I would never post a video without some attempt at a meaningful paragraph or two about it. Thus, please note that that I thrice attempted to write these paragraphs about this video, only to find that I had either entirely too much or nothing at all to add to it. So I post it as is, that it may facilitate some discussion (or not) on its own.

What does it all mean? My first thought: Reality: the Ever
Expanding NOW.

Second: Population control people!

Ok. So computers can think faster than humans. So what.
Computers can't have orgasms. That's my bottom line, so
to speak.

"Computers don't have orgasms." WELL PUT! LOLOLOL! I'm totally tweeting it.

We will defeat the machines, one orgasm at a time!

I think this video is called "Shift Happens" and if I remember correctly, it was a commissioned presentation for a Sony meeting about something I've forgotten about.

Here you go, from http://www.slideshare.net/jbrenman/shift-happens-33834:


"This is a stylization of a slideshow originally created by Karl Fisch, examining globalization and America’s future in the 21st century. It is designed to stand alone, without having to be presented in person."

Thanks Marcelle! Didn't know, but I've corrected the title.

yes agreed - amazing. It brings to mind a whole slew of thoughts. I am having the same issue with communicating some of them right this second. I'll be baaach.

peece,
dj

This video is a little over my head but I really enjoyed it. It made me think, but soon that will be not necessary. Thank you for such a thought provoking(SP) video.

I seem to remember watching a version of this - or this - at a teacher inservice last year. How do we get kids ready for this? I taught wilderness survival and group dynamics to sixth graders. (retired now...) Citing their writing and space design too...thinking outside the box.

So...so...WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? Tell me, please, oh gosh...

I love dakinidancer's comment, "computers can't have orgasms", hahaaaa, I LOL'd. *yoink*

Thanks for this Pablo, though I'm with Karin - I'd love to get your take on this.
Cheers, and rated.

Fair enough. I think I have an angle on some sound commentary. I'm working on it now.

Thanks for the post, it does make you think, especially now.

To venture a answer. On a very simplistic level what I can gather form this is that China is set for world domination and that it is almost inevitable. The second is that we are to become increasingly dependent on computers for our survival.

Interestingly though, despite their ability to compute arithmetically and logically beyond our brain’s computational capacity, the fastest supercomputer is barely capable of the full depth of processing of a cockroach. Have you ever seen a cockroach run for its life? That running is not just a simple robotic computation along the lines of "a very high probability for termination is sensed because of the presence of threatening entity, most efficacious response is to run under nearest open crevice". It's more like a "oh shucks, I’d better get the hell out of here, I really don't want to die squashed up like paste" kind of response.

See, as much as computers can compute, or even say "my circuit board is not functioning up to scratch, I better reboot", they do not have a sense of self awareness, or knowledge that they are even alive, or even truly care about it. The thing is, they will always be our creation, and thus an extension of our growing collective intelligence.

An amazing, eye opening timeline..

Regards

Newton— I tend to agree with you. In some sense, it goes back to the question of "Can a dog hope?" What depth of processes can we achieve through a manufactured computer? Can a computer be manufactured that feels?

This is awesome and scary at the same time.

I enjoyed this and found it exciting that there is so much progress.
I hope that progress tackles the big issues like poverty at some point.

Pablo,
Yeah, I knew all that shit. Here's what it means:

First of all, all those english-speaking chinese people and indians, etc, are all trying to get "americanized". To be like us. Whatever their weird version of us is. I like the idea of a chinese young gentleman walking into a kentuck y fried chicken and asking for a crispy bucket in a chines accent, competing with the counterman to be hip. Or a japanese fellow watching americal idol while engaging in some damn serious tea ritual or something.

Actually, i hate those images. Because i know, and you know, that this culture is insane. We shouldnt be exporting insanity, but, well, there are no laws against it yet.

This culture is just a bridege, though, to some weird new megaconnected planet. It will be glorious someday, though not in our times. We are the ones given the solemn responsibility of building the future. We are off to a bad start. Blowing shit up in planes is putiing a crimp in our plans.

Luckily noones blown anything up lately, nothing important, like the headquarters of the puertorican american movement, to protest ms. sotomayor's choice of ideologies or lipstick. So we have a nice chance to get it back on the right damn track, because the clock is really ticking on us,

and we are not all united, far from it. It will take the efforts of a san e few---very few indeed-----to overweigh the wishes of the majority, which is

annihilation of life. The death instict is rearing up. We wish suicide as a race, we almost always have. We are a suicidal race. We need to be committed, some of us, to the care of Professionals..

JME, as tom paine

amazing facts!