Google has acquired the digital media software vendors of SageTV
According to foreign media reports, digital media software vendors SageTV local time through a web site on Saturday, said the company has been Google acquisition. Google and SageTV all did not disclose purchase price.
SageTV, founded in 2002, the company first name for Frey as LLC. Use SageTV digital recording software, users will be able to create and run media center, using the media center to watch video, listen to the music and share pictures. The SageTV Placeshifter software allows users to have high-speed Internet connection through any of the equipment to watch TV programs.
According to foreign media reports, a few days ago, Google acquisition of the open source home theater and DVR software developers SageTV. The personage inside course of study thinks, Google this acquisition is to upgrade in distress of Google TV (Google TV).
SageTV through a web site to a user a letter, which said, Google developers have been working to stimulate innovation network, also in the success of the developers SageTV has played an important role. We think, we open technology to the common aspirations will help us improve online entertainment experience. We look forward to join Google.
Currently, Google has not been disclosed in the price of the SageTV acquisition and relevant the acquisition of other details.
New York university professor Douglas Rushkoff a year ago wrote an article “Google turn You into a Stupid 10 years” (The Decade Google Made Stupid), he can speak ten years to computer changed our way of thinking, The computer discovered how we think, we know what’s going on. He says the network for Attention Deficit Disorder dysgraphia Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), when faced with a computer screen, we won’t slow, also won’t do deep a layer of thinking, is only, won’t and we through thinking fusion. Many of the study of literature, memory and cognitive, language learning, neural science, of human communication scholars and experts, agreed that the network media bias superficial information processing, is only the information scanning, can’t let people into learning.
This article is the end of 2009 Google operating ten years of writing, the computer may dominate the human thinking anxiety is more, less than a year, these concerns in the Google appears gradually. We open hands through science and technology, embrace the or worried lest computer stolen our thinking? Of course not standard answer, but in the media tilt to science and technology, we seem to be under should listen to Rushkoff professor from another Angle observation. The following paper his argument, judge for the reader.
Google to become stupid we
Network to influence on our brain, most of the report is shrouded in Google’s happy shadow, the university of California Los Angeles neural biologists Gary Small, with mri scan the brain experiments, found on the Internet more than reading group start to the parts of the brain, the experiment was interpretation into Google to make us more intelligent. The people asked, Gary Small said this interpretation is misleading, because parts of the brain start, the more the is not necessarily a good, when you read the site, although start rarely because more efficient, more do not represent clumsy.
Professor Gary Small is the influence of brain research network of experts, think that the brain of energy from the biological function neural, at least part of it is this neural plasticity plasticity, we and science and technology are the essence of interaction, changed our mind, this change is not necessarily positive. Professor says now there have been some problems, let us become stupid whether Google, let us think, let our reduce thinking intermittent, and won’t quiet down the question of thinking, instead of depth, no matter what problem, we train of thought is always flat sequence.
Multi-functional teaches distractions
Early science and technology, has been keen to thought the network can can make many function at the same time, because not only can reduce the system control, still can increase the energy of the brain. Blessed with a university interactive media lab director Cliff Nass, confirmed these assumptions completely wrong.
Cliff Nass to a group of the most good at using the multi-function, college students, as a series of research, how are they also do the work of various different, they think of what is different operation. The results surprise him, found that the people who work at the same time be varied, and none of the things can do well, their poor performance in many areas, such as not skip irrelevant information, can’t memory the information in your mind finishing rife, and switch work is chaotic.Virtual crowd out the truth
Virtual reality game for a lot of people love, because can do real world cannot do, is a very interesting game, but just fun? Stanley f university virtual human interaction lab, the virtual world experience how to influence to the real world, and found that the action of the later part of the memory of the brain, what has happened to the real world special events, unexpectedly and virtual world, as a serious confusion with a friend in a dream, that one day does not wake up with a friend to talk, the dream as seriously.
Virtual reality can change the behavior of people, Jeremy lab director Bailenson demonstrated a experiment, a little girl into the virtual world to eat, eat something, every body is fat, the aim of the experiment is some training good eating habits. Virtual reality natural and negative influence, such as in the virtual world to argue with others, if than the other 10 cm high, beat opponent opportunity is three times as the ordinary person, but back to reality and to argue with others, whether the other party height will begin, this is the action of the virtual world into the real world. The more frightening, professor of hearing is to many children in the virtual world with whales swimming in the sea, and two weeks after the test, but have half of the children said they had in the Ocean Park and whales swim together.
The U.S. military is undoubtedly accept experimental the first group of people, the military has its own laboratory, try to put this way in the battlefield and use the disabled. After the soldiers to hurt depression, let them into virtual battlefield, to experience the pain of injury, and then change and virtual battle, reduce the bad environment, including images, sounds, even smells to gradually ease pain, the experience, until melancholy to eliminate. The technique also consider using in a mission, training before brains to accept the injured quick.Nerve marketing
DuoNian to, the study found that the human brain which is the reaction of foreign technical all not mature, into this century until, researchers to make scientific data. The most famous is the use of BrightHouse hospital magnetic resonance imaging technology, observation of different brands of coke brain responses. The experiment object into the mri scan equipment, let him drink after a can of no label Pepsi, his head immediately in the happy site reactions, says palate is very good. And then take a can of It marked original let him drink, and found that the part of the brain in judging plays a strong reaction, than the joy of Pepsi strong signal. This means that the brand is heavier than the taste, but also proof that the market of sales is more than the fact of Pepsi.
This technology has been used in many big companies, gain the material as a marketing basis, these material accumulation, using computer analysis and link to make numerous model, we are all part of the overlap in the model. Merchants as long as found you, my model, has the suitable to you I sell goods. We get really stupid? Of course the more cumbersome to business the better.
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