I wish I had a dollar for every time I've heard someone talk about the end of the world, or Humankind destroying itself - in a word, the coming Apocalypse. I once had a discussion with a fundamentalist Christian in which I was trying to find out whether he really believed in the Apocalypse described … Continue reading Rescuing the Future | Me and (I hope) you vs The Apocalypse
Rescuing Reality and/or the Future | Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine
This is the only light at the end of this particularly dark tunnel that I can offer today.
Rescuing the Future | Artificial Intelligence | What to Think About Machines That Think
The advent of machines that truly think will be the most important event in human history.
Rescuing Reality and the Future | Highly sensitive people in an insensitive world | and where does autism fit in?
I believe in aristocracy though.... Not an aristocracy of power... but of the sensitive, the considerate. …
Rescuing the Future | Artificial Intelligence | Will Einstein come back?
Despite the dark clouds approaching our civilization in 2022, here is why I'm looking forward to the future anyway. One of my favorite SF stories is one by Frederick Pohl in which the protagonist, who I'll call Ted, travels about the galaxy in his personal spaceship with an AI associate that manifests itself in the … Continue reading Rescuing the Future | Artificial Intelligence | Will Einstein come back?
Rescuing Science | Ghost Races – how David Reich and modern genetics have opened Pandora’s Box | Do you know who you are?
In 2016, the lid of Pandora's box opened wide and a whole mob of ancient ghosts whirled out.
Rescuing the future | AI and robots | here is a future to fear
"What are you?" - "I am the death of all men....."
Rescuing the Future | climate change | first the simple answer
The way out is via the door. Why is it that no one will use this method? - Confucious This is another subject I've been avoiding. But reading a post last week of Cheche Winnie, a Kenyan blogger I follow (Cheche Winnie.com) because she provides an up close and interesting look into … Continue reading Rescuing the Future | climate change | first the simple answer
Rescuing the Future | Artificial Intelligence | Is Superintelligence coming or not?
I still hope to one day meet and talk to a machine that is more intelligent than I am.
Alan Conrad 