Author Archives: treetrunkrick
Timing is everything
The Talking Centipede
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Escher, shake hands with your shadow
The object of your desires
What is attractive to one is not necessarily attractive to another.
Thus, what is a robot and what level of cybernetic symbiosis determines when we can love a person who is somewhere between 0% and 100% biologically born?
Good to see education get a boost from the STEM market
A special nod to those who are providing assistance for the storm-ravaged country of the Philippines. Any support you can provide — financial, logistical, etc. — would go a long way toward binding our global population together in ways that make sense.
Reminds me of King Crimson
“Mom, this is your new house assistant — Dobo the robohelper. She’ll be nice to you if you cooperate. Right, Frank?”
Hometown happenings
Thanks to the choir and choir director yesterday for the wonderful introduction to the new hymnal at my hometown church which I attend when I visit with family periodically throughout the year. I am forever grateful that the music of voices, organ, piano and such still resonates in the sanctuary I knew as a child, providing a stable reference point for the rest of my life.
Whether a song we sing is two years old, 500 years old, 1500 years old, or 50,000 years old, the [sub]cultural connection to people around the planet who choose to improve our community through the concept of religion is just as important as connections that do not use the concept of religion to do so — how we approach the idea of community and put into action our concerns and cares for others is different per individual person and valued as such.
13,325 days/sols to go
While bouncing around in my laboratory/playground, I sometimes forget about the larger goal of Moon/Mars settlement, a mere 13,325 days/sols to go.
We are making a lot of progress in that area and, for my colleagues, I thank you — planet Earth — for providing us the resources and means to make intentional space exploration possible.
After all, waiting around for a large comet to hit our celestial sphere and send chunks out of Earth’s gravitational field is beyond virtuous patience.
Let us give praise to those who focus on the longterm, putting aside the daily distractions that wish to make mountains out of political footballs.
We maintain more than one storyline, a few that give hope to the destitute and desperate, a few that produce more wealth for the wealthy, all in the plans to spread life-as-we-know-it as soon as viably possible, rather than as soon as feasibly feeble.
Now, back to the story subplot currently in progress…the development of robots by a small group of hackers thinking inside and outside of Pandora’s Box.
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