GRA-ZONE (gray zone): Society & Culture

Kony 2011 / Invisible Children: social network geopolitics

Living in a cloned meat future

In vitro meat is coming!..and it could save the world

Crowdsourcing: How free micro-labor can do the impossible. Luis von Ahn with a funny and fascinating view of how voluntarily linking millions of human brains can painlessly do massive scale tasks.

Print my ride! 3D Copiers are poised for consumer production

How crowdfunding raised $282 million to buy Pabst Brewing, with an average investment of $40, and how it could substantially change startup funding in the future

Challenges in the Gra-zone (gray zone)

In building this blog, I've discovered that one of the more delightfully problematic aspects is deciding which category-tab to appropriately place posts under.

For instance, does the post on a man showing off his amazing mind-controlled bionic hand go under "Medicine & Health", "Body Augmentation", "Robotics", "Gadgets & Gizmos" - or, considering the possibly significant future implications of easy-to-use and upgradable replacement body parts- even "Society & Culture" ??

It's precicely this cross-over; that tension and play in the gray zone between tech and art, science and nature- that so intrigues me and keeps me coming back to hunt up new exciting, interesting, weird, amusing, world-shaking or just plain quirky new material for posts.

Enjoy!

Carol

GRA-ZONE (gray zone)

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Society & Culture

Living in a cloned meat future

In vitro meat is coming!..and it could save the world

Crowdsourcing: How free micro-labor can do the impossible. Luis von Ahn with a funny and fascinating view of how voluntarily linking millions of human brains can painlessly do massive scale tasks.

Print my ride! 3D Copiers are poised for consumer production

How crowdfunding raised $282 million to buy Pabst Brewing, with an average investment of $40, and how it could substantially change startup funding in the future

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