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Jaron Lanier Takes On "Cybernetic Totalists"
Stefan Jones writes: "VR pioneer Jaron Lanier has written "Half a Manifesto" -- a long and considered rant taking on notions favored by Extropians, Singularity fans and others -- on the exclusive salon for long-hairs, 'Edge.' Lanier believes that the totalists are not only promulgating an irresponsible and inhuman ideology, but indulging in bad science. The site also features fascinating and spirited reactions by a slew of luminaries, including George and Freeman Dyson, Bruce Sterling, Lee Smolin, Rodney Brooks and Kevin Kelly. Good stuff, no matter where you stand on this issue." Oh c'mon -- no one around here would fetishize technology per se, would they? -
Jaron Lanier Takes On "Cybernetic Totalists"
Stefan Jones writes: "VR pioneer Jaron Lanier has written "Half a Manifesto" -- a long and considered rant taking on notions favored by Extropians, Singularity fans and others -- on the exclusive salon for long-hairs, 'Edge.' Lanier believes that the totalists are not only promulgating an irresponsible and inhuman ideology, but indulging in bad science. The site also features fascinating and spirited reactions by a slew of luminaries, including George and Freeman Dyson, Bruce Sterling, Lee Smolin, Rodney Brooks and Kevin Kelly. Good stuff, no matter where you stand on this issue." Oh c'mon -- no one around here would fetishize technology per se, would they? -
Jaron Lanier Takes On "Cybernetic Totalists"
Stefan Jones writes: "VR pioneer Jaron Lanier has written "Half a Manifesto" -- a long and considered rant taking on notions favored by Extropians, Singularity fans and others -- on the exclusive salon for long-hairs, 'Edge.' Lanier believes that the totalists are not only promulgating an irresponsible and inhuman ideology, but indulging in bad science. The site also features fascinating and spirited reactions by a slew of luminaries, including George and Freeman Dyson, Bruce Sterling, Lee Smolin, Rodney Brooks and Kevin Kelly. Good stuff, no matter where you stand on this issue." Oh c'mon -- no one around here would fetishize technology per se, would they? -
How Much Do Models Influence Our Thinking?
OCatenac writes: "Frank Schirrmacher, head of the arts and science department for the influential German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, considers the question of how much metaphor and model influence our view of the world." -
Second Coming of Technology
BgJonson79 writes "A Yale computer scientist has published his views on what will be the next 15 years of computing. He says the last breakthrough operating system was for the Mac and that Linux is obsolete. He also says the present file system is obsolete, as are some filenames." Many good points in this one. great discussion fodder: talks about how we just sort accept flaws in the systems we use. Also talks about how in the future the net will be less about computers and more about the net (eg astronomy isn't about telescopes) Definitely worth a read. -
Building Virtual Universities
Anonymous Coward writes "Psychologist and AI guru Roger Schank has an essay at the Edge about The Need for the Virtual University. Surprisingly, he sees nothing special about virtual universities except for the narrow window of opportunity to make schools that don't suck." Spend the time to read the whole article (it's in interview format and quite long) and you might come away with more than that. Schank raises some good questions - and proposes some good answers to them. -
Building Virtual Universities
Anonymous Coward writes "Psychologist and AI guru Roger Schank has an essay at the Edge about The Need for the Virtual University. Surprisingly, he sees nothing special about virtual universities except for the narrow window of opportunity to make schools that don't suck." Spend the time to read the whole article (it's in interview format and quite long) and you might come away with more than that. Schank raises some good questions - and proposes some good answers to them.