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

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    • • ~ 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

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    • • ~ 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

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    • • ~ 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