Skynet jokes aside, this thing is basically autonomous and will likely become relatively self aware due to data exhaust. The quote at the bottom is hard to comprehend for me. Discuss the implications (more…)
Unbelievable Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over Aurora Borealis | NASA, ISS
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.
3D printing, obsolete workers, & the approaching new economy
3D printing will blow your mind. – from NY Times.  Also, an additional entry from The Economist about “The Shape of Things to Come”. Always with the wry titles, you gents and scholars. It will destroy (more…)
Hecklers and Heckling
Mitch Hedburg Jim GAffigan Richard Pryor Zach G. Louis CK Russell Brand Eddie Izzard Billy Connolly Arj Barker Bill Hicks is not a jukebox Anon in a very (more…)
A manifesto for change with specific points of action.
It’s sorta surreal – the tax disaster that will hit most of us shortly. But that’s 2013, and we can get non-partisan chaps up in the congress. Real change will have to be policy, and policy needs to be (more…)
What’s your utopic dystopia? Favorite dystopia films here, please……
http://snarkerati.com/movie-news/the-top-50-dystopian-movies-of-all-time/ What a great list. I realize that no one has made a competent adaptation of Brave New World, unless you include Demolition (more…)