What Future?

Posted by del.icio.us bot at October 15th, 2008

• Western Standard: Obama advertises in X-Box video games

  Barack Obama's campaign has decided it worthwhile to put up advertising in video games.

  (tags: virtualworld games politics future)

• Helmet to Convey Messages by Thought : Discovery News

  Known as synthetic telepathy, the technology is based on reading electrical activity in the brain using an electroencephalograph, or EEG. Similar technology is being marketed as a way to control video games by thought.

  "I think that this will eventually become just another way of communicating," said Mike D'Zmura, from the University of California

  (tags: technology science future transhumanism weird)

• Canada, IT & Telecoms, TJX Enters Into Proposed Settlement Agreement Of Customer Class Actions - McCarthy Tétrault LLP - 11/09/2008, Information Security & Risk Management, Litigation and Arbitration, Class Actions

  prevailing view is that TJX is escaping too easily (e.g., providing marketing gimmicks of relatively small vouchers for use in stores and a sale event) and that it will not suffer any significant financial repercussions as a result of the breach. Concern has also been raised over the fact that such an early settlement will leave important issues regarding responsibility and liability for such security breaches unresolved.

  (tags: privacy law security crime)