Future – marjorie kaye's Babylon Dreams

“As people gain more and more avatars, agents, and other technology-based expressions of themselves, the scope for action during their lives increases, and the possibility of life after death becomes progressively more real. Buckminster Fuller said, ‘I seem to be a verb.’

I say, “I am a plural verb, in future tense.”

This quote is from an online article by William Bainbridge, a sociologist involved in online games. Bainbridge’s article focuses on our present use of avatars as well as our future use. The article is from the online journal which is part of THE WORLD FUTURIST SOCIETY, an organization of scientists and those non-scientists who are interested in technology and how it will impact and ultimately redefine humanity. Because so much of this science is part of the setting of Babylon Dreams, a novel I wrote because of my own fascination with this technology, I am now a member (non-scientist–you need to be an actual scientist to be a big kid member, but then that’s a lot more expensive).

If you’re interested in joining, here’s the link: http://www.wfs.org/faq

From Singularity

by Nikki Olson on March 7, 2011

When we conceptualize AI, we often forget that it is not something that has to operate in a single location, or have intelligence qualities like our own. We are already surrounded by AI systems that are nothing like our own intelligence, that utilize many machines spread out over large distances, and are equally ‘present’ in many locations.

In the future we will bring AI systems like these into our homes in the form of ‘smart environments.’ In doing so we introduce new and interesting relationships between man and machine. However, there may be some limits as to how ‘alive’ we want our AI homes to be.

For entire article–

http://singularityblog.singularitysymposium.com/smart-homes-is-ai-the-ghost-in-the-machine/