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PAG e-NEWS: 22 September 2010<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
— questioning dogma, ideology, authority, reality, and whatever is left<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
— peeking behind the curtain<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
— thinking outside the program<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
— looking below the surface <\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
— lifting the veil<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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Published by Peter A. Gersten, Esq. (ufolawyer@msn.com)<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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Website:<\/span><\/span><\/i> http:\/\/www.pagenews.info<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/a> <\/i><\/div>\n
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FORFEITING the FUTURE<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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Say hello to virtual reality, digital technology, and artificial creatures. Say goodbye to carbon-based life forms, the biosphere, and the natural order of things.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Avatar therapy: From couch to cyberspace<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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Welcome to Second Life, a virtual world with almost 20 million players globally, where the avatars – digital stand-ins for the players – create everything around them. Every cobbled street, every tree swaying in the wind, even the wind itself, is the product of someone’s imagination.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20727781.700-avatar-therapy-from-couch-to-cyberspace.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg20727781.700<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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The technology makes the tiniest windows of time entertaining, and potentially productive. But scientists point to an unanticipated side effect: when people keep their brains busy with digital input, they are forfeiting downtime that could allow them to better learn and remember information, or come up with new ideas.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/25\/technology\/25brain.html?th&emc=th<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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Won’t You (Cheaply) Help DARPA Gear Up for the Coming Robopocalypse?<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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Back in July the government identified robots as one of the R&D priorities for the 2012 budget (about a decade behind the rest of us). Now there’s a research funding round to aid small business robotic’s efforts, to build robot gear DARPA can’t manage.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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