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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.
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.
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.
A “quarrel” between reason and names
28
Apr
This problem, which comes from classical antiquity, with Socrates, Plato and Aristotle is a problem today for science, or what we consider scientific in the true sense, but the heated dispute in the late Middle Ages, with nominalistic and realistic.
All part of a written Boethius (480-525 AD), in the early Middle Ages, who used a text (univesal quarrel) of Isagoge Porphyry (234-309 AD), see illumination-text side (photo), which stated:
“So he will avoid talking about the genders and species, on the question of whether they are subsistent realities in themselves or only consist of mere mental concepts or are tangible or intangible, or are separate or if there in sensible things and depend on them, since it relates to a matter that requires a thorough treatment and requires more examination.”1
The problem come the middle ages and was instrumental in establishing a first idea of rationalism, through logic and the construction of knowledge, but at the end of the Middle Ages, the so-called low average age the problem almost disappeared.
It was Peter Abelard, a monk who was player of Origen, who restated the thesis as a reinterpretation of the rank of species and genera Porphyry, but said the words (names) describe the world do not refer to the words in the physical sense (the sounds we emit when we speak), but the words as carriers of meaning.
It was through the reading of the writings of Aristotle on the soul and metaphysics, which in the thirteenth century Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus developed sophisticated forms of realism, however in the fourteenth century Wilheim of Ockham rejected the Aristotelian idea that intellectual knowledge resulted from the fact that our lie were informed by universal ideas resulting from perceived objects, replaces it with the Ockham’s razor.
Ockham’s razor is the idea that between a simple explanation of a certain thing and another complex, we get the simplest and therefore there is no “universal” that are innate.
For realists, a universal is a predicate being of others (or especially) all other entities. It exists objectively, as much as reality itself, transcendent in relation to the particular (Latin: universal ante rem) or as immanent in the individual things.
1Porfírio. Isagoge. Introduction, translation and notes of Juan José García Norro and Rogelio Rovira. Trilingual edition (Greek, Latin and Spanish). Barcelona: Anthropos Editorial, 2003, p. 2-3.
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
After the Higgs particle, the parallel universe
30
Mar
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), gigantic equipment that accelerates particles in a tunnel 27 km in diameter between the
borders of France and Switzerland, made the unprecedented experience that detected the Higgs particle, needed to consolidate the theory of physics Standard, which unified theories: quantum, electronics, photonics, electromagnetic and gravitational, into a single theory.
Now they want to do an experiment to prove the existence of parallel universes, and we would live immersed in 11 dimensions (see figure) and not the four we know (height, width, depth and time), they are in the “string theory “.
String theory was invented precisely the model to explain the movement of Hadrons, that would be basic of all blocks there, initially the model was the Polish Theodor Kaluza in 1919, left the Einstein equations and neglecting the masses and expanding the problem to five dimensions (four spatial and temporal), showed the unification of gravitational and electromagnetic fields.
But it was missing calls particles of gravity, strong and weak dimension, in 1980, Michael Green and John Schwarz called string theory and quantum mechanics, creating superstring theory, which seeks to cover all existing forces of matter, including the power weak gravitational one that explains the radioactive decay (called radiation) and the strong gravitational, explaining phenomena within walking distance of the atomic nucleus (nuclear fusion, for example).
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For this purpose the Hadron Collider is expected to double its amount of energy, making it possible to be generated micro-black holes, something impossible in previous past.
This study aims to view the theory of gravity rainbow, which would make it possible to double the dimensions in space-time, and gravity “filtered” to other higher dimensions, would separate the colors of different frequencies, reaching form a black hole.
In the spring in the northern hemisphere (in Brazil is winter – south hemisphere), the LHC is being prepared to try to create black micro-holes to observe these phenomena.
Eclipse of reason, individualism and humanism
19
Mar
Man can for the first time in its history watch consciously and intentionally a change in time, as if we had today’s consciousness but assistíssemos the late Middle Ages, now not right.
What is the reason, one of the most brilliant writings of Max Horkheimer’s “Eclipse of Reason” read it in a voluntary exile when turned in to a reflection on our goals, affections and attachments, read at that time, “again and again, when urban culture race reached its peak, for example, in Florence in the fifteenth century, there was a balance similar to the psychological forces “(Horkheimer, 2002, p. 136).
It is for this social issue, not individual, so many people are looking for a saving force, autoajudas manuals, doctrines that are somehow something that points to the balance, but will not find in the individual and in just a few groups .
The individual subject to the state, endowed with almost divine powers over the individual which should be your protector, your spoiler and can not sustain their minimum rights, health, education and above all peace.
Blame this individualism of individual, is to take the part for the whole, this unprotected and isolated individual is forced to seek refuge for maintenance and dignified life and individualism is the resulting effect and not the cause of “eclipse” that society lives.
The reason for the eclipse comes also of being in pieces: be social, be individual and spiritual being, knowledge of fragmentation and also fragments the man in parts, forgetting -If your unit be designed to infinity, as is essential, and changeable and finite in appearance only what becomes the agreement of the contextual and temporary need, but are for basic needs that were designed: sociability, love and peace.
We exchanged essential for emergency, trade structures and loved by Being, and it perish and the individual penalty for an existence always subject to the “eclipse” of an end of season.
The climate on the planet will warm
16
Mar
A great event promises to steal the spotlight of the activists, especially green activism within the world stage:
The Climate Conference in Paris, to be held by the end of the year.
The course of the event already provides an official attendance of more people than in Copenhagen in 2009, and popular participation are expected 40 to 50 thousand people from over 95 countries.
Activists promise a “war” with the countries that are reluctant to make the deal.
At the end is expected to act a “Paris agreement” that determines the efforts to contain greenhouse gas emissions of the greenhouse effect that has harmed the planet’s climate, this weekend the small country of Vanuatu was devastated by climate effect a tropical cyclone, the chairman asked for help to rebuild “everything.”
The UN objective ask activists to be for years to come, to limit the increase of global warming to 2 ° C in, which scientists say can raise current levels of climate growth, leading the Earth’s climate to collapse.
Achieving Climate Conference will be between November 30 and December 11, 2015, there is already a flurry of networks, for example, 45 countries´ christians do a Lenten fast to draw attention to the serious situation.
UN and technology for Peace
02
Mar
Recent UN report, as FierceGovernmentIT site, reinforces the idea that technology can help a lot in
peacekeeping missions, in areas such as situational awareness, implement mandates and protection, according to the Expert Panel on Technology and Innovation for Maintenance UN peace.
The report (see page) between the various recommendations of the use of technology in the areas and topics, an important aspect highlighted are certain principles that the UN has in the acquisition and use of technology.
But the focus of the panel is that you should be using widely available the technology available, but not proprietary technologies that can be relatively easy to maintain, give priority to mobility in relation to the maneuverability of assets and mobile information technology platforms are among the main recommendations ..
Some highlights of the report are protected vehicle mines, unmanned aerial vehicles, and smartphone innovations, and cites the UNMAS application.
Landmines, which maim so many people even in regions that already enjoy peace, use the type of ERW Security that can help peacekeeping missions and face the threat of landmines, explosive relics of war and improvised explosive devices, one can use the platform in multiple languages.
But the panel notes that the UN also have to deal with issues such as limited bandwidth, lack of interoperable systems, and cybersecurity
In the long run, the report says that the UN needs to create a culture of innovation.
Technology: need or consumerism ?
22
Jan
It’s insane the amount of people who criticize the technology only what men do, machines do not devise anything, though it can reproduce human desires, intentionality in the use of the given object (not just technology) is defining your practice.
Throughout its existence on the planet, the man does not always inhabited this earth, he invented many tools to help you overcome their daily needs, the very division between the Stone Age and metals, is the manipulation of technology.
Many of these inventions, although designed to benefit humanity, just used to harm the life, and make the contemporary technological object an object of desire, consumerism, does not mean that it does not have its usefulness.
It was John Danton possibility that energy of atoms, but never imagined that it would be used in a war (Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II), now the use of technology by extremists, does not mean that the use of technology is “bad” or “good.”
Now let us take the example of the Internet, unscrupulous sites that exposes children, adolescents and young recruit, but we must not forget that these values are passed by movies, television shows and even radio, and some argue that even in schools.
The technology is a necessity of human evolution, it is bad if used by bad people and good if used by people of good intentions, as consumerism is an array of a form of human society and independent of technological advancement, is the consumption to give easy money to people that even though good-natured, does not have good intentions, they only seek profit.
