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POPSDouglas Adams "On Singularity" Interesting at that symbolical level. "How I hate the night". A friend told me about a book called "A History of Night Time At Days Close". Can't help feeling this is linked to Karen Todd's clip: Human Resources - Social Engineering http://doodleicious.amplify.com/2011/02/14/human-resources-social-engineering/ "New born babies have no fear of the dark. He also learned it could be conditioned and so it was". (from the documentary)
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POPSThe Coming Superbrain Some more excerpts: not all humans of the industry are optimistic, "The computer designer and venture capitalist William Joy, for example, wrote a pessimistic essay in Wired in 2000 that argued that humans are more likely to destroy themselves with their technology than create a utopia assisted by superintelligent machines." And some worst fear is the Moses Syndrome being just one generation before: "Indeed, despite this high-technology heartland’s deeply held consensus about exponential progress, the worst fate of all for the Valley’s digerati would be to be the generation before the generation that lives to see the singularity; Kurzweil will probably die, along with the rest of us not too long before the ‘great dawn,’ ” said Gary Bradski, a Silicon Valley roboticist. “Life’s not fair.”
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POPSMoore's Moment Futurists such as Vernor Vinge, Bruce Sterling, and Ray Kurzweil believe that the exponential improvement described by Moore's law will ultimately lead to a technological singularity: a period where progress in technology occurs almost instantly.
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POPSTwenty science fiction novels that may change your life Cryptonomicon (2000), by Neal Stephenson The Mount (2002), by Carol Emschwiller Perdido Street Station (2002), by China Mieville Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003), by Cory Doctorow Pattern Recognition (2003), by William Gibson Newton's Wake (2004), by Ken MacLeod Glasshouse (2006), by Charles Stross
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POPS6 -Word Scifi Stories We'll be brief: 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 we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves.
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POPSSix Word Stories inspired by hemingway's famous six word story "For sale: baby shoes, never worn," great short stories by sci-fi authors.
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POPSSmart bullet' reports back wirelessly I was just re-reading a great SF book called The PeaceWar, by Vernor Vinge. The book was written somewhere around 1984. There was a smart gun/bullets mentioned in the story line so I was curious if anyone actually created one. Looks like they have :-) Hopefully his Bobbles idea is not being created....
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