I'm still waiting for my questions to be addressed. And no, it's not from a prepper bunker. Lip service and failed humor is too shallow to be taken seriously.
Cloud cuckoo land.
50 yrs ago we were told half the world will be starving to death. Now, fewer people are starving than then and world wide standard of living has risen. There are more trees growing in Europe and N America than a hundred years ago.
Where folk are still starving is due to war and governments that have been stolen by rent seekers. To speak further on this topic would be to break forum rules.
Please excuse me, I'm wading through the boat-international Monaco edition : nice audio pages and 18ct gold lobster cufflinks for 3,750 quid.
(My bowels have difficulty digesting squirrel nowadays. The subtenant deceased a couple of years ago, but I still have a stock of cat food tins left. Seemed to work fine for those foreigners in D9 South-Africa)
😀
Those monster yachts, Jacco, do they come from the yard with serious safes installed?
Just tag it on the drop-down option list.
I made a calculation of the time I'd have to do the cat food diet for a pair of cufflinks.
If I can get the mrs to go along, things are looking very promising, I tell you.
I made a calculation of the time I'd have to do the cat food diet for a pair of cufflinks.
If I can get the mrs to go along, things are looking very promising, I tell you.
I admire your resolve, Sir! I couldn't help myself and tasted some high end tinned cat food. Rather gamey flavour....
Good question, though this appears to be at the edge of acceptable topics for this site.
An interesting site of relevant news articles (especially articles related to "technological unemployment") is this:
Singularity HUB - News and Insights on Technology, Science, and the Future from Singularity University
I've read that Japan has a growing elderly population due to fewer younger people getting married and having children, thus there's growing concern on who will care for the elderly. Apparently because of this, Japan is the leader in development of home and personal care robots.
[Insert animated gif of robot playing vinyl on a two channel system]
(Japan may also be the first to arrive at actual Soylent Green)
(Does it taste like bacon?)
(Japan may also be the first to arrive at actual Soylent Green)
(Does it taste like bacon?)
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I had a list of half a dozen or so web pages to post, but I figure if I can find them so can you.
Whatever they want to do -or- whatever they're told to do.
I'll just answer the easy question:
Whatever they want to do -or- whatever they're told to do.
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Tube amps peaked 50 years ago (although modern parts like SiC rectifiers can bring them to a new level), SS Class AB amps peaked 30 years ago - doesn't mean the end of audio. Class D is where it is at now and tube-SS hybrids still have some fertile ground to explore. But until the quality of source material improves I see little merit in making much more investment in the technology - sooooooo many crap recordings. Perhaps the next step is DIY mixing, buy the music before it is mixed, cut out the strange guy in the little booth and mix it yourself?
Great link..the impact of technology.
A version of Asimo used in disaster zones..one positive I guess 😀
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/honda-new-disaster-humanoid-robot
And robots learning judo..at the moment to stop damage when falling..but there is always more I guess..(defend from human attack maybe?)
I guess self defence would make a lot of sense..
The end of Fossil fuel...not the new fuels but the impact. EEK...solar power what about tubes???
In answer are we retarding ..I don't think we are we are evolving it just doesn't feel like it at the moment.
Someone said to me, "you have to break an egg to make an omelette..."
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M. Gregg
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There is some sort of cognitive dissonance going on here.
115 years ago the world's roads were covered in horse manure
100 years ago agricultural productivity was much lower than today
100 years ago infant and maternal death rates were much higher than now
every year we use less material to make autos, trucks, planes
every year the amount of material we use to make structures decreases
every year the cost cost of communication is less
every year the rate of human population growth decreases
Every year of my life people have said the world's getting worse, and there seems to be a whole industry devoted to telling us so, but objectively, the world's getting getting better.
I think,
The world.ie Earth will do as it wants..the impact or not from life on earth is mainly human. The problem with the last 100 Years is the wars ect that mankind seem to need to progress while all other life runs in fear as we battle it out. If we weren't here the Earth would carry on as it will. So the idea of things getting better is within the reality created by us. Again the idea of the state of things is a human concept..having never asked another animal its thoughts on the economy etc..😀 (our own self importance).
The reasons for this love, hate, war, fear the state of the economy etc is all in the mind created by us...the stock market and the dow jones..I think its called society..
Just as daft as I will buy this piece of land..but we all do it..😀 (How can you buy a piece of the Earth and claim it as your own?)
Yes we are no longer in caves ect..so things are better..but why are they better..technology seems to be a major part. However look at the effect of the rest of it..😀
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M. Gregg
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Sticking strictly to topic, I'd guess the Amazon Echo and IBM Watson are more interesting. Debatable which way we go from here.
Ray Kurzweil's Wildest Prediction: Nanobots Will Plug Our Brains Into the Web by the 2030s - Singularity HUB
This is the scary one ! An emotional creature with a "scalable" IQ ?
A psychopath with 10K IQ - 50 hannabal lector's in one mind.
Once someone scales to 100's of IQ , why would they stop .... why
not be greedy and scale on endlessly.
Or, the other possibility - the Nanobots would allow AI to control us
(and our reality) like the Matrix. I think this is the more likely
dystopian future.
OS
This is the scary one ! An emotional creature with a "scalable" IQ ?
A psychopath with 10K IQ - 50 hannabal lector's in one mind.
Once someone scales to 100's of IQ , why would they stop .... why
not be greedy and scale on endlessly.
Or, the other possibility - the Nanobots would allow AI to control us
(and our reality) like the Matrix. I think this is the more likely
dystopian future.
OS
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