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Recall the relevant class. Comment on Toxoplasma Gondii. What do you think??

In an abstract sense, things affecting our psychology are nothing new. All of the effects of toxoplasma gondii can supposedly have on us can also be the result of psychological stimulation, like being on a sports team, or having an overbearing mother.
So, I’m not too [...]

Suppose you had a coupon for a free robot. The catch is it can only do one thing. But you can get a robot that will do whatever one thing you like, just not anything else. What would you want your robot to do?

This is probably cheating, but I want a robot that will act [...]

Discuss briefly the applicability or inapplicability of the discussion from Monday 10/26 (Prediction vs. Intervention; Weather vs. Climate) to your project.

In any discussion about the future, there will always be a bit of “wiggle room” as our current understanding of anything (technology, in this case), can—at worst—prove to be totally irrelevant to the technology of [...]

We discussed in class how there is no such thing as a “scientific proof.” Explain in your own words.

Every scientific theory must take into account that there may be new and better evidence discovered in the future which may negate or extend that theory. Therefore, scientific theories take into account that nothing is ever “final” [...]

In a new posting on your blog, post your current writeup. Add notes inside it in various places. Each note says what you would like to add in at the location of the note. If you are writing a story, this might not work – instead, just add some more material to it, or develop [...]

In connection with my research topic, I’m making lists of future technology. For the first half of Minority Report, this is what I came up with:

Telepresence of witnesses to grant the order for intervening.
Quick laser cutting of a ball of wood.
Wood-grain hashing.
The tube that the wooden red ball comes down is quite anachronistic.
Human-Computer Interaction, including [...]

Google docs store containing all work for the futurism project.

Find three useful Web pages or sites, one for each of three topics, that someone investigating it would be likely to find of interest. They should not be wikipedia articles (though wikipedia can be a good place to find links to other pages). Similarly they should not be on the first page of search engine [...]

1) (22.5 pts.) Let’s assume you have $1,000 to invest in prediction markets. Naturally, you want to make more money, meaning that when you sell your best judgments you get more than the $1,000 you invested. Identify a prediction market company that you want to pretend invest in. We looked at www.intrade.com in class but there [...]

If your Delphi question was done in class on Wednesday 9/9 (i.e. “today”), then find the median and the range of the middle 50% of the responses. Using a graphics editor of your choice (even paint works for this), make a graph that is analogous or similar to the one in the lecture notes, showing [...]