Sapere Aude
Month: September 2007
I wonder if anybody is thinking that there might be a better way to organize a story using the tools of the Internet, creating a timeline view of the news. What if each news story had its own “blog” and the developments were added as they occurred?
news indeed needs to use the hyperlink much more pervasively than the timid linking to company homepages, often not even with markup, that media does today.
What if? i really liked their setup. the whole building designed to look alien. this exhibit sampled the many scenarios beyond “bug eyed monster snags babe” that scifi looks into: gender roles, immortality, ethics, philosophical puzzles, and on and on.
The facts that the monks could not defeat a Japanese ninja showed that they were named as kung fu masters in vain
The Shaolin temple “strongly condemned the horrible deeds” of the user. is this for real? that is just too funny.
The city council of Haringey in the UK hired a spy plane to fly overhead and identify which households are wasting the most energy — to try and shame them into turning their heat down
this is news? they did that in zurich in the early nineties. they need to do this kind of public shaming in the us, where houses are shoddily built and leaking like sieves.
Jurvetson shares the view espoused by Ray Kurzweil that the next 20 years of technological progress will be equivalent to the entire 20th century, and will help fuel great progress in advanced AI. In our podcast conversation, we discuss designed and evolutionary approaches to developing smart AI as well as the possible cultural impact of machine intelligences and genetic enhancements the surpass human capabilities. In addition, Jurvetson offers his views on how nanotechnology, molecular electronics and quantum computing carry on Moore’s Law and could bring about profound, life-altering changes in the next few decades.
i am having cognitive dissonance as gadget droolers and forever behind the adoption curve rags like ziff davis discuss the singularity. next: home and garden magazine.
another area where algorithmic insight can make a HUGE difference. expect robust fingerprinting for all the worlds data, and the appropriate de-duping and merging. a genome of all books would be interesting: what came from where?
Gregor J. Rothfuss 