AI vs the Human Computer
“A more perfect analogy would be if you consider nuclear research, with its potential for a very dangerous weapon. Releasing the energy is easy; containing that energy safely is very difficult. And so I think the...
Category: About Technology
Review of Count Zero by william gibson on GoodReads…
Count Zero by William Gibson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I started and did not finish Neuromancer about 20 years ago. I picked this up because it has an AI theme and I thought my...
Why I like/dislike Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley My rating: 2 of 5 stars Most of the reviews I’ve read about this book are “Yech! – I hate Victor Frankenstein” or “Yay! I was moved to look deeper than the...
Bill Gates views on the economic condition almost miss larger social changes on the horizon
(Click the title to see a follow-up comment to this post) “Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century caused a stir this summer. It’s a major contribution to the study of inequality—but it has some...
My All Time Favorite XKCD comic…Alternative Energy
“Alternative Energy Revolution” is, in my mind, the definitive XKCD comic. This crosses several of my own mental paths including: Technology and by extension, man’s arrogance, will be our downfall. We are easily comforted by bold...
Some notes on Cloud Computing
There are a bunch of details concerning cloud computing, including the definition of the term, that are nicely collected in the following ACM (Assoc of Computing Machinery) “tech pack”. This is a great way to organize...