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Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture and faith from the Antipodes.

Archive for November, 2006

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Economist article on immortality and transhumanism

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

The Economist’s “From the world in 2007″ special forecasting trends for the next year carries this article about transhumanism. See The World In 2007 | Towards immortality.

Posted by stepheng, in Transhumanism Comments Off

Souls of a new machine

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Vernor Vinge’s presentation of the technological singularity back in 1993 (PDF here) talked about the scenario where human intellect is augmented through better communications networks and human-computer interfaces. Here’s a recent article in the Boston Globe that picks up on the “intelligence augmentation” (IA) within contemporary settings. See Souls of a new machine – The Boston Globe.

Posted by stepheng, in AI/Robotics, Digital Technology, Science & Technology, Transhumanism Comments Off

Zune and Creative Commons media

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Interesting article on how the new Zune’s media sharing facilities add DRM to creative commons media. See Wired News: Zune, Creative Commons Don’t Mix.

Posted by stepheng, in Digital Technology, iPod Comments Off

DFP spiritual book list for 2006

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

The Detroit Free Press has an article up giving a list of their top 10 spiritual books for 2006. Interestingly, several comic/graphic novels make it in there.

See DAVID CRUMM: Enlightening reads.

Posted by stepheng, in Faith & Religion Comments Off

2486 kilometres later

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

We’re all back home from the trip down south as of late this afternoon.

The 6 of us drove West Auckland to Raumati, Raumati to Blenheim (via the Picton ferry), Blenheim to Christchurch, Christchurch to Kaikoura, Kaikoura to Upper Hutt (via ferry again), Upper Hutt to Rotorua (slowly through the around Taupo cycle event), and Rotorua to West Auckland. 2486 kms according to the odometer.

Have unpacked (sort of), put children to bed, shopped for food for school lunches and breakfast tomorrow, deleted spam, and am now look forward to sleeping in my own bed (with my own pillow!).

Posted by stepheng, in General 1 Comment »

Self-aware robots(?)

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Brief article on CNet about robots that are aware of their own bodies. See Researchers unveil a self-aware robot | CNET News.com.

Related to an article published this month in Science.
Abstract at: Resilient Machines Through Continuous Self-Modeling — Bongard et al. 314 (5802): 1118 — Science
Auxiliary files: Resilient Machines Through Continuous Self-Modeling — Bongard et al. 314 (5802): 1118 Data Supplement – Supporting Online Material — Science.

Posted by stepheng, in AI/Robotics, Science & Technology Comments Off

Cynthia Breazeal – Robot Maker

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

I’ve found Cynthia Breazeal’s robotics research both interesting and theologically provocative, and I’ve referred to her book “Designing Sociable Robots (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents)” in several places in the thesis.

PBS is running a profile on her on their scienceNOW web site (including video later this week). Links there to various slideshows, articles etc. See NOVA | scienceNOW | Profile: Cynthia Breazeal | PBS.

Related links:

Cynthia Breazeal’s home page at MIT Media Lab.
Greenflame: God In The Machine: What Robots Teach Us About Humanity And God
Robotic Life – sociable robots
Kismet (robot)

Posted by stepheng, in AI/Robotics, Science & Technology Comments Off

Coastlines & Parks

Monday, November 20th, 2006

Some shots from the “road trip”

Raumati Beach (north of Wellington) looking south to Pukerua Bay and Mana Island.

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Kaikoura looking north.

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Lyttleton Harbour on a bleak, windy day.

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St Martins in Christchurch at the park.

Stmartins-Beckenhampark

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Txt speak

Monday, November 20th, 2006

I see the NZQA’s comments here made it into cartoon over in North America here.

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Stadium feedback

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

Auckland Regional Council’s Stadium Decision web page has a link to the feedback survey for the Auckland stadium decision. No idea how it’ll shape final decisions, but a place to express an opinion. (Seems to be identical link to one from Auckland City Council page).

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