“. . . just because you can do something doesn’t mean that you should.” [quote, Jurassic Park] The fifth horseman of the apocalypse (in the form of 50B Internet of Things (IOT) devices) is rapidly approaching. Big Data, cloud computing, and RFID are expected to converge in an explosion of analyzable (and potentially actionable) data …Read the Rest

In the film “Bicentennial Man,” Robin Williams portrays a futuristic robot that – through a programming fluke – portrays emotions more discernibly “human” than his electronic counterparts. At the movie’s end the android is in fact declared “human” in a world where man has melded with machines through artificially generated organs and continuous blood replacement.