finally they found a killer app

cooking and other forms of preparing food are humanity’s “killer app”: the evolutionary change that underpins all of the other—and subsequent—changes that have made people such unusual animals. | economist but also wired, as one can find out in the comments ...

know-it-all :: i-told-you-so

stuart mill, right again

... Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics program, which would develop an electronic chip that mimics the "function, size, and power consumption" of a cat's cortex over the next 10 years. The Army is studying synthetic telepathy as a way to translate the brain's electrical activity into computer code, and a new report from the Defense Intelligence Agency suggests that neuroscience could help the military gain control of the minds of its enemies.| wired

i remember i read the same in an old prawda articles once.