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  • Jack Menzel and friend Susanna in the Ventana wilderness at the Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in Big Sur, California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Kayaking down the Toulumne River in Northern California. Sports.
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  • Adam belays for Doug D'Aluisio climbing a boulder at Joshua Tree National Monument, California. Christmas road trip from Napa, California to Sedona, Arizona and back. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Alabama Hills, Owen's Valley, California. MODEL RELEASED. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Rowing in a scull on the Arno River under the Ponte Vecchio. Florence, Italy.
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  • Roger Moore with Charles Jensen and his dog at Butte Sink Wildlife Refuge, Northern California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Charles Jensen with his dog at the Butte Sink Wildlife Refuge, Northern California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Doug D'Aluisio on top, belays for Adam making his first climb of a boulder at Joshua Tree National Monument, California Christmas road trip from Napa, California to Sedona, Arizona and back.
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  • Adam belays for Doug D'Aluisio climbing a boulder at Joshua Tree National Monument, California. Christmas road trip from Napa, California to Sedona, Arizona and back. MODEL RELEASED..
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  • A runner, bottom right, takes an early morning run on eroded hills. Seen from Zabriskie Point, Death Valley, CA. Christmas road trip from Napa, California to Sedona, Arizona and back.
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  • Canoeing on Convict Lake. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • June Lake Loop off Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Bouldering below Dead Man's Summit, on Route 395, Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Beginning descent of the South Kaibab Trail of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, in winter. Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 1,218,375 acres and lies on the Colorado Plateau in northwestern Arizona. USA.
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  • Multi-story golf driving range in Tokyo, Japan, at dusk.
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  • Windsurfers on the water near the nuclear power plant. Haroka, Japan.
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  • The fresh meat section of the weekly market in Hargesia, the capital of Somaliland. Despite the chronically chaotic political situation, people still try to go about their ordinary lives whenever they can, in this case buying and selling beef, mutton, and camel meat. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 17). Somaliland is the breakaway republic in northern Somalia that declared independence in 1991 after 50,000 died in civil war. March 1992.
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  • Aerial photograph of boats anchored in the bay of Monterey, California.
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  • Convict Lake. Route 395: Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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  • Combatants playing war at "Quest" paintball combat park, Malibu, California, USA.
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  • Traders at the Bolsa de Valores: Mexican stock exchange. Mexico City, Mexico.
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  • Aerial of the Paris Air Show, at Le Bourget Airport, France. Held every other year, the event is one of the world's biggest international trade fairs for the aerospace business.
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  • Myron Kruger jumps in front of a VideoPlace screen. Kruger designed this system to allow people to interface directly with computers. The operator stands in front of this large, backlit screen. A video camera is used to form an image of the silhouette - the computer then interprets different poses or actions as different commands. The results are displayed on an equally- large video screen, the image of the operator being manipulated in response to the commands. Kruger was the first to use the term 'artificial reality' for this concept. Model released. (1990)
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  • Rutan Long E Z, Mojave, California. The Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ is a homebuilt aircraft with a canard layout designed by Burt Rutan's Rutan Aircraft Factory. It is derived from the VariEze, which was first offered to home-built aircraft enthusiasts in 1976. The prototype N79RA) of the Long-EZ first flew on 12 June 1979.
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  • Rutan Long E Z, Mojave, California. The Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ is a homebuilt aircraft with a canard layout designed by Burt Rutan's Rutan Aircraft Factory. It is derived from the VariEze, which was first offered to home-built aircraft enthusiasts in 1976. The prototype N79RA) of the Long-EZ first flew on 12 June 1979.
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  • Hikers in Waikamoi crater, Maui. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Aerial photograph of the Albuquerque Hot Air Balloon festival, the world's largest an annual event hot air balloon event. New Mexico.
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  • Sat Cong Village war games paintball combat park near Los Angeles, California, USA. A player who was shot surrenders.
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  • Libertad Market in Guadalajara, Mexico. Vegetable vendors seen from above.
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  • Aerial of the Paris Air Show, at Le Bourget Airport, France. Held every other year, the event is one of the world's biggest international trade fairs in the world for the aerospace business.
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  • Lifelike statues in a city park, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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  • Nude bathers.  Base Camp at Redwood Summer, a conglomeration of environmental activists who camped out near Willow Creek, California, USA, to protest excessive logging during the summer of 1990.
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  • Rainbow at Waterwheel Falls on the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park, California. Marc Reisner, author of Cadillac Desert, looking at the rainbow. Photographed in 1980 prior to his writing the book.
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  • Wilderness riding in Skyline Park, Wilderness Park, Napa Valley, California, USA.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Every morning at dawn, barefoot Buddhist monks and novices in orange robes walk down the streets collecting food alms from devout, kneeling Buddhists. They then return to their temples (also known as "wats") and eat together. This procession is called Tak Bat, or Making Merit.
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  • Early morning yoga on the beach at Zihuatanejo, Mexico.
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  • Man making charcoal in the traditional way in Viloria. They pile seasoned oak logs into a pyramid, cover it with earth and slowly monitor its burning for several days to make charcoal.  Viloria, Navarra, Spain.
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  • Scripps Medical Center: Brain magnetic response: MEG Squid: Superconducting Quantum interference Device. Computer Screen shows the brain of a woman undergoing a brain scan with a neuromagnetometer, to measure normal brain function. The non-invasive scanner is positioned above her head while she views an object. This scan technique is called magneto encephalography (MEG). The neuromagnetometer measures magnetic fields generated from nerve cell activity within the brain. The scanner contains sensitive magnetic field detectors known as SQUIDS (Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices). MEG enables high- speed nerve cell activity to be detected, to show the brain working in rapid "real" time. It assists researchers to understand the normal brain. (1990)
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  • Scripps Medical Center: Brain magnetic response. A woman undergoing a brain scan with a neuromagnetometer, to measure normal brain function. The non-invasive scanner is positioned above her head while she views an object. This scan technique is called magneto encephalography (MEG). The neuromagnetometer measures magnetic fields generated from nerve cell activity within the brain. The scanner contains sensitive magnetic field detectors known as SQUIDS (Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices). MEG enables high- speed nerve cell activity to be detected, to show the brain working in rapid "real" time. It assists researchers to understand the normal brain. MODEL RELEASED (1990)
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  • Scripps Medical Center: Brain magnetic response. A woman undergoing a brain scan with a neuromagnetometer, to measure normal brain function. The non-invasive scanner is positioned above her head while she views an object. This scan technique is called magneto encephalography (MEG). The neuromagnetometer measures magnetic fields generated from nerve cell activity within the brain. The scanner contains sensitive magnetic field detectors known as SQUIDS (Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices). MEG enables high- speed nerve cell activity to be detected, to show the brain working in rapid "real" time. It assists researchers to understand the normal brain. MODEL RELEASED (1990)
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  • Outside the Quiapo Market in the Philippines, people pick through the trash discarded from the early-morning wholesale market. Inside, the covered market is a tumult of activity and offers an extraordinary variety of goods, ranging from food, clothing, consumer electronics, and patent medicines to religious images and even prayers (busy people can outsource their prayers to the Quiapo Church's "prayer ladies"). Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 239). This image is featured alongside the Cabaña family images in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Nadia Ahmed (left) and her sister-in-law Abadeer make mahshi (stuffed food, in this case small eggplants) on the floor of Nadia's fourth-floor apartment. Heedless of the activity, baby Nancy sleeps on Nadia's lap; meanwhile, Abadeer's daughter Israa restlessly patrols the space. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.) The Ahmed family of Cairo, Egypt, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE).Nadia Ahmed (left) and her sister-in-law Abadeer make mahshi (stuffed food, in this case small eggplants) on the floor of Nadia's fourth-floor apartment. Heedless of the activity, baby Nancy sleeps on Nadia's lap; meanwhile, Abadeer's daughter Israa restlessly patrols the space. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 122).
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  • Mackenzie Wolfson, a natural athlete (top left) and accomplished tennis player who plays on her school's varsity softball team goes through the first activity of every day at Camp Shane, a stretching class. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in July was 1,700 kcals. She is 15; 5 feet nine inches tall,  and 299 pounds.
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  • Beijingers and travelers alike flock to the specialty restaurants, like Beijing Qianmen Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant 32, Qianmen Street, for their very own Peking duck dinner. These succulent ducks will be served whole and cut tableside after the flurry of activity on the part of several cooks and assistants to prepare them in large roasting ovens. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats) Although meat in the United States and Europe mainly comes from factory farms and is sold in shrink-wrapped packages, most animal products elsewhere (as these photographs demonstrate) come from small-scale producers and are sold by butchers.
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  • (MODEL RELEASED IMAGE). Nadia Mohamed Ahmed, 36, makes mahshi (stuffed food, in this case small eggplants) on the floor of her fourth-floor apartment. Heedless of the activity, baby Nancy sleeps on Nadia's lap; meanwhile, her brother and nephew sit on the balcony overlooking the narrow street. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Lava flowing into sea from Kilauea eruption at Volcano National Park. Kilauea most recently erupted in 1983 and lava has flown consistently since then. It is one of the world's most active volcanoes. Big Island, Hawaii. USA.
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  • New Lava flow from Kilauea eruption. Kilauea most recently erupted in 1983 and lava has flown consistently since then. It is one of the world's most active volcanoes. Hawaii Big Island. USA.
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  • New Lava flow on Kilauea Volcano. Kilauea most recently erupted in 1983 and lava has flown consistently since then. It is one of the world's most active volcanoes. Hawaii, Big Island.
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  • The inner workings of the first generation face robot from the Hara-Kobayashi Lab in Tokyo, Japan. The first of several face robots made in Fumio Hara's lab, it has a CCD camera in its left eye that sends images to neural-network software that recognizes faces and their expressions. Calling upon its repertoire of programmed reactions, it activates the motors and pulleys beneath its flexible skin to produce facial expressions of its own. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 4.
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  • A work in progress, this still-unnamed face robot can open its eyes and smile. In the future, says its designer, Hidetoshi Akasawa, a mechanical engineering student working on a master's at the Science University of Tokyo, Japan,  it will be able to recognize and react to human facial expressions. This third-generation robot will greet smiles with smiles, frowns with frowns, mixing and matching six basic emotions in a real-time interaction that Hara calls "active human interface."
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  • Ramadan is the month for fasting, prayer, weddings, and other social activities. At the end of Ramadan, the entire village of Kouakourou, Mali, celebrated with a community dance. Published in Material World, page 17.
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  • Sun City, Arizona. One of the nation's first planned retirement communities for active seniors. USA.
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  • Sun City, Arizona. One of the nation's first planned retirement communities for active seniors..USA.
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  • Aerial photograph of track housing in Sun City, Arizona. Sun City is one of the nations first planned retirement community for active seniors..
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  • Aerial photograph of tract housing in Sun City, Arizona. Sun City is one of the nations first planned retirement communities for active seniors. The community center is at the center of a hub of circular streets with white-roofed houses..
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  • Virtual Reality: Rick Walsh, director for the Resource Center for the Handicapped in Seattle, has an office that he runs with voice command activated computers. He is working with the Human Interface Technology Lab on innovative uses of Virtual Reality for the handicapped. Model Released
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  • FINAL CONTACT: "GRAVEWATCH".  Photo Illustration for the Future of Communication GEO (Germany) Special issue. Fictional Representation and Caption: Interactive gravestones became quite popular in the 21st century. Adding snippets of video of the diseased was quite easy to program since nearly every family had extensively documented their family time with small digital videocams. AI (artificial intelligence) computer programs made conversations with the dead quite easy. These virtual visits to the underworld became passé within a decade however, and graveyard visits became less common. By mid-century many people wanted to insure that their relatives would continue paying their respects, and keeping their memory alive. New technology insured regular visits to the gravesite to pick up a monthly inheritance check issued electronically by a built-in device with wireless connection to the living relative's bank account. Face recognition (and retinal scanners on high-end models) insured that family members were present during the half-hour visits. A pressure pad at the foot of the grave activated the system and after 30 minutes of kneeling at the grave, watching videos or prerecorded messages or admonitions, a message flashed on the screen, indicating that a deposit had been made electronically to their bank account. For the Wright family of Napa, California, there is no other way to collect Uncle Eno's inheritance other than by monthly kneelings. ["Gravewatch" tombstones shown with "Retscan" retinal scanning ID monitors.] MODEL RELEASED
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  • Portrait of American microbiologist Jonas Edward Salk (born 1914), inventor of the first polio vaccine. In 1949 a method of culturing the poliovirus was discovered, making quantities available for experimentation. Salk began to work on a method of killing the virus in such a way as to make it incapable of causing the disease, but capable of causing the production of antibodies which would be active against the living virus. By 1952 he had prepared a vaccine he dared try on humans. The trials were successful and in 1954 the mass production of the Salk vaccine began. During a lecture at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, 1989.
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  • The weight loss camp?called Camp Shane?in upstate New York.  Meal portions are tightly controlled, and camp activities include field hockey, softball, tennis, swimming and aerobics. Meetings with nutritionists and weekly weigh-ins are part of the program. Camp Shane is a weight loss camp for children, teens, and young adults, in the Catskills Region of New York State, established in 1969.
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  • George Bahna, an engineering company executive and martial arts instructor exercising in a special room in his apartment in Zamelek, Cairo, Egypt. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in the month of April was 4000 kcals.  He is 29 years of age; 5 feet, 11 inches tall; and 165 pounds. George eats four to five times a day but doesn't worry about gaining weight because he's active, working out in a special room in his flat and at the private Gezira Sporting Club near his apartment. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lightning research. Scientists prepare a rocket designed to fly into a thunderstorm and trigger a bolt of lightning. The rocket trails a fine copper wire, providing an easy path for the lightning to reach Earth. This allows the scientists to measure the current, voltage and other parameters of the lightning bolts. To ensure safety, the rocket is launched by blowing through a tube to activate a pneumatic switch. This prevents the operator from making accidental electrical contact with the lightning. Photographed at Mount Baldy, New Mexico USA.
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  • Lightning research. Scientists prepare a rocket designed to fly into a thunderstorm and trigger a bolt of lightning. The rocket trails a fine copper wire, providing an easy path for the lightning to reach Earth. This allows the scientists to measure the current, voltage and other parameters of the lightning bolts. To ensure safety, the rocket is launched by blowing through a tube to activate a pneumatic switch. This prevents the operator from making accidental electrical contact with the lightning. Photographed at Mount Baldy, New Mexico USA.
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  • After he removes its skin, Fumio Hara gets the once-over from a face robot in the lab he co-directs with Hiroshi Kobayashi at the Science University of Tokyo, Japan. The first of several face robots made in his lab, it has a CCD camera in its left eye that sends images to neural-network software that recognizes faces and their expressions. Calling upon its repertoire of programmed reactions, it activates the motors and pulleys beneath its flexible skin to produce facial expressions of its own. The project is relatively unusual in its focus, many researchers believe that making robots walk and manipulate objects is so difficult that facial expressions are not yet worth working on. Hara disagrees, arguing that robots with animated faces will communicate with humans much more easily. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 74-75.
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  • A gathering of townspeople in the village of Kouakourou, Mali during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan is the month for fasting, prayer, weddings, and other social activities. At the end of Ramadan, the entire village of Kouakourou, Mali, celebrated with a community dance. Material World Project.
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  • Ramadan is the month for fasting, prayer, weddings, and other social activities. At the end of Ramadan, the entire village of Kouakourou, Mali, celebrated with a community dance. Material World Project.
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  • Wadis in the central part of Chad are dry nine months of the year. During that time, villagers must dig down to the water, shoring up the wells with millet stalks to keep them from collapsing. In the morning, the wadis are furiously active. One after another, teams of two or three girls fill the pools as wave after wave of animals come to drink. It's hard work: the water rapidly evaporates, sinks into the sand, and vanishes down the animals, and the girls have to keep refilling the pools. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 71).
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  • Two young bulls with excess levels of testosterone battle each other on a dry riverbed (wadi) in Eastern Chad. Wadis in this part of Chad are dry nine months of the year. During that time, villagers must dig down to the water, shoring up the wells with millet stalks to keep them from collapsing. In the morning, the wadis are furiously active. One after another, teams of two or three girls fill the pools as wave after wave of animals come to drink. It's hard work: the water rapidly evaporates, sinks into the sand, and vanishes down. The animals, and the girls have to keep refilling the pools. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Iris Garcia Costa steals a nap after her fifteenth birthday photo shoot in various locations around Old Havana. The traditional 15th birthday coming-of-age party and whirlwind of activities for young girls is called a Quinceañera. The Costa's live in the Marianao district of Havana, Cuba.  From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Cuba, 2001.
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  • FINAL CONTACT: "GRAVEWATCH".  Photo Illustration for the Future of Communication GEO (Germany) Special issue. Fictional Representation and Caption: Interactive gravestones became quite popular in the 21st century. Adding snippets of video of the diseased was quite easy to program since nearly every family had extensively documented their family time with small digital videocams. AI (artificial intelligence) computer programs made conversations with the dead quite easy. These virtual visits to the underworld became passé within a decade however, and graveyard visits became less common. By mid-century many people wanted to insure that their relatives would continue paying their respects, and keeping their memory alive. New technology insured regular visits to the gravesite to pick up a monthly inheritance check issued electronically by a built-in device with wireless connection to the living relative's bank account. Face recognition (and retinal scanners on high-end models) insured that family members were present during the half-hour visits. A pressure pad at the foot of the grave activated the system and after 30 minutes of kneeling at the grave, watching videos or prerecorded messages or admonitions, a message flashed on the screen, indicating that a deposit had been made electronically to their bank account. For the Wright family of Napa, California, there is no other way to collect Uncle Eno's inheritance other than by monthly kneelings. ["Gravewatch" tombstones shown with "Retscan" retinal scanning ID monitors.] MODEL RELEASED
    USA_SCI_COMM_06_xs.jpg
  • A work in progress, this still-unnamed face robot can open its eyes and smile. In the future, says its designer, Hidetoshi Akasawa, a mechanical engineering student working on a master's at the Science University of Tokyo, Japan,  it will be able to recognize and react to human facial expressions. This third-generation robot will greet smiles with smiles, frowns with frowns, mixing and matching six basic emotions in a real-time interaction that Hara calls "active human interface." From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 72.
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  • Riverwalk activities in San Antonio, Texas. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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