Google, BMW and Other Driverless Cars and Their Implications

Driverless car technology merges the latest developments in the field of automotive and the world of computing. Imagine being able to go places and not miss a view because you are not driving. Imagine being able to continue your sleep inside the car on your way to the office. Imagine not reading anything as you navigate your way around a city.

This latest development in transportation seeks to make our lives safer and more convenient. Car to car communication, GPS, driver alert systems and powerful processors all make driverless cars possible. On the green side, these cars are also being designed to be more fuel efficient.

But the driverless car technology must also answer a fundamental question before it is made available to the world: What will you do to the millions of drivers that they will displace?

In a world plagued by increasing unemployment rate, this new technology can rob people of their livelihood and eventually, their lives. Think of the millions who are earning their living either by dropping you off to your nearest destination or through delivering your latest purchase. Then think when they are gone.

New technologies are supposed to generate more jobs if they cannot make everybody’s life easier.

Siri Questions and Siri Answers

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The iphone 4S is due for release on October 14, 2011. With Apple’s massive advertising campaigns and the crowd’s eagerness to get their hands on the new iphone, the new iphone 4S will certainly be a hot item for a month or so.

Urbanized, A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit

Urbanized will be shown on October 11, 2011 at the Detroit Film Theater at the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, Michigan and on October 12, 2011 at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio.

If you’re interested in how cities today are being designed, you may want to check out Urbanized, a documentary that tackles the ways on how to prepare a city as the number of people living in it grows. Various experts in the different fields concerned will add incites on how to assess, plan, engineer and reshape the cities that we are now living in. This film intends to provide information to start a global discussion on how cities should be in the coming years.

What is interesting about the film is that it suggests that we take a proactive stand in designing new cities. It will then be good to know how ordinary citizens, like us, can contribute to its designs as well as how the new designs will affect communities. And, if the changes are upon us, what avenues are open so that we can easily adjust to the changes.

For more information, you may visit urbanizedfilm.com.

Goo Goo Dolls on September 25, 2011

The Goo Goo Dolls will perform on September 25, 2011 at the Alice's Now and Zen Festival at the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. The concert is FREE. There are also VIP packages being sold for $75.

Warrior (2011)

Lionsgate is set to release Warrior, a mixed martial arts film starring Joel Edgerton, Tom Hardy and Nick Nolte.