They will type their fears into a computer, and a few minutes later each fear will be projected onto a wall.

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Both YottaMark and FoodLogiq offer systems that let shoppers type a text code into a mobile phone or home computer, or scan a bar-code using a phone's built-in camera, to find out when the tomatoes on the shelf were picked and which field they came from.

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The second aspect of the Singularity that Stross takes a look at in his anti-Singularity arguments is the prospect of uploading the brain into a computer, which is a popular means in speculative fiction for a type of immortality.

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