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One finds oneself on a given day — as the semiretired do — talking about the old days. In this case, the days of Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog and — more explicitly — his follow-up Co-Evolution Quarterly.
Rattling on with a colleague, we both in our own ways recalled a time when the counterculture had some sway over technology. And that seemed to support the notion of a hopeful future. It seemed to ride on Brand’s vision. [Read more…] about ‘Co-Evolution’ and the trend of ‘Cyberselfish’
There’s not a lot of wailing in grief this week for Elon Musk, who loses $100-billion-plus in stock value as Stop Wall Streeters spray paint his show room windows; and as some investors call for his removal at the company Tesla’s helm. What’s a prototype man of the future to do? Who cares?
I’d venture that most Americans have seen enough of him, and even President Donald Trump seems tired of Musk’s presence. Mike Meyers hilarious parody of this Nerd for All Seasons has knocked him from his very high horse.
But let’s flash back. It was just a few years ago that Musk was a paradigm of modern engineering, conqueror of the realms of electric cars and rocket propulsion. He was set to implant helpful silicon chips in needy craniums, and to bore a vacuum sealed tunnel all the way from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.
JD Vance last month dressed down the Euros at Grand Palis AI Summit. Here, an old tech hand reckons with memories of AI policy efforts. Sees surprising devolution.
By Jack Vaughan
Booted footsteps in the hall at night. Coming closer as in an old radio drama — but real. The steps still resound in corners of Europe. Where some memories of oppression are hard-wired.
The bootsteps might be KGB, Gestapo or Stasi. These were secret police, compiling dossiers and worse. The US has had its secret agencies tracking its citizens. [Read more…] about VP Vance runs AI scrimmage – takes on EU bureaucrats