November 2
“I’ve been cordially invited to join the visceral realists. I accepted ofcourse. There was no initiation ceremony. It was better that way.”
November 3
“I’m not sure what visceral realism is.”
Savage Detectives, pg 1, Roberto Bollano
July 18, 2009
yourself
the waveform produced when a woman speaks the word: yourself
Maeda
“Elsewhere, another plug mates and a significantly more complicated process forces a beam of electrons onto a plate of glass covered with a chemical that glows when energized, resulting in the mass production of bright electric dots that illuminate the otherwise invisible mind of the computer”- “Maeda @ Media” pg 65
A.I. and the speed of light
“My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more of a tool of narrow utility than someting apocalyptic…More important, though, is that the same advances in processor and process that would produce a machine mind would also increase the power of our own cognitive-enhancment technologies. As Intelligence augmentation allows us to make ourselves smarter, and then smarter still, AI may turn out to be just a sideshow: we could always be just a step ahead.”-Atlantic Monthly Article by Jamais Cascio.
cross reference this with: As an object approaches the speed of light its mass grows infinitley larger, so there is not enough power to push it past this barrier…
“The famailar notions of absolute space and absolute time independent of your relative motion must give way.”-carl sagan.
cross reference this with McLuhan’s rules of the tetrad:
- What does the medium enhance?
- What does the medium make obsolete?
- What does the medium retrieve that had been obsolesced earlier?
- What does the medium flip into when pushed to extremes?
“McLuhan believed that to fully grasp the effect of a new technology, one must examine figure (medium) and ground (context) together, since neither is completely intelligible without the other…an examination of the figure-ground relationship can offer a critical commentary on culture and society.”- wiki article
wired article
“Wikipedia, Flickr, and Twitter aren’t just revolutions in online social media. The’re the vanguard of a cultural movment. Forget about state ownership and five year plans. A global collectivist society is coming-and this time you’re going to like it.” – from title by Kevin Kelly in Wired-Jun 2009