Today’s Dispatch: A very brief episode focusing on the dumb of East Asia! Today’s players: Sony, and North Korea! One is dangerous dumb, and the other is just dumb about making electronics – choose your adventure!
Apr 132012
Mar 012012
As a tool of satire or irony, I do love me some hyperbole. As a cudgel of fear and ignorance, not so much.
Jan 312012
Heard this one? Newt Gingrich walks into a press conference… and drops the best idea to come out of a politician’s mouth in decades. This scandalous, hypocritical, disingenuous career politician is, in fact, totally correct.
Jan 262012
Technological utopianism might be just as foolish as vegan white people with dreadlocks or those with a super-spooky, vengeful, punishing father figure in the sky. But I kinda really seriously doubt it. (BOOK RECOMMENDATION)
January 26, 2012
Consciousness, Cybernetics, Energy Technology, Future Already Very Pending, Genomics, Human Augmentation, Internet, Kurzweil, Medical Technology, Prosthetics, Pure Science, Robot, Space Technology, Super Computer, Technology, Technology & Art, Technology & Education, Technology & Labor, Technology & Politics, Technology & Travel, Technology & Work, Technology Law, The Beginning is Near, Transhumanism
Jan 072012
It might be a good idea to encourage non-biological intelligences (NBIs) to be, as we are, only vaguely moral. A self-aware & morally pure machine might not be so kind to human nature. Just saying.
Jan 062012
The U.S. is going to seriously cut ground forces (Army & Marines, particularly). The monkey pony show of politics calls it budget cuts and such, but they neglect to point out that grunts are being obviated by bots, man.
Dec 152011
There are some things to which we’re all too connected – I’ll certainly admit that. But splashing out some junk science conjecture to broadly condemn the immensely powerful forces of social technology is just weak sauce.
December 15, 2011
Aging Society, Facebook, Here First or Best Here, Human Augmentation, Internet, Neurology, Prosthetics, Technology, Technology & Politics, Twitter