Metanoia
The doctrine that God is in the world has an important practical corollary – the sacredness of Nature, and the sinfulness and folly of man’s overweening efforts to be her master rather than her...
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See first that the design is wise and just; that ascertained, pursue it resolutely. ~ William Shakespeare
View ArticleThe Moment We Have Been Waiting For
…the more humans become involved in their [program's] design, the more humanely inspired these tools will end up behaving. We are developing technologies and networks that have the potential to...
View ArticlePassion & Truly Extraordinary Drive
We know that great performance comes from deliberate practice, but deliberate practice is hard. It’s so hard that no one can do it without the benefit of passion, a truly extraordinary drive. ~...
View ArticleTechnology
I remember the people I’ve heard complain about the very texture of digital images, filmless film: how it lacks richness, depth. I’ve heard the same thing said about CDs. Someone once told me that...
View ArticleScience Fiction
Science fiction is a remarkable device for looking at the human creature and into the human condition. Indeed, as Ray Bradbury has often said, science fiction may be one of the last places in our...
View ArticleWe Are Already the Borg
Science fiction’s cyborg was a literal chimera of meat and machine. The world’s cyborg was an extended human nervous system: film, radio, broadcast television, and a shift in perspective so profound...
View ArticleRebottling
An Alpha-decanted, Alpha-conditioned man would go mad if he had to do Epsilon Semi-Moron work – go mad, or start smashing things up. Alphas can be completely socialized – but only on condition that...
View ArticleHow to Create a Mind
Both hardware and software are progressing exponentially. If logical thinking were the essence of intelligence, then computers would already be superior to us. The area where humans still have an...
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