Month: September 2022

PEW POLL II (2013). "In addition, 98 percent of respondents said they had pictured a future in which they would only be able to die if someone accidentally deleted them."" " http://lnkd.in/bZn_zJm View in LinkedIn

PEW POLL III: BRILLIANT journalism on how most Americans thought they would be Bytes by now. “I’m really tired of all this shit, you know?” she added. “If the endgame of all this isn’t to live inside a computer one day then, I have to say, life just seems sort of meaningless.” At press time, a visibly distressed Turico was reportedly jamming a finger into a USB port, smashing a keyboard, and screaming that she just wanted to “upload the hell out of here.”" " http://lnkd.in/bZn_zJm View in LinkedIn

GHOST IN THE MACHINE:" ""Life is but a motion of the limbs.... For what is the heart, but a spring; and the nerves, but so many strings; and the joints, but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?"" "—Thomas Hobbes View in LinkedIn

"Four converging technologies are going to transform our interaction with the world radically: genetics, robotics, information and nanotechnology."" " http://lnkd.in/bugx8ti View in LinkedIn

FUTURE ENHANCED LIVING will be due to "The convergence of four fields—nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive sciences. This combination of ...nanotechnology, biomedicine and genetic engineering, ....advanced computing and IT, ... cognitive science creates a synergistic effect that will produce powerful new enhancement technologies. These have the potential to affect the types of children we have, the way we think, the way we play, how we age, and how long we live." (Unpack slowly). " " http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Publications/BriefingBook/Detail.aspx?id=2162 View in LinkedIn

HAVING BEEN SICK for a week, I have availed myself of British TV. That so much money and talent has resulted in this dated drivel is shocking. Striking in particular are the number of EggHead Quiz shows. These super bright people are foraging in a Compendululum of Useless Information (with immense skill) rather than being challenged about what New Life Forms for the planet, how to mine gold without arsenic, and a million useful forward-looking questions. "Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many." TSE View in LinkedIn

"Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself." " "" "HAROLD PINTER, Tea Party View in LinkedIn

INNOVATION WILL BE RESISTED. "J.B.S. Haldane's 1923 essay Daedalus: Science and the Future, which predicted that great benefits would come from applications of advanced sciences to human biology—and that every such advance would first appear to someone as blasphemy or perversion, "indecent and unnatural."" " http://lnkd.in/bR_BACA View in LinkedIn

CYBERMIND SCANNER. "Bostrom claims that the dis- sembling of brains, molecule by molecule, and then scanning them into the computer network may be possible in the future. The person's 'cybermind' would then be fitted to a robotic body. In this way, humans may achieve immortality without suffering the contingencies of the biological body."" " http://lnkd.in/_6bUrh View in LinkedIn

PACKING HEAT. Kurzweil: "computational capacity will grow exponentially in the 21st century...by 2023 computers will run more than a billion times faster than the human brain. By 2030 computer capacity will "simulate the brain power of a small village...the entire population of the United States by 2048, and a trillion human brains by 2060 ... will be the size of a sugar cube ... and need at least 250 years."" " http://lnkd.in/_6bUrh View in LinkedIn