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“I will poor out my spirit on all flesh… He said I’m gonna raise you… God never asked you to do anything he doesn’t give you the power to do it with… if you don’t put on the Truth, you cannot stand…”
MONDO 2000 was the first popular cyberculture magazine, starting before the web (or the World Wide Web as it was called for the first few years) came into play. It started in 1989 (and, really, in 1984 as High Frontiers) when the internet was a place full of ascii-based bulletin boards. MONDO evolved out of another magazine called Reality Hackers that, in turn, evolved out of a magazine called High Frontiers. In the words of journalist Jack Boulware, the magazine kept “changing names to avoid detection.” I was the initial founder and editor-in-chief of these various periodicals.
Last week, I hustled up a post about Craig Venter’s announcement that he and his team had created synthetic genes and implanted them into living bacteria. The chatter on this was already mixed. Exciting new breakthrough or mostly hype?
So I emailed Dr. Alan Goldstein, who is offering something called an A-Prize through the Lifeboat Foundation. The prize is for "the person or organization responsible for creating an Animat/Artificial lifeform with an emphasis on the safety of the researchers, public, and environment OR the person or organization who shows that an Animat/Artificial life form has been created." Goildstein refers to this as "breaking the carbon barrier." Every once in awhile, a news item prompts me to email Goldstein and jokingly try to collect the prize, by being the first person to inform him about an Artificial Life form.
Yesterday’s announcement that a team of 23 scientist led by Craig Venter has created synthetic genes and implanted them into living bacteria has already been reported in my morning newspaper (if it weren’t Venter, it would probably have taken a few days). Here’s the Venter Institute press release about it.
Here’s an h+ article from August 21, 2009 about a "master class" insynthetic life taught by Venter and George Church. It includes a video of Venter’s TED talk on the topic.
DJ Dolphin-Z with the perfect beat. If dolphins could actually do human-style DJ’ing with turntables, mixers, samplers, and drum machines, they might paint something that looks like 3D sound “pictures” of their moods, feelings, and surroundings.
ARE2010 (Augmented Reality Event) is the first global event reflecting the rise of the business of AR. The event is taking place on June 2-3 in Santa Clara, California.
