Relevant information is always out there, however it’s flooded with irrelevancy and boosted up to news from no-news events. People, especially the working families have minimum time to engage in local or global events.
Living With Robots
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.
System Dwellers
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,
Sci-Fi Anime ‘Psycho-Pass’ & Why are Anime Characters White or European Looking?
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,
Psychopathic, Violent and Degenerate Series Like Game of Thrones and Vikings etc…
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,
Infancy of the AI robots vs humans war to come
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.
Future Transhumanism & Human Rights
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 –
Securing your children’s online footprints and integrity
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.
Commercialization of fear
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,
Transcript of Aldous Huxley’s Speech ‘The Ultimate Revolution’ at Cal Berkeley, 1962
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.
Telepathy and mind control from the film ‘Brainstorm’
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 –
Maggie McOmie in the Sci-Fi Film THX 1138
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’
‘They Live’ by John Carpenter & ‘Nada’ Comic by Ray Nelson
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.
Automata film review “When the dialogue stops”
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.
There will be no reason to have a separation of A.I. and humans
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,
Transcendence film review – transhumanism and singularity
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.
Google glass – Surveillance, drone control and a punch in the face
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.
Cultivation of reality and escape from reality
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.