Afternoon Reading: How Google Achieves Consciousness

July 19, 2008 at 8:22 am | In Future | Leave a Comment
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Afternoon Reading: How Google Achieves Consciousness

Image via Modern Life is Rubbish. Edge’s recommendation of a really great scifi story by science historian George Dyson, brother of techbiz genius Esther Dyson. Greetings from Douglas Adams, too….  Jump into the story right away: Engineer’s Dreams

2028 – Volkswagen’s vision of the automotive future

July 5, 2008 at 6:07 pm | In Artificial Intelligence, Future, Human-Machine Interfaces | Leave a Comment
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Video about Volkswagens’s vision of our mobile life in 2028. In essence:

  • we don’t have cars anymore (at least we don’t own one…)
  • we run around with a WLAN router in the middle of a park and our all-knowing artificial assistent is nagging us while we spend quality time with our children
  • we order customized cars out of thin air like we’d phone for a taxi today
  • our “car of the moment” is following us, waiting for us and is “thinking ahead” because it’s supposedly more intelligent than our best human assistants are today

This has also been described very well and highly entertaining in the near-future thriller “Rainbows End” by Vernor Vinge among dozens of other visionary things

Buchtipp: Rainbows End von Vernor Vinge

June 15, 2008 at 10:14 am | In Deutsche Artikel, Future, Metaverse | Leave a Comment
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Buchtipp: Rainbows End von Vernor Vinge
Snow Crash und Otherland zeigten uns in den Neunzigerjahren, wie dreidimensionale virtuelle Online-Welten knapp zehn Jahre später aussehen würden (naja, fast!). Rainbows End beschreibt eine Zukunft, die den Nerds von heute nicht nur extrem wahrscheinlich vorkommt, sondern deren Technologien bereits überall in Ansätzen im Einsatz sind. Augmented/Mixed Reality, Web3.D, Web2.0, WIKI, MMORPGs, KI, QR-Codes, Theme Parks, Langlebigkeit, Human Interfaces, Wearable Computers, Second Life’s Kreationsmöglichkeiten, Creative Commons Licensing, Genetic Engineering…alles weitergesponnen und elegant eingebettet in einen packenden Thriller. Ein Muss für jeden, der sich für unsere globalisierte, kabellose, vernetzte, kollaborierende, paranoide und verspielte Zukunft interessiert. (Dank an Markus Breuer, der mir das Buch eines Tages mitbrachte)

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