...... I have killed seventeen thousand, four hundred and sixty-nine enemies of the Sixth German Reich for sure, and I have..........
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 the Future | AI | “Answer” – Fredric Brown’s warning to us about intelligent machines
......Now they're here, knocking on the front door and the back door simultaneously.
Rescuing the Future | Michael Crichton and State of Fear | climate change seen from the other side of the fence
......are you wondering whether you want to read the book?
Rescuing Quotations | Flaubert and me out on the sea
All my life I have tried to live in an ivory tower. But a sea of shit has......
Rescuing Fiction and Non-Fiction | Darius Foroux and his 100 books for you to read.
What I'm going to give you here is not all of Foroux's 100 recommended books (there will be a link to them at the end), only those of the 100 that I have read, and why I think you should, or shouldn't read them. Here's my selection: (1) Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. One of Rome's … Continue reading Rescuing Fiction and Non-Fiction | Darius Foroux and his 100 books for you to read.
Rescuing Fiction | The Most Influential Sci-Fi Books of all Time by K. W. Colyard
When I saw the title of this post by K.W. Colyard, I felt my usual reaction of mild curiosity mixed with scepticism. A reader of SF since the 1950s, I've found most commentary of this kind disappointingly superficial, and sometimes outright wrong. What a surprise was in store for me. Kristian Wilson Colyard is an … Continue reading Rescuing Fiction | The Most Influential Sci-Fi Books of all Time by K. W. Colyard
Autism | Isaac Asimov and the joys of autism
.....But Asimov wasn’t like that in spite of an autistic nature. No, he was happy because of his autistic nature.
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?
Alan Conrad 