Tag Archives: tech
RIP – A Remix Manifesto.
I just watched this documentary and it almost moved me to tears. Ok, not tears, because it wasn’t sad, but while this movie is mostly about patents and copyright infringement, even if they don’t know it they summed up why …
Aubrey de Grey: Why we age and how we can avoid it
This is a couple years old already, and considering how much I like TED and how much I like the idea of avoiding aging, I was surprised to see I hadn’t seen this before. I know it’s kinda long, but …
Hugo Chavez is on Twitter
The freely elected (despite the US’s attempts to paint him as a brutal dictator, he has a very high approval rating amongst his people) socialist leader of Venezuala who has the annoying tendency that the US are silently creating an …
telescoping evolution
Keeping in the same vein as my last couple posts about accelerating technology, here’s a clip from an excellent movie called ‘waking life’, where accelerating change is talked about not only as a technological phenomenon, but an all-pervasive one. It …
transcendant man
This is a documentary about Ray Kurzweil, should be coming out this year sometime: I just want to clarify one thing, in the trailer it says he wants to ‘bring his dad back to life’. When he actually explains what …
going down the rabbit hole
(link) – ‘Good Magazine’ interviews Ray Kurzweil. So this is kind of off the topic of that interview, but on topic for Ray Kurzweil. If they could (and it might not be crazy to ask yourself these questions cause this …
can google translate harlem-speak to whatever they use in the chinese ghetto?
So once they get this translating shit REALLY figured out, like… I talk, it translates in real time and is pretty accurate to any language. I mean the end of language barriers. The internet connected the world like never before. Removing the …
the infinit yes brings you… the cure for cancer (applause)
When I was drinking tea and smoking a joint* this afternoon I found the cure for cancer. It’s right here: http://gizmodo.com/5501103/this-is-the-future-of-the-fight-against-cancer Since I was the one who found this website that contains the cure for cancer, I expect donations**. Thank …
any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
Right? I mean show a guy 200 years ago a light bulb and he’d shit. Let alone a smart phone or laptop or airplane or fridge. So yeah, what I’m gonna talk about sounds impossible but it’s not. Nanotech May …
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