no peanuts in church…

"You might as well face the music. You've tried everything else…" -Sun Ra.

futurism

  • on the artiface of intelligence…

    Had one of those early-morning, overly vivid dreams: Two pairs of perfectly human-looking robots (they were ‘robots’ in the dream, not ‘androids’, so let’s use that word here). And these were Manichaean robots, apparently: One pair felt ‘good’– or at least I was supposed to feel more sympathetic towards them– and the other pair were ‘bad’. Continue reading

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  • into the squeeze chutes…

    Tell me your race, how you worship (and/or, if you do), what socio-economic class you happened to be born into, which subculture (professional or otherwise) you most identify with (again, if any) and where you live now… and I’ll have a really, really good chance at guessing: How old you think the earth is. Your opinion Continue reading

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  • ‘Indie Capitalism’: Once you name it, it’s a Thing.

    After yesterday’s rant on the Great Inevitable Future of Work, I stumble onto this article in WiReD about ‘Indie Capitalism’. This article, itself, quotes another article in Businessweek on the same subject– arguably a more mainstream/non-techie publication, which indicates that the idea has ‘arrived’, I suppose. So, ‘Indie Capitalism’ now has a name. Which means Continue reading

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  • contra leisuretopia (some random thoughts).

    Just wanted to make note of an interesting article by sci-fi author Damien Walter in aeon magazine about the possibility of a ‘creative culture’ arising in the near future, as the natural result of increased automation and our current, inexorable shift towards a pure-knowledge economy. The article falls in line with current thoughts and assumptions Continue reading

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