Link to the 2013 Interview with Bill Moyers
Category Archives: Theoblogical
Net Freedom is CRUCIAL for Church Communications
One of my MANY frustrations with the church is another in the series of adoptions of the “ways of the world” via the Mass Media Model. To stand idly by and say nothing as companies like Comcast and Time Warner monopolize the broadband market and work to prevent municipalities who have their own ideas about what would be good for Continue Reading
To understand how the brain works will also take a new dimension to our thinking; yet also possible.
My stated lone objection to Kurzweil’s #Singularity thesis is that despite the obvious continuing advancement in computer capability and affordability, simply reverse engineering the human brain still leaves us short of understanding how the brain (or “person”) takes the activity that we can measure or sense with imaging technology, and act upon that (although we can undoubtedly also measure the Continue Reading
Gonna have to see “Her”
Been watching a couple trailers, including one 15 minute long one that includes several artistic folks talking about relationships (here). After reading several others where various reviewers talk about “sounds like Skynet” (basically jumping out of the conversation about what WOULD be important ingredients of good AI) ….I’d rather explore what it is we’re looking for , ALL THE TIME, Continue Reading
So much better than a “Newsletter”, unless you wanna call it a “Virtual Church Update”
Was just talking to a friend about “Social Singularity” thoughts I’ve been writing about… He mentioned a coffeehouse experience and the “sensory” , etc. that can’t be duplicated. We are heading for a “Social Singularity” that will make that LESS true; that we cant get that from a screen is true…but we wont be talking about “screens” in 20 years Continue Reading
A “Social Singularity” is much more likely than a “Mind/Brain” Singularity
Ray Kurzweil’s book “The Singularity is Near” makes a long and impressive case for The Singularity , mostly on the strength of what he calls the Law of Exponential Returns, which he describes as being the case with technology, and specifically, although not exclusively, computer technology. He uses this well documented history as impetus for the idea that we Continue Reading
Advances in tech most exciting to me in the area of “Social”; more so than in prospects for “approximating the brain/mind”
The “exponential growth” of computer technology is most immanently apparent to me in the area of communications rather than the focus of Zurzweil in “The Singularity is Near”. We simply do not yet have the “subject” (in Kurzweil it is the brain/mind) figure out; sufficiently “mapped out”, or even yet have much of any confidence in how the brain does Continue Reading
The question of Software in the Singularity
I saw a video interviuew with Noam Chomsky where they broached the subject of “The Singularity”, to which Chomsky reacts somewhat dismissively as “science fiction”. Which is true. It IS indeed still in the category of fiction. And Chomsky’s main concern here is that there are more pressing problems we need to solve now than some theoretical time when we Continue Reading
The Impinging of ‘The Singularity’ on a Christian Theological Ethic
Many are aware of Ray Kurzweil’s idea of “The Singularity”, usually conceived as “That time when Humans and Machines become indistinguishable”, which is not exactly accurate. Kurzweil’s own subtitle of his book “The Singularity is Near” is “When Humans Transcend Biology”, which is a little different from the sort of “cyborgian” utopia/dystopia idea that such a claim as “indistinguishability” implies. Continue Reading
Occupy Religion: Theology of the Multitude Religion in the Modern World eBook: Joerg Rieger, Kwok Pui-lan: Kindle Store
Occupy Religion: Theology of the Multitude Religion in the Modern World http://www.amazon.com/Occupy-Religion-Theology-Multitude-Modern-ebook/dp/B009L92XF6/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid= Just downloaded the Sample, and probably after that , the Kindle of the book. Hope I can contact this guy and do a Hangout, as well as with @nathanairplane (Nathan Schneider) of ” Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse”
Hangouts and the “Social Singularity”
When I hear people talk about “the Singularity” (Wikipedia: “a hypothetical moment in time when artificial intelligence will have progressed to the point of a greater-than-human intelligence, radically changing civilization, and perhaps human nature”), I think of the claim that AI will become GREATER than human intelligence and wonder what that “greater” represents in the mind of the “Singularity experiencer”. So I have Continue Reading
Starting into Age of Context
Robert Scoble sent me my review copy yesterday, and today I started in on it, and immediately started taking some notes and jotting down the ideas I am going to start blogging on how the Church can leverage the possibilities in the Age of Context. How does this wrap if I place the next section here?
Theology in Intention Economy (and also Stuff “Too Big to Know”)
Just like I did with the Cluetrain Manifesto 14 years ago, I continue to do today with Doc Searls and Dave Weinberger as they continue to write and be active proponents of “Small Pieces Loosely Joined”, “Everything is Miscellaneous”, and “Too Big to Know” (Weinbeger’s subsequent books) and “The Intention Economy” (Doc’s latest). Each of these got my Church-Tech-Truth-Communication-Theological Continue Reading
My post to AJE’s Empire Facebook page
from https://www.facebook.com/AJEmpire/posts/589535241090353?comment_id=6191197&offset=0&total_comments=5 Unfortunately, Al Jazeera English, which broadcasts Empire, now has been geo-restricted to viewers in the US. We hope that this will change very soon. Like · Reply · 21 hours ago Dale Lature: I would think so. It’s rather ridiculous, and totally reverses a major advatage you had over traditional, old-world media. AJ America is right now a total Continue Reading
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