Today, we’re diving into the whirlwind that is the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) — a term that makes me picture a bunch of robots tapping away at keyboards or, perhaps, sentient drones delivering coffee.
We worked in Sydney for three months then met up with another couple of friends from home who flew out to join us. The 17 of us then bought an old car and drove to Brisbane (north of Sydney) where we found jobs. I worked in a 18 selling fruit for three weeks! After Brisbane, we...
More magical girls will arrive in the Acro Trip anime January 31, 20240183 On the official site for the anime adaptation of the manga written and illustrated by... Anime Toaru Kagaku No Railgun will have a fourth season February 17, 20250103 ...
If my opponent ups his challenge, I can easily meet it since if he comes up with 1/10N (for some positive integer N) I can get closer simply by adding more zeroes to the denominator. Yet, in such a case, if actually asked to produce a term in my sequence that makes the difference...
If you’re anything like me, you probably have a casual eye on the technology landscape, waiting with bated breath for what magical development is set to disrupt our world next. Today, let’s plunge into the electrifying, somewhat sci-fi light show, titled Artificial Intelligence, or as I ...
Using the term Anthropocene feeds into that narcissism. Gilgamesh destroyed a forest and made a name for himself. This culture destroys a planet and names a geologic age after itself. What a surprise. It seems that Anthropocene far from filling a scientific need has become an element of pop ...
Arn had a confusing vision while comatose, and they believe a magical relation would be able to contact the sender. Morgan, being Arn’s wife Maeve’s grandmother, would be perfect if she weren’t gone. Ingrid volunteers to give it a try. She comes away with the message of her great-...
In other words, it is the pseudo-religious veneration by the ruling elites for the magical powers of an alien knowledge system that bears responsibility for things going awry in and beyond Mo Yan's semi-fictional Gaomi county. Besides revisiting the most powerful modern myths of revolution, ...
From the beginning, motor vehicles have beenhardware-defined vehicles. That term didn’t exist in the early 1900s, of course. But early automobiles (and trucks) were vehicles designed around mechanical systems. Engines, transmissions, axles and other components dictated the basic design parameters ...
If you are on the fence about Musk’s credentials as some kind of genius, then I urge you to read the article ‘Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule‘. It’s pretty long, but I found it compelling: my take-away from it is that, while we should all be concerned aboutAIin the long term, the...