become overloaded by technology and suffer consequences in our relationships.”
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