Prediction

Faces of Jesus

by Haitham Sabbah September 30, 2004

Christians have been making images of Jesus since the early centuries of the church. The Holy Shroud of Turin is probably the most famous (and most controversial) image of Christ. Many have argued that it is a direct-contact image of Christ, dating from the 1st century AD, while others rely on carbon dating tests carried [...]

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Vehicles of Tomorrow

by Haitham Sabbah September 22, 2004

Driver monitoring through head and eye tracking (which Volvo is already implementing), Adaptive Cruise Control systems, maybe even pedestrian recognition systems. With cars becoming more like semi-intelligent robots every year.

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Car-Tracking Device (GSM/GPS Wireless) Trades Privacy for Dollars

by Haitham Sabbah August 19, 2004

Imagine this. You’re driving around in your HOV (highly ostentatious vehicle), and you follow your normal route home. The next day, you are notified by your insurance company: “Under the terms of Court Order 34/FKC/34 paragraph 12 subsection iii, your auto insurance is void.” It turns out that you drove within a mile of the [...]

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Transported Over Light

by Haitham Sabbah June 15, 2004

The super-fast future of computing. One of the scientists who helped pioneer Star Trek-style teleporting in a ground-breaking experiment says he hopes we will see a ultra-fast quantum computer in action by 2035. Sorry Scotty Wilder dreams of using quantum physics in order to beam yourself from A to B, the possibility is rather less [...]

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Bringing Down the Internet

by Haitham Sabbah October 28, 2003

What if hackers were motivated not by loneliness or greed, but by malice? Some experts now think a global cybercrisis is inevitable. If you wanted to write a science-fiction thriller about the day the Internet crashed, you?d start with a computer geek. Armed with nothing but a laptop and a high-speed Internet connection, he releases [...]

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Happy New Millennium!

by Haitham Sabbah January 1, 2000

The Millennium celebrations toke place throughout the world. Y2K passes without the serious, widespread computer failures and malfunctions that had been predicted.

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