ODIFridays - Data as the divine - 2013 07 05 1300

Data as the Divine

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201307051300

• ~ by Patrick Hussey
  • Masters in Journalism
• slide 1
  • I confess I am a hard agnostic
• slide 2
  • ~ picture of the ring from TLOTR
    • Q:What is this?
    • A:Writing
• slide 3
  • Code is?
• slide 4
  • ~ Words that work
• slide 5
  • ~ 'Algorithms are the living maths that helps computers make decisions...'
• slide 6
  • IRL?
    • picture of Japanese robot
• slide 7
  • Through data and Ai somethimes it
    • feels as if we are REVERSE ENGINEERING GOD
    • e.g. Google?
• slide 8
  • ~ Picture of digital souls
    • 3D print
    • geshtalt
• slide 9
  • Picture of "walk through data assigner"
• slide 10
  • ~ Picture of the Pythagorians
    • what did they discover / invent?
• slide 11
  • ~ Thingiverse as Platonic Forms
    • ?
• slide 12
  • The Collective and the Technium
    • try googling Technium
    • you get a fish reel
• slide 13
  • Kevin Kelly's Technium
    • Avatar's Tree of Souls +
• slide 14
  • Picture of James Lovelock as his theory Gia
• slide 15
  • ~ Digital as Animism
• slide 16
  • ~ http://www.unglobalpulse.org/
    • lets take everyone's data
      • bank
      • phone
      • social
    • makes Google analytics for
      • people
      • societies
• slide 17
  • ~ Omniscience - Earth as Database
    • Ray Kurzweil (who now works for Google)
    • Wants to create (copy?) a mind
• slide 18
  • Girls in Gloop? Tevs.
    • the pre-cogs
• slide 19
  • ~ Prophecy?
• slide 20
  • ~ Freeing the Slaves
    • Google wants to solve human traffiking
• slide 21
  • ~ The Master Algo and Sky Law
    • the algo that looks after all the others
• slide 22
  • ~ http://www.propublica.org/article/everything-we-know-about-what-data-brokers-know-about-you
• slide 23
  • ~ Dark Side of the moon - PRISM
• slide 24
  • Gabriel Algo
• slide 25
  • St Peter's Algo
• slide 26
  • ~ The cash renaissance?
    • Guy used credit card at Nando's but credit refused because credit card company mis-rated him
• slide 27
  • ~ The light of God
    • U.S. Marines use laser to target drones
• slide 28
  • ~ maat hieroglyph
    • Maat provided judgement
    • feather of truth would way people's souls
• slide 29
  • New era of 'Crunching Souls'
• slide 30
  • ~ J. Assange on the New Digital Age
• slide 31
  • Hey Eric... Digital is Devil...
• slide 32
  • St Peter's Algos
    • Technology is someting we've always craved
      • omnisience
      • digital as the divine