The IEDs that dismember our soldiers in Iraq means that our government is pumping a ton of funds in prosthetic engineering to produce cybernetic prosthetics such as Prototype 1.
Internet Etiquette
July 20, 2009
Internet etiquette, also called netiquette, is exactly what it sounds like. Don’t yell with all caps (I’m looking at you Kanye West!), avoid bold letters and a host of other infractions. My biggest gripe, though, is with people taking time out of their day to not help those looking for help. It’s just bad form!
Here is a short piece on my ire of such behavior:
To Cyberize or not to Cyberize
July 16, 2009
A portion of this blog, that will grow in the future, is about cybernetics and our ensuing path towards cyberization. Another portion of this blog is to sharpen my editorial and essay writing skills. The blogging (daily updated) portion and the editorial sides can meet in an interesting way and will happen like this:
I will sometimes do blog updates which contain portions of my rough drafts which will some time in the future makeup my essays and editorials. I just spent a half an hour on the one below. Rough drafts, although rough, are still copywritten and owned by me, all rights reserved so citation is still necessary for potential citers. Check it out: a rough draft on To Cyberize or not to Cyberize:
Theseus' Paradox
July 14, 2009
Theseus’ Paradox: Does an object that has its individual components replace remain fundamentally the same? Ghost in the Shell is a cyber punk manga anime and film that deals with very heady, adult themes. The anime is very flashy and cool visually and help to put better pictures on philosophical ideas that have been asked for centuries. John Locke and George Washington are two among many that have engaged in discourse about this very paradox.
This is especially relevant to us today because as we make advances in sciences, we will gain the ability to substitute individual components of our body for better ones. Just in the latter part of the past century with plastic surgery being as popular as it is, we have to wonder when does a person who has had complete facial reconstruction cease being who they were before?
Heady stuff, right? More to come. Not only are we headed towards this type of cybernization, society at large, as the net expands and becomes more involved in our daily lives, will have to morph to accomodate life on the net. With this will come ideas like internet sovereignty. More on that to come also. I will use Ghost in the Shell as the vehicle to express where I think we are headed because GIS as a series covers in a lot of depth the philosophy and ideology that we will face as we head towards web 3.0. I hope to write some pieces on this for archives.
