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Singularitarianism? >> Pharyngula
PZ Myers, biologist:
Magazines will continue to praise Kurzweil's techno-religion in sporadic bursts, and followers will continue to gullibly accept what he says because it is what they wish would happen. Kurzweil will die while brain-uploading and immortality are still vague dreams; he will be frozen in liquid nitrogen, which will so thoroughly disrupt his cells that even if we discover how to cure whatever kills him, there will be no hope of recovering the mind and personality of Kurzweil from the scrambled chaos of his dead brain.


Perhaps "Singularitology"?
science  singularity  nonsense 
february 2012 by guardiantech
The Science Code Manifesto
"Software is a cornerstone of science. Without software, twenty-first century science would be impossible. Without better software, science cannot progress.

"But the culture and institutions of science have not yet adjusted to this reality. We need to reform them to address this challenge, by adopting these five principles:...."

They're good ones.
charlesarthur  science  opensource  openknowledge  software  from delicious
october 2011 by guardiantech
Tim Harford's Adapt: What the RAF's World War II Spitfire can teach us about nurturing innovation and radical ideas >> Slate
"It's not hard to make the case that the Spitfire was one of the most significant new technologies in history. A brilliant, manoeuvrable, and superfast fighter, the Spitfire - and its pin-up pilots, brave to the point of insouciance - became the symbol of British resistance to the bombers of the Nazi air force, the Luftwaffe. The plane, with its distinctive elliptical wings, was a miraculous piece of engineering.<br />
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"'She really was a perfect flying machine,' said one pilot. A Californian who traveled to Britain to sign up for the Royal Air Force agreed: 'I often marvelled at how this plane could be so easy and civilized to fly and yet how it could be such an effective fighter.'"<br />
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Eat that, Alan Sugar.
charlesarthur  business  science  engineer  from delicious
june 2011 by guardiantech

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