"Metaphors of Code"-presentation at ITK-conference 2015 — This Page Has Some Issues. Hungary is no longer a democracy. It is now a fact: Hungary is no longer a democracy. President János Áder has just signed the implementation decrees for new constitutional reforms that wipe out what was left of opposition forces against the government. More particularly, the Constitutional Court is no longer allowed to give its opinion about the content of laws and to refer to its own case-law – which results in the loss of almost all monitoring power on the legislature and the executive. This meticulous destruction of democracy and its values – whose starting point was the landslide election of Fidesz in 2010 – has taken place over months and months, under everybody's eyes.
This political degradation gives us a gruesome historical and political lesson. Obsessed by economic and financial issues, too indifferent to its fundamental values of freedom, equality, peace and justice, the EU has abandoned the fight to promote or even maintain democracy as the political system of its member states. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Open Source Democracy by Douglas Rushkoff - Projet Gutenberg. Jaron Lanier / You Are Not A Gadget. LifeIncTheMovie. Paul Allen: The Singularity Isn't Near.
Futurists like Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil have argued that the world is rapidly approaching a tipping point, where the accelerating pace of smarter and smarter machines will soon outrun all human capabilities. They call this tipping point the singularity, because they believe it is impossible to predict how the human future might unfold after this point. Once these machines exist, Kurzweil and Vinge claim, they’ll possess a superhuman intelligence that is so incomprehensible to us that we cannot even rationally guess how our life experiences would be altered.
Vinge asks us to ponder the role of humans in a world where machines are as much smarter than us as we are smarter than our pet dogs and cats. Kurzweil, who is a bit more optimistic, envisions a future in which developments in medical nanotechnology will allow us to download a copy of our individual brains into these superhuman machines, leave our bodies behind, and, in a sense, live forever. It’s heady stuff. The AI Approach. Alain Giffard. Nicholas G. Carr. Nicholas G. Carr (born 1959) is an American writer who has published books and articles on technology, business, and culture. His book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.[1] Career[edit] Nicholas Carr originally came to prominence with the 2003 Harvard Business Review article "IT Doesn't Matter" and the 2004 book Does IT Matter? Carr's second book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google, was published in January 2008 by W.
In the summer of 2008, The Atlantic published Carr's article "Is Google Making Us Stupid? " Carr's 2010 book, The Shallows, develops this argument further. Through his blog "Rough Type," Carr has been a critic of technological utopianism and in particular the populist claims made for online social production. See also[edit] Books[edit] Digital Enterprise : How to Reshape Your Business for a Connected World (2001) ISBN 1-57851-558-0Does IT Matter? Notes[edit] Nicholas Carr: Is Google Making Us Stupid? Bio Nicholas Carr A former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, Nicholas Carr writes and speaks on technology, business, and culture. His intriguing 2003 Harvard Business Review article "IT Doesn't Matter," was an instant sensation, setting the stage for the global debate on the strategic value of information technology in business.
His 2004 book, Does IT Matter? : Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage, published by Harvard Business School Press, was a bestseller and kept the worldwide business community discussing the role of computers and IT in business. His 2008 book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, examines the future of computing and its implications for business and society. A prolific and nimble thought leader, Mr Carr has written more than a dozen articles and interviews for Harvard Business Review and writes regularly for the Financial Times, Strategy & Business and The Guardian. Peter Norvig Internet search engine.