The book I'm reading on PocketPC, Invisible Future: The Seamless Integration of Technology Into Everyday Life is a collection of eighteen essays on how technology may shape the way humans and machines interact. Along with Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World, the book I'm reading during Nordic Track sessions, I'm on a future-thinking tear, both scared shitless about prospective meltdowns and excited about new possibilities. One of the fun (and scary) possibilities I encountered yesterday and wanted to blog about is described in an excerpt from Invisible Future, Chapter 3, titled “Engineering the Ocean” by Marcia K. McNutt, president and CEO of Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
The RoboTuna.
Here's the excerpt. I wanted to provide excerpts, but #$@&$ Adobe eBooks don't allow text copy. Buy the book if you want to read the whole chapter or all eighteen. Just stay away from Adobe eBook format if you intend to read it on a PocketPC.
