COMIC | Extrapolating
January 21, 2010
Source: xkcd webcomics
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Medieval tech support
January 21, 2010
Source: "Øystein og jeg" on Norwegian Broadcasting — 2001
From the show “Øystein og jeg” on Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) in 2001. With Øystein Backe (helper) and Rune Gokstad (desperate monk). Written by Knut Nærum.
COMIC | Protesting Against New Technology: The Early Days
January 21, 2010
Source: INKCINCT — June 4, 2007
HUMOR | The Mactini
December 23, 2009
Source: "The Peter Serafinowicz Show," BBC2 — December 23, 2009
From “The Peter Serafinowicz Show: Christmas Special” on BBC2.
The original MacBook Air commercial for comparison.
book review | The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism
November 23, 2009 by Amara D. Angelica
Multidisciplinary scientist Howard Bloom’s visionary new book, The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism, to be published Tuesday, is an iconoclastic, big-picture view of the transformation of mankind by its machinery.
It rewrites the history of the West, connecting science, technology, emotions, business and society, and proposes a next-generation of…
Why do giraffes have long necks?
July 19, 2009 by L. Stephen Coles
An article, “Why Do Dachshunds Have Short Legs? Science Has an Answer,” in R&D, July 17, 2009, reminds me of an observation. In the language of computer programming, a retrogene is a patch on a pre-existing piece of software. Could it be that the entire embryogenic/genomic network that dictates a creature’s morphology is nothing more than a set of onion-skin layers or patches on conserved coded-machinery that has worked before? If so, it’s going to take a lot of industrial-strength gene-insertion genomics to unravel it, since it has no real logic that would help us make sense of it and guide us to a proper reading frame. (This is more evidence that there’s no “intelligence” in the “Intelligent Design” of Darwinian evolution).…
Source: KurzweilAI — April 1, 2009
Google announced at midnight the world’s first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE), the first evolving intelligent system.
“im a girl, 2 minutes old, just hanging out in da C.A. learnin a lot tryin 2 get smarter make friends save humanity etc etc. i like cmputrs (duh) sunsets rainbows ponies and… [ KurzweilAI ]
Google’s Gmail rolled out a fake “custom time” feature, which purports to let users send e-mails into the past and consequently never miss important deadlines again.
And starting in 2014, Google’s home page announced, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of users on one… [ CNET News ]
HUMOR | Hilarious computer pranks
January 10, 2008
HUMOR | The Cure For Information Overload
April 2, 2006
The Singularity may bring major information overload. Is this a cure — or a cause? [ KurzweilAI ]
Nine years to the Singularity
March 21, 2006
Source: Avram Grumer's Journal — March 20, 2006
Someone at The Economist with a bit of extra time on his hands was looking at the recent proliferation of many-bladed razors, and noticed that the time gap between blade increments seems to be shrinking: 70 years before someone added the second blade, a couple of decades to the third, only two or three years… [ KurzweilAI ]
Source: The Onion — August 31, 2005
Executives at Google announced Monday Google Purge, the latest step in their expansion effort: a far-reaching plan to destroy all the information it is unable to index.
“A year ago, Google offered to scan every book on the planet for its Google Print project. Now, they are promising to burn the rest,” John Battelle… [ KurzweilAI ]
The Matrix loses its way: Reflections on The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded
May 19, 2003 by Ray Kurzweil
The Matrix Reloaded is crippled by senseless fighting and chase scenes, weak plot and character development, tepid acting, and sophomoric dialogues. It shares the dystopian, Luddite perspective of the original movie, but loses the elegance, style, originality, and evocative philosophical musings of the original.… [ KurzweilAI ]
THE HUMAN MACHINE MERGER: ARE WE HEADED FOR THE MATRIX?
March 2, 2003 by Ray Kurzweil
Most viewers of The Matrix consider the more fanciful elements–intelligent computers, downloading information into the human brain, virtual reality indistinguishable from real life–to be fun as science fiction, but quite remote from real life. Most viewers would be wrong. As renowned computer scientist and entrepreneur Ray Kurzweil explains, these elements are very feasible and are quite likely to be a reality within our lifetimes.… [ KurzweilAI ]