"Lost in Space" could be an edgy serious dramatic series in the Battlestar Galactica vein with very little effort. It has all the ingredients for conflict, tension, interesting ethical questions (e.g. Do you feed your son the fuel or do you save it to get back home?). Rebooted, with a spaceship and crew that gets nastier and dirtier the longer the series continues would be a real ratings getter (What critical system breaks this week? Is Dr. Smith gay and what about his relationship to Will, who may also be gay?). Lots of potential.
I just don't see how this is going to be significantly different than something done in silica. It's the organization and processing, not whether it's made of coal or sand.
I was thinking "Primary Education of the Camiroi" and an entertaining take on our current educational system, or perhaps "Snuffles" but I think you're right. Too cerebral for most of duh populace. "Narrow Valley" would work pretty well for this day and age of special effects though.
Good to know I'm not the only person who liked this guy. I've never met another person physically who's even *heard* of him. I think his obscurity is undeserved.
R.A. Lafferty is a "different" kind of SF author. Too odd even for many geeks, Lafferty stories are to science fiction what Salvia Divinorum is to hallucinogens. Wildly different and completely disruptive. Great creative fodder there just waiting to be mined.
Sometimes they occur in the organic chemical domain using DNA. Other times not.
Same invariant properties apply:
1) Self-replicators take resources from their environment in order to self replicate. 2) Mistakes sometimes happen in self replication. Sometimes they enhance replication. Usually not.
Salt crystals in solution, YouTube videos, DNA, Money, Religion. It's all pretty much the same, structurally.
Is this being taught in universities yet, or have they not caught up?
I want an organically grown neural net integrated with my brain in continuous contact with the internet neural nets so I can exist as a virtual web based consciousness using my organic body as an entertainment peripheral - sometimes crudely referred to as a "joystick."
As someone who has worked as both a graphic artist AND a programmer, I can assure you that I would rather be cubicle Joe. As an aside, I find Macs to be a pain in the rear. I prefer Linux.
And as far as computers go, Macs are niche market. The majority of human activity has little to do with the direct creation of art.
The majority of PAD users aren't going to give 2 flips for photoshop, per se. For the most part, they'll be doing what people do now. Email, IM, shopping, surfing. Writing and now, reading.
Any "new" internet will be all nicely traceable and controlled. You'll need an ID to log in and your physical address will be in the international database. Your health inquiries will all be reported to the insurance guilds and if you make too much noise about the wrong politician/financial professional, your porn surfing habits will be accidently "discovered" and reported by a media owned "news" site.
If you think.net is a failure, I suggest you look at the replacement statistics compared to Java and talk to a few developers..Net has made my life much easier. That's all I need to know.
With those qualifiers added, I would agree. I would, however, point out that development is *different* from system administration. Unless the developer is steeped in WMI issues, they're not likely to know much about the actual mechanics of their workstation. This isn't theoretical. I've noticed this for the last 15 years or so. Otherwise brilliant programmers often can't seem to function when Windows does something unexpected (i.e. every other day or so).
And following that argument, is any person who can't maintain his own automobile, toilet plumbing, the airplane he flies on, or his cell phone also incompetent?
There's only so much time. I need to focus on what gives me the most return. That's not system administration.
Even in the pre-frontal cortex. "Intelligence" can get fairly specialized. They may have been savant-like geniuses at ad-hoc weather prediction, predator evasion tactics and great outdoor barbecue. It doesn't mean they would have made good mathematicians, software developers or doctors.
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Nah, it was stupid. It's just that I wasn't the only stupid person here.
Does it all magically disappear?
"Lost in Space" could be an edgy serious dramatic series in the Battlestar Galactica vein with very little effort. It has all the ingredients for conflict, tension, interesting ethical questions (e.g. Do you feed your son the fuel or do you save it to get back home?). Rebooted, with a spaceship and crew that gets nastier and dirtier the longer the series continues would be a real ratings getter (What critical system breaks this week? Is Dr. Smith gay and what about his relationship to Will, who may also be gay?). Lots of potential.
I just don't see how this is going to be significantly different than something done in silica. It's the organization and processing, not whether it's made of coal or sand.
I was thinking "Primary Education of the Camiroi" and an entertaining take on our current educational system, or perhaps "Snuffles" but I think you're right. Too cerebral for most of duh populace. "Narrow Valley" would work pretty well for this day and age of special effects though.
Good to know I'm not the only person who liked this guy. I've never met another person physically who's even *heard* of him. I think his obscurity is undeserved.
R.A. Lafferty is a "different" kind of SF author. Too odd even for many geeks, Lafferty stories are to science fiction what Salvia Divinorum is to hallucinogens. Wildly different and completely disruptive. Great creative fodder there just waiting to be mined.
An acquaintance of mine who suspected that he was being BSed by a sales person asked if his project had passed the Bal Conies test.
"Yes, it certainly has," he replied.
"Really!" he said. "Let's see." He then took the device in question and dropped it off the Bal Cony.
Sadly, the device in question did *not* pass the Bal Conies test.
Sometimes they occur in the organic chemical domain using DNA. Other times not.
Same invariant properties apply:
1) Self-replicators take resources from their environment in order to self replicate.
2) Mistakes sometimes happen in self replication. Sometimes they enhance replication. Usually not.
Salt crystals in solution, YouTube videos, DNA, Money, Religion. It's all pretty much the same, structurally.
Is this being taught in universities yet, or have they not caught up?
Implanted. Ha! Man, are you stone age?!
I want an organically grown neural net integrated with my brain in continuous contact with the internet neural nets so I can exist as a virtual web based consciousness using my organic body as an entertainment peripheral - sometimes crudely referred to as a "joystick."
I want voice operated wearable wi-fi enabled computer whose semi-transparent color 3D display is worn as contact lenses.
Anything else is stone age.
As someone who has worked as both a graphic artist AND a programmer, I can assure you that I would rather be cubicle Joe. As an aside, I find Macs to be a pain in the rear. I prefer Linux.
And as far as computers go, Macs are niche market. The majority of human activity has little to do with the direct creation of art.
No. You *could* be both... :)
Excuse me, big brother and big sister witch huntress both would like to speak to you.
The majority of PAD users aren't going to give 2 flips for photoshop, per se. For the most part, they'll be doing what people do now. Email, IM, shopping, surfing. Writing and now, reading.
"...humans are supposedly rational enough to do something about it"
Hahahahahah. Oh stop, please. You're killin' me! Chortle. Chuckle.
Wake me when we get direct neural I/O.
Any "new" internet will be all nicely traceable and controlled. You'll need an ID to log in and your physical address will be in the international database. Your health inquiries will all be reported to the insurance guilds and if you make too much noise about the wrong politician/financial professional, your porn surfing habits will be accidently "discovered" and reported by a media owned "news" site.
Dances with Smurfs?
You have *already* been assimilated and all you can do is whine about it.
The "plot." Pretty much the same: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104254/
If you think .net is a failure, I suggest you look at the replacement statistics compared to Java and talk to a few developers. .Net has made my life much easier. That's all I need to know.
Uh, I add new features to Windows every day. They're called "applications" written in vb.net or C# using nothing more than Window's free Express IDEs.
Darn that evil Microsoft! Giving away free development tools and application samples. Communists! Communists, I say!
With those qualifiers added, I would agree. I would, however, point out that development is *different* from system administration. Unless the developer is steeped in WMI issues, they're not likely to know much about the actual mechanics of their workstation. This isn't theoretical. I've noticed this for the last 15 years or so. Otherwise brilliant programmers often can't seem to function when Windows does something unexpected (i.e. every other day or so).
And following that argument, is any person who can't maintain his own automobile, toilet plumbing, the airplane he flies on, or his cell phone also incompetent?
There's only so much time. I need to focus on what gives me the most return. That's not system administration.
Even in the pre-frontal cortex. "Intelligence" can get fairly specialized. They may have been savant-like geniuses at ad-hoc weather prediction, predator evasion tactics and great outdoor barbecue. It doesn't mean they would have made good mathematicians, software developers or doctors.
I'm just saying....