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Lost in the Filth Simulacrum | h+ Magazine

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:16:27 +0000

"Yet what the media has failed to grasp is what 4chan can tell us about where we're headed. The Chans aren't the freak sideshow of the Internet. They are the heart and soul of the Internet. And they are the ones furthest ahead of the pack, leading us. At this point there should be little doubt that the Internet is mutating the human species into something completely different. Therefore it's instructive to look at the most extreme, freebased forms of the Internet to see where we're going -- and 4chan is that freebased version of mankind's new drug of choice."

Tags: #4chan #collectiveintelligence #consciousness #future #internet #memes #posthumanity #singularity

Rudy’s Blog » Blog Archive » Fundamental Limits to Virtual Reality

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:38:18 +0000

"Matter, just as it is, carries out outlandishly complex chaotic quantum computations just by sitting around. Matter isn’t dumb. Every particle everywhere everywhen is computing at the maximum possible rate. I think we tend to very seriously undervalue

Tags: #computronium #posthumanity #scifi #singularity

His Heart Whirs Anew - washingtonpost.com

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:31:48 +0000

"If you find yourself embodied in a different way, your perceptions and awareness of the world would be changed."

Tags: #cyborgs #health #medicine #posthumanity

Why Google Is Making Us Dumber

Mon, 14 May 2007 20:53:51 +0000

"Let’s face it: we’re not exactly becoming brighter by using Google. In fact, in the traditional education sense, we’re getting stupider, at least with certain types of tasks."

Tags: #evolution #google #posthumanity #singularity

Open the Future: Augmented Fluid Intelligence

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:50:44 +0000

"These kinds of bots -- attention filters, perhaps, or focus assistants -- are likely to become important parts of how we handle our daily lives."

Tags: #aggregators #ai #attention #cogsci #future #multitasking #posthumanity #rss

3pointD.com - Blog Archive - Vernor Vinge Paints the Future at AGC

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:13:20 +0000

"Think back to that time, what would it be like to be the first human to ever tell a joke, or the first storyteller. Anything you did would be new — and the fact that it was crap wouldn’t matter."

Tags: #future #gaming #posthumanity #singularity #vinge #wearables

If steroids are cheating, why isn't LASIK? By William Saletan

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 21:36:07 +0000

"If the andro that helped McGwire hit 70 home runs in 1998 was an unnatural, game-altering enhancement, what about his high-powered contact lenses?"

Tags: #baseball #doping #eyes #health #lasik #medicine #posthumanity #sports

Defense Tech: Set Cammos to Vibrate

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:07:54 +0000

"In other words, it may soon be possible for budding Bene Gesserits, with appropriate training, to receive volumes of material via the sensitive parts of the body."

Tags: #future #hardware #military #posthumanity #ui

articles : Upload Your Life Now - Jim Baen's Universe

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:02:58 +0000

"Everything I've described is possible today, and a lot of it is going on right now in the MyLifeBits project."

Tags: #cogsci #mylifebits #posthumanity #singularity #technology #uploading

The next big bang: Man meets machine | CNET News.com

Tue, 30 May 2006 19:03:04 +0000

"research on multiple fronts in digital technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology may, over the next half century, alter the way we think about computers and information, and our relationship to them"

Tags: #cogsci #future #posthumanity

Toward Immortality: The Social Burden of Longer Lives - Yahoo! News

Tue, 23 May 2006 20:15:39 +0000

"Notions about marriage, family and work will change in fundamental ways, they say, as will attitudes toward the young and the old."

Tags: #aging #health #medicine #posthumanity

- The great Singularity debate | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

Mon, 15 May 2006 15:07:09 +0000

"aturday morning at the Singularity Summit at Stanford University. All 12 panelists for the day are seated in order of their scheduled presentations, with an audience of at least a thousand seated in the Memorial Auditorium on campus."

Tags: #kurzweil #posthumanity #singularity

Fibreculture: First tape, Interview Between Doug Engelbart & Belinda Barnet, 10th Nov, 1999

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:49:35 +0000

"Do you want to be locked into tricycles because they're easy to learn?"

Tags: #augment #compsci #engelbart #posthumanity #ui

Future Hi: I worry about the Singularity sometimes.

Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:35:24 +0000

"My biggest worry in the Singularity is total dissolution"

Tags: #posthumanity #singularity

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: What Would Radical Longevity Mean?

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:12:14 +0000

What happens once you catch the leading edge of longevity advances?

Tags: #future #health #medicine #posthumanity