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Two Needles In The Global Haystack Found One Another Through The Internet
Then they started Skyping:
Donna Haraway: The Cyborg, Writing
Who is Donna Haraway and what is a cyborg? Donna Haraway (b. 1944) teaches feminist and science studies in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California at Santa Cruz. In addition to taking a degree in English, … Continue reading
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Tagged cyborgs, feminism, garden of Eden, life, philosophy, psychology, radicals, science, technology
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Ye Shall Be As Gods?
Wearable computing in the form of smartwatches may be the next big extension of man (and woman). Here’s The Los Angeles Times on what Apple appears to be up to: [Smartwatch owners may soon be able to] read emails, Facebook notifications … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, apple, atheism, atheist, God, Jesus, religion, Republican party, technology
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Robots are Coming to Get You
If you missed the 60 Minutes segment on robots Sunday night, you really missed something. Here’s a taste.
Linotype, the Film
I hate the soundtrack for it, but this documentary otherwise looks promising: __________ The film can be found at Amazon for instant viewing for a couple of dollars.
Donna Haraway’s Question: Would I Rather Be A Goddess Or A Cyborg?
Donna Haraway (b. 1944) teaches feminist and science studies in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California at Santa Cruz. In addition to taking a degree in English, she also studied biology at Yale. In 1985 she … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, cyborg, ecofeminism, feminism, Marxism, nature, Politics, society, technology
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What do Harvard, MIT, Coursera, and Udacity Have in Common?
Answer: ambitions for offering massively open online courses. MOOCS. That’s what they’re calling them. This is really great news, and certainly puts on display the Internet’s power for good [New York Times]: Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday announced a … Continue reading
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Tagged America, China, Harvard, humanity, India, internet, MIT, technology, the future
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The Google Goggle Future
A little too boy-in-a-bubble claustrophobic for me, but I suppose one would get used to it. I didn’t look at this video and say, “Wow!” (as I expected to). Instead, I felt oddly vacant afterwards, as if Google Goggle Life would … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st century, goggles, Google, google goggles, internet, Nietzsche, technology, the future
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2012 On the Brink: Our Networked Human Future
We live in interesting times: the end of the “dumb society.” A great short documentary on our collective (and hopeful) future:
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Tagged 2012, documentary, future, globalism, hope, life, networking, optimism, reason, technology, urbanism
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The Future is Not Us: The New York Times on China’s Rapid Rise
The following quotes from a recent piece in the New York Times (“Power in Numbers: China Aims for High-Tech Primacy”) really jumped out at me. Here’s the first: China’s great weakness may prove to be too much government control. Chinese … Continue reading
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Tagged America, capitalism, China, science, silicon valley, technology, the 21st century, The Arab Spring, the Chinese spring
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Not a Flash Mob, but a Flash Rob
Demonstrating the double-edged sword that technology so frequently represents, and the human propensity to make use of it for both good and evil, this new form of theft—shown in the below video—is, apparently, coordinated using cell phones.
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Tagged cell phones, crime, Dionysus, evil, flash mob, flash rob, robbery, social psychology, technology, theft
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Doctors, Jeopardy, and Computers
When I was recently watching online NOVA’s Smartest Machine on Earth—an exceptionally fascinating documentary on the IBM computer that defeated the two most accomplished (human) Jeopardy players in the game show’s history—it occurred to me that it won’t be long before … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, diagnosis, doctors, economics, IBM, medicine, ray kurzweil, stocks, technology, the singularity, utopia
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Biotech and Robotics: The Two Great Technology Waves That Are Coming
A pretty powerful quote from the BigThink website: [Managing Director of Excel Venture Management, Juan] Enriquez stresses that “life code” (the famous A, G, T, C of DNA) will have the same importance for the next generation as digital code (1’s … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse not, biology, cells, history, juan enriquez, robotics, robots, science, stem cells, technology, the future
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The Promethean Who Stole Fire from Google: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg on 60 Minutes
You’ll have to click over to YouTube to see this 60 Minutes segment on the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, but it’s really interesting. Talk about a Promethean! Zuckerberg’s genius, I think, is to have tamed a human form of … Continue reading
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Tagged 60 minutes, facebook, fire, Google, mark zuckerberg, networking, Prometheus, technology, the net, the web
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Thanks, Steve Jobs! If the Global Cellular Network Collapses This Decade It May Not Be Because of Osama bin Laden
The Washington Post reports, via Jim Giles of New Scientist, that a catastrophic collapse of the globe’s cellular networks is a real possibility over the next decade: [S]ome kind of collapse in cellular networks in the near future is a real … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, 2013, 21st century, apocalypse, femtocells, globalism, osama bin laden, science, steve jobs, technology
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Repent, for the Singularity is Near? Has Ray Kurzweil Started a Secular Religion?
In a recent New York Times profile of Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity Movement, I can’t help but see parallels with religion. Indeed, it appears to be an atheist eschatology cult led by a gnostic elite. Based on the New York Times piece, here are … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, eschatology, God, Jesus, Nietzsche, noah's ark, pseudoscience, ray kurzweil, religion, science, technology, the singularity
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Steven Pinker is skeptical of new media skepticism
At the New York Times this week, Steven Pinker has a not-to-be-missed op-ed on new media skepticism. A taste: Media critics write as if the brain takes on the qualities of whatever it consumes, the informational equivalent of “you are what … Continue reading
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Tagged criticism, doubt, media, reason, skepticism, steven pinker, technology
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Evil, Nietzsche’s “amor fati,” Prometheus, and Thomas Edison
What is evil? If we call evil whatever outrages a human imagination’s ordering will and vitality; that is, if we define evil in its relation to us, then we quickly notice that evil comes in three forms: There are natural evils that … Continue reading
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Tagged amor fati, evil, God, life, Nietzsche, philosophy, Prometheus, religion, science, technology, thomas edison
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