——–> Psychedelic experiences with the ultimate end of audiophilia http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/31/4379774/ecstasy-for-my-eardrums-tripping-through-the-psychedelia-million-dollar-hi-fi THAT (more…)
Broken Systems – watching the current rough seas of the 20th century from the shores of the 21st.
It’s not just NY. It’s cities, governments, and the systems firmly entrenched in the 20th century. It’s painful to watch – these broken systems haven’t been able to yoke themselves to the steam engine (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…)
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…)
Robot Quadrotors – cooperative drones playing music, and Weyland’s TED 2023 speech – “We are now Gods”
Drones playing 007 – Ted 2023 – Weyland telling us we’re gods. You know what? Whether #darkmatter produces a big crunch, or we planet hop to a frozen entropic infinity – until then? We *are* (more…)
Collectivist Super-consciousness & Anonymous, vs. Consumerism, & the decline of Privacy & Individualism (& the Century of the Self)
This is a fascinating read….. http://www.technollama.co.uk/anonymous-and-the-decline-of-individualism “Just because you have 40 colors of the same shoe to pick from doesn’t make you an individual.” (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 Fermi Paradox, Self-Replicating Probes, and the Interstellar Transportation Bandwidth
If you like mind bending futurism regarding the re-wilding and population of vast stellar distances, you might enjoy some of the below. The Paper Conversation #1 Conversation #2 Taken from Abstract: It (more…)
Google’s Search Algorithm is relatively autonomous
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…)