AofUS are loosing their foreigners. since 2001 a lot have actually been written about that. 2003, david heenan says, america imported the first time more hightech than it produced. "flight capital" is his book and there is an interview.

need the ghost of sputnik, that let to more homegrown research and interest in science and technology, heenan, somehow says - not a real quote. but well ya, at that time they didn't answer fear just by humbling religious tunes, but by putting a lot of money into research projects.

i remember a talk with some foreign students over there who said they already got into trouble by asking "how are you doing? or hey, you look great today" as it was interpreted as sexual harassment by colleagues. who wants to leave that if you are from spain, greece or india? they all went back home, mostly earlier than planed.

200 to 1,000 people leave the united states every day to go back to their home countries. eight of the 11 americans who won nobel prizes in physics and chemistry in the last three years were born in other countries, and almost 40 percent of mit graduate students are from overseas.

by reading about a japanese project about ultra sonic tags added to

wheelchairs to monitor and analyze behavior patterns of residents, such as the time and frequency of use of the bathroom, to aid its caregivers.

a 24hour monitoring system. these kind of things don't come with a switch off button these days anyhow. or:

the construction firm Ando has thrown its support behind a research effort to develop a system that would rely on sensors to warn condo owners when they have created enough noise to disturb people living beneath them. (Nikkei Weekly via acm)

or the kompetenznetze germany awarded things as "ovu'love"

Das Produkt liest den Wert des luteinisierenden Hormons, das die Hirnanhangdrüse ausschüttet, wenn eine Frau kurz vor dem Eisprung steht, binnen Sekunden und mittels Photospektrometrie durch die Haut ab. Der aktuelle Hormonwert teilt sich durch Lichteffekte auf der transluzenten Oberfläche des Gerätes mit: In Phasen, in denen eine Empfängnis möglich ist, pulsiert sie in sanften Rottönen ...

to they really think that stuff is useful and great? i think they are getting more stupid, ready to reduce human social behaviour to a minimum. i think the misconception - as said often - lies in the notion to try to understand machines as better humans and reducing people to stupid out of contact aliens. well, that's easy anyhow. somehow still not further as minsky's 60s, pff ...

recall tron, or go to: itu news: "machines and objects to overtake humans on the internet"; and if you still can go on with old fantasies, take this: zigbee