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New Non-Tech MyGlobalCity Blog February 21, 2007

If you haven’t seen it yet, I’ve started a non-tech version of this blog up at the root directory. It’s called MyGlobalCity - Book of Mankind Project, or BoMP.

The new site’s focus is mostly travel + culture, but with a healthy dose of world events and global politics, provide there’s a travel thread involved.

The site you’re reading is going to stay as it is, focusing mostly on technology that somehow furthers the global village, or has direct effect on us as a society. Both weblogs will be maintained at a rate of between 1-3 posts/wk until I can find …

Robot Bugs? You’re Kidding, Right? March 17, 2006

From the “It’s Not April Fool’s” files… On the front cover of yesterday’s Globe and Mail newspaper (Canada) is a small headline about the Pentagon developing cyborg insects. These miniature cyborgs would be real bugs, with electronic devices inserted into them at the larval stage. The idea is to be able to control them remotely.

Sounds crazy? I seem to recall coming across one web page late last year where Japanese scientists were demonstrating how they could control the musculature of a woman. In fact, they could remotely control her arms and legs.

The idea with the cybugs is that they …

MyGlobalCity - Publisher’s Agenda

MyGlobalCity.com exists for a number of purposes. First and foremost, it exists to showcase companies, technologies, software, and gadgets that bring us closer together as a global society - a global city, if you will. This includes anything that makes it easier for all of us to be mobile, to move around with ease.

It also exists to highlight where technologies have gone or will go wrong. I am, for example, the strangest dichotomy of part-Luddite and full on gadget freak. But while I am sucker for cool gadgets and love well written websites like TechnologyEvangelist (Better Living Through …

Welcome to My Global City

For a few decades now, the media has used the term global village. It means different things to different people. But to me it refers to the fact that it’s relatively easy for people in two different parts of the world to do business with each other and generally communicate as if they were next door. With the introduction of the Internet  to the general public around 1995, the world was changed forever, arguably for good.

Now, with VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and Skype and GoogleTalk and all those other VoIP clients and VoIP phones, you can communicate practically for …




  

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