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Sacrilege Will Save Us Today / Addiction Will Save Us Forever
Part One of a Two-Part Series You have likely heard about the coming singularity. As futurist Ray Kurzweil envisions, it is the moment when our machinery finally begins to outsmart us. For some, this is the promise of technology. A … Continue reading
Act Like Robots So Humanity Can Survive
The Paradox of Free Will During Information Overabundance I hope you can read to the end of this sentence. If you have come this far, you may have what it takes to continue until the end of this blog post. … Continue reading
Posted in Futurism and the Tomorrow Mill
Tagged ADHD, attention span, focus, information, information overload, robots, technology
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Now That You’re Gone, We Love You
Why the Future is a Great Time To Be Dead The dead are living pretty exciting lives these days. More exciting than many of us who are still breathing. If you went to the mega-music festival called Bonnaroo in 2012, … Continue reading
Posted in Futurism and the Tomorrow Mill, Pop Culture: Movies, Art, and Comics, Social Media and the Interwebs
Tagged analog life, analog self, CGI, Charlie Chaplin, digital life, digital self, Elvis Presley, holograms, Jack Black, Jeff Bridges, Michael Jackson, technology, Tupac Shakur
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“History Is Expanding” For One Thousand, Alex: Jeopardy, Part II
The decade of the 1980s was definitely very different from the 1990s, right? The ’80s are still known for bad hair and fashion and questionable musical tastes. The ’90s are known for all those things too, but both decades definitely … Continue reading
“History Is Expanding” For One Thousand, Alex: Part I
The Turing Test was first concocted in the early 1950s by computer theorist and visionary Alan Turing. The test was designed to answer the question “Can computers think?” In one version, an inquisitor sits before a panel and asks questions … Continue reading
Lex Luthor is Ready for the Future – Superman is Not
We are all experiencing a major paradigm shift, from a post-industrial to a pre-information age. When will comic books follow? First of all, I love superheroes. I adore them. I think they are necessary reading for any kid who wants … Continue reading
Posted in Pop Culture: Movies, Art, and Comics, Technology
Tagged Comic book, Comics, computers, digital theft, Lex Luthor, superheroes, Superman, technology, Villain
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The Internet Does Not Take Sick Days
Admit it? Sure, I admit it. I tend to take on too much. It’s not that I am necessarily an over achiever. I wouldn’t even say that I’m “driven,” or a “go-getter,” or any other descriptor that workaholics take on … Continue reading
One Thing You Have Forgotten Since You Were A Student
The human brain has been clocked processing less than 60 bits of information per second. This means humans deal with information about as fast as early teletype machines of decades ago. Humans can only listen to one song at a … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Technology
Tagged analog self, Brain, brain capacity, brain power, Human, Human brain, information processing, modern distractions, taking notes, technology
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The Next Billion-Dollar Idea: A Giant Internet Love Fest
An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg I’ve been on Facebook for a few years now. Many of my friends are jumping the Zuckerberg Ship and heading over to Google+. They are the early adopters, and the newest thing always seems … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media and the Interwebs, Technology
Tagged communication, Facebook, Google, Mark Zuckerberg, MySpace, Social media, Social network, technology
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The Age-Old Debate Over Stonehenge Vs. Beanie Babies
It now takes about a day for a decade’s worth of information to happen. Does that make sense? This is why we should structure our messages more like Stonehenge and less like Beanie Babies. Let me explain. In the middle … Continue reading →