by Tom | May 19, 2006 | IT
Hamachi is genius. Install a simple client on Windows or Mac and you have a VPN that is transparent.As an example, I can now browse my Mac mini hard drive at work through a normal explorer window. Other uses? Well why not do VNC over the Hamachi network instead of...
by Tom | May 19, 2006 | Science
Amazing that medical science is reduced to finding potentially critical antibiotics in soil samples from around the world. What ever happened to designing drugs for specific purposes?
by Tom | May 19, 2006 | Reading
A thought-provoking essay from Fukuyama on critiques of his The End of History. My summary of his position: liberty and equality are evolution-driven goals in considerable tension. While Hegel thought the unfolding of reason would lead to communist utopia, events lead...
by Tom | May 19, 2006 | Science
The first entirely unguided heart surgery has been carried out by a robot. I find this spooky and slightly unnerving. Not sure why, because it is obviously the future.
by Tom | May 19, 2006 | Reading
Demos asks which you are in terms of the future direction for public services. Hmm. I agree with bits of all three positionsTransformers – makes sense to do co-creation, so long as people see resultsLuddites – checks and balances are important, but should...
