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Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts

Thursday, October 23, 2014

Someone Please Translate

Google has come to be synonymous with technology, technology means you have a bit of sense. So why does this writer not have the sense to write in a coherent manner?


The dirty secret of Google's self-driving cars

Cory Doctorow at 5:00 pm Wed, Oct 22, 2014 
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They've 700,000 miles, but mostly the same few thousand miles, over and over again -- because the cars only work if every single light, piece of street furniture, and other detail is mapped and verified by armies of human and computer analysts, and when anything changes, the mapping needs to be re-created.
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Labels: boing, boing-boing, boingboing, car, cory doctorow, garbage, google, journalism, journalist, prius, self driving, technology, writer

Sunday, August 3, 2014

Dominion

What does an astrophysicist know about gmos anyway? Probably nothing more or less than the general public. Yet Neil deGrasse Tyson's loyal followers believe every word he says. Tyson states, “I’m amazed how much rejection genetically modified foods are receiving from the public,” Tyson tells a French interviewer. “It smacks of the fear factor that exists at every new emergent science, where people don’t fully understand it or don’t fully know or embrace its consequences, and so therefore reject it.” This "fear factor" which Tyson speaks of reminds me of Albert Einstein's fear of a day when technology would overlap humanity. Truly this overlap has begun and not so much with food or gmos, but certainly with smart phones and human interaction. 
A lot of the debate in science is based on religion and ignores the fact that scientist often debate each other and come to different conclusion from their own theories and experiments. Again people don't want to see outside the spotlight. Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson have suddenly become the faces of science. Science has many realms, much more than just astrology and mechanical engineering. So when the followers of science believe every word from these two superstars of science, they themselves are truly not understanding and just accepting that and astrophysicist and a mechanical engineer can both explain all aspects of science as fact. This is simply not true. A woodworker may not be able to build a house and a carpenter may not be able to build a desk, yet the common person may think the duties are interchangeable because both use similar tools and methods to construct things. 
Many people choose to use resources as reason to debate an argument. Others may say, well you got your facts from someone who believes in aliens therefore nothing they say could be true, or you got your beliefs from the bible therefor nothing you believe is true. These assumptions are simple prejudice. We can all learn a lot from the people we disagree with and that has to be not only accepted but embraced and explored. If it were true that all actions from those whom we believe are not to be taken as fact then why are people accepting an astrophysicist who is host of a television show which is broadcast by fox, produced by seth macfarlane, and sponsored by corporations such as Chrysler and Samsung to know what he is talking about in regards to gmo?
It simply comes down to a multi sided argument in which all sides want to have the biblical control known as dominion. Just leave nature alone and nature will take care of you, or get rid of you. Either way is not wrong, if it is what nature does.
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Labels: albert einstein, bible, bill bye, cosmos, dominion, einstein, evolution, food, gmo, humanism, humanity, NDGT, Neil deGrasse Tyson, science, science guy, seth macfarlane, technology

Monday, June 23, 2014

Thought Pattern

If a plane were to hit a building in NYC today, no one would notice because everyone is too busy looking at their phones.
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Labels: 9.11, 9/11, ground zero, hate, humanity, new york, new york city, nyc, people, smart phone, technology
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