tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630647191424397375.post9109701267614236542..comments2023-07-11T09:31:58.924+01:00Comments on The Chimping Dandy: Welcome to the world of...The Chimping Dandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500713162275903317noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630647191424397375.post-79921342565079116942013-06-12T13:07:42.062+01:002013-06-12T13:07:42.062+01:00Seriously, the government can see things that we w...Seriously, the government can see things that we write or take photographs of and then post on an interconnected set of servers, mostly running an open-source operating system, that was developed and then 'given' to us by a wholly owned subsidiary of the government itself?<br /><br />Shurely Shome mishtake!<br /><br />I for one shall be writing my Blog on paper from now on, and hand delivering it to anyone who wants to read it - Avoiding all of the CCTV cameras of course.The Chimping Dandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07500713162275903317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630647191424397375.post-9321318415086512172013-06-12T12:59:56.732+01:002013-06-12T12:59:56.732+01:00Had I started my reply with "Well, actually.....Had I started my reply with "Well, actually...." I would, in the best tradition of these things, had to have you and your readers traced and killed.<br /><br />As an aside though, and nothing to do with the original subject of course, perhaps you can answer a question for me? I have been following with interest [and more than a little amusement] the recent "scandal" involving the government's access to internet information. Tell me, these people who seem to think that something called "internet privacy" existed, and this now has recently been taken from them by a ruthless Government, are they all children, or just mentally deficient? Cypruspetenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630647191424397375.post-91700940504576966612013-06-12T10:47:33.373+01:002013-06-12T10:47:33.373+01:00Aw Man! - I was seriously hoping that you were goi...Aw Man! - I was seriously hoping that you were going to wade in with a 'Well, actually...' About one of the BT technologies. But I agree with you, the virtualisation of the human race, certainly for low-level tasks is just around the corner.<br /><br />I'm looking forward to the day when the news camera pulls out of a tight shot of me repeatedly flexing a chrome-plated fist in front of my face, then getting out of a tube and cable heavy chair and watches me run into the distance on a pair of prosthetic, digitigrade legs... Real, or virtual The Chimping Dandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07500713162275903317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5630647191424397375.post-53330664348241381602013-06-12T05:53:23.962+01:002013-06-12T05:53:23.962+01:00I think next century is way too far off to specula...I think next century is way too far off to speculate, and I strongly suspect I won't be around to see it. However, in the next 20 years [which I fully intend to be around for] in computing I think we'll see.<br /><br />A machine pass the Turing test for someone of average intelligence<br /><br />A commercial application of swarm technologies for mini-bot clean-up crews in hazardous environments<br /><br />The next stage of social "networking" where a wholly cybernetic persona plays an active part in the interactions<br /><br />Significant improvements in cyber-neural interfaces, massively enhancing the functionality of replacement limbs and sense organs<br /><br />The same depressingly slow crawl of advancement in space technologies [especially manned] <br /><br />Decreasing social barriers to the mixing of road/rail/sea and air transportation systems under manned and cybernetic control<br /><br />Increased computer oversight of "dangerous" human interactions [like driving for example] with the on-board computer having more sophisticated ways of controlling anti-social and illegal behavior, ensuring fuel and road usage efficiency, and reporting violations back to third parties<br /><br />Increasing use of computer persona in low level commercial interactions like call centres etc. Cypruspetenoreply@blogger.com