Amazon: http://amzn.to/1NdejpT
Mega-engineering, hardcore Post-Humans, and a whole Alien menagerie.
Mega-engineering, hardcore Post-Humans, and a whole Alien menagerie.
Robert Reed - Marrow
Friday 29 January 2016
Friday 22 January 2016
#top100 #scifi Num:88 The Martian
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1Qdzdvs
@andyweirauthor - Beautifully captures the audaciousness of Man.
@andyweirauthor - Beautifully captures the audaciousness of Man.
Andy Weir - The Martian
Friday 15 January 2016
#top100 #scifi Num:89 The Star Fraction
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1M6PVp7
@amendlocke - Grounded in a gritty reality, with plenty of action, the book is also political, scathing and visionary.
Ken MacLeod - The Star Fraction
@amendlocke - Grounded in a gritty reality, with plenty of action, the book is also political, scathing and visionary.
Friday 8 January 2016
#top100 #scifi Num:90 Down the Bright Way
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1M6Od7s
Great book. Lots of thought has gone into the technology, characters and worlds. Expanding the 'habitable zone' into the 5th dimension.
Robert Reed - Down the Bright Way
Great book. Lots of thought has gone into the technology, characters and worlds. Expanding the 'habitable zone' into the 5th dimension.
Robert Reed - Down the Bright Way
Thursday 7 January 2016
Free Gold
Negative interest rates, wholesale printing of currency, paper commodity markets a thousand times oversubscribed, unsustainable national debts and pointless austerity...
...any sane person must look at the financial system of the world as it currently stands and wonder how the hell this is all going to end.
But it's OK. They big boys know what they are doing.
There is an audacious plan to reset the global financial machinery.
Its been running for over a decade.
Some call it FreeGold:
http://www.freegoldclock.org/
Infants in a Hostile Digital Jungle - Programable People, Techno Social Engineering.
Deep Learning and Big Data will make machines omniscient and smart. People will be gullible and tractable in comparison; infants ripe for exploitation.
The law won't protect us, will: 'Do No Evil' or other vague self proclaiming slogans?
This is also one of the key themes in my new book: #SingularitysChildren #AI #Singularity
http://boingboing.net/2015/12/11/techno-social-engineering-is-f.html
Terms of Use - Scott Allan Morrison
(Image: https://www.behance.net/gallery/Pacman-Propaganda/5094827 @oddesigners)
(Image: https://www.behance.net/gallery/Pacman-Propaganda/5094827 @oddesigners)
Tuesday 5 January 2016
ER = EPR
Space and time are merely convenient metaphors for describing quantum information and computational complexity.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150424-wormholes-entanglement-firewalls-er-epr/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ER%3DEPR
... and mind?
Each I a small universe with significantly ordered quantum information.
I is what it feels like to be a universe.universe creates brain. brain creates people. you are people. you are. are is universe.
Monday 4 January 2016
Smart Animals using Complex Tools
Continuing the theme of animals being much smarter than we give them credit for, two stories about complex tool use in Crows and Dolphins:
Dolphins Are Using Sea Sponges as Tools: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/these-genius-dolphins-are-using-sea-sponges-as-tools/361168
New videos prove crows can make complex tools that only humans have made before:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/12/new-videos-prove-crows-can-make-complex-tools-that-only-humans-have-made-before/
http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/12/new-videos-prove-crows-can-make-complex-tools-that-only-humans-have-made-before/
#SingularitysChildren #SciFi #NewBook
Sunday 3 January 2016
Quarks, Proteins, Cells and Stuff
Some quick drawings I cleaned up and made into a poster. Hangs on the back of a door and helps my kids understand what stuff is made up of. Click on title for the full poster. High quality file available on request.
Apes, AIs and Us
On first contact with our Great Ape cousins, we dressed them in clothes, gave them beds to sleep in and even took them for tea with the King.
They were people.
We are so close that a rat and a mouse are ten times as different from one-another as a Human and a Chimp. We will seem closer still when Super Intelligent AIs raise the cognitive bar and humans join the other animals as uncanny innocents.
Read how it plays out in @SingularitysChildren my new Novel
#SuperIntelligence #BugNet
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32966907
Friday 1 January 2016
#top100 #scifi Num:91 Gridlinked
http://amzn.to/1OWLIZK
@nealasher. Less speculative social commentary and more sci-fi adventure romp - and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that!
@nealasher. Less speculative social commentary and more sci-fi adventure romp - and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that!
Neal Asher - Gridlinked
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