by Dale | Aug 19, 2011 | Articles, Futurist
I wrote a series of posts (first one was here) back in June about an article I had read (here) about Raymond Kurzweil, a pretty brilliant mathematician. My posts were about what it means to be human, but the article was about Kurzweil’s predicitions about...
by Dale | Jun 14, 2011 | Aristotle, Articles, Futurist, Philosophy
If you type “what is the essential quality of being human?” into Google, the first hit you get is a Wiki Answers page that says three words: “Compassion. Empathy. Sympathy.” That’s hardly authoritative, but interesting...
by Dale | Jun 13, 2011 | Aristotle, Articles, Futurist, Philosophy
Anyone who has seen the Terminator movies – even just the first one – knows that when SkyNet becomes sentient, humanity’s days are numbered. The essence of the entire Terminator movie franchise is a struggle between conscious, not merely...
by Dale | Jun 13, 2011 | Aristotle, Articles, Futurist, Philosophy
Forty-two years ago this week the United States government completed the significant milestone of putting a human being on the moon, completing the legacy of President Kennedy’s 1962 declaration. After millions, heaped upon billions, of dollars, the Apollo...
by Dale | Jun 10, 2011 | Articles, Futurist, Philosophy
I can’t believe that this article hasn’t gotten more run. I can’t recall any real discussion or chatter about it at all, yet it struck me as incredibly important. Either I’m going to be immortal around my mid-70’s or...
