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post

Author
Eric Holloway

Date
July 26, 2021

Categorized
Philosophy, Science

Tagged
G. K. Chesterton, immortality, Materialism, Technology}

Our Scientific Salvation Will Be The Death Of Us

_{Will we trust "the science" (meaning the scientists) to the point of madness?} _{Eric Holloway

July 26, 2021

Philosophy, Science}

Originally published at Patheos “The truly insane man is the perfectly rational man.” So says G.K. Chesterton. This saying is very counter intuitive today. The perfectly rational man is the ideal scientist, the man who knows reality in precise quantitative terms, the best kind of knowledge we have. Such scientific knowledge promises the secret of immortality. If we can understand the fundamentals of our physical existence, we can shape our existence in whatever way we wish. The rational man is the messiah of our scientific age. So, why did Chesterton warn us about the rational man? The problem is that rationality only deals with the known knowns and the known unknowns. Rationality does not deal with the unknown unknowns. The…

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post

Author
Eric Holloway

Date
October 13, 2020

Categorized
Natural Intelligence

Tagged
__featured, Beetles, Blind Watchmaker (book), Cicadas, Darwinism, Dragonflies, Fireflies, Humies, Insects, Invisibility, Light (manipulation of light), Materials technology, Richard Dawkins, Technology}

Technology? Hey, Bugs Invented It All Before Us!

_{Do bugs really show no evidence of design? Computer engineers can test that} _{Eric Holloway

October 13, 2020

Natural Intelligence}

Bugs look like little robots, don’t they? Living robots, too, defying our best our attempts to recreate something like them. A 2018 science paper “It’s Not a Bug, It’s a Feature: Functional Materials in Insects” goes into just how amazing these little creatures are from a materials sciences perspective. The paper is open access so you can read it for yourself. But let me also illustrate some of the remarkable “technologies” insects use, captured on video: This bionic “dragonfly” really flies, sort of: But so do billions of wild dragonflies who fly very efficiently, in order to hunt: The range of material capabilities is astonishing. Cicadas have a clicking loudspeaker they use to amplify their racket. Tiger moths have a…

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post

Author
Robert Sheldon

Date
February 19, 2020

Categorized
Technocracy

Tagged
Analysis (posts), Centralization, Fatal Conceit (book), Friedrich Hayek, George Gilder, Technology, Telecosm (book)}

Centralization Is Not Inevitable

_{Even technology is not inevitable; it comes and goes} _{Robert Sheldon

February 19, 2020

Technocracy}

The coronavirus has demonstrated that centralization has its limits. It's not inevitable, as a recent Analysis post suggests. I predict that when the dust settles on this coronavirus outbreak, the order-of-magnitude greater death rate in China, compared to the 2003 SARS outbreak, will be blamed on central planning.

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post

Author
Mind Matters Analysis

Date
February 12, 2020

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
Big Data, China, Deep Learning, Technology}

Technology Centralizes by Its Very Nature

_{Here are some other truths about technology, some uncomfortable ones} _{Analysis

February 12, 2020

Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance, Technocracy}

To see what I mean about centralization, consider a non-digital tool, say, a shovel. The shovel doesn’t keep track of your shoveling, read your biometrics, and store a file on you-as-shoveler somewhere. It’s a thing, an artifact. So you see, the new digital technology is itself the heart of the surveillance problem. No Matrix could be built with artifacts.

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks

Date
November 28, 2019

Tagged
Apple (company), capacitive, charge transfer, Engineering, entrepreneurship, Hal Philipp, keyless, optical, Patent, patent law, patent trolls, Peter Thiel, Plagiarism, Robot, Robots, sensor, startups, tech startups, Technology, touchscreen}

Bingecast: Hal Philipp on Patents, Litigation, and Entrepreneurship

_{Robert J. Marks

November 28, 2019}

If you’ve used a touchscreen, an automated door opener or automated faucet today, it is probably based on the technology of inventor and entrepreneur Hal Philipp. Robert J. Marks and Hal Philipp address patents, litigation, and entrepreneurship today on Mind Matters. Show Notes 0:00:52 | Introducing Hal Philipp 0:01:34 | Robot boxer 0:04:08 | Tektronix, Optical Technology 0:07:25 | Automatic…

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks

Date
May 30, 2019

Tagged
AI, bingecast, economy, government-policy, labor, Machines, Technology, Tyranny}

Bingecast: Yuval Harari’s Silly Dystopian Ideas

_{Robert J. Marks

May 30, 2019}

Will infotech and biotech erode human agency, subvert human desires, and render free-market economics obsolete? At first glance, there looks to be a wide gap between the future of AI and the destruction of democracy. Some futurists claim to have jumped that chasm. In a cheery little column published by the Atlantic, Yuval Noah Harari posits AI will ultimately destroy…

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks

Date
May 16, 2019

Tagged
apple, entrepreneurship, Google, Patent, startup, tech startups, Technology}

Advice for Budding Inventors and Entrepreneurs: Hal Philipp Shares His Experience

_{Robert J. Marks

May 16, 2019}

If you used a touchscreen, an automated door opener or automated faucet today, it is probably based on the technology of inventor and entrepreneur Hal Philipp. We continue our conversation with Hal on the Mind Matters podcast, revisiting his ambivalent relationship with Apple. Show Notes 01:20 | Advice to budding entrepreneurs 03:30 | Don’t Do This At Home 06:35 |…

George Gilder with a microphone in the foreground

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post

Author
News

Date
May 15, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
entrepreneurship, George Gilder, Steve Forbes, Technology}

George Gilder: Why Entrepreneurship Can’t Just Be Automated

_{In business, an entrepreneur is the “oracle,” the one element that cannot be programmed or computed} _{News

May 15, 2019

Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

Creativity always comes as a surprise to us. If it didn’t, we wouldn’t need it. We could program it on our machines. But because it’s always surprising, it can’t be planned.

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks

Date
May 2, 2019

Tagged
apple, capacitive, copyright law, Intellectual Property, Patent, patent law, patent trolls, Plagiarism, Technology, touchscreen}

In Patent Disputes, the Bigger They Are, the Harder They Hit

_{Hal Philipp on Litigation and Why Owning a Patent is Only a License to Sue} _{Robert J. Marks

May 2, 2019}

If you used a touchscreen, an automated door opener or automated faucet today, it is probably based on the technology of inventor and entrepreneur Hal Philipp. We continue our conversation today with Hal on the Mind Matters podcast. Show Notes 01:30 | History of the Touchscreen 04:20 | Making Touchscreens Cheap and Reliable 06:00 | Defining a Patent 09:20 |…

^{Type
podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks

Date
April 25, 2019

Tagged
forumla 1, keyless, kitchen appliance, sensor, Technology}

Hal Philipp: Formula One Racing Tech & Keyless Cars

_{Accidentally Founding an Ideal Business} _{Robert J. Marks

April 25, 2019}

“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” Today, this is far from true. Small entrepreneurs fall in the shadows of large corporate giants like Google, Microsoft and Amazon. So what does it take to bring a clever idea to market? We talk to Hal Philipp, the inventor and entrepreneur who made touch screens inexpensive and whose technology is today used all over the world.

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks

Date
April 11, 2019

Tagged
Engineering, Future, optical, Technology}

Hal Philipp: Inventor of the Modern Touch Screen

_{Boxing Robots and Automatic Door Openers Too} _{Robert J. Marks

April 11, 2019}

Mission Control Center (MCC), Houston, Texas, during the Gemini 5 flight.

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post

Author
Robert J. Marks

Date
January 23, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Work

Tagged
employment, Engineering, Featured, Nerds, STEM fields, Technology, Work}

STEM EDUCATION 1. Pursuing Nerd Quality Over Nerd Quantity

_{Reducing math and science to practice is what engineers do. Scientists didn’t put a man on the moon. Engineers did.} _{Robert J. Marks

January 23, 2019

Artificial Intelligence, Work}

Overall, computer applications will impact our society and culture as much as electricity did. And we’re living smack in the middle of the transformation. Read More ›