ODIFridays - Data as the divine - 2013 07 05 1300
Data as the Divine
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201307051300
Masters in Journalism
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I confess I am a hard agnostic
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~ picture of the ring from TLOTR
Q:What is this?
A:Writing
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Code is?
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IRL?
picture of Japanese robot
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Through data and Ai somethimes it
feels as if we are REVERSE ENGINEERING GOD
e.g. Google?
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3D print
geshtalt
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Picture of "walk through data assigner"
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what did they discover / invent?
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The Collective and the Technium
try googling Technium
you get a fish reel
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Kevin Kelly's Technium
Avatar's Tree of Souls +
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Picture of James Lovelock as his theory Gia
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~ http://www.unglobalpulse.org/
lets take everyone's data
bank
phone
social
makes Google analytics for
people
societies
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~ Omniscience - Earth as Database
Ray Kurzweil (who now works for Google)
Wants to create (copy?) a mind
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Girls in Gloop? Tevs.
the pre-cogs
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Google wants to solve human traffiking
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the algo that looks after all the others
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Gabriel Algo
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St Peter's Algo
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Guy used credit card at Nando's but credit refused because credit card company mis-rated him
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U.S. Marines use laser to target drones
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Maat provided judgement
feather of truth would way people's souls
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New era of 'Crunching Souls'
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Hey Eric... Digital is Devil...
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St Peter's Algos
Technology is someting we've always craved
omnisience
digital as the divine