tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66769592011-09-01T18:48:25.308+02:00An adventurer in the Realms of Chaos, Information and Knowledge seeks science and technology developments in an attempt to see the future of the Norwegian welfare state.Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17447344140882753116noreply@blogger.comBlogger501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6676959.post-1087392706049344092004-06-16T15:22:00.000+02:002004-06-16T15:31:46.050+02:00

Today, futurenorway will move, and change name. While the topics will be the same (and yes, the archives will of course be exported), I am moving over to my own server (well, it's hosted, but nevertheless), using my own MoveableType (well, it's the freeware version, but nevertheless), installed all by myself (a little proud, but it turned out to be a bit more user friendly than my last attempt to

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Norway's minister of health once again demonstrates how to abuse political power to enforce your own intolerant points of view. After having kicked 40% of Norwegians out on the street from bars and restaurants (I am personally looking forward to see the number of pneumonias and lost productivity when the stormy weather arrives in October), he has now copied Bush' way of handling progress in the

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Finally, after months of planning, rewriting and generally bogarting the much-needed bylaws, the Norwegian chapter of the World Transhumanist Association was approved today. Huzzah! Invites went out to the Norwegian members of the WTA, and the first positive reply came after 20 minutes (Chemometrics; now where's my Wikipedia; ah. there. Now I feel enlightened). A small step for transhumanity, a

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As with everything else I stumble upon, everyone seems to have seen, read and commented it, so without further ado: They're made out of meat - Terry Bisson Weird Flotsam - CheeseburgerBrown (Kuro5hin) Short stories, big thoughts, fun reads.

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Looking at my posts the last months, I can see that writing only about future trends and science news is giving me a writers block; it demands a certain plan from the start when writing, and for one who has no idea where a newly started sentence will end, this is not the way to go. Over to London. On Friday, that is. Finally, it's been almost five years since my last trip there. My first trip

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I was just at Garage; that is, Bergen's number one rock hangout/pub/bar/nightclub. Before: a thick mist of cigarette smoke covered the basement floor, making everyone's eyes run, people coughing whilst lighting up another fag and having their beer at the same time. No need for dry ice smoke at the concerts, we made it ourselves. And we loved it. Tonight: almost vomited from the smell of sweat,

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This idea popped into my mind this spring, and that everyone I talk to seem to dig: the establishment of the religion called "Øl" (Beer). Not a religion per se, we can register what is referred to as a trossamfunn (belief society) with the local authorities, and having done so -- eventually -- get state sponsorship (the Norwegian state sponsors religious groups per member on a yearly basis). If

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I should be writing my thesis, and I should be finalizing a database for my job, but I seem to end up doing all the other things that are occupying my mind, as one often does when one has important things to do. So, today we signed the papers needed to register Norsk Transhumanistforbund (Norwegian Transhumanist Organization - the local chapter of the World Transhumanist Organization. This is

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Stephen Hawking definitely needs an upgrade. Try out Scansoft's text-to-speech demo; it even has Norwegian as an option. Not bad at all.

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Stumbled upon this. Someone claims to have the formula for tiredness. Take a small test and get a 24-hour graph of how awake you should feel. Neat, unfortunately it assumes that you have a steady sleep cycle. I go to bed between nine in the evening and six in the morning sometime, so I guess I cannot judge whether this test could be useful for planning when to study, etc. Maybe when I start

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Like crawling out from under a rock; peeking at the all too bright sun, this is. Someone sent me some well placed words, hu probably won't read this, but thanks anyway. And whilst sitting here in the dark, spreading wikified memes to this small, select audience, the block still looms. So many thoughts, ideas, projects evaporating bit by bit while feeding the brain with junk data. Alas, where to

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Spirit and Opportunity have been quite silent lately, but Mars is still full of interesting things. Meanwhile, you can read Oliver Morton's piece on two craters seemingly showing recent liquid water. The pictures are quite convincing, but then again I am a layman.

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Surfing randomly around in a Sunday state of mind... I know just about everything has been said and done about the Lord of the Rings already, but unicast got me laughing to this Commentary By Howard Zinn & Noam Chomsky for the FOTR extended etition. The required snippet:Chomsky: A terrible thing the Orcs do here, isn't it? They destroy nature. But again, what have we seen, time and time again?

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This has been popping into my mind lately: Looking for a new hobby, and do not mind freaking people out? Start collecting DNA! It's basically the perfect hobby: you collect something, it's free, every item you collect is unique and it doesn't take up much space nor time. Start asking friends/celebrities/politicians for a hair instead of an autograph. When you in some years can decode their

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"Thus, if the Minuteman III ICBMs have to be used in some future nuclear war, their rocket motors will not pollute the atmosphere. EPA regulations do not apply in foreign countries, so no changes are being made to reduce the harmful environmental effects of the nuclear warheads." (via WorldChanging.org)

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With brain implants on their way, it is good to see that scientists are discussing the ethics of boosting brainpower with drugs. We already have and employ several chemicals to affect our brains, from pills which affect our pain threshold, Prozac and its numerous off-shoots, and as the article mentions, Ritalin. Coffee, cigarettes and wine may increase your brainpower, yet are socially accepted.

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From Z+Blog, the BBC is adopting scenario planning to societal issues in the TV series IF. What if...women ruled the world?things don't get better?the generations fall out?Almost totally unrelated, I am listening to the radio, and they just mentioned that Norway got it's first printing press in 1643, as the last country in Europe, a good 100 years after our Icelandic neighbours... what if... The

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From Ross: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.However, on account of these consequences, reason takes away people's hope for eternal life and the only real and unshakeable certainty it offers is the certainty of extinction -- the fate of everyhting in the universe This

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So this is why India is racing ahead in the brainpower market: Curry Could Save Brain Cells. Betterhumans.com explains:Curry may help fight brain diseases by enhancing an enzyme that protects brain cells from oxidative damage.Studying the effects of a compound in the spice on rat neurons, Italian and American researchers have found that it might help protect against such diseases as

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Another tip-off from our excellent national public radio P2 on research currently in progress at Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen: Karl Johan Tronstad, PhD is working on modified tetradecylthioacetic (3-Thia) fatty acid effects on programmed cell death. Fatty acids function as structural components of cells, serve as metabolic fuel for mitocondria, and participate in intracellular

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Today is the official opening of the Microtechnology Research Laboratory (MRL) in Oslo. The lab is a SINTEF-backed project located in Gaustadbekkdalen in Oslo, and part of the Oslo Technopole umbrella organization. While the name says 'micro', the facilities are equipped to do nanoscale research as well. The project is about two years after schedule, as the construction of the building ran into

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I often wish I was studying artificial intelligence. Whether it is because it involves several beautiful fields of science, the philosophical aspects of what to answer the day your PC claims it has become alive all of a sudden, or just the sheer thrill of trying to play god is not important. Nevertheless, the subject consists of many easy to grasp, difficult to understand and hard to learn

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Satisfying my ego by looking at the referrer links from my site stats service, I just found out that I have at least one reader who has not been persuaded verbally to start reading. He even added me to his reading list "as it is written by a Norwegian, and it's always nice to find something exotic. I've known Swedes, Finns and Danes but the only Norwegian I knew was a guy with a hobbit hairdo. In

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I've just added a new commenting service from HaloScan. I don't think the functionality is radically different (no choice to get emailed when people comment or reply to a comment), but the layout seems a bit nicer, and it includes a trackback service. I really want a system that allows trackbacks to be sent automatically when linking to another blog, and a commenting system a la a messageboard,

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Public libraries in Oslo and Bergen have launched an online library of Norwegian music. It does (of course) only work in Microsoft Internet Explorer with Media Player, but I hope this is only temporarily (after all, librarians dig Linux, don't they?). The funniest part was nevertheless the fact that a song that is being listened to, is virtually checked out of the library; you will have to wait

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I'm so proud. I was working on a school paper on constructing corporate strategy scenarios for the students' welfare organisation (SiB), and as always checked what Wikipedia had to say on the issue. Lo and behold, there was no article! (quite senstational as Wikipedia is very comprehensive; for my home town buddies, you can contribute to this article for example). Well, not anymore. Check out my

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is one of the questions you have to answer in this morality test. Gives you results in the same from as the political compass.

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On a blogging roll today (woke up at 0700 for some weird reason), from Robotic Nation Evidence, I give you (shouting in Japanese style)Team Osakas hand standing (amongst other skills) robot! Quite impressive, indeed.

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This made my day and made me think at the same time (strange feeling) -- there is something sinister going on in Norway these days. Our trademarks have for as long as anyone cares to remember; high prices, high salaries and did I mention high prices (a litre of gasoline costs something around 1,2 Euros). And now, for the third time in two year (dramatic emphasis beign added) Supermarkets are

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The FDA has approved human brain implant devices: The idea is not to stimulate the mind but rather to map neural activity so as to discern when the brain is signaling a desire to make a particular physical movement. "We're going to say to a paralyzed patient, 'imagine moving your hand six inches to the right,'" [Cyberkinetics chief executive Tim] Surgenor said. Then, he said, researchers will

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Writes The New York Times; Oman's Oil Yield Long in Decline, Shell Data Show. Despite advanced technology, like (Norwegian pioneered) horizontal drilling, Oman's oil fields are going empty. Update: From the comment by AMH: BBC writes about Norway's oil fields going empty on the same day as I wrote this piece. Good timing and well worth a read) There are several articles being written on

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Ah, the bliss of disneyesque future dreaming... Check out this art by 20th century artist Arthur Radebaugh.

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Norway's most prominent aerospace company plays a small part in the Darwin project. They are working on noise reduction in the signal processing.

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Fashion trends is not my favourite cup of tea. This post from Futurismic caught my attention, though. I've always been wondering when the fashion avant garde will take up piercing their eyes. Not there yet, but surgeons in the Netherlands now provide eyeball jewelry.

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Brilliant scientist not included.

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I have long ranted about how old school a monogamous marriage is. Not only are they unrealistic when you look at divorce statistics (actually, I'm impressed by all those who do not divorce, they have managed to take a correct life-long decision based on almost no data), they are the result of several hundred years of piousness and indoctrination. In today's Stavanger Aftenblad (that's down in our

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Sweden seems to be racing ahead in the gene-research area. So much for our great and protective and reactionary laws in this country. Now, researchers at the Karolinska Institute have identified a gene related to asthma and allergies (Swedish). Betterhumans have the details. What does this mean for Norway? While these studies have not involved stem cells, the progress that is being done in

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In this article from Dagens Nyheter (Swedish) we can read that the potato with the catchy name EH92-527-1 have been approved for commercial growth by the Swedish Board of Agriculture. It is the composition of the starch in the potato that has been modified. A 'normal' potato contains 85% amylopectin and 15% amylose. The EH92-527-1 contains respectively 98% and 2%, the increased amylopectin level

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Synd, Gert

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Most of the news about Norway's future are not about cutting edge biotech research, quantum computer projects and the like, unfortunately. So, I try to find trends in other places. We are so few people in this country that one primus motor within a field can make a difference. Arne Trageton is such a figure. He has been pioneering computer-based reading and writing education for our 1st- and 2nd

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Paul Allen seems to have an interest for natural science, and knows how to get some fun out of all his wealth. A while ago, we heard about him funding the next phase of SETI, but this is not the only project he has funded. He is a sponsor for one of the X-Prize (first private venture to 100km altitude with a 3-person reusable spaceship) competitors, is setting up the Science Fiction Museum and

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A minority of Norwegians consider themselves christian (.no). For the first time, more people have answered 'no' to the question whether they - from their own definition of the word - consider themselves christian. 49% say no, 47% yes. At the same time, however, there is an increase in the number of people who believe that the ressurection of the Christ was a real event. Religion-sociologist Pål

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I'm hooked on RSS now. I get fixed up hourly. I feel exhausted, transcended. My reading speed has increased, I think, threefold. Amphetadesk is really an excellent name for that program. Let's take a look at how the Scandinavian countries' biggest news sites have adopted to the trend. I checked out whether the biggest newspapers in the three countries had their own RSS feed set up. Research was

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9 out of 10 surveillance cameras (in norwegian) are not registered at the Norwegian Data Inspectorate. Now, even though a "Data Inspectorate" sounds 1984ish, they're the good guys here when it comes to defending privacy (they actually have some power). The news piece is short (and let's see if anyone follows it up), but a quote from the official states that registering your surveillance camera

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My good friend biofool over at LiveJournal posted a picture of a human-pig clone work of art from Patricia Piccinini. Checked out the pages, and found a work on stem cells. I don't dare to link the picture, the copyright was a bit harsh... click for yourself to see some deatils, that is actually NOT a real little girl! I'm impressed. Hope the future will have room for plenty of creativity like

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RSS is good. RSS is free. RSS saves time for information junkies like me. No more opening the entire bookmark list and filtering through junk to find the latest news. In a little while, hopefully no more cluttering of my inbox from various email newsletters. Get a newsreader now and feel the freedom. Anyway. Since there are so many great sources on RSS/News aggregators/etc out there, Google is

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Seems the prize-award season is on here in Norway. Here is another which fits the Norwegian image quite well, The Sophie Prize, this year awarded to Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai for planting 30 million trees through her Green Belt Movement. The prize money is $100K, which should be enough for some more trees, I guess. The prize is named after the main character in the most successful

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Finn Bergesen dared say what oh so many here on the hill agree on. Norway is a nation of complainers he claimed, pointing out that while Norwegians are getting healthier every year, we become "sicker and sicker". Absentee rates are up; people are retiring at age 60 to 62 (the official age is 67, but various benefit programs allow people to retire early). While one may disagree on NHO (Norway's

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Two days ago, the Abel Prize was awarded to mathematicians Michael F. Atiyah and Isadore M. Singer for their work on "building new bridges between mathematics and theoretical physics". The prize is awarded for outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics. The prize shall contribute towards raising the status of mathematics in society and stimulating the interest of children and young

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So, I have only a few months left of my studies. Time to grow up, get a job and worry about the future. No more drinking beer for breakfast, going to bed at five in the morning and studying too little for my exams while not really worrying. From my favourite viewpoint - the egoistical - the future doesn't really worry me. Let's look at some of the reasons why: I have won the lottery of life.

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