Archive for the ‘Singularity’ Category

utility socialising : the future of social media?

Technology extends the reach of the average human being. Sometimes almost literally (eg the way a car kinda ‘makes your legs longer’  since it allows you to cover more ground).
In the same way, social media extends our reach in terms of our ability to connect with more people. What I hadn’t banked on, or expected, [...]

Not so fast, little internet…

Imagine that the ever-densifying network of devices that we know and love as the internet becomes sentient. Ish. Or aware or whatever:
Dangling upside down via an umbilicus to its humbler origins, and having its ass spanked by Lady The Phenomenon of Emergence herself, will the quasi-conscious intelligence that gulps down it’s first breath be a [...]

Let n beings approach nirvana…

Let n beings approach nirvana. What is the limit scenario when n is very large?
Wordwide bliss? Peace on earth?
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Lunchtime. The perfect time for my colleagues and I to insult each others’ intelligence with bizarre postulates and nonsensics.
The day’s what if:
What if we were all to suddenly, overnight, become:

aware of ourselves, others, our surroundings and our [...]

Let ’stupid’ handle it…

[updated 2009-10-31]
Have you ever had a customer service experience that left you completely, breathlessly in awe at the stupidity of all that transpired? Did you have to listen to a lot of circular non-reasoning, or worse – have to stare down a representative who seemed strangely incapable of initiating anything useful? Well then my friend, [...]