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Ray Kurzweil sees a radical evolution of the human species in the next 40 years. The merger of man and machine, coupled with the sudden explosion in machine intelligence and rapid innovation in gene research and nanotechnology, will result in a world where there is no distinction between the biological and the mechanical, or between physical and virtual reality.

Pretty good list of 27 websites that became books. It would be interesting to see how they transfer their blog material onto the printed page. I have some of them, its mostly reposts, old material. Good for hardcore fans or noobs.

Love the color!

"They could come up with some bulletproof way of protecting his e-mail and digital correspondence, but anything can be hacked..The nature of the president's job is that others can use e-mail for him."

Transition officials call it Obama 2.0 -- an ambitious effort to transform the president-elect's vast Web operation and database of supporters into a modern new tool to accomplish his goals in the White House. If it works, the new president could have an unprecedented ability to appeal for help from millions of Americans who already favor his ideas, bypassing the news media to pressure Congress.

Go Rorschach!

From the page: "Facebook has been infiltrated by Nigerian scammers and other cyber criminals who use compromised accounts to con users out of cash.

Now that even non-tech savvy internet users know not to respond to, or click on links in, emails from strangers, online thieves have turned to social networks and are finding it is easier to trick people when posing as their friends."

This makes me look forward to winter..