Wolfram's Black Box: a biologist's take on Wolfram|Alpha

Alpha seems to me like an excellent preview of the future for human - machine augmentation... I agree with all the critics of the system right now; but a bigger view of things is needed to grasp the potential, soon we will be able to help ourselves to better understand some of the more complex concepts in nature, and be better human beings because of it. (For example, we still suck at grasping exponential growth, volume, etc... See my previous post: )

What are your opinions on Alpha?

http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/-inusvajtig/wolframs-black-box-a-biologists-take-on-wolframalpha.ars
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Will Wright: Toys that make worlds

This is just an amazing thing... amazing...

He wants to give children a sense of what things are like in the long term... he agrees that very much of the worlds problems are due to too much short term thinking, and that this toy will help him teach what the consequences of a civilizations actions will come out to in the long run...

Oh how the future motivates me... go here and check out some of the talks from the Singularity Institute

ESP Game

I can't even begin to describe what this guy has done! ...

I can't wait to see the next 10 years... who can remember their lives when they were 8 (more specifically 1990, :D when I was 8)... Seriously think about it? my life was very far from digital...

This is a great Idea... and he hit the nail on the head when he talked about training. Useful inteligence test information.

... That would be really cool, if we could figure out how to do it for everything...

I have the same hope the Numenta people have....

Quasi the Robot on Discovery Channel
hmmmm

Quasi the Robot @ Wired NextFest 2006
Holy shit!