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As part of the activites of the Long Now Foundation, Stewart Brand has organized a series of seminars which are held at Fort Mason in San Francisco. This Edge feature is based on Kevin Kelly's March 10th talk on "The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method." He's been exploring the theme on his blog, The Technium. Here's something he said to think about, "The Internet already is made of one quintillion transistors, a trillion links, a million emails per second, 20 exabytes of memory. It is approaching the level of the human brain and is doubling every year..."
Submitted by Stan Hutchings
Microcenter's Random Access In The Lab HDTV and Monitor basics: A screen odyssey by Chris is a good tie-in with Gary Sasaki's presentation. It is a discussion of the different monitor technologies, CRT (Cathode Ray Tube), LCD (Liquid Crystal Display), and Plasma.
Submitted by Stan Hutchings
Over 70 years ago, the National Archives was founded to preserve American historical documents, as well as the moments and events that could be saved in still photos, films, and audio recordings. Today the Archives is home to everything from rare historical footage (newsreels and government documentaries from the 1930s) to the 1969 moon landing. Now Google is launching a pilot program to digitize its video content and offer it to everyone in the world for free, and you can watch a growing selection on Google Video.
Submitted by Stan Hutchings (from Google Friends Newsletterr - March 2006)
Folks who visit the Googleplex in Mountain View, California often compare it to a college campus - there are people engaged in group meetings, in solitary work, and when they can, they make time to eat, play or exercise. One of the most campus-like elements is a thriving program called "Tech Talks" - regularly scheduled presentations offered by Googlers or our guests on a wide variety of subjects. Any Googler can attend a talk on, say, "Collecting Meteorites in Antarctica" or "High End Computing and Scientific Visualization at NASA." Now you can also watch these talks, just by searching Google Video for [techtalks]. We obtain clearance from all speakers so Tech Talks can be posted publicly, and will continue to add them to Google Video. We hope you enjoy these sometimes obscure, always informative, insights into current events, research and ideas as much as we do.
Submitted by Stan Hutchings (from Google Friends Newsletterr - March 2006). By the way, a google = 1x 10100 (that's a 1 with 100 zeros after it); a googleplex = 1 X 10google, a really large number (but not the largest number), 1 followed by a googol of zeros.
Share Google Friends with a friend through Google Groups - groups.google.com/group/google-friends (includes subscribe/unsubscribe information).
How long will your password stand up? This document shows the approximate amount of time required for a computer or a cluster of computers to guess various passwords. The figures shown are approximate and are the maximum time required to guess each password using a simple brute force "key-search" attack, it may (and probably will) be possible to guess correctly without trying all the combinations shown using other methods of attack or by having a "lucky guess". Password Recovery Speeds
Submitted by John Buck