Why Old Technologies Are Still Kicking – New York Times

Mainframes are not dead! As usual geeks lose to suits: “The unfulfilled predictions of demise, experts say, tend to overestimate the importance of pure technical innovation and underestimate the role of business judgment. “The rise and fall of technologies is mainly about business and not technological determinism,” said Richard S. Tedlow, a business historian at…

Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision

I am back from the real world (vacation) to online lair and have read backlog of interesting news. This one I have liked very much: Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision Basically this is virtual display on the eye, you don’t need to replace human eyes with artificial tools, just…

Attack on computer memory reveals vulnerability of widely used security systems

  Attack on computer memory reveals vulnerability of widely used security systems . An interesting news about breaking into laptops, which are "secured" by encrypting disks. TrueCrypt is also vulnerable (due to generic design of the encryption suite). "Disk encryption technologies rely on the use of secret keys — essentially large random numbers — to…

Why metaphor works?

The question, which arose was – why metaphor works? Should it not be formed according to our life experiences, religious beliefs, country we live and surrounding environment? The answer is somewhat moody – if you do not have experience and archetypes when creating metaphor – your expression could be not so effective, but in general…

On Metaphor and Advertisement

..So the start of journey to rhetoric is to understand how unconsciousness works, to go deep to psycholinguistics. As it has been mentioned before – this is related to unique skill of a human – to notice and summarize similarities between different individuals and object classes. It is the same principle which is used in…