I am Nora. 18 years old and getting steadily more conscious of the world around me. Look about, take your time, follow me if you feel like it, and ask me anything. Just remember, BE YOU and NOTHING ELSE.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Fabergé Fractals by Tom Beddard
One truism of robotics is that not all aspects of human ability are being copied equally. However, so long as artificial intelligence is so artificial, maybe our natural intelligence provides us with a special station that robots cannot overcome. Sadly, such reasoning does not really improve the prospect of chronic underemployment. Outstanding research in telepresence promises to enable robots to act with guidance from humans. They can phone home when facing a tough decision, and humans can provide the eyes and brains while a robot wields the brute strength. As we research human-robot control systems, not least of all for robotic war-fighting drones, we learn how to patch a single person’s brains and problem-solving powers into many robots at once. A whole factory of thinking humans could be replaced by unthinking robots so long as they had that drone interface, asking for just-in-time problem-solving help from a human supervisor when needed. Give companies a great human-robot interface and a whole pallet of dumb robots, and you still have an underemployment crisis.
Red sky at night, sailors delight, red sky at morning, sailors take warning. I can still remember my granddad teaching me that in the early parts of mornings on the beach of Shell Island.
La Vie aquatique VI, Strasbourg May 2013.
In his fantastic SVA commencement address on the false division between “high” and “low” culture, critic Greil Marcus adds to history’s finest definitions of art.
Lennart Olson, Tjörnbron III, 1962
