Hive45 Singularity Podcast #35 1/2 - Manipulating Reality
Channel: hive45com
Date: 2010-10-20

"F#$%ing with reality" for this week ending the 17/10/10: Video manipulation software allows perfect changes to human dimensions, tablet-based augmented reality can make objects disappear in real-time, the 60 Minutes does an awesome intro to the Singularity and Singularity University, founder of fractals Benoit Mandelbrot dies. Singularity topic includes discussions around morphing reality, using technology like augmented or virtual reality to change how we view the world, and what impact that will have on the human brain's perception of the Universe we "live" in.

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Stories covered this week:
Change All Human Dimensions With Image-Manipulation Software (see video), 'Diminished Reality' Software Can Make Objects Disappear in Real-time, Singularity University on 60 Minutes New Zealand (Video), Benoit Mandelbrot The Father of Fractal Mathematics Dies At Age 85, Wikipedia: Mandelbrot Set, Mandelbrot Fractal Zoom Video [AMAZING], Paper: Codon Populations in Single-stranded Whole Human Genome DNA Are Fractal and Fine-tuned by the Golden Ratio 1.618, Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science, Stephen Wolfram: Computation and the Future of the Human Condition, Coachelletta: Tilt Shift Photography Makes People Look Like Ants (Video)