Reads tagged with “technology”
The Mind in the Machine: John von Neumann, the Inception of AI, and the Limits of Logic
“Something very small, so tiny and insignificant as to be almost invisible in its origin, can nonetheless open up a new and radiant perspective, because through it a higher order of being is trying to express itself.”
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Consciousness and Our Search for Meaning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
An inquiry into the eternal enchantment of why the world exists.
Loneliness and the Trinity of Creativity: Ada Lovelace, the Poles of the Mind, and the Source of Her Imaginative Powers
“Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds… may then with the fair white wings of Imagination hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.”
Highlights in Hindsight: Favorite Books of the Past Year
Trees, hummingbirds, snails, Stoicism, storytelling, Orwell’s roses, the crucible of consciousness, the end of the universe, and more trees.
Recovering the Wonder of Flight: “Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on Finding the Miraculous in the Mechanical
“In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.”
The Human Scale: Oliver Sacks on How to Save Humanity from Itself
“…or there will be genocide, atomic bombs, and we’ll all perish and take the planet with us.”
Darwin Among the Machines: A Victorian Visionary’s Prophetic Admonition for Saving Ourselves from Enslavement by Artificial Intelligence
“We are ourselves creating our own successors… We are daily giving them… that self-regulating, self-acting power which will be to them what intellect has been to the human race. In the course of ages we shall find ourselves the inferior race.”
The World Brain: H.G. Wells’s Prophetic 1930s Vision for the Internet and How to Fix Its Ugliest Present Breaking Point
“The world is a Phoenix. It perishes in flames and even as it dies it is born again.”
September 28, 1951: Alan Turing, the World’s First Digital Music, and the Poetry of Possibility
A hoot, a hummingbird, and an electronic hymn for the modern world.
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