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The 20th century started with a few early cars and planes which were very limited in performace and highly unreliable, and ended with cars and planes being ubiquitous, reliable and at an advanced stage of development.

In the same way, the 21st century started with relatively few robots with very limited functionality, and believe me, at its end robots will be ubiquitous, reliable, and at an advanced stage of development. Cars, buses, boats, planes will be robots - the human driver will be gone. The armies of the major world powers will be largely robotic. Surgeons, dentists and many other professions which rely on precision and relatively static knowledge will be robotized. Households and offices will have large numbers of robots deployed in different shapes and with different and complex functionality and intelligence. In addition, small robots will roam inside our bodies to control functions, monitor us and enchance us. And much more.

This pattern has already started in a limited way. Within a few decades, robots will start to control and manage the more mundane - and much of the advanced - aspects of daily life to a degree perhaps almost inconceivable today.

In other words: whilst the 20th century was the century of cars and airplanes, the 21st century will most definitely be the century of robotics.

I am all for robots and robotics, however there is a problem looming large, and from what I can see, lessons of the past are not being applied: this is the problem of security.

In the past two decades, personal computers have taken over much of our business lives and quite a bit of our private lives too in many cases, and as the usage of computers increases, so have threats, which keep increasing in scale and severity. Recently uncovered security risks in the DNS infrastructure of the Internet is just one of many issues that show how everything is connected and how much of the infrastructure is vulnerable.

These vulnerabilities exists because people who develop the technologies first and foremost focus on functionality - the bells and whistles. It is natural and human to do so. Security is invisible until things go wrong, and therefore is not sexy. Managers and shareholders who do not understand the technology and the risks (or who don't care), want the product to market and just care for the functionality of it. Security is an afterthought, and will often only be addressed once a serious problem is uncovered.

The problem with robotics is the technology will interfere with our lives much deeper and on a much larger scale. Essentially, whilst computers have largely remained at the periphery of our lives (albeit connected to us and within society as a whole), robots and robotics will eventually almost fully integrate with our lives and society. They will be part of us, to such a degree that there will be a time, not too far into the future, where we will not be able to live without them.

If all computers in the world failed today economies would collapse and humanity would suffer major problems, but we would survive after some adjustments.

If all robots in the world fail 80 or 100 years from now, much of humanity will not survive because the robots will be running our lives and civilization to such a large degree.

An issue with robots is that many people still see them as individual entities: some cute humanoid robot getting us a beer or a robotic pet dog doing funny tricks. The truth is, robots will be part of an integrated "universe" which will be centrally controlled to a large degree. Robots will interact and communicate with us and with each other, and thus will be able to send and receive transmissions of data. They will need to be updated and upgraded, which will likely be a fully automated process (think an advanced version of Windows Update). Manufacturers, governments, service providers and many others will all have a measure of control over armies of robots, which implies an ability to operate, control, update them as part of a network.

Nowadays, viruses, worms, internet hacks etc. spread around the internet in seconds. The result may be that our computer or network is disabled for some time. Once the true age of robotics is upon us, this type of threat will be much more severe because complications can easily be devastating.

The artificial intelligence which many robots will possess is an added risk factor: a human programmer could implant rogue behaviour which could be hidden in the increased complexity of the software and be triggered by random events, sometimes years after the robot is deployed. In advanced stages, a robot or robotic control entity ("central command" of a group of robots) could "seed" rogue behaviour into other robots without human intervention, and manipulate it so that it becomes vitually undetectable.

Robots will have much more impact, so instead of a virus disabling a personal computer, the "virus" that hits a robot may spur the device (or group of devices) into killing or destruction. And whilst it is inconveivable that your Roomba will rear up from the floor and headbutt you in anger for not emptying its dust tray, the much more advanced robots of the future may very well be programmed to go rogue for whatever reason: by "hackers", by industry insiders for reasons of personal grievance, by enemies, by criminals, by terrorists, or simply because of human error during the development process of the robot "brain".

To avoid this type of scenario, I would like to float the idea of setting up a security think-tank for the robotics industry globally, in which top-notch scientists and programmers would participate to design, from scratch ideally, secure operating systems for robots, communications and behavioral protocols, physical security and access to the software, etc. This would have to be a global effort, rising above politics and commercial interests, for the benefit of humanity as a whole (however once secure technologies have been developed and agreed upon, these can then obviously be used in commercial and individual government applications).

Rather than adapting your existing version of Linux or Windows for robotics use, I believe it is essential that new, highly secure methods be developed to create and protect the core intelligence of the robots of this century and beyond.

There will always be rogue elements trying to disrupt daily life, but when it comes to robotics if for once we don't start with the "outside" (functionality), but rather with the "inside" (that what ultimately powers and protects the functionality) we will be much better off in the long term.

If you like this idea and you work in a type of industry where this is relevant, I would be happy to discuss in more detail, answer questions or assist in other ways. For details and contact information please see the "About itimes3" page.

George Spark

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同一道理,中國人香港人無賭不歡,凡事只要和發財有關,他們一定無任歡迎!
中共國可以把北京奧運的每一項開成盤口,用賺來款項來為四川賑災,既做善事,又有機會賺錢,更可令香港人全心投入支持北京奧運,何樂而不為? 反正北京奧運目的都是為了賺錢,與只讓民間靠倒賣暗中賺錢,不如明明白白讓人人有錢,中國香港閰家富貴,皆大歡喜!

很簡單:開賭,用比賽的結果來做盤口就可以了,香港政府做莊,蝕多少都可以算是貢獻中共國的北京奧運,再者,這一定比直接派錢更收提升民望之效。既然世界盃可以開賭,為什麼奧運馬術比賽不可以?

同一道理,中國人香港人無賭不歡,凡事只要和發財有關,他們一定無任歡迎!
中共國可以把北京奧運的每一項開成盤口,用賺來款項來為四川賑災,既做善事,又有機會賺錢,更可令香港人全心投入支持北京奧運,何樂而不為? 反正北京奧運目的都是為了賺錢,與只讓民間靠倒賣暗中賺錢,不如明明白白讓人人有錢,中國香港閰家富貴,皆大歡喜!

很簡單:開賭,用比賽的結果來做盤口就可以了,香港政府做莊,蝕多少都可以算是貢獻中共國的北京奧運,再者,這一定比直接派錢更收提升民望之效。既然世界盃可以開賭,為什麼奧運馬術比賽不可以?

中文比起其他語文有一個好處,因為中文不是電腦本身的語言,電腦及軟件必須借助一些對應表才可以「看」到中文,要看得到中文,金盾作用才可以發揮,否則再厲害的內容審查軟件都是白痴。然而,中文可以用好幾種不同的字碼來表達,而內容審查軟件當然是不懂網頁原意是想用什麼中文字碼的,如果看錯了就審查不了。我今天有一個有趣的主意,假設有30個中文字都是用同一編碼的,如果有軟件把所有單數順序的中文字編碼的尾三位和雙數順序的中文字編碼的尾三位交換,內容審查軟件看來依然是一篇文章,但是它看到中文字就和原意相差很遠了,如此它找關鍵字的功能便失效了。但只要網頁留下一些提示或軟件,想看網頁真正內容立刻 可以在短時間內看到原本的內容了,內容審查軟件卻不可能在有限時間內把所有的可能組合都試完。當然,這只是最簡單的例子,更複雜的可以不止是相鄰的尾三位編碼交換,可以把中文編碼當數字來加加減減某一個固定或隨機數值,甚至把數種方法結合來用,結果都是中共秏資千萬的金盾工程,利用最簡單的方法即不堪一 擊,形同虛設。
世界的黑客們,把2008年8月8日8時定為世界資訊自由日,把拑制世界各國人民思想的互聯網內容審查機制徹底打倒,把互聯網建築成思想自由的最前線,還中國人民互聯網自由!

Let's put physics aside now because that's not what I want to talk about. See, while I was watching this documentary and they point out about the Einstein's blunder story that I mentioned above, I can't help but think, "you know what, these bunch of scientists with beards, glasses; these guys from Harvard talking about stuff like axion, neutrinos, dark matter and dark energy; all the really cool stuff that Michio Kaku talks about....I bet 50-100 years from now, all of this would be bullshit"

Hundreds of years ago, if I said that the sun is the center of the universe then I would get arrested. Go back in time and say that the continent is floating above molten rocks and I would  be called crazy. So next time when you're reading something from your textbook or seeing something from a documentary, just imagine yourself 50 years from now and laughing at all the scientific theories back in the early 2000s.

"Haha!! OMG Jurassic Park?! The movie with Jeff Goldblum being chased by a prehistoric giant lizard?! Pfft~ We all know that giant birds ruled the world 65 million years ago, not giant lizards" :mrgreen:

You might interested in my other post about my crazy random theory on the Universe Here.

you're probably all, "what??? what??? why??? why did she do that???"

here's why: it's because there is no stinking pattern out there that is worth that much grief. i figure, if a pattern has me in tears, that pattern has a deathwish as well. i will NOT let knitting walk over me and control my emotions. i won't. there are easier patterns out there. to the knitters who can figure it out, congratulations! i'm not one of you. i choose life. i'm not going to let a pattern control me. no way. it can THINK that it's all tough and fierce, but little does it know that i can pull the plug any time that i feel like it, and what's it going to think then? not so tough anymore, are you?? i mean. seriously? why should i let a pattern mistreat and abuse me? i don't have to deal with that.

so what am i going to knit for the contest instead, you may be wondering?

i have two ideas :) three, actually. i don't know which one to do yet, so i'm thinking i'll go to sleep and figure things out in the morning. you'll notice, however, that all the patterns are, like, small. definitely things that i can do in 19 or less days. which is, my friend, exactly the point.

peace,

-Sarah

• Home page should show me the current tasks based on priority and importance.

• Following Convey Quadrant might be a great idea. Dividing the tasks into 4 Quadrants

1. Important and Urgent
2. Important and Not Urgent
3. Not Important and Not Urgent
4. Not Important and Urgent

• Feeling Lucky button to give the task to pick and do now. It can either follow "Eat a Frog" or "Move Big Rocks" policy.  Popularized in Brian Tracy’s book Eat That Frog!, the idea here is that you tackle the biggest, hardest, and least appealing task first thing every day, so you can move through the rest of the day knowing that the worst has already passed.
• Adding task page from menu
• Showing Calendar and particular tasks for that day
• Sync with different Calendars and tasks

But as usual humans are never satisfied. And naturally i am also not satisfied.

I am happy that i am informed about the purchase and the amount, but as an individual, i am more interested in get a pattern out of my purchases.

To make it clearer i will give you some examples.

In the evening i went to the mall close to my house and purchased a cool T-shirt and a pair of jeans. This purchase triggered the service to identify what category of item i purchased and sends me a message saying that it is just 3rd week of the month and you are about to exceed your regular allocated personal budget for clothes.

Or at the same time, i get a message saying that you have under utilized the allocated personal budget for personal cosmetics and then with it ,you get some related promotional material like a link to the latest designer perfume in the market.

The general idea is very simple, this device would have three components:
A. Electrical circuit to detect the voltage of capacitor and switch between two sources of electrical energy: External/Internal, in according to the result.
B. A capacitor that is capable of storing all electrical energy needed for one instance of operation of all electrical energy consumption.
C. Electrical current stabilizer to regulate the electrical energy discharged from B.
*D. Electrical appliance that require the consumption of electrical energy.

The iteration:
1. When the component B is detected to be empty, then component A switch the electrical energy source from capacitor to external supply.
2. The electrical energy from external supply enter the component B via D until B is fully charged.
3. Component A switch the supply from external to internal.
4. Component B is then discharging through component C to component D. Thus component B is emptied.

Theoretically, since we use electrical energy from external source half of the time, therefore we save about 50% of electrical energy without affecting the operation of electrical appliances at all. However, since we require electrical energy to operate this invention, therefore we presume it is less efficient, thus we expect we could save 40% of electrical energy. The technical challenge is we need an capacitor that is capable of storing Million Joule of electrical energy, I believe it is easier to do that in a city as a whole than implemented by individual household.

You can almost sense a little bit of pride in how ugly their web-site is, or that they are treating design like a commodity. However off base these types of thoughts might be, there is clearly a lack of respect for designers in the business community at times. I’d like to address how you can shatter this barrier and talk to business folk in a language they understand.

This article provides you with 5 guidelines you can use as a designer to “speak business” — even if it’s just to get your foot in the door or land a big project.

1. Pretty doesn’t mean effective: statistics are your friend!

Designers like to show off portfolios. It can look stunning, but business people like to see numbers. What was the conversion rate on that opt in? What was the bounce rate and average time on site? What was the most clicked on link from the home page?

To a business person, “beautiful” or “visually stunning” are just a first step. They only really matter if “beautiful” or “visually stunning” turns into more sales. Probably the worst offender here is the classic “all flash” site that is gorgeous and completely impossible to use or update. Everything has a cost/benefit trade off, and that includes design.

Compare these two sites for a moment. The first is from 2Advanced Studios and includes some fancy animation.

The second is from Perry Marshall, who sells a book on Google Adwords.

Despite being uglier, we can probably agree that Perry’s site is significantly better at getting new customers. It may not be better in other areas, but it all depends on what the goal of the site is. Speaking of which…

2. Every design should have a measurable goal

Saying that the goal is to “build the brand of XYZ” or “create an online presence” is basically meaningless to a business-minded person. A goal is only a goal if it is measurable.

What are some good examples of a measurable goal? Generating leads, making sales, number of phone calls, opt-ins, subscribers, incoming links, PageRank etc. Instead of trying to convince them that “attractive visual design of this sign-up form would attract more visitors” present them real numbers such as “in the past this design solution effectively increased the conversion rates by 35%”.

According to Luke Wroblewski’s findings in his book “Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks”, one single design decision related to the design of sign-up forms has increased the conversion rates up to 40%.

Try saying to a business person: “we split tested this design, and A converted 21% of subscribers while B converted 38%, and our confidence interval on this data is very narrow”. Now you are speaking their language!

Try to get inside the head of a prospective customer. Imagine them with a burning pain or question, frantically clicking back and forth on the first page of Google results that came up. Realistically, they are making a decision whether to stick around or try the next result after scanning your site for about 1 second. This brings me to my next point…

3. Your site should have one clear path

As a customer comes to your site, you want to be in complete control of the 1st thing they see, the 2nd, the 3rd, and all the way down until they accomplish your goal that you’ve set. In other words, they have entered your sites “funnel” or “chute”.

Research results from an eye-tracking study: users satisfice — they click the first possible solution that is easily presented to them and may lead to their goal. Source.

The typical method of giving users lots of different options on a page has been tested and it doesn’t work as well. People don’t want to think hard to figure things out. Users satisfice — they want the first possible solution that is easily presented to them. You should be in control of things in every step of the way, and miraculous things happen when you start to think of your site as a set “process” instead of a maze of options.

Please take a look at the first page of this site (the screenshot is displayed below). Really, go ahead and do it and then come back. I’ll wait.

Well, so you looked right? Let me guess the exact order that your eyes went on the page. First you went to the top left for the site title and logo, then after flicking past the phone number for just an instant you went down to the main headline about “Successful blogging starts with…”. Finally, you skimmed the portfolio and then read the two sub-headlines “Get Started Now” and “Learn to market your blog”. Was I close?

Look at your own site and stand back 10 feet from your monitor. What still stands out on the screen? These are elements that can jump out, with contrast, negative space, etc to help you control where people’s eyes go. There is even some great research coming out on eye tracking. The point is that you can design with this information in mind to guide exactly how people experience your site for the first time and avoid trigger happy back-buttoners.

4. Remember the swiss army knife

One of the best analogies I’ve ever heard about design came from Marissa Mayer at Google. She said that Google tries to think of its design like a Swiss army knife. It has tons of features neatly tucked away inside, but you don’t see them all at once. A first time user might come to the site and just the main knife is flipped open. It’s immediately clear what the main benefit and purpose of this thing is: it’s a knife. But for the advanced users, a little thumbnail catch is still visible so they can slowly start to pull out lesser used features when they’re needed.

Many people’s web-site are like a Swiss army knife with every damn tool in there pulled out and exposed. “What the hell is this site for?”, a first time visitor might wonder. And like that, you’ve lost them. They’ll check the next result on Google.

Think of an effective design like a Swiss army knife. It has tons of features neatly tucked away inside, but you don’t see them all at once. Source.

Keep the site simple with a clear path and purpose. Extra stuff on the page actually does have a detrimental effect in terms of confusion and distraction. Be adamant about eliminating unnecessary pieces of a design.

5. Provide performance metrics

Finally, if you really want to impress business people, put together a little report of how a design performs. It doesn’t have to be fancy — maybe a little spreadsheet (those business types do love Excel) with some basic metrics you can pull off of Google Analytics like visitors, time on site, most popular funnel path, and even a goal conversion rate.

A spreadsheet with some basic metrics about like visitors, time on site, most popular funnel path, and even a goal conversion rate can make the difference. Example: Quantcast.

Just putting in a little bit of effort here will instantly distinguish you from all the other designers out there who would never think to do something like this. Whoever your client is will be much more likely to say to a colleague, “you know they just get it, they not only design but they understand the purpose behind what we’re doing, I really like that.” And boom, you’ve got a referral to grow to the next level.

Conclusion

This article may offend some designers. You may think it’s off topic, not your concern, or counterproductive to good design. That’s fine — take what works for you and leave the rest.

Speaking in a language the customer understands is key to good communication in any business. Whenever you get deep into a field and become an expert, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that the rest of the world doesn’t think like you.

Take doctors for instance. They go through so much schooling and learn so much science that it literally sounds like they are speaking a different language if you see a group of them together. But when it comes time to talk to the patient and explain what’s wrong with them, they switch gears and speak in a language the customer understands.

As a great designer, you can do the same thing and become that much more effective in bringing value to your customers.

About the author

Brian Armstrong is an entrepreneur who also enjoys studying design. He writes about topics such as UI design, building web companies, and how to quit your 9-to-5 to work for yourself at his blog.

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Your Penguin,

MrsHollywood

“Why are you back?” The store-owner exclaimed when he saw Magico, the magic spectacles, back on his display shelf. He had just sold it to an odd couple — a pessimist and a dreamer. “Your new owners must be looking for you!”

Magico simply dropped his gaze.

The store owner’s brows creased. “What’s wrong, Magico? You look so sad. Did your new owners mistreat you?” he asked softly, opening the display cabinet. He took out the magic spectacles and made it sit on the glass top, facing him.

Magico shook his head. “No master,” he replied softly. Beads of tears were slowly forming around its framed eyes.

“Then why did you leave them? What happened?”

“Well, Master,” Magico sighed. “The dreamer put me on. Then he exclaimed, ‘Oh, how lovely everything is. Beautiful clouds across a clear blue sky, smiling flowers and swaying leaves, vast oceans, captivating sunset and sunrise, spellbinding moon, twinkling stars… ah! How beautiful earth really is.’”

“So? What’s wrong with that?” The brows creased deeper.

“I don’t know, Master. It just made me very sad. I thought it was sad that even with me on him, he still couldn’t see everything. He was only able to see the beautiful things, not the bad.

“So?”

“So,” Magico gestured helplessly, “it means he thinks he lives in a perfect world. Even with his sharpened vision, he still couldn’t see the troubles of this world. That means he never will. So he will never be able to address them.”

The master touched his chin with his right hand.

“Then,” continued Magico. “the pessimist put me on and exclaimed, ‘Moon? Captivating sunrise and sunset? Twinkling stars? My, you must be on to your pathetic dream again! I don’t see anything across the sky. All I see are the blackish clouds threatening to fall. And the flowers, the leaves… what’s so special about them? Can’t you see they will eventually wilt? Pathetic, that’s what life on earth is!”

“Oh, so they quarreled?” The master exclaimed. “Is that why you left them?”

“I don’t know if they quarreled, Master,” Magico shook his head. “I left them as soon as I heard them exclaim those things. I realized I’m of no use to them. Sure, I could make their visions clearer, I could sharpen their eyes, but I can never make them see the world as it really is. I can never widen their perspective nor inject understanding into them.”

//Sherma E. Benosa

24 July 2008; 11:30

_______________________________

Be-spectacled Me

My vision is now clearer. I now recognize faces even from afar. I am still adjusting with my improved vision, and with my little spatial disorientation. But I am hoping that in due time, I’ll get used to my additional eyes, unlike how I never got used to my spectacles the first time I was prescribed corrective eyeglasses in 2004. My vision then was -50/-75; now it’s -150/-200!

Unlike before, I now have to use my glasses all the time, and not just when I read. And this time, I really have to religiously do it, if I want to slow down the degradation of my vision. Ah, the price of stubbornness!

As I was walking to the taxi stand from the 'eye center', feeling a little dizzy, I told my self: “How nice it is to really see things as they are — their details, their colors." And I wondered how I had managed to live during the past three years with my blurry vision (although it wasn’t as bad then as it is now).

As I walked, a thought hit me: will my improved vision also improve my perspective on things?  The above is the answer to this thought. Please tell me what you think.

Finally my brethren, the work has been done, and I'm ready to advertise!!