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Joel Garreau (born 1948) is an American journalist, scholar, and author. [1] In 1981, Garreau published The Nine Nations of North America. In 1991, he published Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. [2] In 2005, he published Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies—and What It Means to Be Human.
Garreau details interviews with members of DARPA, Ray Kurzweil, and Bill Joy, among other leading technologists to offer their perspective on the forthcoming paradigm shifts of life in the decades to come, as a result of rapidly advancing technological progress, and the prospect of a Technological singularity that such exponential growth may ...
Kevin Kelly, editor of Wired magazine, created the law in 2007 after being influenced by Pattie Maes at MIT and Joel Garreau (author of Radical Evolution). [1]In 1993, Maes listed a number of her colleagues at MIT that had publicly predicted mind uploading (the replication of a human brain on a computer), and noted that the innovations were generally slated to occur approximately 70 years ...
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Paul Meartz of Mayville State University called The Nine Nations of North America "a classic text on the current regionalization of North America". [2] In The Boston Phoenix, Michael Matza wrote that "it is Garreau's affection for the easy observation -- the serviceable cliché -- that undercuts Nine Nations, a book that tells much that we already know in language that is entertaining and ...
Rare evolved from the company Ultimate Play the Game, which was founded in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire by former arcade game developers Tim and Chris Stamper. [1] After multiple critically and commercially successful releases including Jetpac, Atic Atac, Sabre Wulf, and Knight Lore, Ultimate Play The Game was one of the biggest UK-based video game development companies. [2]
Radical 64 or radical hand (手部) meaning 'hand' is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes. When appearing as a left-side component, this radical is almost always written as 扌 (notable exceptions: 拜 , although Japanese shinjitai analogizes it to 拝 ; and dialectal characters 掰, 搿), while it ...
Full Rate (FR), also known as GSM-FR or GSM 06.10 (sometimes simply GSM), was the first digital speech coding standard used in the GSM digital mobile phone system. It uses linear predictive coding (LPC). The bit rate of the codec is 13 kbit/s, or 1.625 bits/audio sample (often padded out to 33 bytes/20 ms or 13.2 kbit/s).