A mix of things from across the wire

Alex Steffan has a nice post "The Empire of Crime" which raises some interesting questions for the current world and our future directions.

For all the horrors that might await us, there exist an equal number of shimmering possibilities. We live at the twilight of the Industrial Era, and at the dawn of another. What sort of an era this will be depends, in many ways, on how well we dance what inspector Lohmann in Fritz Lang's film calls "the fine line between genius and madness" and how many of us choose, in the end, to put the powers we are gaining to the service of all. - Alex Steffan

So many cool household ideas! Tesla's work continues as MIT demos wireless power transfer based on his theories.

These are the kind of blogs I'd like to see for thesis project blogs, particularly its nice to see example entries like this (RFID 2 Bluetooth) or nice resources pages. Yes, its that time of year again where the latest batch of Interactive Media students get to showcase their talents and produce their thesis project.