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METER? I HARDLY KNEW HER: THE URGE TO KNOW

Tom James over at Futurismic provides some great links, both to Kevin Kelly and an older Charlie Stross article on, well, for lack of a better phrase, dense computing.

Hopefully the transition to a world where everything is recorded all the time will be well-handled, and won’t be used for authoritarian or nefarious purposes.

A neat idea I like to kick around: the Singularity is redundant.

"FOR EXAMPLE IS NOT PROOF"

Good LAT article on the use of narrative to achieve desired ends. The above Yiddish quote is worth the read alone.

Actually figures into on of my flash fiction stories I'm cooking.

DUST (BUNNIES) DEVILS OF MARS

Pretty cool movie here.

Emergent A.I.s...

....The smackdown. I still maintain this worlds only big enough for one AI, pace de Chardin.

Eventually the googe and stormworm are going to have to settle things at twenty paces.

Reality TV in London

Good luck with that:

Here’s an article at the LA Times by Kim Murphy about how Close Circuit Television cameras (CCTV) are not only pervasive in central London, they can even command you what to do!