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Category: Singularity Signposts

  • The Robots in Our Future

    George Rebane Has everyone been noticing that the news and commentaries have suddenly become inundated with stories of robots, new golden ages of man and machine, dystopias in which humans are redundant, and things bespeaking generally of the Singularity?  Also there is a new slate of AI cum robot movies about to be released that…

  • ‘Our Best Days Lie Ahead’

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 17 December 2014.] ‘Our Best Days Lie Ahead.’  How many times have we heard some politician or public figure repeat those words into a microphone while looking at a sea of bright-eyed upturned faces?  This claim is almost never backed up…

  • Scattershots – 1dec14 (updated 3dec14)

    George Rebane ‘Why We Needn’t Fear the Machines’ is a feel-good piece by science writer Christopher Mims in 1dec14 WSJ.  I have no idea what the man’s educational credentials are, but from his article it is safe to say they are not much (his Facebook page omits his education).  Mims' piece looks like a promo…

  • ABCs of California Business (updated 27aug14)

    George Rebane With the new gas taxes staring us in the face after the new year, you just can’t say enough about the socialist mindset that is driving out California businesses, causing them to expand elsewhere, and convincing outsiders to not to start new enterprises here.  The only exceptions that the socialists can point to…

  • Ruminations – 9aug14 (updated)

    George Rebane IBM’s new NeuroSynaptic chip was recently announced and is making a big PR splash in the print and online media (more here and here).  The chip’s processing power is based on the parallel implementation of essentially identical ‘neuronal’ structures that mimic major sections of the brain’s neocortex.  We reported on one such promising…

  • Cracking the Code

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 14 March 13, 2014.] It’s TechTest season again.  On April 5th some of Nevada County’s brightest students heading for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math or STEM careers will be competing in a grueling four-hour merit scholarship exam that has become a springtime…

  • The Liberal Mind – Work and Workers (updated 11feb14)

    George Rebane Two major factors are now in the forefront of impending social upheavals in America – the growing economic destruction wrought by Obamacare and the accelerating surge of systemic unemployment.  And there is little help on the way because the polarized sides have no middle ground in which to search for solutions.  To even…

  • ‘Humanity in Jeopardy’ (updated 29jan14)

    George Rebane I was going to report on the just released results from the Index of Economic Freedom that celebrates its 20th year.  In it the dire news is that the US has dropped out of the top 10 of the 186 countries rated – we are now 12th and continuing to go down (more…

  • Then what will WE do?

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 20 December 2013.] If you have been following the non-political side of the news recently, you no doubt have picked up on a hot topic getting hotter – robots and robotics.  In these commentaries we have covered the social impact of robots,…

  • Great Divide – ‘America 3.0’

    My contention is that good men (not bad men) consistently acting upon that position would act as cruelly and unjustly as the greatest tyrants. They might in some respects act even worse. Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to…

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