Your home will know your secrets, and chances are it will have loose lips.

Are You Ready for Life Under Total Surveillance?

You can always log off your browser, but if you live in a "wired" home, there's no escape from Big Data as it constantly queries our appliances for information on u

Estimates vary, but by 2020 there could be over 30 billion devices connected to the Internet. Once dumb, they will have smartened up thanks to sensors and other technologies embedded in them and, thanks to your machines, your life will quite literally have gone online. 

The implications are revolutionary. Your smart refrigerator will keep an inventory of food items, noting when they go bad. Your smart thermostat will learn your habits and adjust the temperature to your liking. Smart lights will illuminate dangerous parking garages, even as they keep an “eye” out for suspicious activity.

Techno-evangelists have a nice catchphrase for this future utopia of machines and the never-ending stream of information, known as Big Data, it produces: the Internet of Things.  So abstract. So inoffensive. Ultimately, so meaningless.

We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon

Well, I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, Tell where are you going?
This he told me

The Mark: Scientist Claims Human Microchip Implants Will Become “Not Optional”

‘Technologies designed specifically to track and monitor human beings have been in development for at least two decades.

In the virtual realm, software programs are now capable of watching us in real time, going so far as to make predictions about our future behaviors and sending alerts to the appropriate monitoring station depending on how a computer algorithm flags your activities. That is in and of itself a scary proposition.

What may be even scarier, however, is what’s happening in the physical realm. According to researches working on human-embedded microchips it’s only a matter of time before these systems achieve widespread acceptance.’

Read more: The Mark: Scientist Claims Human Microchip Implants Will Become 'Not Optional'

What will humans look like in 100,000 years?

A speculative look at how advanced genetic engineering technology might reshape people's faces over time.

By: Michael Graham Richard

Photo: Courtesy of Nickolay Lamm

The future is always unknown, especially the distant future, but that shouldn’t stop us from making educated guesses. That’s exactly what artist and researcher Nickolay Lamm did with help from Dr. Alan Kwan, who has a doctorate in computational genomics from Washington University. Their starting point was the question: “What do you think the human face might look like in 100,000 years and why?”