Technology
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Mind Uploading
…if a complete map of our brains was uploaded to a computer… Continue reading
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Babylonian or Greek–Which?
Where the scientist explains the universe, the poet show us the stars. Continue reading
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My life has sprinted parallel to the advancement of silicon technology.
I only worry, not having gone to Walden and not knowing if I am practicing resignation or not, I will misstep and fumble awkwardly tripping into the/my future. Continue reading
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“What’ya doin?”
“What’ya doin?” “I’m on Facebook.” “Sure you want to be doin’ that? You’ve been staring at your laptop for a couple hours.” “My life is being eaten up with this crap.” “Thoreau said, ‘Our inventions are…but improved means to an unimproved end.’ “I would like that, ‘improved means to an unimproved end’ if it didn’t Continue reading
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A Call From the Fog
We’ve had a couple days of snow. And more falling. Maggie and I were, as always, on the Eastern Prom this morning, post-holing our way along (why did I give away my snowshoes?) and I heard the call of the fog horn from the bay. The sound rolled in from the South. I thought perhaps Continue reading
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