I wish I had a dollar for every time the novel Don Quixote is mentioned and someone then has to make a remark about old fools charging at windmills. In a 2002 survey of 100 authors around the world, who were asked to name the book they considered to be the “most meaningful of all … Continue reading Rescuing Fiction | The real Don Quixote and why, and how, you might want to read him
Rescuing the Future | Rolf Dobeli – Self-Aware AI? Not in 1000 Years! | A neurotypical view of Artificial Intelligence vs an autistic one
.......I think we need something more intelligent than us to save us from ourselves.
Rescuing Fiction | The Last Interview and Other Conversations | Gabriel García Márquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude
Though it made him famous and brought him financial independence, Márquez said more than once that he'd grown to hate the book.
Rescuing Fiction | Rescuing the Future| Mark Elf | my choice for the most unforgettable paragraph ever written
...... I have killed seventeen thousand, four hundred and sixty-nine enemies of the Sixth German Reich for sure, and I have..........
Rescuing the Future | AI | Isaac Asimov’s Robots and Empire | a book from the past addressing our future
The AI superintelligent entities who are coming......are going to have a say in this debate over the Future,.....
Rescuing Fiction | Dombey & Son | Charles Dickens the magician
.......this is a King Lear story, but with a different ending.
Rescuing Fiction | Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes | the antidote for introverts and those on the spectrum who long to enter the social world
The problem for those of us who love sincerely, is that we so often fail, while those more callous and calculating so often succeed.
Rescuing the Future | the coming AI storm | Isaac Asimov where are you?
Despite all the warnings, we aren't ready for machine intelligence at all.
Rescuing Reality | The Stupidity Paradox | why some of us struggle in the workplaces of today
........when you consider that we live in a gigantic house-of-cards world, threatening to collapse..... don't we need more intelligence, not less?
Alan Conrad 