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HIVE45 PLUS+ episode featuring Nathan Waters, Tristan Grace and Geoffrey Pidcock for the week ending the 19/01/10.
Topics include: Captain Planet and global warming, Sealand, Guitar Hero - computers teaching us musical skills, edutainment, gaming reward mechanisms, the merging of gaming and reality, incremental gaming difficulty modes, science in the cloud, scientific collaboration, opensource science initiatives replacing patents, reminiscing old games, the nature of genius (TED) - spending 10,000 hours, Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technology, Predictably Irrational, problems associated with soft materials in direct human-computer interfaces, tissue engineering, OLEDs, self-organising molecular technology, living synthetic biology as human-use technology, Gaia Hypothesis, Avatar the Movie, animal BCI, connecting all biology to the Internet, teenagers permanently connected to the web, hivemind, Accelerando, consciousness and sentience, lobster sentience, biomimetics, predictions for BCI, nanotechnology, biotech revolution, Singularity University, augmented intelligence