Here are some reasons to ponder whether staring at our phone all the time is a smart move? For your new year’s resolutions & consideration: 1) Studying attention & memory as it (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…)
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…)
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.
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…)