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  • Kevin Kelly, in his home office in Pacifica, California.<br />
Senior Maverick for Wired.    <br />
Author of What Technology Wants.
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  • Kevin Kelly, in his home office in Pacifica, California.<br />
Senior Maverick for Wired.    <br />
Author of What Technology Wants.
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  • Kevin Kelly, in his home office in Pacifica, California.<br />
Senior Maverick for Wired.    <br />
Author of What Technology Wants.
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  • Tawanda Kanhema, jounalist from Zimbabwe, in Napa, CA
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  • Faith and David Griffin working on What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets book in Napa, CA
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  • Seattle, WA. University of Washington.
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  • Monterey, California
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  • Traders at the Bolsa de Valores: Mexican stock exchange. Mexico City, Mexico.
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  • Kevin Kelly, in his home office in Pacifica, California.<br />
Senior Maverick for Wired.    <br />
Author of What Technology Wants.
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  • Kevin Kelly, in his home office in Pacifica, California.<br />
Senior Maverick for Wired.    <br />
Author of What Technology Wants.
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  • Andrew Weil's health convention, SF Hyatt Embarcadero
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  • Tawanda Kanhema, jounalist from Zimbabwe, in Napa, CA
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  • Tawanda Kanhema, jounalist from Zimbabwe, in Napa, CA
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  • Kevin Kelly, in his home office in Pacifica, California.<br />
Senior Maverick for Wired.    <br />
Author of What Technology Wants.
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  • Watching inauguration of Barack Obama on TV at Menzel D'Aluisio home, Napa Valley, CA. January 20, 2009.
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  • Though The Crown Fountain, designed by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, doesn't always have water flowing from it's tall rectangular structure, the giant-sized faces of Chicagoans projected from the LED screens that cover them, are a year-round presence.
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  • Titan Missile Museum, Green Valley, Arizona. When the SALT Treaty called for the de-activation of the 18 Titan missile silos that ring Tucson, volunteers at the Pima Air Museum asked if one could be retained for public tours. After much negotiation, including additional talks with SALT officials, the Green Valley complex of the 390th Strategic Missile Wing was opened to the public. Deep in the ground, behind a couple of 6,000 pound blast doors is the silo itself. The 110 foot tall missile weighed 170 tons when it was fueled and ready to fly.
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  • Art installation with TV head watching alien crash victim body at Burning Man. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Cardiology ultrasound on a dog. Veterinarian School, University of California, Davis.
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  • Monterey, California
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  • Thanksgiving at Menzel and D'Aluisio's in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio private cave, Napa Valley, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio private cave, Napa Valley, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Stock Exchange.  Warsaw, Poland.
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  • Stock Exchange.  Warsaw, Poland.
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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • The Holy Land Experience is a Christian theme park in Orlando, Florida. The theme park recreates the architecture and themes of the ancient city of Jerusalem in 1st century Israel. The Holy Land Experience was founded and built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish born Baptist minister but is now owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rosenthal is also the chief executive of a ministry devoted to 'reaching the Jewish people for the Messiah' called Zion's Hope. Beside the theme park architectural recreations, there are church services and live presentations of biblical stories, most notably a big stage production featuring the life of Jesus. There are several restaurants and gift shops in the theme park. The staff dresses in biblical costumes. Admission is $40 for adults and $25 for youths, aged 6-18.
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  • Art installation at Burning Man. Black Rock Desert, Nevada: Art installation with TV head watching alien crash victim body. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Palmaz Winery under construction, Napa Valley CA. Ragsdale construction company digging caves, 2002.
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  • Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio private cave, Napa Valley, California, USA.
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  • Peter Menzel & Faith D'Aluisio private cave, Napa Valley, California, USA. ((PRIV)).
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  • Ros Poole, Dinosaur Cove camp cook. Cape Otway, Australia. Australian Dinosaurs. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Virtual or artificial reality. Alvar Green, CEO of Autodesk in 1990, Playing Cyberspace, a sophisticated videogame designed by AutoDesk Inc., USA. The computer monitor displays an image of one of Cyberspace's virtual (non-real) environments - a room - into which the player enters by wearing a headset & data glove. Two video images of the environment fit are projected into the eyes, whilst physical interaction is achieved through spatial sensors in the headset & optical fibers woven into the black rubber data glove, which send data to the computer on the player's position & movements in space. Alvar Green Model Released (1990)
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  • Dispatchers who are former bike messengers with lots of experience at T-Serv Bike Messenger service in Tokyo, Japan, talk to delivery messengers on the streets via radio from their control room. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Thanksgiving at Menzel and D'Aluisio's in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Virtual reality. Jamaea Commodore wears a virtual reality headset and data glove appears immersed in a computer-generated world. Virtual reality headsets contain two screens in front of the eyes, both displaying a computer- generated environment such as a room or landscape. The screens show subtly different perspectives to create a 3-D effect. The headset responds to movements of the head, changing the view so that the user can look around. Sensors on the data glove track the hand, allowing the user to manipulate objects in the artificial world with a virtual hand that appears in front of them. Model Released (1990)
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  • Communicating with computers.  Richard Bolt.  Bolt is working on multi-modal interaction using speech, gesture, and gaze.  He is attempting to program computers to interact with their users by non-standard (keyboard, mouse) methods.  Using off the shelf hardware (cyber gloves, head-mounted eye-tracking gear, and magnetic space sensing cubes that are sewn into clothing), he and his students are creating systems whereby a user would not have to be skilled to interact with a computer.  He wants, "normal interaction with the machine--like you would with a human.  This will open the information highway to the world that cannot use computers."  His view of the future includes large screens, flat wall, or holographic screens which "spread-out information in space, like the real world." MODEL RELEASED.(1994)
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  • Micro Technology: Micromechanics: Dale Emery at the controls of a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The image from the microscope is displayed on the TV-type screens. The subject under the microscope is a 250 micron-diameter wobble motor, a micromechanical device. Just visible in the display running diagonally across the right of the screen is a human hair included for comparison. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. Model Released
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  • Virtual reality: Michael McGreevy, PhD. in front of a pair of video images of the Valles Marineris of the planet Mars, computer-generated from data provided by the Viking spacecraft at NASA's Ames Research Centre, California. Sophisticated computers & sensors provide the user with a telepresence in the virtual world, through small video screens mounted in goggles on a headset, whilst a spherical joystick controls movement through the virtual landscape. One future Martian application of this system might be in gathering geological samples by remote control using a rover robot. A sensor in the geologist's headset could direct the robot at specific sample targets. Model Released (1990)
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  • Virtual reality: Lewis Hitchner manipulates a pair of video images of the Valles Marineris of the planet Mars, computer-generated from data provided by the Viking spacecraft at NASA's Ames Research Centre, California. Sophisticated computers & sensors provide the user with a telepresence in the virtual world, through small video screens mounted in goggles on a headset, whilst a spherical joystick controls movement through the virtual landscape. One future Martian application of this system might be in gathering geological samples by remote control using a rover robot. A sensor in the geologist's headset could direct the robot at specific sample targets. Model Released (1990)
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  • Cyberspace hi-cycle: Carolyn Hedrich pedals an exercise bike through a virtual, computer generated landscape, projected into her eyes through two video screens in her headset. Riders are encouraged to pedal as fast as they are capable, because, on reaching a certain pedal speed, the computer creates the impression of take-off and flight. Model Released (1990)
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  • TV of tomorrow. Long-exposure photograph of a TV monitor being wheeled through a corridor in the MIT Media Lab. The monitor on the left shows researcher Andrew Lippmann. Set up in 1985 at the USA's Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Media Lab aims to invent the multimedia technologies of the future. According to Lippmann and colleagues, tomorrow's TVs will combine computer technology with digital transmission to create an interactive system that could make conventional print and broadcast media redundant. Wall-sized 3-D screens that respond to the human voice could offer millions of TV channels, personalized news and interactive dramas.  (1995)
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  • Video control room of (closed-circuit) televised cardiac conference in Leipzig, Germany enabling surgeons to view the latest techniques during live parallel surgical procedures which are transmitted to a nearby hotel conference center for viewing on huge screens by doctors attending the conference.
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  • Cyberspace hi-cycle: Carolyn Hedrich pedals an exercise bike through a virtual, computer generated landscape, projected into her eyes through two video screens in her headset. Riders are encouraged to pedal as fast as they are capable, because, on reaching a certain pedal speed, the computer creates the impression of take-off and flight. Model Released (1990)
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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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  • Myron Kruger and his assistant, Katrin Hinrichsen, 'shooting' at each other with computer-generated sparks. Kruger is a pioneer of artificial reality, a method allowing people to interface directly with computers. In Kruger's method, called VideoPlace, the participants stand in front of a backlit screen. A video camera forms an image of their silhouette; the computer is programmed to respond to particular actions in a particular way. Here the computer sees the operators pointing, and interprets this as fire a spark in this direction. The computer-generated image appears in the background here on a large video screen. Model Released (1990)
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  • Seeming to touch the objects on his screen, Peter Berkelman, then a graduate student at the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh, PA, scoops up virtual blocks with a special device that communicates the sensation of touching them. The device, which has a handle suspended in powerful magnetic fields, can move with all six possible degrees of freedom: up and down, side to side, back and forth, yaw, pitch, and roll. Used with special "haptic" software the device has force-feedback. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 136.
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  • Boston Museum of Science electrostatic display operator, Don Salvatore, demonstrates the safety of a Faraday cage as he is protected from a 2.5-million-volt Van de Graaff static electricity generator. A Faraday cage is an earthed screen made of metal wire that surrounds an electric device in order to shield it from external electrical fields. Artificial lightning passes through the metal frame. Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff invented this model in 1931. MODEL RELEASED (1992)
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  • FIRST CONTACT: "FETALFONE" Photo Illustration for the Future of Communication GEO (Germany) Special Issue. Fictional Representation and Caption: The Smith's of Vallejo, California were not certain that the latest hi-tech form of giving their (unborn) child a headstart was effective, but it sure was fun to see Junior react to their voice on his "fetalfone". It was true that the youngster could only use it to listen (even if he could talk, it would very difficult in the amniotic fluid), but they enjoyed the idea that their offspring would be comfortable with a cell phone from Day Minus-90 to Day One when he popped out. The flat screen imaging unit affords the parents (and in this case older sister) the opportunity to track the unborn's development and also watch his reactions when they talk to him on the "Fetalfone". [Fetus with "Fetalfone" shown on "Babewatch", fetus-scan home imaging system can be monitored by absent parent via Internet.] MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Medicine: Dr. Lance Meagaer, a patient with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), is linked to the computer by a microchip in his skull. By looking at the screen he can control the computer. Seen at home in Cannon Beach, Oregon. MODEL RELEASED (1988)
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  • Airborne infrared astronomy. Alan Meyer (left) and Roger Hildebrand seen during a flight of the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO). The screen displays show the image made by the alignment telescope (left) and the infrared telescope (right). The KAO is a converted Lockheed C-141A Starlifter aircraft, containing a 90-cm infrared telescope. Flying at up to 12,500 meters, the KAO can cruise well above most of the atmospheric water vapor,, which absorbs far-infrared radiation. The KAO also contains computerized data reduction and analysis stations. Operated by NASA, the first flight of the KAO was in January [1992] NASA AMES Research Center at Moffett Field, Mountain View, California. Infrared telescope looking at gas clouds. [1992]
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  • Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California is the final resting place of many movie stars. The cemetery also has a funeral chapel equipped for live webcasts of funeral services and "LifeStory" tributes. Here three friends of a slain rapper uses the touch screen to listen to music created by her dead friend and watch a video clips and snapshots from his life.
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  • High voltage long arc discharge to a Glassair (fiberglass) kit airplane.  The airplane's fiberglass has been impregnated with an aluminum screen to prevent damage from lightning. Testing is to prove this including tests with dummy to make sure there is no flash over to the pilot. Lightning Technologies, Inc., Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (1992)
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  • High voltage long arc discharge to a Glassair (fiberglass) kit airplane.  The airplane's fiberglass has been impregnated with an aluminum screen to prevent damage from lightning. Testing is to prove this including tests with dummy to make sure there is no flash over to the pilot. Lightning Technologies, Inc., Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (1992)
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  • Boston Museum of Science electrostatic display operator, Don Salvatore, demonstrates the safety of a Faraday cage as he is protected from a 2.5-million-volt Van de Graaff static electricity generator. A Faraday cage is an earthed screen made of metal wire that surrounds an electric device in order to shield it from external electrical fields. Artificial lightning passes through the metal frame. Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff invented this model in 1931. MODEL RELEASED (1992).
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  • Boston Museum of Science electrostatic display operator, Don Salvatore, demonstrates the safety of a Faraday cage as he is protected from a 2.5-million-volt Van de Graaff static electricity generator. A Faraday cage is an earthed screen made of metal wire that surrounds an electric device in order to shield it from external electrical fields. Artificial lightning passes through the metal frame. Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff invented this model in 1931. MODEL RELEASED (1992)
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  • Boston Museum of Science electrostatic display operator, Don Salvatore, demonstrates the safety of a Faraday cage as he is protected from a 2.5-million-volt Van de Graaff static electricity generator. A Faraday cage is an earthed screen made of metal wire that surrounds an electric device in order to shield it from external electrical fields. Artificial lightning passes through the metal frame. Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff invented this model in 1931. MODEL RELEASED (1992)
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  • Virtual reality: Margaret Minsky works with a force-feedback joystick being developed in the MIT Media Laboratory. The joystick is designed to give its user a physical impression of features in a computer-generated environment. In this demonstration, the user is invited to feel shapes & textures whilst running a cursor over the various images displayed on the screen, and be able to differentiate between them. Model Released (1990)
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  • Application of virtual (artificial) reality computer systems in medical diagnostic imaging, showing a magnetic resonance image (MRI) of the head next to a scientist wearing a headset. Computer scientists here at the University of North Carolina aim to distill various types of diagnostic images, (X-rays, CT, MRI) into a vivid digital model, that is displayed through the head-mounted displays. Advantages of this type of presentation include not being bound by screen conventions, such as a lack of step back features, wider area views & the need to control a keyboard or mouse. Future uses may exist in the accurate targeting of radiotherapy. Stereo tactic radiotherapy technique. Model Released (1990)
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  • Medicine: Dr. Lance Meagaer, a patient with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), is linked to the computer by a microchip in his skull. By looking at the screen he can control the computer. Seen at home in Cannon Beach, Oregon (view of his hands and breathing tube). (1988)
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  • Research on the human genome: Dr Peter Lichter, of Yale Medical School, using a light microscope to do fine mapping of long DNA fragments on human chromosomes using a technique known as non- radioactive in-situ hybridization. The chromosomes appear in red on the monitor screen, whilst the DNA fragments (called probes) appear yellow/green. Mapping chromosomes may be regarded as a physical survey of each chromosome to find the location of genes or other markers. Mapping & sequencing are the two main phases of the genome project; an ambitious plan to build a complete blueprint of human genetic information..Human Genome Project.
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  • (1992) Computer screen display of DNA analysis at the home office of Forensic Science Service in Aldermaston, England.
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  • Liveboard conference. Computer scientists use an interactive liveboard - a wall-sized, touch- sensitive computer screen - during a conference in the "beanbag room" at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), California. The liveboard is one of the company's most recent innovations. One of Silicon Valley's most visionary computer companies, Xerox PARC is the birthplace of the computer workstation, the mouse and the "graphical user interface" - the now universal system of interacting with computers through windows and icons..
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  • Roy Want holds his invention - the Xerox parctab. This hand-held, 200-gram prototype allows the user to beam information to a personal computer by writing a series of shorthand-like symbols, each of which represents a letter of the alphabet, on a pressure-sensitive screen. Want is a researcher at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Centre) in California's Silicon Valley. One of the most innovative computer companies in the USA, PARC is the birthplace of the mouse, the computer workstation and the "graphical user interface", the now-universal system of windows and icons that makes it possible for a novice to use a computer. (1995)
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  • Little Man's legs and feet, created at AVG, an animatronics company founded by Alvaro Villa in Los Angeles, California. This animatronic figure wears a baseball cap and sneakers. Little Man "represents" the company at trade shows, as well as tirelessly delivers a humorous prerecorded spiel that is synchronized with a video on a screen behind it.
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  • At the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA, David Koons is a graduate student working under Richard Bolt doing his Ph.D. dissertation on multi-modal processing. In the photo Koons is busy programming with the large screen monitor.  Gloves, jacket, and head-mounted eye-tracking gear are in the background.
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  • Boston Museum of Science electrostatic display operator, Don Salvatore, demonstrates the safety of a Faraday cage as he is protected from a 2.5-million-volt Van de Graaff static electricity generator. A Faraday cage is an earthed screen made of metal wire that surrounds an electric device in order to shield it from external electrical fields. Artificial lightning passes through the metal frame. Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff invented the generator in 1931. (1992)
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  • High voltage long arc discharge to a Glassair (fiberglass) kit airplane.  The airplane's fiberglass has been impregnated with an aluminum screen to prevent damage from lightning. Testing is to prove this including tests with dummy to make sure there is no flash over to the pilot. Lightning Technologies, Inc., Pittsfield, Massachusetts. (1992)
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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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  • 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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  • Medicine: Dr. Lance Meagaer, a patient with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), is linked to the computer by a microchip in his skull. By looking at the screen he can control the computer. Seen at home in Cannon Beach, Oregon. MODEL RELEASED (1988)
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  • Silicon Valley, California; Linda Jacobson, Virtual Reality Evangelist at Silicon Graphics, Incorporated, Mountainview, California. Jacobson stands poised over the operations area of one of Silicon Graphics' RealityCenters. The high tech console operates the large wrap-around screen behind her. Jacobson's dream is to be the host of a virtual reality talk show. In the meantime, this former Wired Magazine reporter is content to tout the virtues of Immersive Visualization?the newly coined industry name, she says, for virtual reality. The tangible element of her job at SGI is to manage and market SGI's RealityCenters?facilities designed to do quick representations in a fully interactive graphical interface. These can include virtual factory tours; automobile mock-ups; and mock-up product changes depending on the desires of purchasing company. Model Released (1999).
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  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California.  Computer screen during Chris McCarthy's night long search for other planets. This shows the spectrum of a start (eschelle spectrum) from 61 Virginis. Spectral lines will move if the star has a planet?this is the motion that they are trying to detect. The sensitivity needs to read 1/1000 of a pixel. 120-inch telescope.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • Little Man, created at AVG, an animatronics company founded by Alvaro Villa in Los Angeles, California. This animatronic figure is seen here wearing a baseball cap and sneakers. Little Man "represents" the company at trade shows, as well as tirelessly delivers a humorous prerecorded spiel that is synchronized with a video on a screen behind it.
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  • Alvaro Villa translated his boyhood love of electronics into AVG, an animatronics company he founded in the Los Angeles, California, area. Today he takes great pleasure in showing off animatronic figures like the Crypt Keeper or Little Man, the hip figure (with Villa) that "represents" the company at trade shows. Wearing a baseball cap and sneakers, it tirelessly delivers a humorous prerecorded spiel that is synchronized with a video on a screen behind it. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 208.
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  • Sweet Lips the robot guide takes visitors through the Hall of North American Wildlife, near the Dinosaur Hall in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, PA. Carnegie Mellon University robotics professor Illah R. Nourbakhsh's creation draws children like a pied piper by speaking and playing informational videos on its screen. It navigates autonomously, using a locator system that detects colored squares mounted high on the wall. A color camera and scores of sonar, infrared, and touch sensors prevent Sweet Lips from crashing into museum displays or museum visitors. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 220-221.
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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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  • Human Genome Project: Dr Jonathan Beckwith, American biologist, examining through a magnifying glass, a Petri dish containing a genetically- engineered colony of the bacteria, Escherichia coli, in his laboratory at Harvard Medical School. As a respected scientist working with genetic engineering technology, Beckwith is concerned about the social & legal implications of human genetic screening, an option that might arise from the successful completion of the human genome project - an ambitious plan to make a complete biochemical survey of every gene expressed on all the 23 pairs of human chromosomes. MODEL RELEASED (1989).
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  • Human Genome Project: Dr Jonathan Beckwith, American biologist. As a respected scientist working with genetic engineering technology, Beckwith is concerned about the social & legal implications of human genetic screening, an option that might arise from the successful completion of the human genome project - an ambitious plan to make a complete biochemical survey of every gene expressed on all the 23 pairs of human chromosomes. MODEL RELEASED (1989).
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  • Human Genome Project: Dr Jonathan Beckwith, American biologist, examining through a magnifying glass, a Petri dish containing a genetically- engineered colony of the bacteria, Escherichia coli, (not in photo) in his laboratory at Harvard Medical School. As a respected scientist working with genetic engineering technology, Beckwith is concerned about the social & legal implications of human genetic screening, an option that might arise from the successful completion of the human genome project - an ambitious plan to make a complete biochemical survey of every gene expressed on all the 23 pairs of human chromosomes. MODEL RELEASED (1989)
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