Anger

I just did something wrong. I just experienced two separate incidents of what I’d term discrimination. Emphasis on ‘experience;. The first incident was on the train back from the east of the country. During my travel I experienced a bout of severe screaming and taunting from some, what I’d classify, more culturally backward schoolkids. This […]

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http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/02/21/apocalypse_soon?wp_login_redirect=0 You almost got the essence. Almost. But halfway you just stopped thinking. Machines are created with purpose. Machines are devices that manifest the values and interests, not of the people that create them – but of the people that pay for them. Our whole world i about embedding financial interests of investors. It is […]

Dear Dutch and European Parliamentarians

Updates * Google won’t approve facial recognition Glass apps until it has ‘privacy protections in place’ * The Google Glass feature no one is talking about. * Stop the Cyborgs Movement * Google Glass Driving Ban * Privacy ‘impossible’ with Google Glass warn campaigners First, take the video feeds from every Google Glass headset, worn […]

Khannea Suntzu

Tomorrow (thursday 7 february 2012) this time I will be travelling to the city of Breda (a place I had sworn to never visit again, as it represents a lot of quite painful memories for me) to visit the court house for a hearing for my name change. The judge holding the hearing is Mr. […]

A world without work: As robots, computers get smarter, will humans have anything left to do?

(Source: Washington post. Used with no discernible permission) WASHINGTON — They seem right out of a Hollywood fantasy, and they are: Cars that drive themselves have appeared in movies like “I, Robot” and the television show “Knight Rider.” Now, three years after Google invented one, automated cars could be on their way to a freeway […]