Tagged: Information Technology

Geek Squeaks’ of the Week (#96) (via What’s On My PC)

As always interesting content from his blogroll partners. Of course I might be biased a bit since I am on this list.

Geek Squeaks' of the Week (#96) Computers and Information Technology is changing at a rate like never seen before. To keep up with the changes, to protect yourself and to learn about the new technologies; it is important to find good resources. Listed below are the resources I depend on to help keep me touch, that I highly recommend. Techpiper Kompozer -The best free webeditor Awesome Wallpapers Star Wars Wallpaper Set 9 My Technology Guide Microsoft Releases Attack Surface Ana … Read More

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Questions for Ray Kurzweil (via Tired Road Warrior)

Ray Kurzweil at ACE
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Famous author. Many people involved in technology also are futurist or transhumanist believers as well.

Futurist (and transhumanist) Ray Kurzweil in Time maganzine (6 Dec 2010) provided answers to the following questions” Is it a mistake to use the events of the recent past as a method of predicting the future? Our intuition about the future is linear.  But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference.  If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30.  If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion. What … Read More

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