Wired:
The researchers’ algorithm is composed of a series of five equations through which data from cameras can be run. Each equation represents tricks used by fly circuits to handle changing levels of brightness, contrast and motion, and their parameters constantly shift in response to input. Unlike Lucas-Kanade, the algorithm doesn’t …

Imagining an unequalable, universally contiguous, extended human cognition substrate; a phenomenologically consistent and sustainable epi-neocortical architecture, intrinsically obviating corporation and nation; diverse, progressive, transparent, authentic, open, extensible. Observe, interpret, forecast, design, build, uplift.
What is it?

Technology Review (via KAIN):

Oh, there’ll be no body category, class, or type limits — within the bounds of the laws of physics — for your inevitable substrate independent migratory path; just one niggling little problem holdin’ up the show: spec’n out the I/O ports.

… but was afraid to ask. By the ever erudite Martine Rothblatt:
A mindclone is a software version of your mind.  He or she is all of your thoughts, recollections, feelings, beliefs, attitudes and values, and is experiencing reality from the standpoint of whatever machine their mindware is running on.  Mindclones …

More highlights from the year that was 2008:

After greatly enjoying the first two Singularity Summits, I’m not attending today’s 3.0 version. One reason is that I think I understand all the basic principles sufficiently that I need to focus on contributing rather than flocking and following. Another is the price tag. I’m confident enough in my own …

This article delves deeper into the position I was alluding to in a recent Talk of the Nation Science Friday in Second Life.
I don’t see my role in SL as some arrogant self-appointed magistrate of truth; rather, I’m experimenting with the role of harbinger of emerging debates and potentialities. …

Personally, I’d use the word co-existent rather than co-dependent. By 2040, we will be indistinguishable from it and it from us; at least for the most adaptive.

Excerpt from latest of Russell Blackford’s crisply composed reviews of the six articles about transhumanism in June’s edition of The Global Spiral. I’m not sure if Blackford is simply being polite in omitting mention of Don Idhe’s transparent religious fundamentalism by use of the encoded christian pejorative “idol.” In that …

Future Scanner on the MemeBox Network is kinda like Early Edition for the blogosphere.
Nicely done! We likes it!

This month in IEEE Spectrum:

Human senses and body parts are increasingly augmented by a stunning array of high-tech devices.
Today, robots are pushing the envelope of humanoid design—they can play the violin, unload a dishwasher, and climb stairs.
To David Adler, the human brain is just really advanced nanotechnology.
Countervalent: One day a …

This To-do Lists For Futurists and the Pros and Cons of Internet Brain Implants, both courtesy of io9, are simply worth archiving if for no other reason than Citizen Cyborg ranks #2 on the list. Onward …