Corporations are invaders from Mars… and “Voting doesn’t change anything — the politicians always win.”
-Charles Stross
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Si algo nos enseña la historia (que siempre se repite, con variaciones) es que nunca se aprende nada de la historia.
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The only people who are really curious what you look like on the inside are serial killers. To everyone else, that’s disgusting.
-Soren Bowie
Anyways Stross has convinced me to not care: in the same manner that space exploration, it will be a non participatory event for 99.99% of human population
Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers, not fitness-maximizers.
Posted: 28/11/2010 in Brainy“Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers, not fitness-maximizers.”
Its the whole group the one which gets fitness-optimized, for diverse values of “adaptation”, “group” and particularly “fitness”, as the emergent property of environment interaction and change in the environment, the individuals, and the groups.
la canon vixia hf11, como treinta de ellas…
si mucho vixio hay… ¿pero treinta? ¿para que? os preguntareis (o no, lo mas probable es que os la pele…) pues para hacer efectos de rotoscopiado bullet time
plus: Hype cycle – product life cycle
me da que no va a haber colonizacion del espacio
resumen de la novela accelerando de charles stross
diez-futuros-imperfectos-ciencia-ficcion
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some interesting subjects:
the green revolution
peak oil
exponentials, sigmoids, malthusian models, and malthusian catastrophes
exponential expanding: processing power /memory / bandwidth : limits and what you cant do with it
stagnating: quantum computers, algorythm resolution, hard ia results, fusion power
Technological waves and paradigm shifts
global warming
bioengineering; adn and proteine mapping/modeling and whi it is decades away from meaningfully impacting you.
Aging and expanding life expectancy: will you or will you not catch the wave tahat will let you live indefinitely
Information wants to be free and expensive at the same time: the intellectual property wars
Sociobiology, memetics, pnl, propaganda (PR, marketing and politics), sex, religion & warfare.
Big brother: how everyone is going to end up in Wikipedia, facebook, google, and a webcam will be in every corner and in your soup
memory cheap and available enough to stream your life to it
brain architecture and emuation.
brain uploading.
space travel and why it is done first by prestige and secondarily by scientific reasons but there will be no commercial or civil uses beyond the earth orbit.
Obsolete economic models and why theres currently no replacement
Social Models, Legal Systems: Past and Future
Geostrategics: game theory
Alternate power sources/transportation/storage: Political Implications
decentalization: computing: the cloud.
decentralizacion: fabrication: protoyping and cad printers/machines
sinergy & convergence: unintended consequences
geolocation everywhere: you will never be lost again
Humor, critica y seriedad: duando tus judias (poder) te van en que lo tuyo sea considerado serio y nunca jamas criticado (politica religion, intelectualidad)
fear and admiration: are they the only two modes of respect?
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