What Your Computer Does While You Wait
| Rationality, give me the | Strength | to Change the things I can, |
| the | Serenity | to Accept those that I can't, and |
| the | Wisdom | to Know the difference. |
Gamification is the use of game play mechanics for non-game consumer technology applications
Generic Programming is the art of writing highly reusable code that is also highly efficient.
"risk-taking and a willingness to open one’s eyes to new possibilities and a rejection of worse-is-better make an environment where excellence is possible. Xenia invites the duende, which is battled daily because there is the possibility of failure in an aesthetic rather than merely a technical sense."
DIYbio is an organization that aims to help make biology a worthwhile pursuit for citizen scientists, amateur biologists, and DIY biological engineers who value openness and safety.
These new shockers will be known as bio-hackers -- young and smart kids mainly, with no access either through training or economic status to million dollar laboratories. They will do with pennies things that large laboratories have not even begun to think possible. The kid's tools? Gene blasters. Devices, which even I might be able to make for $20, that will allow genes from one living organism to be transfered to another.//DrTommorow
Biohackers embrace fully the philosophy of hackers: love for freedom, veneration of competence and utter curiosity for how things work.
"Part of the exercise was to determine whether or not we could bootstrap this thing," he says. "The answer appears to be 'yes'. As long as you are willing to be patient and to eat nothing but rice for dinner occasionally."
The implication from this field of study alone proves that complex behavior patterns can be transferred from one species to another, strongly suggesting that transhumans will likely bear unintended behavior and appetite disorders that could produce literal lycanthropes
