Just released a special one year anniversary edition of
MagTech, with edits based on review comments.
Available at smashwords:
Writing MagTech made me realized a lot of moral and social issues need addressing as we plunge into a future filled with technology. My book is set in the year 2226, two hundred years in the future. I chose that because brain augmentation may be fully mainstream by the year 2026. That is only twelve years from now, in regard to the advancement of technology it is a lifetime. By the year 2020 mankind’s knowledge will double every 72 hours. This blog will attempt to further the debate:
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Christmas Giveaway Over, But Second Book Still Free
While the Christmas Giveaway for my first book MagTech is
over the second book in the series MagTech Suit Up is still available for free at
many locations. Smashwords, Barnes andNoble, Good Reads, and the ITunes IBook store. It soon will be available at Amazon as well.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
MagTech Christmas Giveaway
To celebrate the release of my latest book MagTech Suit Up
and the celebrate Christmas I will be giving away the first book in the series
for free until the twenty fifth.
Click on this link: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/396677
And enter the coupon code from the coupon below:
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Will Nanotechnology Providing Abundant Resources?
Some
futurists such as Ray Kurzweil believe
that 3D printing will evolve to a replicator type device through
nanotechnology. If that happens then we
have to consider that the ability to create almost anything from base material
will make resources more available for less cost to produce. This would be because the base material could
be anything including hydrogen which is the most abundant element in the
universe. With the base material being
turned into more high demand materials including food we could develop more
sustainable resource production and support a larger populous. Do you believe this is true?
MagTech Suit Up Available For Free
The second book in the MagTech series is finally finish and published. It is still waiting on distribution to all of
the major book sites, but is available free at the following link:
The MagTech series covers a wide variety of possible
technologies of the future and tries to present a feel for how they might affect
the average person dealing with those technologies. First and foremost however, it is an action
adventure story that just happens to take place a couple hundred years in the
future. In building the world that it
takes place, I tried to get the geopolitical climate of a future that will have
to deal with:
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Jobs being lost to technology
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Nanotechnology providing abundant resources
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Extended life expectancy
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The strain of over population
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The possibility of brain augmentation
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And most of all the unexpected consequences of
what expanding our brains might be
Monday, February 3, 2014
DARPA Robotics Challenge
These videos show the results of the DARPA Robotics Challenge as well as confirming Google's continued acquisition of AI and robotics companies.
http://www.ibtimes.com/darpa-robotics-challenge-2013-google-owned-schaft-robot-blows-away-competition-video-1518202
http://www.ibtimes.com/darpa-robotics-challenge-2013-google-owned-schaft-robot-blows-away-competition-video-1518202
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Follow up to: Singularity Destruction of Mankind or Blessing to Humanity?
Assuming we agree that there is a potential for an AI to become a Singularity how far do you think we are form it happening?
Bear in mind as I said in the other post I am not sure that NNs will be a candidate for the Singularity. That said one cannot ignore the recent explosion in potential seen with NNs. To name a few Watson, Deep Learning, Google’s self-driving car (though there are other things at work beyond NNs in this), and many other advances in machine learning have all pushed the field far ahead of what it was just two years ago.
Perhaps the singularity will use a hybrid system that relies on NNs for some part of its processing function. It may even use several as slave processes to its primary function. So based on the discussions from the first post I am interested to know your thought as to when the Singularity might happen.
Bear in mind as I said in the other post I am not sure that NNs will be a candidate for the Singularity. That said one cannot ignore the recent explosion in potential seen with NNs. To name a few Watson, Deep Learning, Google’s self-driving car (though there are other things at work beyond NNs in this), and many other advances in machine learning have all pushed the field far ahead of what it was just two years ago.
Perhaps the singularity will use a hybrid system that relies on NNs for some part of its processing function. It may even use several as slave processes to its primary function. So based on the discussions from the first post I am interested to know your thought as to when the Singularity might happen.
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