Digital twist on Pavlov

The phone rings and we pay

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Micro-Billing, Byte by Byte, Suits the World of Cellphones

By MATT RICHTEL and BOB TEDESCHI

Published: April 6, 2009

The digital marketplace has strained many in the media realm, but one industry has thrived: the phone companies, which make sure not to give away entertainment.

It is a curious equation: pay for stuff on a tiny, low-resolution screen while getting some of the very same games and video free on a fancy widescreen monitor.
...the designers of the Internet envisioned it as utopian and open — two words rarely used to describe the phone experience
One example of the stark difference between the phone and the computer is the concept of micropayments. Newspapers and other content producers have examined the method — getting people to pay for content with a nickel here and a dime there — as a possible answer to their revenue problems on the Web.

“It’s like a slot machine.”

Phone is main business tool. And interconected with computers using securized communications tools is keyboard for that computer two distinct way. Recording vocal messages is same as fingerprints, message have signature.
Slot machine was in great depresion era main tool for "gocery boys pockets"
What should we do?
How about nothing? Capitalism is a "perennial gale of creative destruction" (Joseph Schumpeter)। Industries come and go.
If General Motors goes under, there will still be cars. And if the New York Times disappears, there will still be news.
And Pavlov's

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The 237th ACS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, March 22-26, 2009

Dispute
“CHEMISTS vs PHYSICISTS”, and it seems that the controversy on cold fusion will be finally resolved, but not by the physicists.
The new duel chemists vs physicists has ideological origin. The physicits keep their loyalty to Quantum Mechanics, because they dont accept to change their interpretation on the zitterbewegung, since such a changing requires a very deep modification in the foundations of Modern Physics (the zbw cannot be considered as a helical trajetory in Quantum Field Theory, which is the successor of Quantum Mechanics).

Unlike, the chemists keep their loyalty to the scientific method, according to which any experiment cannot be neglected only because it defies the principles of a theory, as happens now in this duel between Quantum Mechanics and cold fusion.

Nanotehology aplied at electrolysys proceses, very new, in the WWII era batle for deuterium (heawy water) was in the same area.

It has been 14 years since two little-known electrochemists announced, at an infamous news conference on March 23, 1989, what sounded like the biggest physics breakthrough since Enrico Fermi produced a nuclear chain reaction on a squash court in Chicago. Using a tabletop setup, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, of the University of Utah, said they had induced deuterium nuclei to fuse inside metal electrodes, producing measurable quantities of heat. (Deuterium, a.k.a. heavy hydrogen, has one proton and one neutron in its nucleus.)
"If you 'know' that cold fusion is impossible, then you don't have to pay attention to these results," says Prof. Hagelstein, an award-winning DOE physicist before being ostracized for his work in the theory of cold fusion. "The initial criticism was that people needed to do the [heat measurements] right, but now that some groups have spent millions of dollars doing just that, the critics still won't read the papers."

I, for one, would love to hear smart physicists explain why the excess heat from the deuterium-filled palladium reflects not nuclear fusion but the release of mechanical energy -- sort of like letting go of a stretched spring. I'd love to see a smart critique of a 2002 paper by Japanese scientists, published in a Japanese physics journal that few American scientists saw, describing (shades of medieval alchemists) the transmutation of elements through cold fusion.

What these claims need is critical scrutiny by skeptics. That's how science normally functions. But in cold fusion, it isn't. And that's the worst pathology of all.

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Lithium Ion Batteries

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Fabricating Genetically Engineered High-Power Lithium Ion Batteries Using Multiple Virus Genes
These authors contributed equally to this work.




Development of materials that deliver more energy at high charge/discharge rates is important for high power applications, including portable electronic devices and hybrid electric vehicles. Reducing materials dimensions for lithium ion batteries can boost Li+ ion and electron transfer in nanostructured electrodes. We developed a strategy for attaching electrochemically active materials to conducting carbon nanotubes networks through biological molecular recognition
Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1171541



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