This is so fascinating! This is an epic letter…. from Aldous Huxley to George Orwell, just after 1984 was published…. it becomes an interesting conversation about why Huxley thought his portrayal (more…)
I heard you like technology? Let’s look at the science behind what is happening to our culture.. where will it lead?
Let’s ask some questions. We are guinea pigs, at the first 1% of these powerful new technologies that have rapidly, exponentially, grabbed hold of our lives in the last 5 or 6 decades. In the last 10 (more…)
The Coming Age of Transparency & Accountability – Why talking “Privacy” is simply Nero Fiddling
This is very curious. Everyone is concerned about the notion of “privacy”, *except* when they don’t think it applies. Is it hard for people to understand that transparency & accountability obliterate (more…)
May 2012 – Tea Party vs Occupy: Where we’re at.
Here’s where we’re at: The Tea Party is paranoid, and thinks the most successful wartime president in 50 years, who has taken out more dictators and enemies than any president *ever*, thinks Obama is (more…)
Majel, Artificial Intelligence, Mind Control, Downloading knowledge, Data Exhaust, & modern scientific ethical complexities
People are concerned. It used to be a world of just *DO* science without our full awareness of the consequences. It was just a general thirst for knowledge coupled with a panic of discovery driven by a primal human capitalism. I believe this led to be the blood on his hands, of which Oppenheimer spoke about. *Now*, there is an awareness that scientific discovery has very real consequences now and in the immediate future, while we prepare to innovate ourselves towards perpetuity. Like Nellie said in Contact… if we can get through our technological immaturity, and learn without killing ourselves in the meantime, the human race has the capacity to be infinite. What we look like at the end of it, however, is just what these tiny conversations are currently about. The current ethical issues will be forgotten in time, and our future selves won’t understand how much we cared what we become… but the nature of evolution is as murky as how human the human race will be when we get to the finish line. I am hoping distant relatives intone a slight humanity at the end of time, while being evolved enough to withstand the infinite crispness of entropy, moving through a frozen time where energy has ebbed to a blackened figment. No one beats the outcome of this universe, but I still have hope a vestige of the human race will be party to it.
Robots at war: the ethics of military drones, cyborgs, and nanobots
Fascinating stuff. The link goes to the Atlantic article: Drone-Ethics Briefing: What a Leading Robot Expert Told the CIA: Last month, philosopher Patrick Lin delivered (more…)
The final speech from Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator”
Just… wow. This speaks for me on so many levels…. happiness, community, life as adventure, connectedness… This is so prescient and ahead of it’s time and mind blowing. IT’s amazing, and (more…)
The Collective Consciousness in relation to evolution and spontaneous protesting
Just a missive: I think this is interesting. Spontaneous protesting is akin to a collective consciousness, or mass community brain. It’s very future, and very cool. I wonder if we’re all just passengers (more…)
Occupy Wall Street, and the coming change…..
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/05/opinion/rushkoff-occupy-wall-street/index.html 99% vs 1% – occupy wall street people want our system to change. I would love to see a rational discussion about how to fix (more…)