March 2010
1 post
“The possibility exists that memories may affect our genetic make up, meaning...”
– Professor Kevin Warwick
February 2010
1 post
“Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.
- Vernor Vinge
It cost too...”
– Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words (“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”) and is said to have called it his best work. So Wired asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves. Above are my favorite ones.
January 2010
3 posts
“If it were not for the great variability among individuals medicine might as...”
– Sir William Osler, 1892
“Love with robots will be as normal as love with other humans. While the number...”
– David Levy
December 2009
2 posts
“When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human...”
– H.G. Wells
Steve Wolfram Automata →
Born in 1959, Wolfram won a scholarship to Eton College at the age of 12, became interested in particle physics aged 14 and two years later wrote a paper that was published in a prestigious journal (Australian Journal of Physics, vol 28, p 479). At 17 he went to the University of Oxford, but left two years later to take up a research post at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. By...
November 2009
2 posts
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
...
An insight from Oslo
jayparkinsonmd:
If you want to understand the future, don’t pay attention to how technology is changing, pay attention to how childhood is changing.
October 2009
9 posts
Michael Vassar's WikiPedia Page →
with my article in forbes as his first reference!
My Coverage of the Singularity Summit in... →
Over 800 technology obsessed “futurists” — some with bleached ’80s rocker hair, long ponytails, and rainbow socks with cowboy boots — gathered this weekend at the 92nd Street Y to discuss the Singularity: a point in time in the future when technology progresses so rapidly that man and machine become one and machine intelligence (artificial intelligence or AI) may surpass human intelligence....
September 2009
4 posts
“While discussing Parkinson’s disease recently, I asked Professor Warwick...”
– Kevin Warwick, University of Reading
“The brain is a constantly evolving system, a moving target that never returns to...”
– Henry Markram, Director of the Blue Brain Project
“While he admits it might be more fun to be a rock star or a theoretical...”
– Michael Vassar on Bill Gates
“People assume that there exists a coherent well developed common sense view of...”
– Michael Vassar, SIAI President