New Free Interactive Brain Map allows you to see the brain as never before.

March 4, 2008 by Erika · Leave a Comment

BrainMaps.org is an interactive multiresolution next-generation brain atlas that is based on over 20 million megapixels of sub-micron resolution, annotated, scanned images of serial sections of both primate and non-primate brains and that is integrated with a high-speed database for querying and retrieving data about brain structure and function over the internet. Currently featured are complete brain atlas datasets for various species, including Macaca mulatta, Chlorocebus aethiops, Felis catus, Mus musculus, Rattus norvegicus, and Tyto alba. Read more

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Brilliantly Post-Technological

February 27, 2008 by Erika · 1 Comment

Erika here, your personal Tech-Goddess, and as Stargate fans would say, “Brilliantly Post-Technological”.

What has inspired me to start tech-blogging is the awareness of web thinking, and the ability to put a label on what web thinking is, which led to the epiphany that those moments of profound overwhelm where my mind sees or hears something new and instantly creates maps and connections to seemingly unrelated concepts, objects or realities all interwoven back to a central truth are related to a shift in mental perception and logic that is global. It’s a shift from linear logic to whole-brain and more of a web logic that connects everything to everything else in coherent way.As we are bombarded with new technology, information and applications, I feel there is a search for relevance and theme, something that I can contribute by my own process of web thinking and insight.In “The First Sex” author Helen Fisher notes, “women more regularly think contextually; they take a more “holistic” view of the issue at hand. That is, they integrate more details of the world around them, details ranging from the nuances of body posture to the position of objects in a room”.

I feel that this is a subtle shift in thinking that is also happening with men and the male brain globally. It’s a search for connection and meaning.Web thinking, in tech, means that if you show me the prototype for a new kind gadget, first my brain flips through the emotional connects of whether I actually like it and would use it, and then begins connecting to how it would be useful to me, to you, to others, to humanity, and what kind of emotional and psychological impact does it have as a whole

Then from the emotions I flip over to the logical, just HOW useful is it? I start thinking of applications, and where it will or will not be relevant, then imagination kicks in and the timelines all happen at once. Can I see myself, other women, other men using this? How does it look, feel, taste, smell as I live their experiences? How much easier is it making my life in the scenarios? Is it viral? Or, is it just a really bad idea?

Digging deeper I want to know if this new gadget will benefit your business, your life, your family and HOW. Is this something we are evolving towards, away from or through? Where does it all converge back into one truth, and what is the core essence from the singular person to a world and universal level.

All of this happens for me in a few seconds of paralyzing brain freeze, something I thought at one time was lethal and radical daydreaming but now see as (Stargate inspired) post-technological web thinking.

In short, my intention is to look at tech and offer insight and instruction from a larger view. Let’s look PAST whatever current tech, gadget, trend or viral video we are talking about to the future we are evolving towards where technology is organic and our awake minds not only interfacing with the tech, but ARE the tech. (Post-Technological)

Can you imagine a world where call phones are no longer needed because our brains have learned to dial the “frequency” (like the current phone numbers) of the person we wish to call, and then we use telepathy to have a conversation? When I see something like the new nano-tech phone concept I’m reviewing here soon, I’m seeing communication and tech moving post-tech, BACK to the FUTURE, to organic

Ancient or Future?
You decide.

Your Tech-Goddess, Erika