Organ Printing
REPRINT – Originally aired December 2005 You are lying on the operating table waiting for you heart replacement surgery and a strange sound lulls you too sleep as the anesthesia kicks in. (dot matrix printer sound) An amazing leap in tissue engineering is in the works. The ability to actually print out living tissue, blood vessels and organs utilizing a biodegradable paper with an ink that is full of cells. These are stacked into 3D objects like vessels and when the paper breaks down the cells are left in tacked to form the needed replacement part. This paper has been developed with...
read morePersonal Genomics
**Originally Aired December 2005 on Glimpse of Tomorrow** Text Transcript In 1984 groups of scientist were tasked with completing the Human Genome Project. This project had an estimated time line of 15 years from 1990 – 2005 and a cost of around three billion dollars. Today in 2005 due to radical advancements in gene sequencing and cloning techniques the idea of an individual Personal Genome for $1000 is being discussed. From three billion to one thousand dollars now that is a deflation in cost of 97%. This massive price drop is what can allow for such an amazing possibility. This ability...
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**Originally Aired December 2005 on Glimpse of Tomorrow** Text Transcript The term neuromorphic was coined by Carver Mead, in the late 1980s to describe Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) systems containing electronic analog circuits that mimic neuro-biological architectures present in the nervous system. “The brain does not execute coded instructions; instead it activates links, or synapses, between neurons. Each such activation is equivalent to executing a digital instruction, so one can compare how many connections a brain activates every second with the number of instructions...
read moreMeet George Jetson
**Originally Aired January 2006 on Glimpse of Tomorrow** Text Transcript I wake up one day in the future late for my job at Cogswell Cogs. After a quick shower and a cup of coffee that burns my lip. I grab my brief case and head out to the garage. I push the button on the garage door opener and the roof opens. I hop into the Moller Sky Car M700 and with the vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) engines I slowly rise out of the garage and once I have reached the appropriate altitude I kick the engines over and zoom off at over 300 MPH to my job. While this scenario sounds like a scene from the...
read moreI Always Feel Like Some One is Watching Me
**Originally Aired January 2006 on Glimpse of Tomorrow** Text Transcript Have you ever had the uneasy felling you are being watched. The one where you just cant put your finger on how or where but you feel the unknown eyes boring into you. Well in the world in which we are about to inhabit this may become an all to often felt sensation. Advancements in visual recognition will allow our computers to be aware and for some of them actually see us and know who we are. With a combination of cameras and sensor technologies the future looks to hold a some what Orwellian sounding experience. Let me...
read moreData Flood
**Originally Aired November 2005 on Glimpse of Tomorrow** Text Transcript In this electronic age the exponential growth of data is overwhelming. For organizations and individuals the flood of data that is accumulating shows no signs of slowing down.The agency for the US government that is trying to deal with all this data is the Nation Archives and Records Administration (NARA) they are in a race against the clock to some how store in a persistent way this deluge of electronic data. Already key historical information is being lost due to the poor shelf life of bits. The size and scope of...
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- Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: Transmedia 202: Further ReflectionsTransmedia 202: Further Reflections The above video was shot by Scott Walker during one of my presentations at San Diego Comic-Con, during which I spoke about some of the controversy which has surrounded the definition of transmedia over the past six months or so. I've largely stayed out of these conversations, though you can find a very good summary of […]
- Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: Now Available: Transmedia Hollywood 2 VideosNow Available: Transmedia Hollywood 2 Videos Due to technical difficulties, we've been delayed in sharing with you the videos from our April Transmedia Hollywood 2 conference, jointly sponsored by the cinema schools at USC and UCLA, and hosted this year at UCLA. We hope to be back next April at USC with a whole new line up of speakers and topics, which […]