Unit 1- Poem 2 Enterprise – Nissim Ezekiel It started as a pilgrimage‚ Exalting minds and making all the burdens light. The second stage explored but did not test the call. The sun beat down to match our rage. We stood it very well‚ I thought‚ observed and put down copious notes on things the peasants sold and bought‚ the way of serpents and of goats‚ three cities where a sage had taught. But when the differences arose‚ on how to cross a desert
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topics in digital cultureQUESTION 1 - The concept singularity is a hypothesis on the not so far future of human life on earth. According to Ray Kurzweil‚ the scientist‚ inventor‚ futurist and author of The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology; singularity is a stage in our near future where technological development will start to accrue at an inconceivable speed that normal humans cannot keep up with‚ let alone contain. This possible technological change‚ which is not recognizable to
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Sarah Allred Suzanne Evans English 111 10 September 2013 A Summary of: “The AI Revolution is On” Steven Levy is a senior writer for Wired and author of many books‚ including In the Plex: How Google Thinks‚ Works and Shapes Our Lives (Behrens and Rosen 209). In his essay “The AI Revolution is On” published in Wired in December of 2010 Levy distinguishes between two visions of artificial intelligence: the kind of AI currently in place and the machines that will think First‚ Levy gives a
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Throughout most of history‚ we have assumed that people will live the same type of existence from one generation to the next. However‚ we are living in what is the most transformative era in all of history. Over the last 30 years‚ technological advances have occurred at an exponential growth rate‚ making it hard to imagine the world in which the next generation will live. Ray Kurzweil has every intention of being around to see this changing world. He is the Director of Engineering at Google‚
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According to Nick Bostrom trans-humanism is one of the well debated upon contemporary ethical issues of the twenty-first century. Bostrom identifies trans-humanism as the process of transition from the limited nature of human beings to a more advanced being- post-human –that can outperform the current limits incarcerating present human beings. In order to achieve that higher life‚ Bostrom elucidates that it is only achievable through embracing technology and genetic engineering. Science and technological
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CONVERGING TECHNOLOGIES: THE FUTURE OF THE GLOBAL INFORMATION SOCIETY Introduction: The complex web of the global information grid will undergo explosive changes over the coming decades. As advances in science and technology converge‚ a myriad array of discoveries in biotechnology‚ nanotechnology and information technology will produce unpredictable effects that must be accounted for in any estimate of what the world will look like in this future. A strategically important feature of
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Positive leadership refers to the application of positive principles and positive change. It helps leaders to become more effective in their jobs. Applying principles of positive leadership leads to extraordinary performance. Positive leadership has three connotations: 1) It refers to the facilitation of extraordinarily positive performance – that is‚ positively deviant performance. Outcomes that exceed common or expected performance. 2) Affirmative bias – or a focus on strengths and capabilities
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Summary of Prevail and Transcend Scenario In chapter six of Radical Evolution‚ author Joel Garreau shows through various interviews and examples that even though technology may be rising on an exponentially increasing Curve‚ humans may still be able to change the effects of technological advance in unpredictable ways. Deemed the Prevail scenario‚ it is also characterized by humans slowing down once-viewed inevitable change viewed as negative and speeding up positive change. Another great theme
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The Large Ant as an Ineffectual Critique of Human Moral Nature What is “human nature”? Do a natural set of behavioral paradigms govern our morals at the most basic level? And more importantly‚ are those prescribed behaviors inherently good‚ or naturally evil? The Large Ant by Howard Fast depicts human nature as leaning toward the latter. Many other artistic and literary works seem to take this position‚ arguing that because humans have the capacity to commit evil deeds‚ they must themselves be
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Tyler Saplan 2/26/14 IB English HL 002948-0043 The Human Condition in “Zorba the Greek” In “Zorba the Greek”‚ Kazantzakis uses imagery to convey his ideas regarding the human condition. All of the quotes indicate that the human condition is ignorance‚ naivety‚ and the struggle to attain one’s own happiness. I will talk about each of these in order of how I listed them. Kazantzakis puts a fine line between ignorance between ignorance and naivety which is interesting considering they go hand
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