Showing posts with label transhumanism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transhumanism. Show all posts
Thursday, 16 August 2012
This new Metal Gear trailer should satisfy your gamer pr0n quota for a whole week
There's even a sneaky Dr. Who reference thrown in toward the end.
But in the unlikely event you're still left wanting more, here's two and half minutes of actual gameplay for your enjoyment.
Wednesday, 8 August 2012
That transhumanist, post-apocalyptic web series you've been waiting for is finally here
In the near future iPhones have been supplanted by implants which communicate directly with the human brain. Sounds cool right? But what if they were used against us?
All hail the Cybermind! - "It feels as though I know something just because I can find it with Google."
If you're anything like me, the last thing you'll take your phone out of your pocket for is to make a phone call.
It's far more likely that you'll be using it to tweet about what you had for lunch and your subsequent trip to the bathroom. The second most likely thing you'll be doing, is using it to find out the answer to something.
The question might be "what's the quickest way across town?", "what year did that happen in?" or "who was that guy, in that film, with the ears?". The question itself isn't what's important, it's that we're starting to instinctively turn to the internet for the answers, effectively outsourcing our memory requirements.
Daniel M. Wegner, professor of psychology at Harvard, discusses this effect and his recent studies into it, in a piece for The New York Times. What do you think?
Is having the collected sum of all human knowledge at our fingertips a good thing, or are we dumbing ourselves down knowing that the computers will remember everything for us?
Via: Susan Zhuang
It's far more likely that you'll be using it to tweet about what you had for lunch and your subsequent trip to the bathroom. The second most likely thing you'll be doing, is using it to find out the answer to something.
The question might be "what's the quickest way across town?", "what year did that happen in?" or "who was that guy, in that film, with the ears?". The question itself isn't what's important, it's that we're starting to instinctively turn to the internet for the answers, effectively outsourcing our memory requirements.
Daniel M. Wegner, professor of psychology at Harvard, discusses this effect and his recent studies into it, in a piece for The New York Times. What do you think?
Is having the collected sum of all human knowledge at our fingertips a good thing, or are we dumbing ourselves down knowing that the computers will remember everything for us?
Via: Susan Zhuang
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