I’m much more worried about what humans will do with A.I. & how they might program any harmful algorithms that any Terminator self-sentience scenario.

I often come across the idea of mind uploading & modelling the human brain in silicon – often people straightaway assume such a model would have consciousness & that there would straightaway be two…[Read more]

I’ve been fascinated by technology and futurology since my teens.  A copy of Alvin Toffler’s “FutureShock” I stumbled across in the library started that off.  Over the years writers & thinkers like Ray Kurzweil, Stanislaw Lem, Eric Drexler, Robert Anton Wilson, William Gibson & Kevin Kelly have helped grow & deepen this fascination.

We have so m…[Read more]