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5 predictions that did not happen
22
May
IBM always makes five-year forecasts, before analyzing the 5 of the future (2015), let’s see
if the 5 planned 2015 happened.
1 – Sensors in every corner, comes from the Internet of things technology being called RSSF, there are already some cities, businesses and even smart homes, but in fact this has not happened is a developing technology.
2 Cars “breathe” – the idea is that it can use the air, some kind of fuel and return the air pure mode, drive batteries and transistors allow the drinking devices to recharge the battery, so she breathe oxygen and turn into energy, there are now new types of lithium battery, for example, and electrical but effective use is still a promise.
3 Computers used to “warm” water, energy dissipate computers, and currently in speed range of 5MHz reached the limit of silicon computers, but the lost thermal energy of computers is not “collected” not exploited.
4-3D holograms, technology is under development but is still promising, the problem is both the processing speed, are billion pixels per second to be processed, as the amount of energy expended, no devices on the market only in laboratories, which we are 3D printers already on the market.
5-Intelligent transit, emerge a new intelligent GPS technology that would be able to identify alternative routes for the driver if an accident happens on the way that the user is doing, there were apps like Waze to guide drivers and at Heathrow Airport in England already There intelligent cars, but the streets of London not.
Even with the use of computers as an aid, not even the most advanced intelligence can predict the future, there is unpredictability in history, but it’s not the end of history.
5 myths about technology
19
May
While technology may have dangers, this is not unique to it, all means that man uses can cause deviant behavior, 
addictions and consumerism, but almost everything we use is kind, from clothes, books and food, mobile phones, tablets and computers.
Information online as Infomoney and Olhar Digital released its myths, only one I repeat here, the idea that mobile phone use causes brain cancer, there is no evidence of this, just coincidences of people who have used very mobile and had cancer, which It is different from proving that this is the cause.
The other 4 important are: the computer usage difficult to read, in fact make a different reading on the computer, it is a little tiring continuously read on the computer, but whole pages should be avoided, but the reading of e-books is practice many readers, but there are also those who prefer books and those who use them.
Another myth is that young people would be less going to libraries because the digital world, did a post with Pew Research Internet Project site data showing that this is false.
The fourth myth is that through the virtual world is opposed to the real, that unfortunately even sociologists and serious thinkers spread, first this is a logical error because the virtual is not opposed to real, not unreal, but only “potential” towards possible, with a lack of knowledge of the meaning of the word that comes from virtus, which is the same rais of virtue.
The fifth myth is that technology somehow opposes the construction of the human being, or even of humanism or anything positive for man, that is unaware that throughout human history technology has always sought to help the man, of course there are instruments of war, the atomic bomb etc, that is destructive technology, but beware of generalizations, almost everything we use clothing to work instruments, almost everything suffers and suffers constant technological change in order to improve the instrument.
The fifth is a philosophical myth of the West, the idea that everything is object is negligible and should not prevent direct human relationship, now just think of things from day to day: clothes, objects of our home, our work, books and of course their own money and technological objects, they are “impregnated” of humanity because they are part of our relationship Others, of course can be used positively or not, but this decision is up to man
How technology helps Nepal
15
May
The technology was effective in initial help of the first earthquake in Nepal, but the second earthquake two weeks seems to be more cruel, as if the first killed more than 8000 people, the earthquake this time was in regions distances near the town Namche Baazar, which is close to Mount Everest, one of the highest in the world.
What is claimed now is the lack of more comprehensive high-quality maps, especially in remote areas, which means it is necessary to coordinate a series of medical efforts, food and shelter, in more complicated remote areas.
One of the efforts is the Kathmandu Living Labs, that uses many volunteers to create digital maps of the country, signaling the roads, hospitals and other facilities to the aid get faster, the advantage is that now there are these rescue forces in the country, they need access to this information.
You can find coverage of trabalos the KLL (acronym of Living Labs) in various organs of the international press The NY Times, BBC,Nepali Times, My Republica, and Setopati attesting to the validity of laboratory
The site explains that the emphasis of this laboratory is “in is on cutting-edge Web 2.0 and participatory technologies que empower and engage citizens in working with government and development”.
Emojis in defense of animals
13
May
Those emoticons representing animals, will now be using the animal rights NGO World Wide
Fund for Nature (WWF), which launched yesterday (12/05) a new campaign to collect using emojis, animal emoticons.
With the campaign the entity will receive a few cents every time interested in helping issuing tweets with emojis of endangered animals.
We handle 17 animals (photo) endangered: Asian elephant, giant panda, the Green Turtle, Dolphin of Maui, the Dog-African Wilderness’, the Whale-gray, the Tiger of Sumatra, the Galapagos penguin, the Perereca -lêmure, the Blue Whale, the Cobra Santa Lucia, the Spidermonkey, the Asian camel, the Leopard-Amur, the Tiger, the Siamese Crocodile and the Tuna Blue.
Research shows that by 2050 will be extinct one million species, which are divided into: 12% will be of birds, 23% of mammals, 52% of insects, 32% of amphibians, 51% of reptiles, 25% of sharks and 20% Streaks.
Those who wish to help the campaign should be to use the WWF site to retweet the post of WWF (#endanjeredEmoji) and donors agree to donate ten cents (about 30 cents) with one of emojis of endangered animals.
Personalities and Mother’s Day
08
May
Several people tell the story of his life as a possibility and thank the choice of their mothers they have chosen 
the life of their children, if not they would not have been born, of course there are millions of anonymous mothers choices, poor and suffering who decided to give birth to her children often without any condition or in disrepair.
One of these illustrious stories that came to all is the extraordinary actor Jack Nicholson, born in 1936, says that his mother was a teenager when she became pregnant and offered her the opportunity to abort it, but she opted for his life, grew up believing that her grandmother was his mother, and his real mother his brother, only in 1974 discovered the truth.
The singer Andrea Bocelli also tells his story his mother was pregnant and was hospitalized for a “simple attack of appendicitis,” but to examine the baby because she was pregnant, and seeing that treatment could have affected the child suggested you abort him as born with disabilities, but the mother decided to have it, blindness come at a football game at 12, and he says in a video his “little story” as the flame.
Edgar Morin says in his book My demons (published in 1997 by Bertrand of Brazil) account that was born under the sign of death, your mother should abort it came to trying it but they survived, wrote: “I should die for her to live, she had to die for me to live (…) I was born in death and was snatched from death, “the mother still live up to 9 years of the French educator.
My parents had 12 children, had a pact of love that receive the children that God might give them, I am grateful for my family, 11 are alive, love them each, Happy Mothers Day to all these courageous creatures, specially to my … really special was my mother.
Company announces clean energy
07
May
The Tesla company had already announced last year the construction in the US state of Nevada a super lithium-ion 
battery capable of supplying power to several cities, the investment of 5 billion dollars (about 15 billion real) in partnership with Japanese Panasonic, now announces a new step in clean energy, Powerwall which is already being developed in a warehouse on the outskirts of Los Angeles, announced last week.
The Tesla Powerwall equipment is to supply home residences from solar panels, and can operate at night, in addition to providing a secure backup in case of a power outage, as news on Business Insider.
In theory the device can be mounted to a garage wall can make completely independent houses of traditional electricity, using only solar energy.
The idea of solar energy can change the energy pattern around the globe, eliminating the anti-ecological (and often antissocial in Brazil) energy from hydroelectric and dangerous nuclear energy, and the announcement on first May, the company’s founder the American Elon Musk said the goal is to turn all worldwide energy infrastructure until we get the ‘zero-carbon’ sustainable, left to governments and energy companies will leave.
Later this year takes place in Paris the prestigious UNFCCC – or the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that promises an effective and real pressure presence in governments and businesses.
Operators continue to grow and bill in Brazil
20
Apr
The Telefónica group, its Brazilian affiliate owns Vivo, had already announced the capital increase to around 3 billion euros 
(around £ 9 billion) that was used to finance the close a deal with Brazilian operator GVT broadband French group Vivendi.
The purchase right with Vivendi is around 4.66 billion euros (close to US $ 15 billion) according to information on various vehicles in sight, which means about 12% of Brazil’s Telefonica, ie continue to earn easy money here.
Vivo had a little difficulty with CADE (Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense), as there are concurrent operations of TIM in select cities in the state of São Paulo, and GVT entered a short time in this market but with aggressive pricing, but still cover and customer base is low, so that the combination does not yet guarantee an improvement in the service state SP.
So what’s the point of the acquisition of GVT, fixed operations of Vivo focus only in the state of São Paulo, integrating GVT to their business, she now has a presence in several cities in the country and will operate with pay-TV, fixed telephony , mobile and broadband, expanding the range of services.
Hopefully this will result in some increase in price and improvement of services.
The dark side web: the deep web
13
Apr
Humanity has a dark side and also the information can be used by this dark side of man, the brown press is one of these 
possibilities, newspapers, magazines and even TV channels launched in the air sensationalist programs, with bloody facts, cases of crimes that shocked cities, regions and even countries and the whole world, because this ensures easy audience and feed a morbid side of many people.
The Web is not left out, and through the anonymity you can access data and sites that are not easily accessible for information products, books and even relationships that are considered illegal and that this dark universe are transmitted.
There are shops, sites and information about illegal products like drugs, Deep Web to sell books of “immortality”, count of illegal movies or music channels, lotteries you bet on Bitcoin (currency of the internet) without paying any tax and many other strange things, how to ask any object in a 3D printer and receive in your home for a certain value.
There are many benefits that the Internet and the Web have brought, the biggest one is the access to information that should be public, such as accounts and contracts of all public services, especially when they involve the hiring of third parties, the global control of this could greatly reduce corruption around the globe.
Investigative journalists, aimed at collaboration between journalists for information on corruption and misuse of public accounts schemes is a good example of this, also people like Edward Snowden, who despite having worked on sensitive issues of governments decide by a legitimate act report illegal actions that states commit, are an example contrary to “deep Web”.
There is a dark side in all of humanity, the Internet and the Web are no exception
The Paschal Mystery and the existence of God
01
Apr
Just as the Higgs particle explains by Standard Theory Physics, but valid only 4% of all universe called baryon
(energy and mass of particles and sub-particles) and now try to unravel the mystery of the other 96% of mass and dark energy through a new experiment that can understand black holes and the parallel universe (our previous post), also two metaphysical questions remains: whence came the universe? God exists?
The research Hadron Collider’s on the particles and the parallel universe tries to answer the first of only physical way, but could the universe was created in which principle.
But that answer the universe can give us about God, if your start is explained and revealed.
There are two attempts at answers, call the science of assumptions, one of them explains that there would be a fine-tuning a chance as unlikely mathematical combinations that only the existence of a higher intelligence explain these combinations, Francis S. Collins who was director of the Project Human Genome and is director of the National Institute of Health (NIH), American organ Health research formulated this hypothesis.
For Collins, “The bottom line is no accident. It reflects the action of something that created the universe”, and tunnelling is a important physical research in quantic energies.
As for the physical atheist Victor Stenger, professor of Hawaii and author of “God: The Failed Hypothesis” (Deus: a hipótese falha, no translation in Brazil) rule out the possibility of fine tuning.
For him the universe was not tuned to us, we were we to meet his conditions, and cites old assumptions that have been refuted: “Until the 20th century, it was believed that the matter could not be created nor destroyed, only transformed from a type to another, “so it is impossible to create matter, the very existence would be a miracle, Einstein proved that can be created from energy, and physical proved it can be transported something like the teleportation of science fiction, and also the NASA looking for life on other planets.
In fact prove that it exists or does not exist remains mystery as the mystery of life and even more the mystery of death, and it is precisely this passage death-life that is Easter.
Easter, which is Christian continuity of Jewish festival that celebrates the passage of life in Egypt of slaves to the Promised Land, is for Christians the passage from death to life.
Braziliam School needs to enter the twenty-first century
26
Mar
Among the claims of June 2013 (Manifestations in Brasil), already forgotten and only disguised by state and federal 
governments, is improving education and levels are worrying as we showed in the previous post.
Of every hundred students who entered the medical cycle in 2008, 35 did not come to an end in three years: repeated or just left school, among those who are just learning what it would be reasonable (target in the previous post) and this can be proven by IDEB index (Development of Basic Education), considering the faithful and not favorable to the government.
As this indicator, high school scores a by 2011, only 3.7 on a scale of 0 to 10, we could say fail or just bad, but even makeup, it has not improved in relation to past measures, what happens?
What was the make-up, was the group of 13 subjects in 4 areas of knowledge, poor or no read Morin, the transdisciplinarity is not so, read to enter the twenty-first century
The error is caused by a misunderstanding of the crisis of culture and thought that through, that would be to the unsuspecting only the super information, but there are also bad information or even the lack of information seen by some as “theories”.
Edgar Morin explains in his book To exit the twentieth century (or the Middle Ages), “The information in a totalitarian system, is not only a government information;. Is mainly a totalitarian government information Its characteristic is not only be subject the State from which the censorship results in subinformacão “and therefore not only the mainstream media manipulative no doubt, but we need channels ‘cultural’.
Morin adds on these points: “it lies in the conjunction of subinformação and the formation of pseudo-information, which provides an ideal image / legendary society” and this also means many skewed readings and unprepared social context.
Unlike Bauman, Morin believes that also in education the state should bet on educators with cultural and literary tradition and not just those who promote the culture of some current state, in the work he does hard against the states of left and right.
Edgar Morin, to leave the twentieth century, Rio de Janeiro, New Frontier, 1986. 346p
