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 Continue Reading…
Posts Tagged: futurism
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.
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 Continue Reading…
Political Philosophy drool spawned from this Orwell quote here. I know there are accessibility issues, and I am being narrow minded… but beyond the groups that choose (think off grid hippies) to not Continue Reading…
This is *JUST* the beginning of the social net. We’re talking like it is in it’s 1/2 of 1% – the start. FB is a disaster because it assumes we are emotionally constant beings that are like Atticus from Continue Reading…
In regards to this: Your own private matrix: a special report on smart systems – & tracking your life on the web w/ lifestreams I really like the idea that we can have a recognizable digital Continue Reading…
I am a futurist, if it matters. Not really. It will all end up like Snowcrash, which is a book, if you haven’t read, you need to read… now. Honestly, multiple devices will dissolve, and people will Continue Reading…