Thursday, March 24. 2011I was interviewed! :)
A few days ago, i was approached by Chris Woolfrey, who asked whether i would be interested in being interviewed for the Free Software Foundation Europe's regular feature called the Fellowship Interviews. Each month some person from the FSFE membership is interviewed about their involvement with Free Software and Free Culture, and i was introduced as somebody who had something to do with this, as one of the people behind the http://GamingFreedom.org/ network. So, i said sure thing, and we had a chat over Jabber, where we touched upon many a thing. And then, last night, it was released!
 http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Fellowship_interview_with_Dan_LeinirAlso, i'm going to be at the KDE Games sprint in Dresden, named Blue Wonder 2011! Leaving tonight, to spend the night in Gatwick airport so i can catch my stupidly early plane tomorrow morning... yay excitement there  Much more excitement, however, on finally getting a face-to-face between the core KDE Games developers and the Gluon team! Great stuff here, much cooperative work hopefully in the future  Sunday, March 13. 2011Technological Singularity - We're heading right into it
There is a thought that just struck me, during a conversation on IRC. I'm not sure if the idea is new, or an old hat, but I think it might have merit to discuss it.
You have probably all heard about the Technological Singularity, which is a very controversial topic. Some scientists say, it will clearly happen, the question is just, when will it happen? Others say, it's complete nonsense, it will never happen. Myself I am assuming that the theory is correct. But it might happen in a very different way than it was assumed before. The classical assumption is, at some point computers and AIs will get so smart, that they will be able to improve themselves. When that happens, noone can predict what the result will be, hence the term Singularity. Our lives might continue as normal, or the world might completely change forever. Noone knows this. Recently there has been a lot of talk about crowd sourcing, collective intelligence, and distributed cognition. I am starting to think that we are heading right into the Singularity, right now, without even noticing! But the Singularity is not some sort of "Super AI", a computer that is incredibly advanced. The Singularity is our minds, connected over the Internet. We are the Singularity. Think about all the incredible things that have happened lately, among them the WikiLeaks phenomenon, whole governments crumbling because of Internet activists, the wonderful TED talks, encouraging Free Thinking, and about giant Free Software projects like KDE. Think about the rapid advances humanity has recently made, in many areas of science. There is no need to wait for this mythical AI that becomes the Singularity. Folks, we are already in the middle of it happening. Think about it, and I would love to read your thoughts on this. Thanks for reading, and please comment |
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