Dreams Precede Everything
As long as we can survive and thrive somewhat as a human society, we will develop more and more complex robots. Industrial efficiency, medical diagnosing and general private use are some of the areas where robots will help us out. But at the same time endanger us. Because we don’t know the nature of consciousness, ...
Last night’s dream was played out in an insane asylum, psychiatric ward or a whatever you wanna call that. Everything was symbolic and metaphoric, and a reflection of what I’ve seen in people since I got back, after being away from their charade for a good long time. In this nut house I had a ...
The other week on a discussion on how a transhumanist future would evolve and be like for its citizens, a commentator recommended Psycho-Pass. So I looked it up and thought, oh no, not anime series, that's not my thing. But the actual description of the series and that there only were 22 episodes, about 20 minutes each, ...
Here is why I quit watching Game of Thrones, Vikings and similar series. A series that has more than 3 seasons lives a dangerous life, few make it the whole way through and sustain the quality, the depth and excitement. I got into the series after they already had passed season 2 so I caught ...
The other day at my parents place I switches on ‘Robbie’, the robot vacuum cleaner. Florens is always curious about the robot, following it with her full attention. While initially somewhat afraid, she later does’t react if the robot drives into her. What I’m seeing here is two worlds in their infancy, one is my ...
Discussion on the status of future human genetic enhancement policies. The conclusion lands on the need to guarantee individual rights in a firm and constitutional way. Also to further expand and increase the discussion and awareness about the forthcoming bio-technological possibilities - and how these will affect the relation between centralized decisions and the individual. https://youtu.be/BJj2nXSmEeo This ...
Today children grow up with all the accessibility online possible. In my observations, more than most (if one can say so) adults really don't know or care about their online footprints and integrity when they use everything from desktop to mobile devices. These people do basic browsing and access social media, connecting and hooking up ...
In this day and age anyone with some sort of media awareness knows that there is an unproportional representation of violence, war, criminality, homicide, terror and such in the media landscape - be it in the news, film industry and internet. Compared to the real life actual threat the worst of our culture is amazingly ...
The full transcript below or as a PDF to download. Moderator: {garbled} Aldous Huxley, a renowned Essayist and Novelist who during the spring semester is residing at the university in his capacity of a Ford research professor. Mr Huxley has recently returned from a conference at the Institute for the study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara ...
I just watched an almost forgotten sci-fi classic called Brainstorm. The story is about advanced research on telepathy and mind control that evolves into a secret black operation within the military industrial complex - code named Brainstorm. That's the setting where the main character, Michael Brace played by Christopher Walken, explores the rabbit hole in ...
Recently I watched the sci-fi film THX 1138 from 1971 by George Lucas and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. It's a dystopia in the Orwellian sense and has the typical 'one person breaks out' scenario going on. Very much ahead of its time and certainly not a blockbuster. But watching it in this day and ...
The film that time has caught up with. They Live (1988) is a fantastic sci-fi film that in extremely many ways foresaw the future and explains at least the rough concept of what is going on in our world today. Although the quality of the film is sometimes below average and placing itself in the B-film category. ...
The film offers no groundbreaking take or vision about the future of artificial intelligence. Yet films like Automata and Transcendence, keep the topic alive in the mainstream so to speak. Offering updates to the already established sci-fi visions of Terminator and Matrix (not to make the list longer). We need these cinematic and free thinking ...
In the coming age of super exponential technological and biological development humans will not just create A.I. We will merge with that from the start. If we look at the complex computer systems running our world today, we would have called them conscious 200 years ago? Would we? So when we look at the development ...
This film is interesting in its ideas and vision of the future, not as a film in it self. So I'll focus only on the visionary content of it, that really resonates with our possible future. Something that we have already seen in earlier films like Terminator, The Matrix and the Battlestar Galactica series. Everyone ...
If I see anyone identifying me through google glasses I’ll go up to that person punching them in the face and smashing their glasses. Since I do not know who is doing what anyone is at risk. Look, this is going get weird in the future, of cameras being so small and people having everything ...
For more than ten years I have not owned a TV set. And only in my childhood memories I can remember doing sloppy watching, zapping through the channels, watching MTV and other late 80’s and 90’s shows. ... television is a centralized system for storytelling about our social and symbolic environment, that are essential parts of ...