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How will we apply technology that is more intelligent than its creators? Again, the primary aspect of nanobot-based virtual reality that is not yet feasible is size and cost. You (i.e., your brain) could decide to cause your muscles and limbs to move as you normally would, but the nanobots again intercept these interneuronal signals, suppress your ... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
These two versions of myself along with ten different Twitter accounts and at least two different LinkedIn accounts ran my digital life from 2008 to 2012.
Chris Dancy • Don't Unplug: How Technology Saved My Life and Can Save Yours Too
Each of these tiny niches is micro-small, but there are tens of millions of niches. And even though each of those myriad niche interests might attract only a couple of hundred fans, a potential new fan merely has to google to find them. In other words, it becomes as easy to find a particular niche interest as to find a bestseller.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Kelly’s vision depends on an evolution of the Internet in which the vast tangle of possible one-on-one connections partition into countless small cliques—each one a fandom or a mini community revelling in the discovery of others who share their quirks. Instead, the social-media giants effectively rerouted these connections through a small number of... See more
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
Wendell Berry’s standards for technological innovation. Hard to follow but good to measure any new technology against:
1. The new tool should be cheaper than the one it replaces.
2. It should be at least as small in scale as the one it replaces.
3. It should do work that is clearly and demonstrably better than the one it replaces.
4. It should use less... See more
1. The new tool should be cheaper than the one it replaces.
2. It should be at least as small in scale as the one it replaces.
3. It should do work that is clearly and demonstrably better than the one it replaces.
4. It should use less... See more
Simon Sarris • Careful Technology
technology is taking us to protopia. More accurately, we have already arrived in protopia.
