by andflywrite | Oct 3, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
In part 1, we touched on the current state of the art for Virtual Worlds, and at least implied how challenging it is for us to understand who we are in these cloud spaces. So how do we begin to enable a working perspective on “A New Place”? Describing,...
by andflywrite | Oct 1, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
While we strive to “really understand” media through study of visionaries like McLuhan and Kurzweil, here’s a story from today that sounds both impossible, and a new sort of “media” that few of us may have even considered. We know the...
by andflywrite | Oct 1, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
from Axios For artificial intelligence to begin approximating human know-how, scientists will need to create models of how people think — such as simulations of our actual brains. That’s when the trouble may begin, writes Axios’ Kaveh Waddell. The big...
by andflywrite | Sep 29, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
Here’s the Wikipedia page on McLuhan. Then an insightful bio by Terrence Gordon below. By Terrence Gordon (July 2002) One of the most charismatic, controversial and original thinkers of our time whose remarkable perception propelled him onto the...
by andflywrite | Sep 27, 2018 | BEST LINKS EVER
We are challenged today to learn about this new place we live in, during the ongoing communications revolution. PSA will publish here a series of posts that look for “big ideas” to help us understand who we are, and who we might become. We begin with an...