Spoilers kiddies: My “Her” review: a technological developmental singularity; when AI out evolves human consciousness w/transcension into a parralel universe. — Uncle Fishbits (@UncleFishbits) (more…)
The Coming Age of Long Form Journalism – some delightful examples of media rich articles.
The duality of a society with less and less attention finding the time to consume large bits of detailed information is not so surprising, as modern times find niche markets victorious. Looking to be (more…)
Digital Inheritance, & Sentiment Analysis to build biographer’s depictions of a dead soul.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/04/09/300614977/the-new-age-leaving-behind-everything-or-nothing-at-all This talks about your “digital inheritance”, how people used to burn letters to (more…)
47% of all jobs will disappear within two decades. Not hyperbole. Oxford’s study, & How an Algorithm wants your job.
edit: Although this was published in April of 2014 here on my blog, it had gone down at one time and had artifacts, a few links were dead, I used Wayback on one of them, reintroduced some old graphics (more…)
Violation in the 21st Century – even a transparency advocate can feel like his privacy is at risk.
Tiburon and I guess the whole world is going to have to start making airspace rules. I don’t care if you have a quadropter. I don’t care that you have an HD mounted camera on a gimble. I don’t even (more…)
14 Tech Trends for 2014 from FastCo that aren’t uninspired, derivative “It’s the year of mobile” nonsense.
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3024464/15-tech-trends-that-will-define-2014-selected-by-frog  Anonymity, Disconnecting, Facebook unseated by Chinese, THE CONSUMER OWNING AND CONTROLLING THEIR DATA… (more…)
Disparate thoughts – tech & losing our humanity, pressures of “stuff”, meaning/purpose & Moby Dick, Jefferson’s re-constitution, & Michio’s migration to a parallel universe
1) Studying attention & memory as it is effected by the technology & pace of modern culture. Being off-grid & in nature repairs our tech-hysteria & dependence: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/technology/16brain.html?_r=0 2) (more…)
Who is the *real* big brother?
This was in response to people complaining about automatic license plate scanners, which then ticket cars. People say it’s a violation of privacy. That’s just the dumbest thing ever. You are in a public (more…)
More on privacy, transparency, accountability, & the 21st century decimating antiquated systems (& insane info about 4th Amendment)
The 4th Amendment doesn’t extend to 3rd party agreements. Privacy is a trick and diversion. Let’s talk about civil liberties before they’re gone, as well.
Privacy? Get over it.
Yes. This stuff is fascinating to me, especially watching reactionary people relatively clueless about rights and privacy, reacting to stuff like the NSA Verizon thing. Â Seriously? You have not needed (more…)