My Zune has become, in no small way, my pre-Singularity foolscap. Through it, I am enjoying a personal renaissance in my thirst for diverse learning. Many (esp. my sons) would think it strange that I rarely use my Zune for music. I’m sure I would if I had more music listening time in my day. What […]
A new working brain model is revealed today inTechnology Review. This is absolutely amazing and exciting. More hard evidence for accelerating change, the day is quickly coming when human neuroscience will be modelled on a PC.
For some time I have been thinking of building and maintaining a list of artistic and creative adventures around the world. A sort of personal “places and things to see and do before you die” (except that I’m Not)…
I‘m using a new on-line mind map tool which […]
There’s a big hullabaloo today in the global blogosphere. “Blog Action Day”. While it’s an interesting experiment in internet-assisted awareness generation, tomorrow and next week it will mostly be forgotten. Let’s watch.
Sure, I care about the environment. But one recycled newspaper at a time isn’t going to get us there. If the projections of technology’s […]
A recent world-wide movement is gaining attention. This is very shocking to some (including individuals close to me). The world is loosing Faith. It occurs to me that this is merely another example of inevitable accelerating change. This trend started many centuries ago with the earliest philosophers who formed the first rational science-based foundation for […]
“Look younger, live longer” — this is the byline for and innovative new science-based health and age-related website, RealAge.com. Take their ‘RealAge Test’ and find out what your effective age is. More importantly, check out the Top 12 Ways to Make Your RealAge Younger. I’ve got 11 of them down and my RealAge is […]
Growing up in the 60s and 70s in rural America, one had little reason not to be optimistic about the future (though, of course, some of us had the Book of Revelation keeping us in a cold sweat). The baby boomer’s had every reason to believe they would match and exceed the abundance of their […]
You know it’s a mainstream idea when Cringely devotes his weekly column to the topic. Late last week, he wrote Surviving Immortality: just getting to the Singularity is the hard part which is a fairly balanced introduction to the notion of a Technological Singularity.
Having long been a follower of Kurzweil’s writings, I’ve been reading about […]
While seeking more background on Vernor Vinge, I ran into The Future and You, a blog by one Steve Cobb which apparently generates monthly podcasts on “ideas and opinion about the future based on verifiable facts of today”. Hmmm, this does look like some interesting listening. At any rate, here are podcasts of interviews with Vernor Vinge (two at […]
So I have finally decided to start a blog. Initially (and for the forseeable future) this will be little more than a personal journal where I track and record thoughts and ideas for which I have some greater-than-passing interest. It is mainly for myself (a journal more than a blog) but also a means of […]