David Dalrymple peers into our internet-augmented future:
Within the next 50 years, I expect the development of direct neural links, making the data that’s available at our fingertips today available at our synapses in the future, and making virtual reality actually feel more real than traditional sensory perception. Information and experience could be exchanged [...]
I: The First Gospel
It is a little-known fact that Ralph Iscariot, brother of Judas, has three books of the Bible devoted to his extraordinary life: collectively, they are known as The Gospel of Ralph. Recently unearthed in a tiny cave near the sea of Galilee, these books document, in almost no useful detail at all, [...]
The Bush-era torture memos that Obama released last month make for some horrific, gut-churning reading, but not necessarily in the way you’d expect. The Enhanced Interrogation wing of the Republican party would have us believe that it’s not torture until someone gets drawn and quartered, and certainty there’s none of that kind of stuff in [...]
Ross Douthat, on inflexible atheists:
But it is one thing to disbelieve in God; it is quite another to never feel a twinge of doubt about one’s own disbelief. And just as the Christian who has never entertained doubts about his faith probably hasn’t thought hard enough about the matter, the atheist who perceives [...]
There’s a school of thought out there that claims that atheists — ie, those who profess an absolute belief in the nonexistence of God — are engaging in a kind of faith every bit as unsubstantiated as the religion they’re trying to debunk. The argument hinges on the notion that, fundamentally, we can’t know how [...]
Cringely has a fantastic column up on the story behind the recent executive shakeup at Apple: Tony Fadell — head of the iPod division, and probably the Father of the iPod itself — is out, and Mark Papermaster, erstwhile IBMer, is in.
But the column is really about Steve Jobs, of course, his mind and his [...]
An interesting notion, from Patrick Lee Miller:
Try to imagine Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire dancing to a song of infinite length. Their technique would remain as dazzling as the talent of the resurrected Lou Gehrig, and it is just as tempting to fantasize about them dancing forever as it is to imagine him [...]
Looked at in a certain way, writing programs is mostly an epic battle against complexity. It doesn’t take long for any reasonably ambitious project to get too big to fit in any one person’s head, and, once it’s reached that stage, it never gets any better. Because complexity is a tide that never goes out. [...]
Epicurus:
Nothing to fear in God. Nothing to feel in death. Good can be attained. Evil can be endured.
From VALIS:
Save me, protect me, God, in this day of wrath.
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