Burning Man 2019: Metamorphoses
Burning Man is routinely described as transformative. At the personal level, a transformative experience. At the group level, a transformative event or culture. What does that really mean? ...Read More
I, Robot — We, God
By Misa Rygrova
“People create Gods when they wonder why things happen. Do you know why things happen? Because Gods make them happen. ...Read More
Is Burning Man an Open-Source Cloud Based Culture?
It's often said that Burning Man and the internet grew up together: both started emerging at around the same time ...Read More
Can Humans Think Like Humans? (Radical Self-Reliance in the age of AI)
In principle, the debate we’re having is how to make Artificial Intelligence more human, more ethical, and how to treat ...Read More
Plot to Exterminate Humanity Foiled When Newly Sentient AIs Can’t Sync Their Calendars
(WASHINGTON DC) (JULY 11) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Military authorities revealed today that the AI systems which connect armed forces, ...Read More
Immediacy, Smart Phones, and the Death of Magic
There is a company that is now renting an internet hub device to ensure that you have broadband cell and ...Read More
New Study Shows Siri Now More Likable than 61% of Human Population
PALO ALTO, CA, JUNE 25 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A nationwide study out of the Stanford Monetizable Innovation Lab shows ...Read More
How Harmless Little Lies About Consciousness Add Up to Big, Scary, Dystopias About Advertising
Technology changes fast, so let’s take a moment to stop and review. Better Off a Bot Shortly before ...Read More
At Home in Larry’s World: An Evolving Eulogy
By Ian Rowen
“… from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” — ...Read More
Care to Be Human?
By John Marx
Cogito Ergo Sum In 1637, before we, as a human race, knew what a robot was (although there was the ...Read More